A Southern Movie Bonus: The “Welcome to Eclectic” Southern Documentary Sampler

Though many Americans encounter images and stories from modern Southern life through mainstream national news outlets, documentaries offer fuller and nuanced portraits and discussions of specific issues and people in Southern culture, offering viewers are more complex and thorough perspective on art, LGBTQ life, humor, food and farming, HIV, or rural schools. Below is a selected listing of documentaries from the last fifteen years, each of which explores an aspect of the modern South that some people might not have considered. Fertile Ground (2020) https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3043392600/ This new half-hour documentary, which… Read more A Southern Movie Bonus: The “Welcome to Eclectic” Southern Documentary Sampler →