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.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: July 23, 2018
A portrait of Beatrice Vio, a Paralympic fencing champion.
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.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 3, 2018
A mother yearns to escape the hardships of Cuba for a potentially fatal American dream.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 17, 2018
Hasidic women shatter the glass ceiling by creating Brooklyn's first all-female EMS corps.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 24, 2018
Sierra Leonean healthcare workers heroically face the Ebola epidemic in their country.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
A reporter in Montana exposes the shadowy world of anonymous campaign contributions.
POV Shorts
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Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
Earthrise tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
In 1986, the aging city of Cleveland attempted a world record: to release the most balloons at once.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone Mountain.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history.
Popular Films
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 1, 2018
A reporter in Montana exposes the shadowy world of anonymous campaign contributions.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: March 24, 2013
The provocative film is a lyrical exploration of youth, beauty and ambition, seen through the eyes of a conflicted American modeling scout and the 13-year-old girl she discovers.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 17, 2018
Hasidic women shatter the glass ceiling by creating Brooklyn's first all-female EMS corps.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 24, 2018
Sierra Leonean healthcare workers heroically face the Ebola epidemic in their country.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 28, 2004
Follow two young refugees from the Dinka tribe, Peter and Santino, through their first year in America. Nearly 4,000 'lost boys' have emigrated to the United States.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 9, 2011
This 2010 Oscar-nominated film lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 3, 2018
A mother yearns to escape the hardships of Cuba for a potentially fatal American dream.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Dec. 31, 2017
In American Promise, African-American parents Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson film their son and his friend, who attend one of the country’s most prestigious private schools.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 29, 2000
There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don't know anything about them. It is one man's obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led filmmaker Jasmine Dellal into their hidden thousand-year-old culture.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 7, 2010
Avery is one of three children adopted by a Jewish lesbian couple in Brooklyn. Though it may not look typical, Avery’s is like most families — until she writes to her birth mother.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Jan. 1, 2018
In the Light of Reverence is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect their sacred sites.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 21, 2001
Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
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
PBS Premiere: June 18, 2018
An intimate film capturing eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia.
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.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 19, 2011
Colombian grade-school teacher Luis Soriano brings books, via two hard-working donkeys, to the children of Magdalena Province's poor and violence-ridden interior.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 4, 2012
A riveting exposé of corruption and injustice in the Philippines, chronicling a sensational murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment — but fails to free an innocent man.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 22, 2018
Three former "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery during World War II speak out.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 14, 2013
In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 21, 2015
In a community where silence is seen as necessary for survival, immigrant activist Angy Rivera joins a generation of Dreamers ready to push for change in the only home she's ever known — the United States. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.