The Mississippi - A journey through the heart of America | DW Documentary

The Mississippi stretches from the glacial lakes in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. For many Americans, the mighty, almost 4,000-kilometer-long river is closely linked to the nation's history.
People have lived along these riverbanks for several thousand years. Today, the river unites many different cultures and is considered the soul of America. When the Europeans arrived, they colonized the land here, killing and displacing the indigenous peoples. But before that, the Choctaw people lived between present-day Memphis and the mouth of the river near New Orleans. Today, their descendants form the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
But these central American regions have an image problem. "Flyover states" - places that you only fly over - has become a catchphrase. But if you take a closer look, you’ll discover small and large wonders here, including unique cultures and almost overwhelming nature, as well as old traditions imbued with new life.
Many things are being rediscovered on the banks of the Mississippi, including voodoo in New Orleans. Voodoo has been at home here for a long time and no longer needs to hide itself. Formerly demonized, people are now looking more and more respectfully at the religion.
The film takes us on a journey from the birthplace of rock'n'roll, Memphis, to the mighty delta of the Mississippi.
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[@ColeyMing]

Always looking forward to DW docus. So educational as always

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@abdulgezawa683]

Absolutely! Just understand this is where they got the phrase “Sold Down the River” 😂 very educational as usual

[@annehersey9895]

Thanks again DW, for another great documentary! A native Californian, I am well versed in my country west of the Rocky Mountains but little about states east of there! This was a great glimpse of life along the Southern Mississippi.

[@ekno2506]

Thank you for making this wonderful documentary. My best wishes to the people of the Choctaw Nation! ❤

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@GloryDaze73]

Would like to see a longer documentary about the preservation of the Great Mississippi River. 😊

[@somaghosh2960]

After many days discussion centered around the river by DW documentary. Thank you.

[@abdulgezawa683]

DW make the best documentary ever. Im a big fan for years now. Kudos! 🎉

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching!

[@Anewfoundmindset]

This Is so True, Such a great doc. about America !

[@thalyatherese]

I just started following DW Documentary and I must say I am learning and unlearning a lot,I can't wait to share this with my network. Greetings from an anspring environmentalist and visual designer from Cameroon😉

[@El.Duder-ino]

Beautiful docu only from DW, thank u folks! U seriously need to make ALL of your docus available for download, including those u have removed and not even have accessible on your site.

[@RobertoPoncebk]

Sacred old river, impressive! ❤

[@latigresadragon8]

Great doc thank you. *Extra credit for using some of the soundtrack from thelma & louise*

[@user-mt8xk5zz7b]

Ireland will always be great full to the Choctaw people for their help during the Irish famine. We have built a beautiful monument in their honour.🇮🇪☘️

[@Anewfoundmindset]

LOve you all.. from Newfoundland

[@c.p379]

Mississippi River is HUGE very underrated

[@MattTee1975]

How is it underrated? It's literally the most known river in the country, and possibly the entire world.

[@ModAMPM]

@@MattTee1975 Almost never when someone says something is underrated is it actually underrated. People value the Mississippi an appropriate amount.

[@BalboaBaggins]

@@MattTee1975 Stop overusing the word literally.

[@surferrosa8392]

What a pleasure seeing the African American cowboys pass along that aspect of their heritage to the younger generation.

[@BalboaBaggins]

What? Eating hamburgers and drinking coke?

[@GloryDaze73]

❤wonderful variety of stories and people. Great to learn more about different cultures with horses, cars, ecology etc.

[@jmigoe75]

Wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing these stories...

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@amitKamble-mq4cw]

Mississippi river 😮😮

[@5GFarms]

Kudos for spelling it correctly! 😆

[@davidcockrill7115]

"It’s important to note that although the mounds were named after the Cahokia tribe of the Illiniwek confederacy who arrived in the 17th century, they were not the original inhabitants. The original name of the city is shrouded in mystery." I lived nearby and attended Shawnee College. I visited the Mounds state park. I remember a historical plaque that read the original people moved away and who they were was a mystery.

[@user-cd1tt4le7h]

Louis Armstrong was discovered by New Orleans riverboat Captain Verne Streckfus, who brought Armstrong out from a French Quarter bar to play on the boat.

[@pissiole5654]

My questions is who discovered Captain Streckfus

[@visavo]

The legendary Choctaw Nation!!! Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

[@NguyenVinh-di6rl]

Great documentary. Thanks DW ❤

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@rodneybowman1042]

The very first picture is i-20 crossing from Delta, La to Vicksburg, Mississippi… I cross the bridge every other day…

[@andahtheo4237]

America America America. God bless this country

[@RamaKrishnan-ml3mt]

Choctaw- mother mount- river- 🌎 earth...🌊🙏

[@_GenePaul]

What a beautiful area. Great story. I'd love to travel to see it in it's natural beauty.

[@Ahmedabdirahmanhusen.]

