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  • 30 Years of POV: Documentary Filmmakers Share What the Series Means to Them
    Documentary filmmakers share what the POV series means to them.
    Tom Roston 2 min read June 29, 2017 Doc Soup Comments
  • February 2014 POV Streaming Films
    Check out which POV films you can stream for free this month, including our February 3, 2014 broadcast, American Promise, Racing Dreams, Reportero and more!
    POV Staff 5 min read January 31, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Films Available for Streaming Over the Holidays
    Home for the holidays? POV is excited to announce the free streaming of many of its past films, including the 2013 award-winning The World Before Her.
    POV Staff 5 min read December 23, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch Now: 'If a Tree Falls,' 'My Perestroika,' and Three POV 2012 Films Back for Free Streaming!
    POV fans can now stream If a Tree Falls, My Perestroika, The City Dark, The Light in Her Eyes, and Sun Kissed for free on the POV website!
    POV Staff 3 min read December 14, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV's 'My Perestroika' Wins a Peabody!
    Robin Hessman's film about the last generation of Soviet children has won a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award.
    POV Staff 2 min read April 4, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    Alva French 2 min read June 27, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Upcoming POV Community Screenings Around the Country
    POV’s Community Network members are holding free screenings of POV films around the country all year long. Last year, we had over 500 screenings! Check out some of the exciting community events coming up over the next week… Rochester, NY The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Sunday, May 1, […]
    Jamie Dobie 1 min read April 29, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • '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 […]
    Jamie Dobie 6 min read April 29, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance 2010: Wrapping Up
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been blogging and twittering from Park City this week. I’m back from Sundance, wrinkled from the red-eye and in full possession of a Sundance sore throat. Right now it’s snowing in New York, and if you squint hard, Gotham looks a little […]
    Yance Ford 4 min read January 28, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Video: Q&A With Filmmaker Robin Hessman and the Subjects of “My Perestroika”
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been blogging and twittering from Park City this week. My Perestroika by Robin Hessman chronicles the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain and now live in post-Soviet Russia. After a fantastic screening in Park City, […]
    Yance Ford 1 min read January 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Update: Meetings, Screenings, Panels and Parties in Park City
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’s blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. Well, the infamous Sundance wall reared up and smacked me on Tuesday. Keeping up with the meetings, screenings, panels and parties here in Park City is an exhausting (though fun) job, but once in […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read January 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Sundance Update: Names, Films, and Gossip Girls
    POV’s series producer Yance Ford is at the Sundance Film Festival. She’ll be blogging and twittering from Park City throughout the week. Day four of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a 9 a.m. screening of The Oath by Laura Poitras, followed by the premiere of My Perestroika by Robin Hessman. Both films […]
    Yance Ford 2 min read January 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments