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REEL SOUTH

The Smell of War

Center Street in Birmingham, Alabama was nicknamed Dynamite Hill because it was bombed more than 50 times between 1947 and 1957. The street’s homes were targeted by white supremacists because of the rise of Black homeownership. Birmingham natives recall the wave of terror.

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Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones leads the charge to preserve history through scuba diving.
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Survivors of Birmingham’s bombings work to transform the city’s painful history.
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Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
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A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
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How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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63 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving dissidents tell the fuller story.
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