Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers watched POV Short Cuts, a one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.

POV's 24th season on PBS continues with POV Short Cuts, a one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers. Watch it on the PBS mobile app now, or on TV this Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 10 PM.

Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers watched former Osama bin Laden bodyguard Abu Jandal in The Oath, a story layered with contradiction, irony and tragedy.

POV is broadcasting the second season of StoryCorps Shorts on PBS this Tuesday. We took the chance to talk with the animators, Mike and Tim Rauch.

"An extraordinary subject... a fascinating documentary." Read reviews for Laura Poitras' film The Oath, airing tonight (Tuesday, August 16, 2011) on many PBS stations.

The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras, airs on PBS stations this Tuesday, August 16, 2011.

Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers watched filmmaker Robert Kenner lift the veil on our nation's food industry in Food, Inc.

Watch the POV documentaries Better This World and The Learning before they are seen on PBS.

Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers posted their reactions to Steam of Life, a moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men framed by a national obsession with the sauna.

Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat and how it's produced. Join POV for an encore of the Oscar-nominated documentary on many PBS stations, Tuesday, August 9, 2011.

"Joy rises up like steam from a bed of hot rocks." Read what critics have to say about Steam of Life, tonight's POV documentary that goes deep into the inner sanctum of Finnish life — the sauna.

POV's 24th season continues with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Steam of Life. The film airs on PBS on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

Each Friday, we post a selection of viewer comments relating to the week's film. This week, viewers watched a courageous "white African" defend his farm — in court and on the ground — in Mugabe and the White African.

In Mugabe and the White African, one proud "white African" challenges Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe with human rights abuses under international law. Read what critics have to say about the award-winning film, then watch it tonight on many PBS stations.

POV's 24th season on PBS continues Tuesday, July 26, 2011, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Mugabe and the White African, an alarming story from one of the world's most troubled nations.

Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers posted their reactions to Biblioburro: The Donkey Library, the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other.

Biblioburro: The Donkey Library is the story of a unique librarian–and his library. Luis Soriano braves armed bands, drug traffickers, snakes and heat to bring his library on hooves to the children of Magdalena Province in Columbia. Read what critics have to say about the film.

POV's new film Biblioburro: The Donkey Library directed by Carlos Rendón Zipagauta, which first airs on Tuesday (July 19) is a documentary that's remarkably unique in its streamlined presentation of a subject without any extra trappings, special edits, grand political analysis or filmmaking tricks.