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  • 'The English Surgeon' Wins duPont-Columbia Award
    The duPont Awards, administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, honor excellence in broadcast journalism. We are pleased to announce that The English Surgeon, Geoffrey Smith’s inspiring film about a British neurosurgeon who has traveled to the Ukraine for the past 15 years to treat patients who have been left to die, […]
    theresa 0 min read December 22, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • How Would the Health Care Bill Have Changed the Lives of the “Critical Condition” Subjects?
    In 2008, POV aired Roger Weisberg‘s Critical Condition, which put a human face on the nation’s growing health care crisis by capturing the harrowing struggles of four critically ill Americans. Viewers were introduced to Joe, Karen, Hector and Carlos, and watched as they discovered that being uninsured could mean losing your job, health, home, savings, […]
    theresa 4 min read March 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • “Food, Inc.” Broadcast Scheduled for April 21, 2010
    We’re excited to announce that the POV/PBS broadcast of the Academy Award shortlisted film, Food, Inc., has been set for Wednesday, April 21 at 9 PM on most PBS stations. You can check listings on your local PBS station closer to the date, but if you don’t want to miss this broadcast be sure to […]
    theresa 1 min read January 7, 2010 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
  • “Critical Condition” to be Featured on “Bill Moyers Journal” Tonight
    Tonight’s Bill Moyers Journal will focus on the health care debate, featuring a substantial portion of POV’s Critical Condition, a documentary by Roger Weisberg, that was originally broadcast last October in the lead up to the 2008 presidential election. (Watch a preview.) Critical Condition follows a group of ordinary hard-working Americans struggling to survive serious […]
    theresa 1 min read August 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Film Update: Putting a Stop to Patenting Human Genes
    Filmmaker and POV alum Joanna Rudnick writes in with an update about the ACLU’s recent lawsuit against Myriad Genetics, which challenges Myriad’s patent on the breast cancer genes. In the documentary film In the Family, which had its broadcast premiere on POV in October 2008, I shared my own story of testing positive for the […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read June 5, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Health Care Reform: Clinton's Defeat, Obama's Hope
    Last September, POV broadcast Critical Condition, a film by Roger Weisberg about four critically ill Americans and their struggle to survive without health insurance. We chose to air the film shortly before the election because health care reform was such a major issue in the 2008 presidential election. In conjunction with that broadcast, we produced […]
    theresa 4 min read March 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Five Most Popular Web Features of the Year
    As we prepare to ring in the new year, we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back on the Web features that POV viewers liked most and to create a year-end list of our own. In 2008, the most popular features on the POV website were the ones that followed the characters featured in […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read December 31, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Critical Condition's Roger Weisberg Answers Viewer Questions
    Roger Weisberg is the director of Critical Condition, which aired on POV on September 30, 2008 and is streaming in its entirety online until November 11, 2008. After the broadcast, many viewers wrote with questions for Roger. Read on for Weisberg’s responses to some of the questions he received. Margo asks: What can I and […]
    Ruiyan Xu 7 min read October 21, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • In the Family's Joanna Rudnick Answers Viewer Questions
    Joanna Rudnick is the director of In the Family. After seeing the film, many viewers wrote in to ask her a question or to share their own stories. Read on as Joanna responds to some of the many questions and comments that she received: Joanna writes: Thanks so much to everyone who watched In the […]
    Catherine Jhee 6 min read October 16, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch 'In the Family' and 'Critical Condition' Online
    If you missed the premier of two great P.O.V films this week, you have a chance to watch the full films online! In the Family is streaming online until October 31, 2008 while Critical Condition is streaming until November 11, 2008. Both films document intensely personal journeys and stories, and both are engaged with the […]
    POV Guest Blogger 2 min read October 3, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Rx for Change: Susan Dentzer of NewsHour Talks about Health Care in America
    In conjunction with the September 30, 2008 broadcast of Critical Condition, POV has partnered with NewsHour to learn more about health care in America, and what presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are proposing for medical coverage. Susan Dentzer, the editor of Health Affairs journal and the host of NewsHour‘s Rx for Change, answered […]
    Ruiyan Xu 7 min read September 30, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • What's Your POV About ”Critical Condition'?
    Joe, Karen, Hector and Carlos are just four of the 47 million Americans who do not have health insurance. Their harrowing stories of battling critical illnesses without health insurance are portrayed in Roger Weisberg‘s film Critical Condition, which dramatizes how being uninsured can cost someone his job, health, home, savings and even his life. Critical […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read September 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: Critical Condition's Roger Weisberg
    Veteran filmmaker Roger Weisberg, who also made the 2006 POV film Waging a Living, turns his lens on uninsured Americans in Critical Condition to give us a powerful, eye-opening look at the health care crisis in America. In an election season in which health care reform has become one of the nation’s most hotly debated […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read September 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • 'In the Family': Share Your Story
    The decision to undergo genetic testing is a very personal decision with the potential for some very powerful emotional repercussions, as we witness in Joanna Rudnick’s In the Family. Because their mother had survived ovarian cancer, Joanna and her sister understood that they might be at higher risk for developing cancer themselves. After her sister […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read September 24, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: In the Family's Joanna Rudnick
    When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the “breast cancer gene” at age 27, she set out to make In the Family. Although she had no intention of “starring” in her own movie, she couldn’t find a young, unmarried woman with the mutation who hadn’t had surgery and was willing to be filmed. Joanna […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read September 24, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Critical Condition: Get Involved
    According to a recent poll conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans say that health care is one of the most important issues in the 2008 presidential election. Roger Weisberg’s film Critical Condition paints a disturbing and gripping portrait of what happens when you’re sick and uninsured in America. As health care becomes […]
    Eliza Licht 1 min read September 15, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Human Rights Watch & SILVERDOCS
    Two major festivals have been taking place over the past two weeks, making June a time for a real feast for documentary lovers in the New York and Washington, D.C. areas. The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival runs through June 26 at Lincoln Center. The festival showcases films from the U.S. and around the […]
    Simon Kilmurry 3 min read June 23, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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