Season 36
View Full ListAt MIT, an alum follows four African students striving to become change agents for home.
An intimate look behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US.
In this reflection on aging and transformation, a woman with dementia reinvents herself.
Crossing Horizons: Asian and Pacific Islander Visions and Voices
View Full ListRenowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies “what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall...
Shot over the course of a year, Elaine Is Almost explores the unconditional love between siblings as they each navigate their place in the world.
Mothers of Many Worlds
View Full ListNative Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.
A devoted caretaker, her chronically ill husband, and the power of undying love.
POV’s Greatest Hits
View Full ListA defiant movement led by women of color fights to transform politics from the ground up.
In 1939, 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden — an event largely forgotten from...
A South Korean community is torn apart by a ferry disaster which claimed the lives of hundreds of children. When government incompetence is revealed as the main cause, the victims’ families seek justice.
POV Shorts Season 6
View Full ListInspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the state’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom, Under G-d...
Two stories exploring themes of memory, devastation, and resiliency through Detroit and Canarsie’s unique relationships to water. Includes Freshwater and...
Detroiters experienced an enhanced form of water destruction from massive flooding that destroyed homes, belongings and lives in the summer...
POV Shorts Season 5
View Full ListPainter Titus Kaphar turns to film when the art world tries to silence his activism.
Two families experience homeland violence across generations. Includes Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving the House and Freedom Swimmer.
Two stories from the heart of New York. Includes Are You Down? and All Riders.
StoryCorps Shorts
View Full ListRaised in New York City, Maritza Bell never learned how to drive. Later, her husband Danny tried to teach her....
Madzimoyo Owusu, who grew up in the same three-story apartment building as her grandparents in Chicago’s West Side in the...
Affectionately known as “Sug,” Cora Lee Collins captured the hearts of all. At StoryCorps, Sug’s daughter and granddaughter, Penelope Simmons...
Feature Films
View Full ListA political love story about Leila, her secret love Sahand and their escape from Iran. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival.
When an artist realizes that his father has Alzheimer’s, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine.” Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival.
Short Films
View Full ListPalestinian-American dancers use traditional Dabka to connect with their homeland.
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her...
Painter Titus Kaphar turns to film when the art world tries to silence his activism.
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view full listAnd She Could Be Next, made by a team of women filmmakers of color, asks whether democracy itself can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
A prep school in Louisiana that sends 100% of its grads to college is rocked by scandal. Official selection, 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
A political love story about Leila, her secret love Sahand and their escape from Iran. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival.
When an artist realizes that his father has Alzheimer’s, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine.” Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival.
A multigenerational love story about what it is we really need to leave our children.
A hypnotic immersion in Harar, Ethiopia, where khat, a euphoria-inducing plant holds sway. Official selection 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Shortlisted, 94th Academy Awards. A co-presentation with Black Public Media.
Citizens in the city of Wuhan unite to grapple with a mysterious virus called COVID-19.