- Next on POV: 'Biblioburro: The Donkey Library' POV's 24th season continues on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Biblioburro: The Donkey Library, a story of a librarian - and a library - like no other.
- Comments of the People: Viewers Reflect on 'Enemies of the People' Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers posted their strong reactions to Enemies of the People, a shocking assemblage of never-before-seen testimony from high-ranking officers and foot soldiers of the Khmer Rouge.
- Critical Acclaim for 'Enemies of the People': Watch it Tonight Critics have been singing the praises of Enemies of the People, an enthralling new documentary that provides an unprecedented and unflinching account of Cambodia's genocide under the Khmer Rouge.
- Next on POV: 'Enemies of the People' POV's 24th season continues on Tuesday, July 12, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Enemies of the People, the story of Thet Sambath, an unassuming yet cunning, investigative journalist who lost his family at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
- Over-herd: Viewers Bleat About 'Sweetgrass' Each Friday, we post a selection of viewer comments relating to the week's film. This week, viewers watched Sweetgrass, a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out.
- 'Sweetgrass' Gets Sweet Praise: Watch It Tonight
Sweetgrass, the absorbing documentary by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor on the last of Montana sheep-herders, premieres tonight on many PBS stations. The film has been garnering critical acclaim from top critics across the country.
- Next on POV: 'Sweetgrass' POV's 24th season continues with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Sweetgrass, a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out, Tuesday, July 5, 2011, on PBS.
- Viewers Share Cold War Nostalgia After the Broadcast Premiere of My Perestroika on POV Each Friday, we post a selection of viewer comments relating to the week's film. This week, viewers watched My Perestroika, an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children, and shared their memories of growing up in the Cold War era.
- Doc Soup: 'The Oath' and Understanding the Enemy as a Human Being Independent journalist Tom Roston revisits The Oath, the 2010 documentary about Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver, at a screening with producer Jonathan Oppenheim.
- Next on POV: 'My Perestroika' POV's brand new season is now in full swing with the American broadcast premiere of My Perestroika, an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children, Tuesday, June 28, 2011, on PBS.
- Next on POV: 'Kings of Pastry' POV kicks off its 24th season with the American broadcast premiere of Kings of Pastry tonight on PBS, and the film experience continues on POV's website.
- BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Heather Courtney on 'Where Soldiers Come From' In this dispatch from BAMcinemaFEST 2011, Heather Courtney tells freelance journalist Adam Schartoff how a filmmaking project about her Michigan hometown took a detour to Afghanistan.
- Executive Director Simon Kilmurry Previews POV's New Season POV's Simon Kilmurry recently Skyped with Carrie Saldo of WGBY-TV in Springfield, Mass., to talk about our upcoming season, which begins on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, with Kings of Pastry.
- BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Oscar Nominee Marshall Curry on 'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front' Freelance journalist Adam Schartoff checks in from BAMcinemaFEST 2011. In this dispatch, Schartoff talks with POV alum Marshall Curry about his new documentary, which leads the festival's nonfiction lineup and airs later this summer on POV.
- POV Films and Filmmakers at the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival Three POV films have their New York City premieres this month at the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Better This World, Granito and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.
- Catch a Sneak Peek of the Upcoming Season of POV! Celebrating its 24th season on PBS in 2011, POV features the work of the best independent documentary filmmakers from America and around the world. This season, POV films examine such diverse topics as the last generation of children to grow up behind the “Iron Curtain” of the USSR, the lives of soldiers before, during and […]
- Lixin Fan Screens 'Last Train Home' in Wuhan, China Last week, filmmaker Lixin Fan participated in the Sundance Institute's Film Forward China program screening his film "Last Train Home" and serving as an advisor for the Documentary Workshops with CNEX in Beijing.
- 'My Perestroika' Extends its Theatrical Run (and a Q&A with Robin Hessman from the Road) POV Filmmaker Robin Hessman has been traveling around America for the theatrical release of My Perestroika (POV 2011). Crowds have been enormously receptive and the film has been extended at the IFC Center in New York, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston and Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. My Perestroika is an intimate look […]