Back to Show
Watch Preview
REEL SOUTH
Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
Season 5
Episode 10
As a centuries-old black community in Louisiana, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a plant’s expansion refuses to give up. Directed by Alexander Glustrom.
Support Provided By
Season

24:41
Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones leads the charge to preserve history through scuba diving.

26:18
Survivors of Birmingham’s bombings work to transform the city’s painful history.

11:29
How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.

13:53
With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.

8:06
Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.

13:00
Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.

16:53
A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.