REEL SOUTH

A documentary series reckoning with the South's past, present, and future.

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Episodes

  • Finding Us

    Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
  • In Exile

    Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.
  • It’s in the Voices

    A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
  • Veritas

    63 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving dissidents tell the fuller story.
  • The Day That Shook Georgia

    In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
  • The Volunteer

    An Asian-American veteran of the Vietnam War searches for the soldier who saved his life.
  • I'm the Girl – the Story of a Photograph

    In 1951, a Christmas window astonished a little girl in Louisville, KY. Who is she?
  • A Run for More

    Frankie, a transgender woman and deft politician, runs for San Antonio City Council.

About REEL SOUTH

REEL SOUTH is a PBS documentary series that showcases authentic stories which unearth the spirit of the South today. The series explores layers of Southern life across themes of social justice, cultural experience, environmental challenges, and more. REEL SOUTH aims to leverage our region’s rich storytelling tradition as a catalyst for positive change — in the American South and beyond.

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