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REEL SOUTH
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Season 7 is a study in survival and belief. With a formidable cast of unforgettable women (and one enlightened mortician), six new films offer audiences a look past the specter of our present. Difficult jobs, anxious families, and hardened communities shape their stories, but with an assured vision for a future of their own making, these Southerners offer a powerful argument for perseverance.
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Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
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Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
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An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
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An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
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Hear the gospel of 83-year-old Mother Perry and her legendary music group The Branchettes.
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Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.