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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: Then and Now

2m 23s

Sisters Janaki Symon and Melissa Wilbur grew up in New York and settled across the country from each other as adults. The StoryCorps MobileBooth was in town when Melissa was visiting her sister, and Janaki invited her to sit down and talk about their relationship.

Episodes

  • POV Shorts: Uniquely Euro: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Uniquely Euro

    S33 E305 - 24m 5s

    Two quirky stories as distinctive as the countries from which they hail, Ukraine and Austria.

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    POV Shorts: Comic Culture

    S33 E306 - 24m 36s

    Slices of life from opposite sides of the world--where the everyday veers into comedy.

  • POV Shorts: In The Absence: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: In The Absence

    S33 E303 - 25m 20s

    A South Korean community is torn apart by a ferry disaster which claimed the lives of hundreds of children. When government incompetence is revealed as the main cause, the victims’ families seek justice.

  • The Infiltrators: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Infiltrators

    S33 E11 - 1h 23m

    The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of two young immigrants who get detained by Border Patrol - on purpose - and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention.

  • POV Shorts: Cherish: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    POV Shorts: Cherish

    S33 E301 - 25m 15s

    Three stories reflecting the many faces of love through memory, community and family.

Extras + Features

  • Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Through The Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Through The Night

    S33 E14 - 1m 17s

    This clip starts with a telephone pole and wires in front of a dusk sky and ends with two children helping Nunu by cleaning the floor.

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    Lesson Plan Clip 5 | Through The Night

    S33 E14 - 1m 14s

    This clip starts with a parent straightening her daughter's hair as she shares "I’ve been working seven days for almost 2 months” and ends with her at work expressing “If I didn't have Nunu, I don't know what I would do”.

  • Trailer | Through The Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Through The Night

    S33 E14 - 2m 20s

    Through the Night is a vérité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a childcare provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival. A co-production of POV and ITVS in association with Black Public Media and Latino Public Broadcasting.

  • Lesson Plan Clip 8 | Through The Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lesson Plan Clip 8 | Through The Night

    S33 E14 - 2m 37s

    This clip starts with children happily playing piggyback and ends with a child closing the window to an outdoor playhouse with frustration.

  • Teaser | The Mole Agent: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Teaser | The Mole Agent

    S33 E13 - 35s

    When a family grows concerned for their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio to become a new resident and a mole inside the home. Sergio struggles to balance his assignment with his increasing involvement in the lives of other residents.

Schedule

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    Winter's Yearning

    Thursday
    Apr 25

    1 Hour

    Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant, which could serve as the nation's first steps toward economic renewal and political sovereignty.
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    Fire Through Dry Grass

    Saturday
    Apr 27

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown.
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    Fire Through Dry Grass

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown.
  • POV: Liquor Store Dreams: TVSS: Banner-L1

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    Liquor Store Dreams

    Wednesday
    May 1

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
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    Liquor Store Dreams

    Thursday
    May 2

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
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    Liquor Store Dreams

    Thursday
    May 2

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
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    POV

    Wuhan Wuhan

    Thursday
    May 2

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a mysterious virus.
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    Liquor Store Dreams

    Saturday
    May 4

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
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    American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

    Tuesday
    May 7

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    The life of Grace Lee Boggs, a 98-year-old Chinese-American philosopher, writer and activist.

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