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POV : Season 32
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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. Roll Red Roll
17 Jun '19At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team.
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2. The Gospel of Eureka
24 Jun '19Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an infamous gospel drag show.
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3. Call Her Ganda
01 Jul '19When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case - an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother)–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
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POV (1988)
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4. Bisbee 17
15 Jul '19Residents of Bisbee, Ariz., commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation when 1,200 immigrant miners were taken from their homes, shipped to the desert and left to die.
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POV (1988)
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5. On Her Shoulders
22 Jul '19Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people’s good intentions.
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POV (1988)
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6. Inventing Tomorrow
22 Jul '19Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet’s environmental threats while navigating adolescence.
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POV (1988)
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7. The Distant Barking of Dogs
05 Aug '19Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother’s death, because they have nowhere to go.
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POV (1988)
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8. Happy Winter
12 Aug '19Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same number of groups of bathers who will spend the season in them.
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POV (1988)
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9. Farmsteaders
02 Sep '19Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.
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POV (1988)
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10. Grit
09 Sep '19A teenager recruits her neighbours to fight against a multinational natural gas drilling company allegedly responsible for displacing 60,000 people in an Indonesian village that was submerged in mud.
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POV (1988)
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11. The Silence of Others
30 Sep '19Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later.
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POV (1988)
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12. America
07 Oct '19When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmother, they clash over money, communication and caregiving.
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POV (1988)
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13. The Feeling of Being Watched
14 Oct '19Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe conducted in Illinois.
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POV (1988)
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14. Blowin’ Up
21 Oct '19The challenges facing a group of women determined to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
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POV (1988)
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15. Midnight Traveler
30 Dec '19The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey from Afghanistan to Germany.
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POV (1988)
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16. The Rescue List
23 Mar '20Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.
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POV (1988)
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17. Episode 17
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