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Season 39 Episode 3: The Gas Station Attendant

Director Karla Murthy weaves together home videos and recorded phone conversations from when her father, H.N. Shantha Murthy, worked at a gas station in Texas, tracing his journey from an impoverished Indian village to the United States. Murthy also reflects on her own identity as a first-generation American — her mother is from the Philippines — navigating adulthood and now motherhood.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

39

Episodes:

523

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

83 min

First Air:

1988

Rating:

6.9