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POV : Season 35
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Air date: 11 Jul '22 - 14 episodesPOV 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 (14)
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POV (1988)
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1. Wuhan Wuhan
11 Jul '22Exploring 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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2. Manzanar, Diverted: When water becomes dust
18 Jul '22Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar World War II concentration camp; Native Americans forced from their land; ranchers bought out by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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3. Winter's Yearning
25 Jul '22Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant.
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4. He's My Brother
01 Aug '22Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter.
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5. President
08 Aug '22Nelson Chamisa, the new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, challenges the old guard -- ZANU-PF.
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6. Faya Dayi
29 Aug '22A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia.
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7. Love & Stuff
05 Sep '22A multigenerational love story focuses on a daughter who cares for her terminally ill mother and adopts a baby in her 50s.
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8. Delikado
26 Sep '22Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.
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9. The Last Out
03 Oct '22Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.
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10. Accepted
10 Oct '22An article exposes the controversial methods of the founder of a prestigious prep school in Louisian
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11. An Act of Worship
17 Oct '22Muslim Americans offer perspectives on pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from the past 30 years.
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12. Midwives
21 Nov '22Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.
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POV (1988)
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13. Let The Little Light Shine
12 Dec '22Supporters of the National Teachers Academy in Chicago fight to save their institution when a wealthy parents' group seeks to close it down.
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POV (1988)
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14. I Didn't See You There
09 Jan '23Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - I Didn't See You There serves as a clear rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.
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