Fierce activists and forgotten pioneers. Found families and future champions. These are just some of the stories we've selected for you to watch and explore – phenomenal films about phenomenal women.
Check out our POV titles and more, streaming now on pov.org and the PBS app.
Meryland Gonzales, a twelve-year-old female boxer, trains to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics champion while her immigrant parents work tirelessly to give their child a shot at achieving her dreams.
Spanning 14 years and two continents, a daughter searches for her mother's birth parents in Taiwan, unraveling complex tensions between love and sacrifice.
An exploration and celebration of the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
Join the panel discussion for Unapologetic, part of POV's current season, directed by Ashley O’Shay and produced by O’Shay and Morgan Elise Johnson. Unapologetic is an inside look into the ongoing movement work that sought justice for the murder of Rekia Boyd in 2012 and transformed Chicago through the lens of two queer feminist abolitionists, Janaé Bonsu and Bella BAHHS.
Register for the exclusive screening link, to be offered from 7pm ET March 7 through March 21, and then tune in for the panel discussion on Monday, March 21, at 7pm ET.
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 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, 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.
