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Season 9 | Official Trailer
Season 9 adds new depth to the records America keeps and who gets to define and shape our collective posterity. 10 films offer new perspectives on our shared military, health, and spiritual histories and bring forward voices and stories culled in the name of prosperity. Above all, each film showcases the power of human connection and the communities created in any aftermath.
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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.
21:10
In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
14:26
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.