Episodes
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The Mole Agent
S33 E13 - 1h 22m
When 83-year-old Sergio is sent as an undercover spy to a Chile retirement home to track suspected elder abuse, he learns a deeper lesson on human connection. Through the lens of the hidden camera in his decoy glasses, viewers watch as Sergio struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.
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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.
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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.
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POV Shorts: The Spectrum of Divide
S33 E302 - 25m 5s
Two perspectives on how shared beliefs connect and divide.
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Our Time Machine
S33 E10 - 1h 17m
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
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Love Child
S33 E8 - 1h 22m
With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son. Love Child follows the new family on their life-threatening journey to seek asylum in Turkey, and witnesses a mother’s heart breaking fight to keep her family together and secure a future for her son.
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POV Shorts: Cherish
S33 E301 - 25m 15s
Three stories reflecting the many faces of love through memory, community and family.
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And She Could Be Next (Ep. 2)
S33 E2 - 1h 22m
And She Could Be Next follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
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And She Could Be Next (Ep. 1)
S33 E1 - 1h 54m
And She Could Be Next follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
Extras + Features
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Trailer | Chez Jolie Coiffure
S33 E5 - 47s
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
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Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
S33 E5 - 4m 22s
Sabine speaks of own experience with Lebanon’s “Kafala system”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
S33 E5 - 3m 58s
Sabine begins to recount the harrowing story of “a girl” from Cameroon who went to Lebanon for a promising position as a domestic worker.
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Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
S33 E5 - 5m 45s
Sabine sees a commotion outside her salon and learns that the police are raiding the market looking for undocumented immigrants.
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Lesson Plan Clip 5 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 3m 22s
Understanding that the motive of violence is a response to a larger form of violence.
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Trailer | Advocate
S33 E4 - 1m 59s
A political firebrand in her home country, Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate," for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently. Tsemel, who pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits, takes on two contentious court cases in her tireless quest for justice.
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Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 3m 51s
The choice between settling as a child or going to trial as an adult.
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Lesson Plan Clip 6 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 2m 4s
Lea speaks to the press after the conclusion of her trial.
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 1m 50s
Lea talks about the difference between “devil’s advocate” and “Human right’s lawyer”.
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Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 52s
Lea explains her own moral framework.
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Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Advocate
S33 E4 - 3m 46s
Lea volunteers in 1967, wondering what happened to the people who had lived at the Kotel. It wasn’t a land without a people
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | We Are The Radical Monarchs
S33 E3 - 3m 41s
Media misunderstands the Monarchs so the troop teaches us what they’re about.
Schedule
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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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About Love
Monday
May 13
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Power structures within the three generations of the Phadke family begin to unravel when the youngest daughter starts to record their personal lives. -
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Children of the Mist
Tuesday
May 14
1 Hour 30 Minutes
A 13-year-old Hmong girl is caught between tradition and modernity in rural northwest Vietnam. -
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Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Wednesday
May 15
1 Hour
Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles.
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