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- The mortal ferocity of the battle for control of the small bridge at La Fière is testament to the bridge's strategic importance in the D-Day invasion of June 1944. Without control of the bridge, American forces coming from Utah Beach would not have been able to force their way inland.
- Ten folk healers from various Southern culture groups explain and demonstrate healing secrets, apprenticeships, herb gathering, and more.
- Faubourg Treme documents the enduring legacy of one of the United States' oldest African American communities, an area just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans.
- 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.
- An exploration of the Poverty Point State Historic Site in northeastern Louisiana.
- Chronicles the life of Rep. Lindy Boggs, who became the first woman to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.
- Backlash: Race and the American Dream chronicles the controversial candidacy of the former Grand Wizard of the Knight of the Ku Klux Klan in his bid in 1991 to the United States Senate from Louisiana.
- John Fertitta guides 92 year-old Maestro John Shenaut through his life as the founding Conductor of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. Former Symphony Board Chair Virginia K. Shehee and Concert Master Kermit Polling discuss Shenaut's 33 year tenure's impact on Shreveport music and the symphony itself. The documentary ends with a blend of footage of Maestro's Shenaut conducting the symphony in 1964 with him leading current musicians in playing The Star Spangled Banner to begin the Orchestra's 60th season.
- Chef John Folse explores the foods of Louisiana.
- 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.
- She Says: Women In News examines women in journalism. It interviews ten women who hold significant positions of power in the news world. They discuss how their perspectives on world event differ from that of their male colleagues. They also discuss the problems that woman face getting respect in the world of journalism.
- A story of the rescue effort of the Strand Theatre in Shreveport, LA. Constructed in the early 1920's, the Strand was nearly demolished in 1976 until fate stepped in and saved one of the last great movie palaces.
- A look at Louisiana Christmas traditions and events including the Festival of Lights in Natchitoches, Christmas Eve bonfires in St. James Parish, the Acadian Village in Lafayette, the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, and American Rose Society's Roseland in Shreveport.
- In her latest documentary special A Heartland Holiday Feast, Lidia Bastianich takes viewers on a cross-country journey. She explores how Americans representing diverse heritages are both preserving their own culinary traditions and transforming local cuisine. The people she meets in these small rural towns provide inspiration for a magnificent celebratory meal.
- A small Cajun town in rural Louisiana holds an annual exhibition football game between the majority-Black public school and majority-White private school, called the Tee Cotton Bowl.