This is amazing

[@ExceptionalLibra]

Excellent! Thanks for including the part about Cowboys!

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@Julia20508]

Loved this documentary. I've always wanted to visit the South. Might do one day to try the food and see the cultures.

[@Allen667sjja]

When I was in nursing school I asked if they had any “study abroad” programs. They told me that they used to do Haiti but stopped because apparently someone got murdered there, but they had Mississippi lol. Their was visible disappointment on my advisors face when I wasn’t interested

[@Allen667sjja]

There’s alottt of Red Cross and other health programs that try to do work in Mississippi due to the conditions there. I’ve heard of a story from one professor who went and said one woman even had a dirt floor (and two otherwise healthy kids), just shocked me to hear that existed here in the US.

[@Lisa1111]

One's assistance and learning is everywhere!

[@user-zb6fk1fq5j]

the film's English accent is very clear for a foreign audience. I enjoy listen to the story.

[@7r3v0rc]

Amazing!

[@lokeshgsadhmaya5499]

Love for dw.❤ Keep growing

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@peterkinyoko6045]

nice work dw

[@jacobkuntflapp]

An Australian narrator with Germans production making a documentary on the Mississippi.

[@farhadeditingandtechtube8832]

That's a nice doc..dw kudos

[@DanKonyak]

Sending ❤ to Messippi people from Nagaland! I want to visit, maybe if God grant me in the future. 😊

[@grahamhorne6956]

A fabulous documentary but would like to have seen much more of the river especially its source.

[@user-ys3ij9dy3i]

Just realised that Mississippi river isn't the longest river in U.S.Its Missouri River!! 😮

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

Which dumps onto the might Miss.

[@GloryDaze73]

But such an Interesting river though with lots of culture and mixed backgrounds.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

Pretty good documentary. That guy on here, Richie, who plants the trees, says he was raised in the delta, but if that's true, he never picked up that deep, deep, southern drawl.

[@marianfrances4959]

Awesome!! 👍😎🇨🇦

[@vitpham9722]

Great documentary. Little sad that music from the Delta was highlighted but a Mumford & Sons song was chosen to play in the background for most it..

[@pepelepewpewpew8573]

When she started singing Dumped

[@user-dt7wx5tk8k]

We also have mississipi river in Meru,Kenya .

[@QuokkaInnerSpaceofCalm-qw7kg]

Nice.Very Nice

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) .video about a certain Indian tribe's native red Indian cultures. Documentary focused on Chikto tribe culture on Mississippi River ... thanks for sharing

[@JynxFreeman]

I wish we would try to save more of our land in general... Although it seems farm's are not exactly enough to produce what's needed...

[@michaelfantus9656]

Chocktaw is Hebrew for "His Laugh," AKA Isaac, the Number is 1075, "Outcast, come home and we will reset."

[@EmilyKresl]

Is there a Hebrew meaning for Ojibwe, Navajo, Winnebago, Cherokee or Menominee?

[@ModAMPM]

I was waiting for the casino. Not disappointed.

[@asadbhuiyan5719]

Is my country beauty,, God bless USA ❤

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

Even though I live in the states the United States South/Mississippi River has always been an anomaly to me.

[@danielgc1970]

This isn't about the river.

[@tysone1254]

exactly

[@morainepedestal9461]

Thank you, you saved my time!

[@gamingtonight1526]

The Mississippi has all sorts of problems currently. Having a huge impact on food distribution...

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

Weh - Yah - Weh - Yah -Weh - Yah... יהוה‎

[@EmilyKresl]

This was cool and everything but I still don't really know anything new about the Mississippi and I'm kinda bummed out you didn't even mention Wisconsin.

[@bamanbuchem9885]

These are the real Americans

[@hinthegroove9740]

One Mississippi, two Mississippi…

[@gilberttello08]

👌👌

[@raularaujo1329]

Mark Twain brought me here

[@DeniseSkinner68DeniseSkinner68]

Thumbs up for Jhon Wayne a real cowboy 😅 with a personal blacksmith

[@DhooomKetu]

One Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi

[@frankthetank6558]

I want to do a journey from Leadville to little rock then the gulf, any way you would like to be apart?

[@frankthetank6558]

P.s. All by boat

[@christopherlane9700]

BB King and Elvis are from Mississippi, and Louis Armstrong is more of a Louisiana legend.

[@RobertoPoncebk]

Correcto ❤

[@Pasha8204]

Need 4k, go 1 billions km² 300 millions km² land!

[@eckosters]

I worked for the Louisiana Geological Survey from 1981-1986. And I worked on wetland loss. I wasn't the only one. Hundreds of scientists have worked on wetland loss and deltaic dynamics, mostly since the 60s. There are now other important institutions doing this work. I understand you want to tell a human story, but the guy in his motorized paraglider isn't doing anything new - the delta has been flown and mapped all these decades in a quantitative (but less spectacular) manner. So I'm disappointed in the simplistic way you portrayed this.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

I thought this was about the river cm

[@pantoffelslippers]

I stopped halfway. Got nothing to do with the river.

