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NOVEMBER COLLECTION
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Featured Collection:
Community Grassroots: The Different Flavors of Organizing Collection

What defines community? What brings people together? What does community look like? Our latest collection is curated around the nature of community in an era of cultural, social and political division. Springing from a desire to connect with others around shared experience, collective memory and culture, communities provide a pivotal transformative counter to peril, loss and grief. This collection presents POV features and POV Shorts that imagine various ways communities define themselves, their goals, needs and ideals, and how histories, personal experiences and geography influence how communities look and feel.

From undaunted grassroots organizers confronting violence in their communities in Murders That Matter ([link removed]) and The Body Politic ([link removed]) ; to activists united around accessibility and inclusion in All Riders ([link removed]) ; to American Seams ([link removed]) , Águilas ([link removed]) and A Story of Bones ([link removed]) where bonds are forged by traditional craft, loss and memorial; and MnM ([link removed]) and Jardines ([link removed]) , intimate portraits of people whose identity and self expression are deeply entwined with dignity and safety.

These stories demonstrate that community is a shared effort built through dreams, perseverance, resistance, and that Getting Back to Abnormal ([link removed]) is only possible through collective healing and joy. Watch these visionary stories about community spaces and places and the people who create connections, transform themselves and others, and make a difference out of necessity and hope.

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STREAMING ENCORES
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What does it take to rebuild a community after a crisis? POV’s Getting Back To Abnormal follows the stories of people coming together to reclaim normalcy and resilience in extraordinary times.

Getting Back to Abnormal ([link removed]) is be available to stream now until January 30 on POV on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App ([link removed]) .
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Locked in during COVID. Fighting for survival. In Fire Through Dry Grass, a group of disabled Black and brown artists document life inside a New York nursing home—exposing systemic neglect and the power of resistance through creativity. Watch again on PBS ([link removed]) or stream anytime on the @PBS App.

Fire Through Dry Grass ([link removed]) is be available to stream now until November 30 on POV on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App ([link removed]) .
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Four African students at MIT chase their dreams—and carry the weight of family, expectation, and global ambition. Brief Tender Light is a powerful meditation on hope, identity, and the meaning of success.

Brief Tender Light ([link removed] ) is available to stream now on POV now until November 30 on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App. ([link removed])


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As AmDoc gears up for our annual GalaFest 2025 ([link removed]) event, we are celebrating Our House. Our Stories. Our Future. This House Party themed event is organized in celebration of the community of filmmakers, supporters and viewers and the stories we tell.
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NOVEMBER PREMIERES
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Short films. Big stories. POV Shorts ([link removed]) returns for its 8th season with unforgettable new documentaries that explore resilience, creativity, and community. Discovery awaits in this collection of short films that have big stories to tell, available to stream at pbs.org/pov ([link removed]) and on the PBS App ([link removed]) .

September 8, 2025 (Now Streaming) – La nueva ola de añil (The New Indigo Wave) ([link removed])

November 18, 2025 – Chasing Time ([link removed]) , The People Could Fly ([link removed]) , MnM ([link removed]) , Your Opinion, Please ([link removed])

November 25, 2025 – Songs of Black Folk ([link removed]) , La Orquesta ([link removed]) , Classroom 4 ([link removed])


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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.

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