International
by Yoni Brook , Musa Syeed
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Rocky Otoo is the sassy teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents. After she rebels against her mother's rule in the Bronx, she flees to her father, a chief in Ghana.
by Geoffrey Smith
Premiere: September 8, 2009
A remarkable depiction of one doctor's commitment to relieving suffering and of the emotional turmoil he undergoes in bringing hope to a desperate people.
by Gemma Cubero, Celeste Carrasco
Premiere: September 1, 2009
Two women matadors in Spain have a passion for bullfighting and are determined to pursue their dreams. What is it like for women to enter into this male-dominated arena?
by Georgi Lazarevski
Premiere: August 25, 2009
The security wall being built by Israel on the West Bank has isolated a nursing home, leaving its residents to face old age in the throes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
by Various Filmmakers
Premiere: August 18, 2009
POV presents a one-hour collection of acclaimed documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
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by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
Premiere: August 18, 2009
The world's largest mall is outside of Guangzhou, China. Along with the glitz and glory of middle-class shopping, the mall’s developers seem to have imported something else — a cautionary tale of capitalist hubris. (13 minutes)
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by Nicholas Berger
Premiere: August 18, 2009
Immortalized in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the red is the island nation’s only native species of squirrel. But it is being driven to extinction by the invading greys. And so, a cross-section of English men and women has risen up to turn back “the grey menace” and save the reds. (18 minutes)
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by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Premiere: July 21, 2009
This Academy Award-nominated film chronicles Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war.
by Paco de Onís, Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates
Premiere: July 14, 2009
Over 120 countries have united to form the International Criminal Court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.