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POV Shorts: Making Memories

POV Shorts: Making Memories

Season 32 Episode 203
24:13
POV Shorts: Drawing on Experience

POV Shorts: Drawing on Experience

Season 32 Episode 204
25:01
POV Shorts: Post-Colonial Queer

POV Shorts: Post-Colonial Queer

Season 32 Episode 206
25:01
Through The Night

Through The Night

Season 33 Episode 14
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Wuhan Wuhan

Wuhan Wuhan

Season 35 Episode 1
1:24:25
He's My Brother

He's My Brother

Season 35 Episode 4
52:15
Delikado

Delikado

Season 35 Episode 8
1:22:55
POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

Season 35 Episode 501
24:02
POV Shorts: Take the A Train

POV Shorts: Take the A Train

Season 35 Episode 503
24:30
POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million

POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million

Season 35 Episode 504
25:03
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Blowin' Up

Season 32 Episode 14

Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. With intimate camerawork that lingers on details and brings the Queens criminal courtroom to life, Blowin' Up celebrates acts of steadfast defiance, even as it reveals the hurdles these women must face.

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Follow the journey of Maya Lin behind the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC.
POV Shorts: Classroom 4
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A history professor teaches a class of free and incarcerated students inside a prison.
POV Shorts: La Orquesta
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A retired music teacher starts Georgia’s first youth orchestra for immigrant families.
POV Shorts
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Leading Black musicians in the Pacific Northwest create new traditions on Juneteenth.
POV Shorts: This is America
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From big city to small town, two stories reflecting contemporary America.
POV Shorts
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A poetic look at roller rinks as sanctuaries for Black culture, joy, and resistance.
Earth Month
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Photographer James Balog brings the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project to a close.
Feature Films
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1:22:58
A Korean birth mother and her daughter struggle to stay reunited for the long haul.
Feature Films
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1:23:05
Poet and activist Staceyann Chin chronicles her journey of healing, forgiveness, and mothering.
Celebrating Cinematography Collection
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Confronting war, Ukrainian artists pick up arms while finding strength through art.
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A small-town attorney takes on pharmaceutical giants as opioids devastate his community.
Black Snow
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An environmental thriller that shines new light on the human cost of coal.
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