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Up Heartbreak Hill follows two Native teens torn between the lure of opportunities outside their remote reservation community and the cultural ties that bind them to home.
In Racing Dreams, three "tweens" dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. A humorous and heartbreaking portrait of racing, young love and family struggle.
From a snowy town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, follow the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard.
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The new kid at school becomes a hero when his teachers cannot find a way to anglicize his name.
Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African-American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on the stars.
Up Heartbreak Hill follows two Native teens torn between the lure of opportunities outside their remote reservation community and the cultural ties that bind them to home.
In Racing Dreams, three "tweens" dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. A humorous and heartbreaking portrait of racing, young love and family struggle.
From a snowy town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, follow the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard.
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.
What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture?
This four-minute animated short from the producers of StoryCorps features Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, interviewing his mother, Sarah.
POV features three films about adoption — Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy by Stephanie Wang-Breal; Off and Running by Nicole Opper; and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee by Deann Borshay Liem — and has launched a national public awareness campaign to examine issues facing adoptees and families who choose to adopt. Watch all three films online through November, 2010.
In 2012, StoryCorps returns to POV for a third season of its Peabody Award-winning storytelling. Watch animated shorts from past seasons.
Bye follows Jayden, a two and half year old diagnosed with autism, through his first months of school in the Bronx.
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.
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
A determined group of teenagers return to New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina to finish high school. Since Katrina, one out of five teens live without parents.
An unblinking look inside a British school for emotionally disturbed kids captures what happens when a community of determined adults envelops them in love rather than force.
A Song for Daniel compares a routine day of two nine-year-old boys — one living in Baghdad and the other, born and raised in New York City — and offers a profound examination of culture and place through the eyes of two Iraqi youth living on opposite sides of the world.
In December 1997, Julia Hill climbed a 1000-year-old redwood tree vowing to not come down until it was saved from being clear-cut.
A selection of hypnotically engaging short films by and about women offers vivid and lyrical pictures of joy, endurance and inspiration.
When filmmaker David Zeiger decides to film his son Danny's high school band for a year, he gets a crash course in love, life and marching in formation. This poignant portrait celebrates the hormones, havoc and hope of the teen years and ultimately allows Zeiger to deepen his connection with one son, while paying tribute to the loss of another.
This POV classic film offers a rare and disarming peek into the very real lives of teenage girls in South Philly in the early 1990s.
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Up Heartbreak Hill Trailer
Up Heartbreak Hill follows two Native teens torn between the lure of opportunities outside their remote reservation community and the cultural ties that bind them to home.
Photos from 'Up Heartbreak Hill'
Up Heartbreak Hill follows two Native teens torn between the lure of opportunities outside their remote reservation community and the cultural ties that bind them to home. Flip through a slideshow of photos from the film.
Racing Dreams Full Length
Racing Dreams chronicles a year in the life of three “tweens” who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. The film is a humorous and heartbreaking portrait of racing, young love and family struggle.
Find out what has happened to Josh, Annabeth and Brandon from the documentary Racing Dreams since the cameras stopped rolling.
Live Q&A with Marshall Curry and Annabeth Barnes
In February 2012, director Marshall Curry and racer Annabeth Barnes took questions from viewers about the film Racing Dreams.
In this lesson, students will collect and analyze data in an effort to improve their performance in an interactive simulation featuring competitive kart racing.
Marshall Curry Additional Video
Hear what it was like to make a documentary about "tweens" who are pursuing careers as NASCAR drivers.