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Reel South - Season 7

Series: Reel South
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Episodes
6
Rating
TV14
Year
2022
Language
English
Publisher
PBS

About

Season seven of Reel South is a study in survival and belief. With a formidable cast of unforgettable women (and one enlightened mortician), these films offer audiences a look past the specter of our present. Difficult jobs and hardened communities shape their stories, but with an assured vision for a future of their own making, these Southerners offer a powerful argument for perseverance.

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Episodes

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1. Little Satchmo

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Little Satchmo is an intimate exploration of the iconic Louis Armstrong's life and legacy through his relationship with the daughter that the public never knew existed. Based on a revealing memoir written by Armstrong's silent daughter, the film seeks to correct a historical narrative relying on caricature for too long.

2. Bury Me at Taylor Hollow

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After spending 15 years working in the conventional funeral industry, a passionate mortician is paving uncharted territory to help create the first natural burial ground of its kind in Tennessee. Bury Me at Taylor Hollow recounts his personal journey from mortuary traditionalist to global-thinking environmentalist, as he seeks a better place for his community to lay to rest.

3. Quaranteened

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Follow the lives of four sisters from a blended family in Durham, North Carolina, as they cope with the anxiety of their disrupted lives and stolen dreams with humor, self-reflection, and just enough mayhem to pass the time. Filmed by their filmmaker dad as the days begin to blur one into the other, these girls languish, suspended in time, like so many of us still.

4. Florida Woman

30m

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When the media gets wind of Mary Thorn's alligator story, she's characterized as just another crazy "Florida Man." Florida Woman peels back the curtain on the media's portrayal of a nurturing woman -- an ex-pro wrestler turned animal lover, who challenges the state in order to save her pet alligator. Mary and her gator Rambo reveal the humanity and complexity behind the viral headlines.

5. Madame Pipi

30m

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Follow the lives of Haitian bathroom attendants working in Miami's hottest nightclubs. Often invisible, underpaid and underappreciated, their stories showcase a custodial world built on the backs of women of color, in a city known for debauchery, diversity and exceptionalism.

6. Broken Wings

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In picturesque Hot Springs, Arkansas, a one-winged American black vulture named Adonis captivates a small town. The bird is lovingly cared for by two devoted women: Jayne, a down-on-her-luck Arkansas waitress, and Ann, her 80-year-old British roommate. Broken Wings asks: How can a bird who devours the dead inspire the living?

Extended Details

  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Clifford Chalmersactor
Nicholas Burtonactor
Gerald Blesseyactor