Documentaries
Eddie Robinson: Coach, American, Legend
From simple beginnings in Louisiana’s cotton fields, Grambling’s Eddie G. Robinson strived for one dream – to coach football. More →
American Creole
New Orleans jazz man Don Vappie 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. More →
Good for What Ails You
On the Louisiana bayous, even in the 1990s, alligator grease relieves asthma, a buried potato cures warts, and “smoking a baby” eases the pains of colic. More →
Willie Francis Must Die Again
Danny Glover narrates this winner of FOUR international Best Documentary awards. It tells the unique true story of Willie Francis, a 16 year-old Louisiana boy who went to the electric chair in 1946… and again in 1947. More →
Harvest to Restore
The inside story of what many scientists believe holds the promise to restore the natural wetlands that provide the only practical long term hurricane protection to America’s energy hub and to the city of New Orleans. More →
Hurricane on the Bayou
Narrated by Meryl Streep, Louisiana is ravaged by killer hurricanes, as seen through the eyes of a talented bluesman, a pretty young fiddler, pianist Allen Toussaint, and a mother alligator. More →
Air Racers
Air Racers chronicles the exploits of the Wedell-Williams Air Service through the eyes of Mae Haizlip, a female pilot who defied death and set records at the National Air Races of 1932. More →
Haunted Waters, Fragile Lands
First in our series of environmental films, the award-winning hour-long Haunted Waters, Fragile Lands follows immigrants to the Mississippi River delta to show how history and ecology transform each other. More →
Rescuing the Treasure
The follow-up half-hour in our trilogy of environmental films, Rescuing the Treasure served as environmental call to action, and won us a prestigious Coastal Stewardship Award. More →
Wings Over the Wetlands
This half-hour TV documentary examines a phenomenon so familiar we often hardly notice it, the annual migration of birds, as a portal to explore Louisiana culture, history, ecology, economics, and the arts. There is no other film on this topic | More →
