Queen Sugar: The Complete First Season [DVD] [2016]

Saint Josephine, Louisiana, provides a powerful landscape for the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings: journalist/activist Nova, savvy wife and NBA-superstar manager Charley, and Ralph Angel, a formerly incarcerated man in need of redemption. After the death of their beloved father, the Bordelons must reunite and reforge their ties as they navigate the triumphs and struggles of their complicated lives in order to run an ailing sugarcane farm. Building on experiences steeped in history, culture, and tradition, visionary filmmaker Ava DuVernay and executive producer Oprah Winfrey create 13 dramatic, poignant and sometimes painful episodes in this lush, complex series based on Natalie Baszile’s best-selling book.