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Mother(s) & Son
Capturing her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood, a North Carolina filmmaker confronts her own fear and insecurity surrounding the adventures of parenthood—all while completing the adoption process for her new-born son, as required by gender-restrictive state laws.
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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.

21:10
In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.