Reel South

The Volunteer An Asian-American veteran of the Vietnam War searches for the soldier who saved his life. The Day That Shook Georgia In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.

63 years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving Cuban-American dissidents tell the fuller story. In detailed interviews with the men who fled Cuba only to return alongside US military forces, they narrate the calamity of the US siege and the trauma they faced as prisoners. By reliving the horrors of war and the fragility of service, these men fill a gap in the military record.

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. 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.

There is only one doctor in rural Clay County, Georgia, one of the state’s poorest and unhealthiest counties. After several years of working without pay, she can no longer volunteer full-time and faces the possibility of closing her clinic. Committed to her community, she seeks to continue serving her patients amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, dwindling support, and broken promises.

For the Record Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas. I’m the Girl – The Story of a Photograph In 1951, a Christmas window astonished a little girl in Louisville, KY. Who is she?

In Southern Virginia, Black farmers like Cecil Shell balance their interests in honoring their tradition of tobacco farming against the onset of solar energy farms exploding across the region. Through Cecil, the film explores one rural county’s shifting economic interests and his own efforts to steward the community, including Black landowners, through changing times.