Season 9

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Boca Chica

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

Season 9 Episode 906 13m 33s

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Echoes of the Rio

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

Season 9 Episode 906 07m 56s

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Mothertown

How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.

Season 9 Episode 906 11m 18s

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Black Ag

A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.

Season 9 Episode 906 08m 36s

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Cash Crop

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

Season 9 Episode 906 10m 32s

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For the Record

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

Season 9 Episode 905 36m 24s

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I’m the Girl – The Story of a Photograph

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

Season 9 Episode 905 16m 24s

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The Only Doctor

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

Season 9 Episode 904 56m 46s

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In Exile

Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.

Season 9 Episode 903 11m 13s

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It’s in the Voices

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

Season 9 Episode 903 17m 03s

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Fallout

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

Season 9 Episode 903 20m 09s

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Finding Us

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

Season 9 Episode 903 13m 32s

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Veritas

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

Season 9 Episode 902 56m46s

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The Volunteer

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

Season 9 Episode 901 34m 52s

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The Day That Shook Georgia

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

Season 9 Episode 901 20m 18s

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Season 9 | Official Trailer

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...

Season 9 Episode 900 1m 30s