louisiana

After being released from prison, Tyrone Stokes returns home to find his son awaiting execution after being convicted of rape and murder, but Tyrone believes his son is innocent and will go to any length to prove it.

Presents the life story of a black woman born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, who is freed at the end of the Civil War, and lives for one hundred more years.

When Jeremy Bishop's estranged father dies, Jeremy travels back to his boyhood home to bury him, but while he is there he begins to uncover hidden secrets that reveal his true identity and help him make peace with his past.

Dramatizes the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and taken to Louisiana where he spent twelve years as a slave.

After a black officer is murdered near a Louisiana army base near the end of World War II, a black army attorney is sent to investigate. What he turns up is a tangled web of racism from all sides.

Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

Trosclair ignores his father's warning about Gargantua, the rogue alligator living in nearby Bayou Fontaine, and heads off into Bee Island Swamp to hunt for turtle eggs.

Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through the bayous of Louisiana, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there, including rattlesnakes, green tree frogs, rats, and some of the world's largest alligators.

In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.

Explores the fragility of nature and the massive erosion, rising sea levels, and other environmental threats that are destroying the largest wetland in the United States.