P.O.V. (a cinema term for "point of view") is public television's award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films.
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
first aired:
December 30, 2009
(#2214)
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, this ...
The Way We Get By
first aired:
November 22, 2009
(#2213)
On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens ...
Bronx Princess
first aired:
November 15, 2009
(#2212)
Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and ...
The Principal Story
first aired:
October 4, 2009
(#2211)
This program tells two stories, painting a dramatic portrait of the challenges ...
The English Surgeon
first aired:
September 13, 2009
(#2210)
What is it like to have power over life and death, and yet to struggle ...
Ella Es El Matador (She Is the Matador)
first aired:
September 6, 2009
(#2209)
For Spaniards - - and for the world - - nothing has expressed their country's ...
This Way Up
first aired:
September 12, 2009
(#2208)
This is a story about a wall - the separations it's meant to enforce and ...
Shorts Program
first aired:
August 30, 2009
(#2207)
This collection of acclaimed documentary shorts by established and emerging ...
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
first aired:
August 23, 2009
(#2206)
Variety describes it as a film "mixing ferocity with tenderness, delicacy ...
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
first aired:
August 16, 2009
(#2205)
Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award®-nominated directorial ...
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
first aired:
July 26, 2009
(#2204)
More than 120 countries have united to form the International Criminal ...
Life. Support. Music.
first aired:
July 19, 2009
(#2203)
In 2004, Jason Crigler's life was taking off. He was one of New York's ...
Beyond Hatred
first aired:
July 12, 2009
(#2202)
In September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, ...
New Muslim Cool
first aired:
July 5, 2009
(#2201)
Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Perez pulled himself out of drug dealing ...
Inheritance
first aired:
February 10, 2009
(#2115)
Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant ...
Soldiers of Conscience
first aired:
October 16, 2008
(#2114)
When is it right to kill? In the midst of war, is it right to refuse? ...
Up the Yangtze
first aired:
October 8, 2008
(#2113)
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape ...
In the Family
first aired:
October 1, 2008
(#2112)
How much would you sacrifice to survive? When Chicago filmmaker Joanna ...
Critical Condition
first aired:
September 30, 2008
(#2111)
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America ...
Calavera Highway
first aired:
September 16, 2008
(#2110)
When brothers Armando and Carlos Pena set off to carry their mother's ...
The Judge and the General
first aired:
August 19, 2008
(#2109)
When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzman was assigned the first criminal ...
Belarusian Waltz
first aired:
August 12, 2008
(#2108)
Belarus has been called "Europe's last dictatorship." Since 1994, Alexander ...
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
first aired:
August 5, 2008
(#2107)
In this classic 1969 documentary, Johnny Cash is captured at his peak ...
Campaign
first aired:
July 29, 2008
(#2106)
"Campaign" provides a startling insider's view of Japanese electoral politics ...
9 Star Hotel
first aired:
July 22, 2008
(#2105)
"9 Star Hotel" documents the lives of a group of young Palestinian men ...
The Last Conquistador
first aired:
July 15, 2008
(#2104)
Renowned sculptor John Houser has a dream - to build the world's tallest ...
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
first aired:
July 8, 2008
(#2103)
In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the ...
Election Day
first aired:
July 1, 2008
(#2102)
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. ...
Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North
first aired:
June 24, 2008
(#2101)
First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her ...
Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
first aired:
December 12, 2007
(#2014)
Tony Kushner, whose epochal "Angels in America" won a Pulitzer Prize and ...
49 Up
first aired:
October 9, 2007
(#2013)
This is the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a group of ...
Lumo
first aired:
September 18, 2007
(#2012)
The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. ...
The Camden 28
first aired:
September 11, 2007
(#2011)
How far would you go to stop a war? "The Camden 28" recalls a 1971 raid ...
Made in L.A.
first aired:
September 4, 2007
(#2010)
Los Angeles is now the country's center for apparel manufacturing, but ...
Libby, Montana
first aired:
August 28, 2007
(#2009)
Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana - ...
Arctic Son
first aired:
August 21, 2007
(#2008)
The clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds ...
Following Sean
first aired:
July 31, 2007
(#2007)
Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old ...
Prison Town, USA
first aired:
July 24, 2007
(#2006)
In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened ...
The Chances of the World Changing
first aired:
July 17, 2007
(#2005)
A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust ...
Revolution '67
first aired:
July 10, 2007
(#2004)
This program is an illuminating account of events too often relegated ...
Standing Silent Nation
first aired:
July 3, 2007
(#2003)
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April ...
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
first aired:
June 26, 2007
(#2002)
If the refugee is today's tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra ...
Rain in a Dry Land
first aired:
June 19, 2007
(#2001)
How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American ...
No Bigger Than a Minute
first aired:
September 9, 2009
(#1912)
Few people ever meet a dwarf face-to-face. In this personal journey, dwarf ...
Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
first aired:
September 8, 2009
(#1911)
Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: ...
Lomax the Songhunter
first aired:
September 6, 2008
(#1907)
Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the ...
Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)
first aired:
September 3, 2009
(#1906)
The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music-captured in the performances ...
The Tailenders
first aired:
September 4, 2009
(#1905)
Global Recordings Network, founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced ...
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball
first aired:
August 26, 2008
(#1902)
In Japan, baseball is not a pastime-it's a national obsession. And for ...
Omar & Pete
first aired:
June 30, 2008
(#1812)
Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in ...
The Hobart Shakespeareans
first aired:
June 19, 2008
(#1811)
Teacher Rafe Esquith has a point of view - a very strong one - about educating ...
Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the
first aired:
July 1, 2008
(#1810)
Is it possible to heal wounds and bitterness passed down through generations? ...
Bright Leaves
first aired:
June 29, 2008
(#1809)
What legacy is passed down to generations when a family is a giant tobacco ...
In the Realms of the Unreal
first aired:
June 28, 2008
(#1807)
Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night, outsider artist Henry ...
The Brooklyn Connection
first aired:
June 26, 2008
(#1805)
It's common knowledge that buying weapons in the United States is surprisingly ...
The Fire Next Time
first aired:
June 25, 2008
(#1804)
The people of the Flathead Valley in Montana were stunned when a domestic ...
Street Fight
first aired:
June 14, 2008
(#1803)
This program follows the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year-old ...
Big Enough
first aired:
June 23, 2008
(#1802)
In this intimate portrait, Jan Krawitz revisits some of the subjects who ...
The Education of Shelby Knox
first aired:
June 22, 2008
(#1801)
What's it like to be a Christian teenage girl today? Meet Shelby Knox,a ...
A Panther in Africa
first aired:
June 21, 2008
(#1711)
On October 30, 1969, Pete O'Neal, a young Black Panther in Kansas City, ...
Freedom Machines
first aired:
June 20, 2008
(#1710)
This program, by Jamie Stobie and Janet Cole, takes a new look at disability ...
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story
first aired:
June 27, 2008
(#1708)
This award-winning documentary looks at the promising racing career and ...
Every Mother's Son
first aired:
June 18, 2008
(#1707)
In the late 1990s, three victims of police brutality made headlines around ...
A Family Undertaking
first aired:
June 17, 2008
(#1706)
Prior to the 20th century, most Americans prepared their dead for burial ...
Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas
first aired:
June 24, 2008
(#1702)
When documentary filmmaker Richard Kassebaum learned that his younger ...
