POV airs new independent documentaries on Tuesday nights during the summer and fall. Dates and times below reflect the national PBS broadcast and online streaming schedules.
Racing Dreams
by Marshall Curry
Broadcast: Thursday, February 23 at 9:00 PM (90 minutes)
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.
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Where Soldiers Come From
by Heather Courtney
Broadcast: Thursday, November 10 at 9:00 PM (90 minutes)
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.
Last Train Home
by Lixin Fan
Broadcast: Tuesday, September 27 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration.
The Learning
by Ramona Diaz
Broadcast: Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
Four Filipino women leave their families and schools to teach in the U.S. The women bring idealistic visions of the teacher’s craft and of American life.
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
by Marshall Curry
Broadcast: Tuesday, September 13 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
This provocative film lifts the veil on a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America’s "number one domestic terrorism threat."
Better This World
by Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway
Broadcast: Tuesday, September 6 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
The story of two men who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramatic tale of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal.
Armadillo
by Janus Metz
Broadcast: Tuesday, August 30 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
A platoon of Danish soldiers fight the Taliban at Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan.
POV Short Cuts
by Various Filmmakers
Broadcast: Tuesday, August 23 at 10:00 PM (60 minutes)
A one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers, including: Big Birding Day, Flawed, Miss Devine, No More Questions, Six Weeks and Tiffany.
StoryCorps Shorts
by Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch
Broadcast: Various dates
Following the success of its first season on television, StoryCorps will bring its Peabody Award-winning storytelling back to POV for a second season in 2011.
The Oath
by Laura Poitras
Broadcast: Tuesday, August 16 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)This is an encore broadcast.*
Filmed in Yemen and Guantánamo, The Oath interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Bin Laden's former bodyguard and Salim Hamdan, a man facing war crimes charges. Watch now »
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* Note: Not all PBS stations choose to rebroadcast encore presentations. Please check local listings to see whether this show will be airing.
Food, Inc.
by Robert Kenner
Broadcast: Tuesday, August 9 at 10:00 PM (120 minutes)This is an encore broadcast.*
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.
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* Note: Not all PBS stations choose to rebroadcast encore presentations. Please check local listings to see whether this show will be airing.
Steam of Life
by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen
Broadcast: Tuesday, August 2 at 10:00 PM (60 minutes)
In Finland, the sauna is a national obsession - a place to come together and sweat out not only the grime of contemporary life, but also grief, hopes, joys and memories.
Mugabe and the White African
by Lucy Baileyand Andrew Thompson
Broadcast: Tuesday, July 26 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
In Zimbabwe, de facto dictator Robert Mugabe has unleashed a "land reform" program aimed at driving whites from the country through violence and intimidation.
Biblioburro: The Donkey Library
by Carlos Rendón Zipagauta
Broadcast: Tuesday, July 19 at 10:00 PM (60 minutes)
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.
Enemies of the People
by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath
Broadcast: Tuesday, July 12 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain largely unexplained. Until now.
Sweetgrass
by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Broadcast: Tuesday, July 5 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture.
My Perestroika
by Robin Hessman
Broadcast: Tuesday, June 28 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children searching for their places in today’s Moscow.
Kings of Pastry
by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker
Broadcast: Tuesday, June 21 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)
Pastry chefs whip up the most gravity-defying concoctions and edge-of-your-seat drama as they deliver their desserts for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Broadcast: Tuesday, June 7 at 10:00 PM (90 minutes)This is an encore broadcast.*
Forty years ago, a whistleblower's daring act of conscience led directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.
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* Note: Not all PBS stations choose to rebroadcast encore presentations. Please check local listings to see whether this show will be airing.
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