POV - Season 35

POV - Season 35

Season 35

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Episodes16
DatesJan 24, 2022 - Jan 9, 2023
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Episodes

Not Going Quietly
Season 35Episode 190 min

Not Going Quietly

A rising star in progressive politics and new father, Ady Barkan's career and family are upended when he is diagnosed with ALS at age 32. After a chance encounter with a powerful Senator on an airplane catapults him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists storm across the country, igniting a once-in-a-generation movement for healthcare for all Americans.

Jan 24, 2022
On the Divide
Season 35Episode 290 min

On the Divide

McAllen, TX is home to the last reproductive health clinic on the Texas/Mexico border. It is the center of the tension between religious protesters who try to stop patients coming inside and the security staff of the clinic who fight to protect it. On The Divide follows three different Latinx members of this community and the unforeseen choices they face for their daily survival.

Apr 18, 2022
Wuhan Wuhan
Season 35Episode 360 min

Wuhan Wuhan

With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.

Jul 11, 2022
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Season 35Episode 460 min

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

Jul 18, 2022
Winter's Yearning
Season 35Episode 560 min

Winter's Yearning

In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area's loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.

Jul 25, 2022
He's My Brother
Season 35Episode 660 min

He's My Brother

Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.

Aug 1, 2022
President
Season 35Episode 760 min

President

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?

Aug 8, 2022
Faya Dayi
Season 35Episode 8120 min

Faya Dayi

Aug 29, 2022
Love & Stuff
Season 35Episode 960 min

Love & Stuff

"How do you live without your mother?" Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and as an "old new mom," single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents' "stuff," the film asks: what do we really need to leave our children?

Sep 5, 2022
Delikado
Season 35Episode 1060 min

Delikado

Palawan 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.

Sep 26, 2022
The Last Out
Season 35Episode 1160 min

The Last Out

Three 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.

Oct 3, 2022
Accepted
Season 35Episode 1260 min

Accepted

Oct 10, 2022
An Act of Worship
Season 35Episode 1390 min

An Act of Worship

In An Act of Worship, Muslim-Americans recount the past 30 years of pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from their own perspective. Weaving together observational footage of activists who came of age after 9/11, community-sourced home videos and evocative recollections from individuals impacted by incidents of Islamophobia, the film opens a window into their world through collective memory.

Oct 17, 2022
Midwives
Season 35Episode 1490 min

Midwives

Midwives 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.

Nov 21, 2022
Let the Little Light Shine
Season 35Episode 1560 min

Let the Little Light Shine

An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.

Dec 12, 2022
I Didn't See You There
Season 35Episode 1660 min

I Didn't See You There

A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.

Jan 9, 2023

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