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  • Now Streaming: 'Every Mother's Son'
    We are thrilled to announce that Every Mother's Son is now available for community screenings and online streaming through May 3, 2015.
    POV Staff 2 min read November 4, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Spread the Word About 'Koch' in the Final Hours!
    Spread the word about Koch, which airs tonight on PBS (check your local listings)! Check out our Storify round-up here for inspiration.
    POV Staff 1 min read September 22, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Indies Shorts – Now Streaming at POV
    Celebrate independent films with the PBS Indies Shorts by streaming three new POV shorts.
    POV Staff 1 min read March 5, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch Online: StoryCorps' Marking The Distance
    Starting Friday, November 1, 2013, you can stream Marking the Distance, one of six the StoryCorps Shorts that make up our upcoming broadcast Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special.
    POV Staff 2 min read October 31, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Four POV Short Films Selected for PBS 2013 Online Film Festival
    Four of the 25 independent short films will be presented by POV: Ars Magna, CatCam, Sin País and Sound of Vision.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 14, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • “Food, Inc.” Director Robert Kenner Interview on Planet Forward
    Planet Forward is a collaboration between PBS and George Washington University that asks community members to submit videos offering their ideas for the best way to reduce our carbon footprint. The best videos on PlanetForward.org will be featured in an hour-long Planet Forward broadcast for PBS stations nationwide later this year. In addition to user-submitted […]
    theresa 1 min read March 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • How Did “The Way We Get By” End Up on POV?
    The Way We Get By premieres on PBS next Wednesday, November 11 at 9 pm on most PBS stations. (Check local listings.) In this video clip from the film’s world premiere screening at the SXSW Film Festival, a member of the audience asked how the film got chosen to be on POV. Here’s what filmmaker […]
    theresa 1 min read November 4, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • The Fire Next Time: Look Closely and You Might See Your Town, Too
    Over a stormy two-year period, The Fire Next Time (POV 2005) follows a deeply divided group of Montana citizens caught in a web of conflicts intensified by rapid growth and the power of talk radio. Many residents were losing their jobs in timber and mining, and blamed environmentalists. Throw into this stressful situation two disturbing […]
    theresa 4 min read October 8, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Last Day to Watch “Beyond Hatred” Online
    Beyond Hatred, which aired on June 30, is streaming online in its entirety until midnight tonight! Don’t miss this amazing film, which follows a family in France as they struggle to deal with the aftermath of their son’s murder by three skinheads. With remarkable dignity, the Chenu family fights to transcend hatred and the inevitable […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read July 15, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Yo!TV Interviews Hamza Pérez
    POV’s premiere film of our 2009 season is New Muslim Cool, the story of a young Muslim hip-hop artist confronting the realities of the post-9/11 world — and himself. New Muslim Cool had its world-premiere screening last month at the San Francisco Film Festival. Director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Hamza Pérez and others associated with the […]
    theresa 1 min read May 15, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Revisiting the New York City of “Style Wars”
    Last week, as promised in a previous post, I finally sat down and watched the 1982 doc Style Wars, directed by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. I was really impressed by the film, and two days later, I was pleased to see the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott giving it a rave review […]
    Tom Roston 1 min read April 29, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Outside the Frame: OnBeing – A Multimedia Documentary Case Study
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. After reading my previous column, someone asked me why OnBeing, the washingtpost.com interactive project, meets my criteria for being more than “video plopped on a webpage.” It’s a fair question: after all, […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read April 1, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Remixing at SXSW
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. Amanda is attending South by Southwest this week. In Monday’s Austin American Statesman, columnist Michael Barnes asks if SXSW’s Interactive and Film tracks ought to be combined next year. Interestingly, Barnes’ argument […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read March 18, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: First Impressions of SXSW 2009
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. Amanda is attending South by Southwest this week. It’s cold here in Austin — unseasonably cold. They’ve got heat lamps at the outdoor parties and people are carrying coats and scarves with […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read March 16, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Remembering Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, Part II
    Acclaimed musician Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong is renowned for a lifetime of jazz, blues, folk and country music. Armstrong was the subject of not one, but two POV films over the years, Louie Bluie (1988) by Terry Zwigoff and Sweet Old Song (2002) by Leah Mahan. Armstrong’s roots in America’s musical past, his accomplished musicianship […]
    theresa 3 min read March 4, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Remembering Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, Part I
    Acclaimed musician Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong is renowned for a lifetime of jazz, blues, folk and country music. Armstrong was the subject of not one, but two POV films over the years, Louie Bluie (1988) by Terry Zwigoff and Sweet Old Song (2002) by Leah Mahan. Armstrong’s roots in America’s musical past, his accomplished musicianship […]
    theresa 4 min read March 3, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Analyzing the Economic Meltdown
    Last October, I railed about how there was a dearth of doc filmmakers tackling the current economic meltdown, pointing out that the usually on-the-ball PBS Frontline series wasn’t stepping into the void. Well, they finally answered the call a couple of weeks ago. And boy, did they present a grim picture. I found Frontline’s “Inside […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read March 2, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Catching up With “My American Girls” Director Aaron Matthews
    In honor of Independence Day in the Dominican Republic, POV is proud to share a film that highlights some of the rich diversity of the Dominican immigrant experience in New York City. My American Girls (POV 2001), by director Aaron Matthews, is now streaming in its entirety on the POV website through April 2, 2009. […]
    Catherine Jhee 4 min read February 27, 2009 Documentary News Comments

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