Season 11 | Official Trailer
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Season 11 features powerful documentaries exploring justice, identity, music, and community.
Season 11 of Reel South features powerful documentaries exploring justice, identity, music, community, and the people shaping the region today. Films capture stories of a West Texas murder case, a Houston birth doula, vignettes of American life in Alabama and Miami, off-road racers on the Texas-Mexico border, and artists and musicians defining and re-defining Southern culture after trauma.
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.
Season 11 | Official Trailer
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Season 11 of Reel South features powerful documentaries exploring justice, identity, music, community, and the people shaping the region today. Films capture stories of a West Texas murder case, a Houston birth doula, vignettes of American life in Alabama and Miami, off-road racers on the Texas-Mexico border, and artists and musicians defining and re-defining Southern culture after trauma.
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And is part of your language.
Everyone has an inborn capacity to be a creative person.
And lead to revelations about what it means to be human.
you know, things that we do can affect you for life.
Your ability in your position to try to help ease a little bit of the grief, it's just really important.
The problem seems so immense that it feels like it's not gonna go anywhere.
But why do we want to believe that?
You don't have to be resilient.
You don't have to normalize trauma.
It is a difficult time in our history, but I don't think that endless violence is the end of the story.
It opens up to something more beautiful, more peaceful.
This is going to have generational impacts.
The better question.
I think, is how do you keep going?
That's actually very simple.
That's love.
It's your getaway.
It's here.
Paradise, you know, is here.
A limitless world.
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Preview: S11 | 2m | Season 11 features powerful documentaries exploring justice, identity, music, and community. (2m)
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Clip: S11 Ep1106 | 1m 35s | Engines roar across the blazing red dunes between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. (1m 35s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1106 | 1m 56s | A novice banjoist performs "Boil That Cabbage Down" at a celebratory jam session. (1m 56s)
Childhood Memories Hidden in Art
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Clip: S11 Ep1106 | 1m 19s | Hidden in George's art lies memories from his childhood in Ukraine. (1m 19s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1105 | 1m 52s | Sgt. Mike Berry discusses how he copes with the emotions brought up by recovering corpses. (1m 52s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1105 | 1m 28s | Teddy advises a client and her partner on what to expect during labor and childbirth. (1m 28s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1105 | 1m 21s | Louisiana artist Jan Beauboeuf muses on art and creation. (1m 21s)
Dancing Through Birmingham, Alabama
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Clip: S11 Ep1104 | 1m 33s | Scenes of dancers rehearsing and joyfully performing in Birmingham, Alabama. (1m 33s)
Citizen of the United States of America
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Clip: S11 Ep1104 | 1m 31s | Immigrants and their families celebrate earning US citizenship. (1m 31s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1103 | 1m 55s | Dr. Ken Roberts warns residents about a hydropower project. (1m 55s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1103 | 1m 41s | Sandy visits the sacred birthplace of the Kiamichi River. (1m 41s)
Drowned Land | Official Trailer
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Preview: S11 Ep1103 | 30s | A filmmaker probes dams, displacement, and family legacy. (30s)
Parents of School Shooting Survivors Reflect
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Clip: S11 Ep1102 | 2m 59s | Parents of survivors of a school shooting in Nashville reflect on the worst day of their lives. (2m 59s)
Old Crow Medicine Show Debuts "Louder Than Guns"
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Clip: S11 Ep1102 | 1m 31s | Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show introduces "Louder Than Guns". (1m 31s)
Louder Than Guns | Official Trailer
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Preview: S11 Ep1102 | 30s | Country music star Ketch Secour sparks dialogue on guns in a divided America. (30s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1101 | 3m 55s | James's legal team confronts him about his health. (3m 55s)
Night in West Texas | Official Trailer
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Preview: S11 Ep1101 | 30s | A wrongful conviction in Texas is reopened after 40 years. (30s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1101 | 1m 56s | New evidence emerges in a decades-old murder case, proving the innocence of the man convicted. (1m 56s)
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.