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  • #365Docs: A Place Called Pluto (10/365)
    I'm watching 365 documentaries and writing about each one in 2014. Tweet your suggestions to @documentarysite.
    Heather McIntosh 2 min read February 26, 2014 Documentary Site Comments
  • Watch CatCam Online at POV!
    Mr. Lee is an adopted stray cat that routinely disappears from his North Carolina home. Where does he go? An engineer straps a camera to the cat and inadvertently creates a media sensation. (U.S. only)
    POV Staff 0 min read February 5, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie
    Blogger Heather McIntosh revisits a 16-minute documentary short that first appeared in 1984 but remains timely.
    Heather McIntosh 4 min read October 25, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Upcoming POV Documentary Screenings
    POV community screenings continue across the country, including one of our first sneak previews of My Reincarnation (POV 2012).
    POV Staff 1 min read May 11, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • “Listening Is an Act of Love” at Georgetown Public Library This May
    Librarian Sheri Miklaski tells POV about the Georgetown (Texas) Public Library's month of programming around the StoryCorps interview collection Listening is an Act of Love and POV's StoryCorps Animated Shorts.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 26, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'The Archive'
    Watch this Emmy-nominated short film about a man and his giant record collection (that no one wants), then vote for it and it be the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival!
    POV Staff 1 min read April 5, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 34x25x36
    Watch and vote for 34x25x26, a short film that shows the inner workings of the Patina V Mannequin Factory and the musings of the designers who decide what the perfect female body should look like.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'Flawed'
    Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! In the animated film Flawed, a woman is uneasy about beginning a relationship with a plastic surgeon.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 3, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • PBS Online Film Festival: Watch 'This Gay and Age'
    Your votes will determine the People's Choice Winner in PBS's first-ever Online Film Festival! Watch an award-winning documentary short by teen filmmaker Morgan Wilcock, who examines the stereotypes that bombard today's LGBT youth.
    POV Staff 1 min read April 2, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Oscar 2012: Predicting the Documentary Winners
    Who will win? Doc Soup Man has picked it for four years running. But this year, he says, is one of the closest races in years.
    Tom Roston 5 min read February 22, 2012 Doc Soup Comments