List of POV (TV series) episodes
The following is a list of episodes from PBS series POV, a production of American Documentary, Inc. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 independently produced documentary films to public television audiences across the country. The series started its 30th season in mid-2017.
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Seasons: 2 • 3 • [|4] • [|5] • [|6] • [|7] • [|8] • [|9] • [|10] • [|11] • [|12] • 13 • [|14] • [|15] • [|16] • [|17] • [|18] • [|19] • [|20] • [|21] • [|22] • 23 • [|24] • [|25] • [|26] • [|27] • [|28] • [|29] • [|30] • [|31] • [|32] |
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Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Season 13
Season 14
Season 15
Season 16
Season 17
Season 18
Season 19
Season 20
Season 21
Season 22
Season 23
Season 24
Season 25
Season 26
Season 27
Season 28
Season 29
Season 30
Season 31
Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
April 18, 2018 | David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg | Bill Nye takes on those who deny a science-based worldview. | |
Quest | June 18, 2018 | Jonathan Olshefski | Portrait of a family from North Philadelphia. |
Singing with Angry Bird | June 25, 2018 | Hyewon Jee | Jae-Chang Kim runs a children's choir in Pune, India. |
Brimstone & Glory | July 2, 2018 | Viktor Jakovleski | The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico. |
The Workers Cup | July 09, 2018 | Adam Sobel | Migrant workers in Qatar preparing for the 2020 FIFA World Cup. |
Beatrice | July 23, 2018 | Lorena Alvarado | Beatrice Vio contracted meningitis and now a Paralympic fencer. |
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 | July 16, 2018 | Florent Vassault | A 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. |
The War to Be Her | July 23, 2018 | Erin Heidenreich | Although she and her family are threatened by Islamic fundamentalists, Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player. |
Whose Streets? | July 30, 2018 | Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis | An unflinching look at the Ferguson, Mo., uprising, where citizens assert their right to live after unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours. |
Still Tomorrow | August 6, 2018 | Jian Fan | Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becomes a best-seller in China. |
Nowhere to Hide | August 27, 2018 | Zaradasht Ahmed | Nori Sharif, nurse in central Iraq. |
Voices of the Sea | September 3, 2018 | Kim Hopkins | A young mother yearns to escape the unending hardships of a remote Cuban fishing village in search of a false and potentially fatal American dream. |
93Queen | September 17, 2018 | Paula Eiselt | Hasidic women create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York. |
Survivors | September 24, 2018 | Anna Fitch, Lansana Mansaray, Arthur Pratt, Banker White | Two health care workers in Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country. |
Dark Money | October 1, 2018 | Kimberly Reed | The influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. |
The Apology | October 22, 2018 | Tiffany Hsiung | Three former “comfort women” give their first-hand accounts. |
Minding the Gap | February 18, 2019 | Bing Liu | The lives and friendships of three young men who love skateboarding. |
306 Hollywood | March 18, 2019 | Elan and Jonathan Bogarín | Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house. |
Wendy's Shabbat | March 18, 2019 | Rachel Myers | Some senior citizens gather weekly at a Wendy's to celebrate Shabbat. |
116 Cameras | March 18, 2019 | Davina Pardo | Eva Schloss, a survivor of Auschwitz and stepsister of Anne Frank, becomes an interactive hologram |
Season 32
Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
Roll Red Roll | June 17, 2019 | Nancy Schwartzman | At a 2012 pre-season high school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman is raped. The aftermath exposes an entire culture of complicity and the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media played in the tragedy. |
The Gospel of Eureka | June 24, 2019 | Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri | Negotiating differences between religion and belief through drag shows, passion play, political action and partnership in a small Arkansas town. |
Call Her Ganda | July 1, 2019 | PJ Raval | Three women pursue justice when a Filipina transgender woman is murdered by a U.S. Marine. |
Bisbee '17 | July 15, 2019 | Robert Greene | Residents 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. |
On Her Shoulders | July 22, 2019 | Alexandria Bombach | Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, relays the story of how she survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by Islamic State group. |
Inventing Tomorrow | July 29, 2019 | Laura Nix | Teenage innovators prepare solutions to the world's environmental threats for presentation at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. |
The Distant Barking of Dogs | August 5, 2019 | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Having nowhere else to go, a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy and his grandmother navigate life amid the on-going war in Eastern Ukraine. |
Happy Winter | August 12, 2019 | Giovanni Totaro | Beachgoers at Palermo's Mondello beach try to hide the fact that the economic crisis has compromised their social status. |
Farmsteaders | September 2, 2019 | Shaena Mallett | Nick Nolan and his family work to resurrect his late grandfather's dairy farm. |
Grit | September 9, 2019 | Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander | A teenager recruits her neighbors 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. |
The Silence of Others | September 30, 2019 | Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo | Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later. |
América | October 7, 2019 | Chase Whiteside, Erick Stoll | |
The Feeling of Being Watched | October 14, 2019 | Assia Boundaoui | |
BLOWIN' UP | October 21, 2019 | Stephanie Wang-Breal | |
Midnight Traveler | December 30, 2019 | Hassan Fazili | |
The Rescue List | March 23, 2019 | Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink |