POV (1988)
Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.
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Episode 1 - Wuhan Wuhan
Release Date: 2022-07-11Exploring 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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Episode 2 - Manzanar, Diverted: When water becomes dust
Release Date: 2022-07-18Japanese 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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Episode 3 - Winter's Yearning
Release Date: 2022-07-25Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant.
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Episode 4 - He's My Brother
Release Date: 2022-08-01Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter.
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Episode 5 - President
Release Date: 2022-08-08Nelson Chamisa, the new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, challenges the old guard -- ZANU-PF.
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Episode 6 - Faya Dayi
Release Date: 2022-08-29A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia.
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Episode 7 - Love & Stuff
Release Date: 2022-09-05A 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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Episode 8 - Delikado
Release Date: 2022-09-26Palawan 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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Episode 9 - The Last Out
Release Date: 2022-10-03Three 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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Episode 10 - Accepted
Release Date: 2022-10-10An article exposes the controversial methods of the founder of a prestigious prep school in Louisian
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Episode 11 - An Act of Worship
Release Date: 2022-10-17Muslim Americans offer perspectives on pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from the past 30 years.
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Episode 12 - Midwives
Release Date: 2022-11-21Midwives 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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Episode 13 - Let The Little Light Shine
Release Date: 2022-12-12Supporters 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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Episode 14 - I Didn't See You There
Release Date: 2023-01-09Spurred 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.