POV - Season 36

POV - Season 36

Season 36

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DatesJun 26, 2023 - Mar 18, 2024
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Episodes

After Sherman
Season 36Episode 160 min

After Sherman

Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, After Sherman is a reclamation of Black life and space.
Jun 26, 2023
A Story of Bones
Season 36Episode 260 min

A Story of Bones

As Construction Environmental Officer for St. Helena's troubled airport project, Annina van Neel learns about an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans. Haunted by this historical injustice, she and African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde fight for their proper memorialization, exposing the UK's colonial past and present.
Jul 3, 2023
Liquor Store Dreams
Season 36Episode 360 min

Liquor Store Dreams

In Liquor Store Dreams, two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their own dreams with those of their immigrant parents. Along the way, they confront the complex legacies of LA's racial landscape, including the 1991 murder of Latasha Harlins and the 1992 uprisings sparked by the police beating of Rodney King, while engaged in current struggles for social and economic justice.
Jul 10, 2023
A House Made of Splinters
Season 36Episode 460 min

A House Made of Splinters

In the shadow of war by the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, a safe haven provides refuge for children who have been temporarily separated from their parents. A House Made of Splinters chronicles three displaced kids who, despite the perils surrounding them, find moments of joy, friendship, and childhood wonder, with the aid of dedicated social workers who work tirelessly to protect them from harm.
Jul 17, 2023
Eat Your Catfish
Season 36Episode 560 min

Eat Your Catfish

A woman's battle with late-stage Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) leaves her paralyzed and pushes her family to the breaking point.
Jul 24, 2023
Children of the Mist
Season 36Episode 660 min

Children of the Mist

A 13-year-old Hmong girl is caught between tradition and modernity in rural northwest Vietnam.
Jul 31, 2023
While We Watched
Season 36Episode 760 min

While We Watched

A timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis, While We Watched follows tormented journalist Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of fake news, falling ratings and the resulting cutbacks. Are there viewers for fact-based analyses anymore? Will his show survive or become a swan song of reason – drowning out in sensationalism, misinformation, and ratings-driven editorial decisions?
Sep 4, 2023
Bulls and Saints
Season 36Episode 860 min

Bulls and Saints

After 20 years in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home.

Sep 18, 2023
Uýra - The Rising Forest
Season 36Episode 960 min

Uýra - The Rising Forest

Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon to promote the significance of identity and place, threatened by Brazil's oppressive political regime. Through dance, poetry, and stunning characterization, Uýra confronts historical racism, transphobia, and environmental destruction, while emphasizing the interdependence of humans and the environment.

Sep 25, 2023
Murders That Matter
Season 36Episode 1090 min

Murders That Matter

How would you handle the trauma of losing a loved one? Murders That Matter documents African American Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell over five years as she transforms from a victim of violent trauma into a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.

Oct 2, 2023
Aurora's Sunrise
Season 36Episode 1190 min

Aurora's Sunrise

At 14, Aurora Madriganian survived the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Her newfound fame led to her starring in Auction of Souls, one of Hollywood's earliest blockbusters. Blending storybook animation, video testimony, and rediscovered footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives her forgotten story.

Oct 23, 2023
Fire Through Dry Grass
Season 36Episode 1290 min

Fire Through Dry Grass

Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren't typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

Oct 30, 2023
Wisdom Gone Wild
Season 36Episode 1390 min

Wisdom Gone Wild

A vibrant tender cine-poem, a filmmaker collaborates with her Nisei mother as they confront the painful curious reality of wisdom ‘gone wild' in the shadows of dementia. Made over 16 years, the film blends humor and sadness in an encounter between mother and daughter that blooms into an affectionate portrait of love, care, and a relationship transformed.

Nov 20, 2023
How to Have an American Baby
Season 36Episode 14120 min

How to Have an American Baby

How to Have an American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. Told through a series of intimately observed vignettes, the story of a hidden global economy emerges–depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in its web.

Dec 11, 2023
Brief Tender Light
Season 36Episode 1590 min

Brief Tender Light

At the elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of positive change back home. Even as their dreams are anchored in the societies they left, their daily realities are defined by America. Each must refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, and ultimately, how to transform youthful ideals into action as adults.

Jan 15, 2024
Unseen
Season 36Episode 1660 min

Unseen

As a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces uncertainty to obtain his college degree, become a social worker, and support his family. Through experimental cinematography and sound, unseen reimagines the accessibility of cinema, while exploring the intersections of immigration, disability, and mental health.

Mar 18, 2024

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