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Since 1988, POV has been the home for the world’s boldest contemporary filmmakers, celebrating intriguing personal stories that spark conversation and inspire action.

StoryCorps Shorts: The Echoes of War

2m 8s

Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium near the border with Germany. At StoryCorps, he tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about being called upon for a special assignment.

Episodes

  • POV Shorts: This Sacred Place: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: This Sacred Place

    S35 E506 - 25m 5s

    New worlds unfold in stories of tradition and hometown pride. You Can’t Stop Spirit centers the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition: a group of self-liberated Black women who created an alternative social space where they are encouraged to be free. In Coming Home, Palestinian-American dancers use traditional Dabka to connect with their homeland.

  • POV Shorts: You Are My Sunshine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: You Are My Sunshine

    S35 E505 - 24m 30s

    Three stories about care and connection: When her son leaves to study abroad, a Polish mother feels bereft until she finds a baby squirrel in her backyard; An animated documentary about a devoted caretaker, her chronically ill husband, and the power of undying love; With humor and tenderness, Toby observes the sheep that live on the land where his parents were buried several years ago.

  • POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million

    S35 E504 - 25m 3s

    An idealistic, young journalist in Beijing profiles China's biggest real estate speculator. Their divergent life experiences and clashing values reflect the generational and societal changes happening in the country.

  • POV Shorts: Our Motherland Fantasy Nightmare: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Our Motherland Fantasy Nightmare

    S35 E502 - 25m 1s

    Two families experience homeland violence across generations. Two Ukrainian sisters separated by distance and war and a call that could be their last. A perilous swim from China to Hong Kong parallels a new generation's quest for freedom.

  • POV Shorts: Take the A Train: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Take the A Train

    S35 E503 - 24m 30s

    Two stories from the heart of New York. A portrait of the life and work of Jamaican New Yorker and visual artist Michael Richards. A close look at disabled New Yorkers fighting for accessibility on the MTA.

  • I Didn't See You There: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    I Didn't See You There

    S35 E3514 - 1h 24m

    Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - I Didn't See You There serves as a clear rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.

  • Let the Little Light Shine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Let the Little Light Shine

    S35 E3513 - 1h 22m

    National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents’ group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. How will NTA's community fight to save their beloved institution?

  • Midwives: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Midwives

    S35 E3512 - 1h 23m

    Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.

  • POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

    S35 E501 - 24m 2s

    Painter Titus Kaphar uses film as a medium while grappling with an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.

  • The Last Out: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Last Out

    S35 E9 - 1h 23m

    Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.

  • Delikado: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Delikado

    S35 E8 - 1h 22m

    Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.

  • Love & Stuff: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Love & Stuff

    S35 E7 - 1h 17m

    “How do you live without your mother?” Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and as an “old new mom,” single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents’ “stuff,” the film asks: what do we really need to leave our children?

Extras + Features

  • Trailer | Let the Little Light Shine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Let the Little Light Shine

    S35 E3513 - 1m 58s

    National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents’ group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. How will NTA's community fight to save their beloved institution?

  • Trailer | Midwives: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Midwives

    S35 E3512 - 1m 59s

    Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.

  • Trailer | Accepted: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Accepted

    S35 E10 - 1m 45s

    Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder -- and the fiction of higher education's promise.

  • Trailer | The Last Out: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | The Last Out

    S35 E9 - 2m 9s

    Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.

  • Trailer | Delikado: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Delikado

    S35 E8 - 3m 11s

    Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.

  • Trailer | Faya Dayi: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Faya Dayi

    S35 E6 - 2m 7s

    A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.

  • Trailer | President: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | President

    S35 E5 - 2m 24s

    Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?

  • Trailer | He's My Brother: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | He's My Brother

    S35 E4 - 1m 34s

    Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.

  • Trailer | Winter's Yearning: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Winter's Yearning

    S35 E3 - 2m 27s

    In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area’s loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.

  • Trailer | Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

    S35 E2 - 2m

    Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal – Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles?

  • Trailer | Wuhan Wuhan: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Wuhan Wuhan

    S35 E1 - 2m

    With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.

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    The Gospel of Eureka

    Sunday
    Jun 4

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Negotiating differences between religion and belief through drag shows, passion play, political action and partnership in a small Arkansas town.
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    Pier Kids

    Sunday
    Jun 4

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Exploring the lives of the Black, homeless queer and trans youth who call New York's Christopher Street Pier their home.
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    We Are the Radical Monarchs

    Saturday
    Jun 10

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Co-founders of an Oakland, Calif.-based alternative to the Girl Scouts for girls of color aged 8-13, which encourages girls to earn badges for social justice and for being an LGBTQ ally, face challenges growing their organization.
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    We Are the Radical Monarchs

    Sunday
    Jun 11

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Co-founders of an Oakland, Calif.-based alternative to the Girl Scouts for girls of color aged 8-13, which encourages girls to earn badges for social justice and for being an LGBTQ ally, face challenges growing their organization.
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    Out in the Night

    Saturday
    Jun 17

    1 Hour

    A group of black lesbians is charged with attempted murder when they fight back after being threatened.
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    Out in the Night

    Sunday
    Jun 18

    1 Hour

    A group of black lesbians is charged with attempted murder when they fight back after being threatened.
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    Call Her Ganda

    Sunday
    Jun 18

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Three women pursue justice when a Filipina transgender woman is murdered by a U.S. Marine.

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