- Your Short Takes on 'POV Short Cuts'
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.
- Next on POV: 'POV Short Cuts'
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.
- POV Viewers Find Meaning in 'The Oath'
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.
- Video: Inside StoryCorps' Animated Documentaries with the Rauch Brothers
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.
- Top Critics Weigh In on 'The Oath' – Watch It Tonight!
"An extraordinary subject... a fascinating documentary." Read reviews for Laura Poitras' film The Oath, airing tonight (Tuesday, August 16, 2011) on many PBS stations.
- Next on POV: 'The Oath'
The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras, airs on PBS stations this Tuesday, August 16, 2011.
- POV's 'Food, Inc.' Broadcast Leaves Viewers with Unsettled Stomachs
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 'Better This World' at DocuWeeks 2011 and 'The Learning' at AAIFF
Watch the POV documentaries Better This World and The Learning before they are seen on PBS.
- Viewers Let Off 'Steam' About POV's Finnish Sauna Doc Broadcast
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.
- Next on POV: 'Food, Inc.'
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.
- Hot Press for 'Steam of Life'
"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.
- Next on POV: 'Steam of Life'
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.
- 'Mugabe and the White African' Sparks Debate Among Viewers About Imperialism and Racism in a Troubled Nation
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.
- Critical Acclaim for 'Mugabe and the White African': Watch it Tonight!
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.
- Next on POV: 'Mugabe and the White African'
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.
- Of Books, Burros and Bibliotecas: Viewers Bray About 'Biblioburro'
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.
- Critics Say 'Biblioburro' Makes the Grade: Tune in Tonight!
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.
- 'Biblioburro' is a Parable About the Power of Small Actions
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.