Step into the heart of small town America with Small Town, Big Heart. Our sterling titles include a celebration of queer culture in the unlikely setting of Eureka Springs, Arkansas in The Gospel of Eureka, a gripping examination of sexual assault culture and high school football in Roll Red Roll, and an intimate study of a rural family farm in Ohio in Farmsteaders. These films delve into the important issues and deep connections of small towns across America and the people who call them home.
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, POV celebrates the vibrancy of social justice activism and everyday stories from the past and present. Three stand-outs: Oscar®-nominated legacy title, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, dissecting the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit and its sociopolitical impacts; last season's Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust, where Native Americans, Japanese Americans, and environmentalists work together to defend their water from LA; and Standing Above the Clouds, about Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists protecting their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.
Women's Health Week is May 14-20, and POV is proud to present an encore presentation of On the Divide, the story of three Latinx people connected to the last reproductive health clinic on the U.S./Mexico border.
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Portraits and Dreams: Former students reflect on visionary photos they made in the 1970s and their present lives.
Bisbee '17: A town commemorates the 100th anniversary of the deportation of 1,200 immigrant miners.
Natours Grocery: Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents’ emigration from Palestine to the United States.
American Revolutionary: Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be.
Sing Me A Lullaby: Spanning 14 years and two continents, a daughter searches for her mother's birth parents in Taiwan, unraveling complex tensions between love and sacrifice.
Elaine is Almost: Shot over the course of a year, an exploration of the unconditional love between siblings as they each navigate their place in the world.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Perspective Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
