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POV airs new independent documentaries on Tuesday nights during the summer and fall.
Dates and times below reflect the schedule of your prefered PBS station.
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Select POV films are now available in their entirety online for a limited time.
Visit the PBS Video Player for the full list.
Here are some highlights.
Hate crimes against Mexican day laborers in Long Island, NY (90 minutes) through November 11
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. (38 minutes) through November 24
Principals make a difference in struggling public schools. (60 minutes) through December 14
This is democracy — Japanese style: the story of a man plucked
from obscurity by the ruling political party to run for a critical city
council seat. (60 minutes)
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. (60 minutes)
What could be good about losing an eye? Nothing can make up for this tragic loss, but artificial eye makers Christy Erickson and Todd Cranmore combine artistry, skill and compassion to rekindle hope for their patients and families. Each eye...
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away reveals how the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina continues to have impact on the lives of its victims — and how entire families are among the casualties. The film tells the story of...
The aggressive North American gray (or grey, when it gets to England) squirrel is threatening to displace the English red squirrel. Immortalized in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and much beloved by English nature lovers, the red is...
Filmmaker Jesse Epstein takes us inside the Patina V Mannequin Factory in City of Industry, Calif., where the artistry, craft and marketing that go into creating "the ideal woman of the moment" — in plastic — are accompanied by a...
Is nothing American sacred anymore? The largest mall in the world turns out not to be the famous Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. It's the South China Mall outside of Guangzhou, China. Outdoing the techniques of American consumerism, South...
In the darkness outside of our cities, there are lights that we have forgotten how to see. Alice laments the loss of her view of the universe, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in...
Cranes dominate our skylines, yet few people ever notice them, nor do they notice the men and women who operate them. Spending most of their time alone up in the crane, crane drivers seem to merge with their machines, becoming...
"Ars Magna," which means "great art" in Latin, is an anagram of the word "anagrams." Enter into the obsessive and fascinating world of anagrams with Cory Calhoun, who took the first three lines of Hamlet's "To Be or Not to...
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