What’s streaming on POV this month? If you didn’t catch some of the films from our 2015 season, October is a second chance to watch award-winning and critically acclaimed docs like Return to Homs, Tough Love, Web Junkie and more. And in case you missed it, POV was nominated for 13 News and Documentary Emmy Award nominated films this year, and walked away with two awards for After Tiller and When I Walk. Both films are now streaming through October 13, 2015!
Watch these feature-length docs, along with animated shorts from StoryCorps and independent filmmakers while you can!
After Tiller
Emmy winner — Best Documentary!
Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in 2009, only four doctors in the country openly provide late abortions. With unprecedented access, After Tiller goes inside the lives of these physicians working at the center of the storm.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
When I Walk Emmy winner — Outstanding Informational Programming!
Jason DaSilva was 25 and a rising filmmaker when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and inspired to film this forthright — and surprisingly uplifting — look at his new life. He searches for a cure, yet a different miracle comes his way.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Special Flight
Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, and of the wardens who struggle to reconcile humane values with the harsh realities of a strict deportation system.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
High Tech, Low Life
High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
5 Broken Cameras
Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was shot by a Palestinian and co-directed by an Israeli.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Fallen City Emmy nominee!
After an earthquake levels Beichuan, China, a modern replica rises with astounding speed, but while a city can be rebuilt quickly, reconstructing a community’s heart and soul is a long, emotional journey for the survivors.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Dance for Me Emmy nominee!
At 15, Russian ballroom dancer Egor leaves everyone and everything he knows for a chance to team up with 14-year-old Mie, one of Denmark’s most promising young performers. Will his choice be worth the sacrifices he must make?
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
American Promise Emmy nominee!
In American Promise, African-American parents Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson film their son and his friend, who attend one of the country’s most prestigious private schools.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Big Men Emmy nominee!
Big Men, executive produced by Brad Pitt, goes to Ghana to provide an unprecedented look at the global deal making and dark underside of oil development — a contest for money and power that is reshaping the world.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Koch
Meet Ed Koch, the quintessential New Yorker. Combative, funny and blunt, he was mayor from 1978 to 1989, an era of graffiti, near-bankruptcy and crime. Before his death in 2013, the intensely private man recalled his life and legacy.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
The Law in These Parts
For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are interviewed about this system, which mirrors the country’s toughest moral quandaries.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Give Up Tomorrow
A riveting exposé of corruption and injustice in the Philippines, chronicling a sensational murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment — but fails to free an innocent man.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Getting Back to Abnormal
Election time in New Orleans: Corruption. Racism. Dancing in the streets. And one in-your-face politician trying to get re-elected. Let the good times roll.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
A World Not Ours
A passionate, bittersweet account of one family’s multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees at Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Only the Young
Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of financial uncertainty.
Streaming September 14 – October 13, 2015
Cutie and the Boxer
An Oscar®-nominated reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit, this candid New York tale explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
Streaming September 19 – October 18, 2015
Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)
In a community where silence is seen as necessary for survival, immigrant activist Angy Rivera joins a generation of Dreamers ready to push for change in the only home she’s ever known — the United States.
Streaming September 22 – October 21, 2015
Art and Craft
A cat-and-mouse caper told with humor and compassion, Art and Craft uncovers the universal in one man’s search for connection and respect.
Streaming September 26 – October 25, 2015
Herman’s House
Herman’s House is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell. Imagining Wallace’s “dream home” began as a game and became an interrogation of justice and punishment in America.
Streaming September 27 – October 26, 2015
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, a stunning and stirring documentary by Andreas Johnsen, dissects the persecution and shows how the government’s attempts to silence Ai Weiwei have turned him into China’s most powerful artist and an irrepressible voice for free speech and human rights around the globe.
Streaming October 3 – November 1, 2015
Best Kept Secret
In Best Kept Secret, Janet Mino, who has taught a class of young men for four years, is on an urgent mission. She races against the clock as graduation approaches for her severely autistic minority students. Once they graduate and leave the security of this nurturing place, their options for living independently will be few. Mino must help them find the means to support themselves before they “age out” of the system.
Streaming October 5 – October 19, 2015
The City Dark
Blending a humorous, searching narrative with poetic footage of the night sky, The City Dark provides a fascinating introduction to the science of the dark and an exploration of our relationship to the stars.
Streaming October 5 – October 19, 2015
My Way to Olympia
Who better to cover the Paralympics, the international sporting event for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, than Niko von Glasow, the world’s best-known disabled filmmaker? Born with severely shortened arms, von Glasow serves as an endearing guide to London’s Paralympics competition in My Way to Olympia.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Ping Pong
Call this old age, extreme edition: Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China’s Inner Mongolia. Ping Pong is a wonderfully unusual story of hope, regret, friendship, ambition, love — and sheer human tenacity in the face of aging and mortality.
Streaming October 5 – October 28, 2015
Brooklyn Castle
Brooklyn Castle is the exhilarating story of five of the school’s aspiring young players and how chess became the school’s unlikely inspiration for academic success.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
56 Up
56 Up finds the group from Seven Up settling into middle age and surprisingly upbeat. Through marriage and childbirth, poverty and illness, the “kids” have come to terms with both hope and disappointment.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Better This World
Better This World goes to the heart of the war on terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Web Junkie
Web Junkie follows the treatment of three Chinese teenagers, obsessive gamers whose preference for the virtual world over the real one is summed up in one jarring statement: “Reality is too fake.”
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Out in the Night
In 2006, under the neon lights of a gay-friendly neighborhood in New York City, a group of African-American lesbians were violently threatened by a man on the street. The award-winning Out in the Night examines the sensational case and the women’s uphill battle, revealing the role that race, gender identity and sexuality play in our criminal justice system.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Return to Homs
War changes people, including 19-year-old Basset Saroot, who went from star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team to peaceful advocate for Arab Spring reforms to armed insurgent. Return to Homs, which focuses on Basset and his ragtag group’s transformation and struggles, is a heart-stopping, often wrenching study of the brutal war President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has waged against the Syrian people — a war fought mostly out of camera range that has produced epic heroism and tragedy.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Tough Love
What makes a good parent? How do you prove you are responsible after you’ve been deemed unfit? Having lost custody of their children to Child Protective Services, two parents — one in New York City and one in Seattle — fight to win back the trust of the courts and reunite their families in Stephanie Wang-Breal’s moving film.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
Beats of Antonov
Beats of the Antonov explores how music binds a community together, offering hope and a common identity for refugees engaged in a fierce battle to protect cultural traditions and heritage from those trying to obliterate them.
Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, Grace Lee Boggs challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. Streaming October 5 – November 3, 2015
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