Asian American Pacific Islander Month
View Full ListIn this reflection on aging and transformation, a woman with dementia reinvents herself.
Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.
Follow the journey of Maya Lin behind the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC.
Mental Health Awareness Month
View Full ListA family’s free life in nature is disrupted by tragedy, forcing them into modern society.
Confronting war, Ukrainian artists pick up arms while finding strength through art.
Jeremy Sicile-Kira uses painting to transcend his disability and communicate his dreams to others. This film accompanies the broadcast premiere of...
POV Shorts Season 8
View Full ListPhotographer James Balog brings the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project to a close.
The People Could Fly is a poetic look at the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, KY. Through intimate portraiture, it explores the ritual of roller skating and the role of roller rinks as sanctuaries for Black culture, joy, and resistance.
From big city to small town, two stories reflecting contemporary America. MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid...
POV Season 38
View Full ListA group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse.
A Colombian Black rural activist's historic bid for presidency stirs a national awakening.
Three women navigate hope and change as a Chinese industrial zone transforms Ethiopia.
POV Season 37
View Full ListBordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.
Ella Glendining embarks on a quest to connect with others who share her rare disability.
Two Koli fishermen in Bombay are driven to desperation by a dying sea, testing their bond.
POV Shorts Season 7
View Full ListIn one of the few queer-focused shelters in Tijuana, asylum-seekers process heartbreak and joy as they await uncertain futures.
Two stories of women who trailblaze and persist.
A young med student drives big rigs for tuition fees.
POV Shorts Season 6
View Full ListInspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the state’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom, Under G-d...
Two stories exploring themes of memory, devastation, and resiliency through Detroit and Canarsie’s unique relationships to water. Includes Freshwater and...
Detroiters experienced an enhanced form of water destruction from massive flooding that destroyed homes, belongings and lives in the summer...
POV Shorts Season 5
View Full ListPainter Titus Kaphar turns to film when the art world tries to silence his activism.
Two families experience homeland violence across generations. Includes Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving the House and Freedom Swimmer.
Two stories from the heart of New York. Includes Are You Down? and All Riders.
StoryCorps Shorts
View Full ListKugels, characters, and conversation at Dubrow’s Cafeteria.
Jeff Dupre remembers the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a national publication.
Cheri Lindsay and her father Phillip talk about the rare skin condition they share called vitiligo.
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view full listTajiri becomes both witness and participant in an arduous exercise of remembrance and archiving, set to a soundtrack of songs sung and hummed by her mother... Without falling into any self-centered trappings of nostalgic family documentaries, Wisdom is a patient meditation on life, time, and love, and a confrontation with monumental loss.
Poet and activist Staceyann Chin chronicles her journey of healing, forgiveness, and mothering.
Confronting war, Ukrainian artists pick up arms while finding strength through art.
A family’s free life in nature is disrupted by tragedy, forcing them into modern society.
An aspiring social worker faces the uncertainty of life as a blind, undocumented immigrant.
Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.
An intimate look behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US.