God Save Texas

7.1
2024

Returning to their hometowns, Texas filmmakers Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa chronicle the complex history of each city, while examining the toll that the prison system, oil business, and border laws have on those communities.

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Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2024

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1. God Save Texas: Hometown Prison

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

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2. God Save Texas: The Price of Oil

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.

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3. God Save Texas: La Frontera

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

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