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One Square Mile Documentary Series
About The Series

One Square Mile: America

One Square Mile is an Emmy award-winning documentary series that explores society within the microcosm of a single mile. The series began in 2007 with the filming of the Fort Worth, Texas episode. Collectively, the square miles in the series create a patchwork of contemporary American culture and a personal view of the world we live in.

The One Square Mile series cover fifty square miles across the United States. The square miles range from the urban setting of New York City with 66,880 people living and working in a single square mile - to rural Texas with 275 people living in a sawmill community.

One Square Mile provides a realistic look at our society from the view of the individual within the confines of a single square mile. This is not a tourist’s view of America, but rather a reflection of our society and who we are as a people. By using the template of the square mile, the series looks beyond the preconceived notions of what defines an area.

One Square Mile illustrates that the world is big place, that stereotypes are not always accurate and that if you scratch the surface just a little bit, everyone has an interesting story to tell.

One Square Mile combines sociology, geography and anthropology in a first person point of view. The entire One Square Mile web series has been conceptualized, produced, filmed and edited by filmmakers Carl and Betsy Crum.

One Square Mile: Texas

One Square Mile: Texas (OSMTX) is a documentary television series that portrays Texas culture from the perspective of distinct square miles across the Lone Star state. As a whole, the series is a microcosm of Texas life and a collective portrait of the state.

The series represents the many faces and facets of Texas from the perspective of the individual while spanning the emotional, demographic and physical landscapes. This is a series about shared challenges and aspirations. The square miles include urban, suburban and rural communities and neighborhoods from every corner of the state.

OSMTX Episode Themes Each episode has a theme by which the series examines the square miles and provides a cohesive thread that allows us to explore, compare and shed light on universal issues. Looking beyond the preconceived notions or stereotypes that typically define the state, OSMTX’s objective viewpoint provides a platform and outlet for discussion of the collective and varied identity of the state and the regions and towns that comprise it.

A Reflection of Texan Culture OSMTX is a is a reflection on the past, a comment on the present and a gift to future Texans. Season one of OSMTX documents forty five stories from nine selected square miles across Texas. The series portrays life in a sincere, meaningful and compelling way that articulates Texas culture in the 21st century.

OSMTX is a call to be engaged, to be a part of your community and to discover what is going on in your square mile and to see how individuals are making a difference. The OSMTX series is a cultural gauge and document of a specific point in time - a time capsule of an ever changing landscape of demographics, statistics, technology and people. OSMTX is the only television program that documents Texas culture as a unified story of individuals by combining different perspectives from communities across the state.