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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.
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.
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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The story of Alexander Pushkin, whose audacious, comical exploits against totalitarianism find him facing the hostility of the police and the consternation of his family.
A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in. Caught between Israeli security laws and a Palestinian Authority they see as having failed them, they work for Israeli contractors by day while hiding from police by night.
Features & Blog Posts
Femicide in the Congo: A Conversation with Eve Ensler
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, and activist Christine Schuler Deschryver talk about the horrors of sexual violence and its aftermath in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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POV to Relaunch "Re: Vietnam" as "Regarding War" Next Month
In 1996, a "dog's age ago" in Internet time, POV launched one of our first websites entitled "Re: Vietnam | Stories Since the War." It was conceived as a companion website to the POV/PBS broadcast of the Academy Award-winning film,...
"Congo in Harlem" Film Series and Events This Month in NYC
I just got an email from the filmmakers of Lumo (POV 2007) that there will be films and events celebrating Congolese culture and raising awareness about the conflict at the Mayles Cinema in New York City all this month. Three...
Rocky Otoo, 17, center, stands with her father, Nii Adjedu, left, and her mother "Auntie" Yaa Otoo, right, in the Bronx, NY. Credit: Photo by Yoni Brook/Highbridge PicturesPOV aired the last film of our 2009 season last night on PBS....