REEL SOUTH

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

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Episodes

  • The Only Doctor

    The only doctor in Clay County Georgia must confront the possibility of losing her clinic.
  • Fallout

    Members of a rural Virginia town are exposed to contamination from a nearby Army plant.
  • 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.

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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