God Save Texas

3 episodes · 2024

Richard Linklater chronicles daily life in Huntsville, TX, a town built on the business of incarceration.

As the world’s energy capital, Houston is a city that manufactures both its prominence and demise. Alex Stapleton explores the industry’s impact on her family, who arrived as enslaved people in the 1830s, built thriving communities, and now must cope with the human costs of Texas’ biggest money-maker.

Mexican American filmmaker Iliana Sosa explores the fluidity of life on El Paso’s border.