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- Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
- A Cajun man attempts to save his town.
- Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of being a saboteur.
- The true story of Willie Francis, a sixteen year-old African American with no prior record who was sentenced to the electric chair in 1946... and survived. For two years after he became national news and his case forced the nation to take a hard look at its views on capital punishment. Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled against Willie, and he went to the electric chair again in 1948.
- In 1945, "cigarette camps" were set up in Normandy to provide rest and recreation for American soldiers back from the front and their wives.
- A rising star of New Orleans jazz finds his sidemen scattered by Katrina, his flooded-out Mom sleeping on his couch, and his 8-year-old grandson clamoring to join the band. American Creole: New Orleans Reunion takes the audience on a tour of the front lines of a devastated city's cultural rebirth: offstage, where race is infinitely more nuanced than black or white; backstage, where which instrument you play can be a political statement; and joyously onstage, where the only thing that matters is music, and local legends make it cook.
- Ten folk healers from various Southern culture groups explain and demonstrate healing secrets, apprenticeships, herb gathering, and more.
- How much does the rest of the U.S. depend on coastal Louisiana? If you put gas in your car, shrimp on your table or coffee in your belly, then you count on coastal Louisiana to not disappear. Learn how the biggest environmental disaster in the world affects every American, and what can be done to correct the wrongs done by man... before it's too late.
- The worst natural disaster in American history is occurring NOW! On the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, an acre of land falls into the sea every 15 minutes, taking with it wildlife habitat and human history.