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  • POV Docs at Princeton Environmental Film Festival
    The Princeton Environmental Film Festival runs from Jan. 26 to Feb. 12, 2012, at Princeton Public Library. The Oscar®-nominated 'If a Tree Falls' screens on Feb. 10 and will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Sam Cullman. 'The City Dark' (POV, 2012) screens on Feb. 11 with filmmaker Ian Cheney in attendance.
    POV Staff 2 min read February 3, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The 2011 Documentary Oscars: My Shortlist
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston proposes an entirely different list of 15 films that could have just as easily been deemed Oscar-worthy.
    POV Staff 4 min read November 28, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • The United States of Documentaries (Map)
    A state-by-state breakdown of the best, most representative and most unique documentaries from the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
    POV Staff 3 min read November 22, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • From the POV Archive: Five Documentaries About Protest Movements
    Put the "Occupy Wall Street" protests into perspective with this list of documentary films that chronicle past protest movements in the United States from the POV/PBS archive.
    Emily Thomas 3 min read October 6, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Critical Acclaim for 'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front' – Airs 9/13 on PBS
    Read what critics have to say about If a Tree Falls, the POV documentary that explores two of America's most pressing issues — environmentalism and terrorism.
    POV Staff 2 min read September 13, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Next on POV: 'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front'
    POV's 24th season on PBS continues Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, a film lifts the veil on a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."
    Sean Holmquest 2 min read September 7, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Upcoming POV Community Screenings
    Watch free screenings of POV documentary films near you — before they are seen on PBS.
    Jamie Dobie 2 min read August 5, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • POV Films and Filmmakers at Silverdocs 2011
    If you're near Washington, D.C. next week, you'll have a chance to see six upcoming POV films at AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival.
    Jamie Dobie 3 min read June 17, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    Adam Schartoff 6 min read June 16, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • BAMcinemaFEST Kicks Off Third Season Bringing Blue Chip Docs to Brooklyn
    Freelance journalist and film programmer Adam Schartoff previews the documentary slate at Brooklyn's BAMcinemaFEST, June 16-26, 2011.
    Adam Schartoff 4 min read June 15, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    Jamie Dobie 2 min read June 10, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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 […]
    POV Staff 1 min read May 26, 2011 Documentary News Comments