Making the Law Real

Raised in segregated Mississippi after the Supreme Court had declared school segregation unconstitutional, Bernice Bouie Donald became a groundbreaking American judge. Moving between her intimate personal history, present-day reflections, and […]

Dishing Up The South

Dishing Up The South is a documentary television series being developed for PBS distribution that explores the American South through the food that helps define it. In each episode, three […]

Black Soil

​In the Mississippi Delta, a Black farmer and his son Trentis transform their family’s hard-won farmland through regenerative agriculture, carrying forward an 80-year legacy of resilience, stewardship, and hope for […]

State & Beale

State & Beale travels Tennessee to uncover the people, places, traditions and stories that make the state unique—celebrating the cultural treasures of Tennessee from State Street in Bristol to Beale […]

Mission Recompense: Love Letters to a Mississippi Delta

​Building upon the award-winning film Mission Recompense: Love Letters to a Mississippi Delta, a Delta-born filmmaker expands her cinematic love letter into a documentary series preserving the Black communities, memories, […]

A True American Story: Tabby: For Life (r)

TABBY: FOR LIFE® follows four interconnected Black families — the Burtons, the Braswells, the Williams, and the Rogers — across six generations and two centuries in Manatee County, Florida. It […]

In Her Cleats

A granddaughter retraces her grandmother’s unlikely rise into the All‑American Girls Professional Baseball League, questioning how a southern woman’s leap of courage shaped generations of women in her family and […]

Carter Country

Set in the small town of Plains, Georgia, “Carter Country” follows the unlikely rise of Jimmy Carter from a one-term governor to President, as seen through the eyes of his […]

Energizing Knoxville

Before America forgot how to agree, Knoxville showed the world what is possible when we come together. In the spring of 1982, on a scrubby stretch of former railroad yard […]

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