[@visavo]

Nanih Waiya

[@streetsarecold]

more about this river-youtube real life lore

[@alexhope212009]

Seen a mound like that in Britain, apparently druids built it over centuries of praying to a local god and offerring small amounts of soil.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

how the cowboy used spurs on their boot and able to maintain mobility unhinge

[@ben-jam-in6941]

They don't drag the ground as you walk if that's what you're asking. I've even had to run wearing spurs, and they jingle, but not quite as loud as you hear in the old Western movies. Bull riders wear spurs, and they have to be pretty mobile after getting bucked off, or it's hospital time.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

That Selena mustang looks like boo bucket to me

[@fowmart]

I like how the first place they go is over 100 miles from the Mississippi River

[@lisadolan689]

It’s called ‘context’. It’s a standard film making tool used to establish the connection or ‘context’ with the ‘greater’ overall narrative of the documentary. But hey, good for you 😉😉🤗😂😂😂😂

[@fowmart]

@@lisadolan689 what

[@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477]

There were once pirates along this river, such as the former commander of Fort Henry, Samuel Mason, who was a hero in the founding of America

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

not pokes giants hole in the horses belly

[@jodatkhan7648]

I think whoever is the author of this documentary did not do a great job. You should have started the doc by giving us details about Mississippi River, it’s history and geography but author has started diving into cultures instead

[@gardenlifelove9815]

I wish I could learn about ALL of America's native history. It sickens me that we have all been taught lies and a different way than what actually happened. It's all nothing but a giant cover up that is still being pulled out tooth by tooth.

[@abdulahaduygur6811]

Why did you delete the documentary you made about Uyghurs?

[@ExceptionalLibra]

Probably because of Chyna!

[@fortunewrangler8524]

Flat Bread for the win!!

[@d.wagnerRE]

I love a car show and the prom as much as anybody else I didn’t see very much on the Mississippi river. What I did see is 4 commercial breaks.l so I turned it off before it ended

[@reallabigz4358]

He who wins the war gets to re write history. Mississippi became Mississippi in 1817. The river and rivers been here long before Mississippi. That is the nile river. America is northwest Africa. Documented!! Everything and everybody is water down.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

Mrs sip what

[@SkepticalTeacher]

M I double S I double S I double P I! 😂

[@darshanselghare6435]

Unsatisfactory they just talked about culture But what about the river

[@davechristian7543]

why is an aussie speaking i wonder my child? Dockland greatest country in the world as us Aussies r a special type of racist pmsl.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

How is that European forces American to be honest American

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

Liar 69 mustang charger never landed on the moo

[@user-wl1pf7xc6q]

Man, I think this was the worst DW documentary that I've come across so far. It's great that it showed some highly underrepresented cultures and I suppose you have to talk about the music scene a bit, but it's astounding how much got left out. St. Louis and the area where the Ohio and Missouri rivers meet the Mississippi don't exist and the river's the whole reason why Grant's Vicksburg campaign was so important, but they don't exist, either. There were some mentions about trade, but not about the steamships nor the Sultana disaster, which exploded near Memphis, and Mark Twain's probably the most famous author associated with the Mississippi. And finally, talking about Louisiana's erosion is definitely important, but the Mississippi also carries a ton of agricultural products downstream so uncontrolled algae growth has caused a massive dead zone in the Gulf. But hey, we got to watch a car show.

[@monsieurVi]

😌

[@Limewire1984]

Mississippi - Was looking forward to some "Poor Boys."

[@tsyka1]

Julie is very hot!

[@BalboaBaggins]

This video has 255 dislikes.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

Then call me Indian

[@tafri961]

Funny that native americans are called Indians ...

[@Toads-pt2su]

Typical American why does everything have to be massive from steaks to rivers everything is massive,,😂

[@georgeg6036]

Such a great subject but the writing is horrible.

[@Titbitist]

well, they are americans on paper atleast

[@Worldaffairslover]

Most remarkable country to ever exist 🇺🇸 🦅

[@WaynoGur]

Disappointing. I live in Southern Arizona in the shadow of the Colorado River. I'd have hoped you would have discussed the headwaters of the Mississippi, it's importance to commerce and trade, recreational uses, it's impact on farming, water rights, etc. Instead they concentrated on vignettes that, for the most part, had little to do with the river.

[@GillGuidesU]

There are other documentaries highlighting your concerns.

[@GloryDaze73]

Maybe they'll make another documentary. You have a good point.

[@user-ro8qq7nx3t]

Meh, mildly interesting.

[@rzomg]

Who is Hollywood? It is a better question.

[@sabihatanveer8494]

The OG☻🐂boys 💌