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POV : Season 31
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POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 14-16 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 300 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, including Michael Moore, Jonathan Demme, Terry Zwigoff, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, Michael Apted, Frederick Wiseman, Marlon Riggs, and Ross McElwee have had work screened as part of the POV series. The series has garnered both critical and industry acclaim over its 20-plus years on television. POV programs have also won major industry awards including three Oscars, 32 Emmys, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, 15 Peabody Awards, 11 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.
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List of Episodes (17)
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POV (1988)
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1. Bill Nye: Science Guy
18 Apr '18The Rainey family are an African-American family living in Philadelphia.
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2. Quest
18 Jun '18Bill Nye advocates the importance of science, research and discovery.
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3. Singing With Angry Bird
25 Jun '18Jae-Chang Kim, a Korean opera singer who runs a children's choir in India, trains parents and their children for a joint concert.
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4. Brimstone & Glory
02 Jul '18The town of Tultepec in south-central Mexico becomes famous for its manufacturing of fireworks.
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POV (1988)
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5. The Workers Cup
09 Jul '18African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar participate in a football tournament for laborers.
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POV (1988)
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6. Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2
16 Jul '18A juror deals with guilt and regret after she and 11 others hand down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted of a double homicide.
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7. Girl Unbound
23 Jul '18Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player.
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8. Whose Streets?
30 Jul '18An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it.
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9. Still Tomorrow
06 Aug '18Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becomes a best-seller in China.
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10. Nowhere To Hide
27 Aug '18Male nurse Nori Sharif and his family experience many changes as conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the Islamic State group in central Iraq's "triangle of death."
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11. Voices of the Sea
03 Sep '18A Cuban mother of four longs for escape and a chance to build a better life.
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12. 93Queen
17 Sep '18Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn, create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York.
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13. Survivors
24 Sep '18Two health care workers in Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country.
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14. Dark Money
01 Oct '18A journalist in Montana investigates the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
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15. The Apology
22 Oct '18Former comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II fight for justice and reconciliation.
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16. Minding the Gap
18 Feb '19Three young men bond through skateboarding to escape their volatile family life in their Rust Belt home town.
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17. 306 Hollywood
18 Mar '19Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house.
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