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  • Peter Young on “The Last Ocean” and the Politics of Antarctica's Ross Sea
    "We have no idea how valuable those places will be in a couple of generations. Right now, it takes a lot of foresight. Empty pockets and a bank deficit are not very good for foresight. It's the same as every problem we face -- it's short-term gain as opposed to the long-term benefits."
    Justine Goode 9 min read June 10, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch Online: StoryCorps' Marking The Distance
    Starting Friday, November 1, 2013, you can stream Marking the Distance, one of six the StoryCorps Shorts that make up our upcoming broadcast Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special.
    POV Staff 2 min read October 31, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Simplifying HTML5 Video Compression
    HTML5 video export settings to maximize compatibility across the most popular browsers.
    POV Staff 2 min read April 12, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup: Presumed Guilty, Streaming Films and Alum News
    We’re smack in the middle of POV’s 23rd season — and it’s been a great one so far. Encore presentations The Way We Get By and First Person Plural will be shown on select PBS stations in the next two weeks (check your local listings here). On August 17, we’ll be back with a brand […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read July 29, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Top Five Most Popular POV Blog Posts in 2009: Burritos, Bullfighting and Charlie Rose
    I don’t know about you, but I am so tired of end-of-the-year/decade lists… yet, umm, here I am posting one. To be fair, we haven’t posted that many lists in the past few weeks on the POV Blog, and this isn’t really a “list” per se, but rather a quick note about the five blog […]
    theresa 3 min read January 6, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Last Day to Watch “Beyond Hatred” Online
    Beyond Hatred, which aired on June 30, is streaming online in its entirety until midnight tonight! Don’t miss this amazing film, which follows a family in France as they struggle to deal with the aftermath of their son’s murder by three skinheads. With remarkable dignity, the Chenu family fights to transcend hatred and the inevitable […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read July 15, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch “New Muslim Cool” and “Beyond Hatred” Online
    If you missed the first two POV films of this season, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor‘s New Muslim Cool and Olivier Meyrou‘s Beyond Hatred, we have some good news: both films are available online! New Muslim Cool will be streaming until July 24, 2009. Beyond Hatred will be streaming until July 16, 2009. Check back throughout the […]
    Ruiyan Xu 0 min read July 1, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: OnBeing – A Multimedia Documentary Case Study
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. After reading my previous column, someone asked me why OnBeing, the washingtpost.com interactive project, meets my criteria for being more than “video plopped on a webpage.” It’s a fair question: after all, […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read April 1, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Remixing at SXSW
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. Amanda is attending South by Southwest this week. In Monday’s Austin American Statesman, columnist Michael Barnes asks if SXSW’s Interactive and Film tracks ought to be combined next year. Interestingly, Barnes’ argument […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read March 18, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: First Impressions of SXSW 2009
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. Amanda is attending South by Southwest this week. It’s cold here in Austin — unseasonably cold. They’ve got heat lamps at the outdoor parties and people are carrying coats and scarves with […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read March 16, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Analyzing the Economic Meltdown
    Last October, I railed about how there was a dearth of doc filmmakers tackling the current economic meltdown, pointing out that the usually on-the-ball PBS Frontline series wasn’t stepping into the void. Well, they finally answered the call a couple of weeks ago. And boy, did they present a grim picture. I found Frontline’s “Inside […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read March 2, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Outside the Frame: Mommy Talk. Mommy Listen?
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame, published every other Wednesday. I should say right off the bat that I don’t have kids. So what am I doing at Momversation, a video blog about the experiences of motherhood? Well, I’m […]
    Ruiyan Xu 4 min read December 10, 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
  • Doc Soup: Is It Time to Adjust Our Definition of Documentary “Characters”?
    Writing about documentaries ain’t what it used to be. Not that I would know — I’m just talking with my tongue in my cheek about the supposedly sepia-tinted times before docs were (relatively) big business. I recently wrote a piece for Spin magazine about the great doc, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which is getting […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 29, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Moore or Less: Slacker Uprising
    Michael Moore scored a big buzz with the online release of his latest doc Slacker Uprising, a kind of concert film of his 2004 efforts to get out the (young Democratic) vote in advance of the election. The release, timed for the ’08 contest, functions as a cautionary tale to “not get fooled again” — […]
    David Nanasi 3 min read September 26, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch POV Films Online
    Did you know that select POV films are available in their entirety online? If you didn’t get a chance to catch Calavera Highway this past week, you can watch the full film on our website. But hurry! The film stops streaming on Tuesday, September 23rd. Calavera Highway follows Armando and Carlos Peña, two brothers who […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read September 18, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Film Your Issue Winners Announced
    We’re happy to announce that the winner of the POV Film Your Issue award is Brandan Odums‘s New Orleans for Sale, a film that decries suffering as a tourist draw in post-Katrina New Orleans. Watch the video: Odums is a 22-year old New Orleans college student who is part of a young filmmaking collective called […]
    Eliza Licht 1 min read May 27, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Word Play
    Calling all crossword puzzlers and Scrabble fans! You know who are — you can’t get enough word play. You do crossword puzzles on the train, play games of Scrabble in cafes or in the park, or on Scrabulous. Maybe you’ve read Marc Romano‘s Crossworld or Stephen Fatzis‘ Word Freaks, recent books on the worlds of […]
    David Nanasi 1 min read May 21, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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