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REEL SOUTH
Season 6 First Look | Season Premiere April 5!
Season 6 of Reel South tackles this moment in American life with nuance and camaraderie. This collection of films finds common ground through ritual and participation with stories that face up to the past and bend to the future by finding pathways away from absolution and toward equity.
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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.

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.

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

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.

17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.