Films

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...

A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.

A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.

How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.

Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.

With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.

In 1951, a Christmas window astonished a little girl in Louisville, KY. Who is she?

Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas.

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

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

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

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

Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.

63 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving dissidents tell the fuller story.

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

An Asian-American veteran of the Vietnam War searches for the soldier who saved his life.