POV's Season 31
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PBS Premiere: April 18, 2018
Bill Nye is on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking. This intimate film features the life and work of TV's favorite scientist.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 18, 2018
An intimate film capturing eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 25, 2018
A Korean opera singer leads his children’s choir to produce a musical in India.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 2, 2018
A plunge into the fire of Tultepec, Mexico, the site of the National Pyrotechnic Festival.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 9, 2018
In Qatar, migrant workers for the 2022 World Cup compete in their own soccer tournament.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 16, 2018
Lindy starts a journey looking for the 11 jurors with whom she sentenced a man to death.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 23, 2018
Despite Taliban threats, a Pakistani woman becomes one of the top female squash players.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 30, 2018
An unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, told by the activists leading the movement.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 6, 2018
A rural poet becomes a sudden star in China, whose writings ponder life, love and pain.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 27, 2018
A young medic records dramatic change in Iraq amidst U.S. retreat in 2011 and ISIS's rise.
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Hasidic women shatter the glass ceiling by creating Brooklyn's first all-female EMS corps.
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A reporter in Montana exposes the shadowy world of anonymous campaign contributions.
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Sierra Leonean healthcare workers heroically face the Ebola epidemic in their country.
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Three former "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery during World War II speak out.
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A mother yearns to escape the hardships of Cuba for a potentially fatal American dream.
POV Playlist: Summer Music
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 25, 2018
A Korean opera singer leads his children’s choir to produce a musical in India.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 18, 2018
An intimate film capturing eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: July 24, 2017
In the Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. Nominated, 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 12, 2003
Ninety-one year old Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong has two great loves: his music and artist Barbara Ward. Their stories are captured in Mahan's engaging film.
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PBS Premiere: July 21, 2014
Bryan Wilmoth and his seven younger siblings were raised in a strict, religious home. In this StoryCorps Animated Short, he talks to his brother Mike about reconnecting years after their dad kicked Bryan out for being gay.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Nov. 10, 2014
In 2005, Specialist Justin Cliburn deployed to Iraq with the Oklahoma Army National Guard. While serving in Baghdad, Justin formed an unlikely friendship with two Iraqi boys who lived nearby. At StoryCorps, Justin speaks with his wife, Deanne, about the lasting impression the boys left on his life.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Nov. 10, 2014
In August 2005, Travis Williams and his squad were sent on a rescue mission in Iraq.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: June 29, 2015
Allen Hoe tells the story of a chance encounter with a stranger who knew his son.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 21, 2015
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless in one of the richest parts of the world. Hotel 22 captures a single, dramatic night on the Line 22 route.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 21, 2015
Alex Landau, who is African American, recalls how he nearly lost his life following a traffic stop with the Denver police. He and his mother, Patsy, who is white, remember that night and how it changed them both forever.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 11, 2016
On her 90th birthday, Rosemarie and Ray celebrate with a trip to In-N-Out.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 11, 2016
On her 90th birthday, Rosemarie and Ray celebrate with a trip to In-N-Out.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 1, 2016
Patrick Haggerty remembers his father's unexpected advice to his gay son in rural Washington during the 1950s.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 19, 2016
In Theo Rigby and Kate McLean's short film Marathon, an undocumented immigrant, Julio Sauce, competes in the New York City Marathon. This film is part of Immigrant Nation, an interactive storytelling project designed to collect immigrant narratives and share them with the world.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 10, 2016
An intimate portrait of a gender-nonconforming child growing up in conservative rural Florida.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 24, 2016
Reverend James L. Seawood remembers what happened to his elementary school after the last African American family was forced out of Sheridan, Arkansas, in the 1950's.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: June 26, 2017
Filmmaker Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek coast guard who is caught in the middle of the refugee crisis in which Europe is embroiled. Nominated, 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 17, 2017
With rare access inside Pelican Bay State Prison, we hear inmates' experiences of living in long term solitary confinement. This short documentary offers a visceral snapshot of the day-in-the-life inside one of the most notorious supermax prisons in the U.S.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: July 24, 2017
In the Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. Nominated, 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Sept. 17, 2017
Tom Geerdes, a Vietnam veteran, remembers his long journey toward healing after returning home from the war.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Feb. 8, 2018
A story for anyone who’s ever dreamt of spending a night in a library.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Feb. 22, 2018
A California teenager gets sent to Louisiana for a summer with her great-grandmother.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: May 3, 2018
Celebrating those who helped us along in life.
Popular Films
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 12, 2013
Is darkness becoming extinct? Exploring the physical and psychological effects of light pollution, The City Dark is a portrait of the world after dusk, and a meditation on the human relationship to the stars.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 27, 2018
A young medic records dramatic change in Iraq amidst U.S. retreat in 2011 and ISIS's rise.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 20, 2018
Parents of a boy on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, recruiting other teens on the spectrum and training them with high expectations and zero pity. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 6, 2018
A rural poet becomes a sudden star in China, whose writings ponder life, love and pain.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 30, 2018
An unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, told by the activists leading the movement.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 23, 2018
Despite Taliban threats, a Pakistani woman becomes one of the top female squash players.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 16, 2018
Lindy starts a journey looking for the 11 jurors with whom she sentenced a man to death.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 9, 2018
In Qatar, migrant workers for the 2022 World Cup compete in their own soccer tournament.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 2, 2018
A plunge into the fire of Tultepec, Mexico, the site of the National Pyrotechnic Festival.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 25, 2018
A Korean opera singer leads his children’s choir to produce a musical in India.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 18, 2018
An intimate film capturing eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: May 3, 2018
Celebrating those who helped us along in life.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: April 18, 2018
Bill Nye is on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking. This intimate film features the life and work of TV's favorite scientist.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: March 1, 2018
Through the eyes of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets, Last Men in Aleppo allows viewers to experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets, where they are fighting for sanity in a city where war has become the norm. Winner, 2017 Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Feb. 22, 2018
A California teenager gets sent to Louisiana for a summer with her great-grandmother.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Feb. 19, 2018
Accompany two African-American teens from the South Side of Chicago on their journey to achieve their dream of graduating from college. A co-production of American Documentary | POV; Part of American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen, made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Feb. 12, 2018
Once a year on Mother's Day, a charity buses children to prisons to visit their mothers.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: Feb. 12, 2018
Parents recount telling their black sons that they may be targets of racial profiling.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Feb. 12, 2018
A vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Do Not Resist puts viewers in the center of the action — from inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments. Winner, Best Documentary Feature Award, 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Feb. 8, 2018
A story for anyone who’s ever dreamt of spending a night in a library.