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  • Alabama Public Television's 'Project C' Kicks Off POV's 'All the Difference' Station Activities
    Thousands of students joined Alabama Public Television's live webcast of the final episode of its Project C electronic field trip series, kicking off nationwide activities hosted by PBS stations around All the Difference (POV 2016).
    POV Staff 1 min read March 3, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Join 'Whiteness Project' Creator Whitney Dow for a Reddit AMA on Thursday, November 13
    Whitney Dow took questions -- unfiltered -- about issues of race in America and the interactive documentary that has brought everyday white Americans into the racial discussion on Reddit.
    POV Staff 1 min read November 12, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Interactive Shorts: Q&A with Whitney Dow ('Whiteness Project')
    "I believe that if I am ever really going to understand someone else's racial experience I had to understand my own first."
    POV Staff 3 min read October 6, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Spread the Word in the Final Hours! 'Getting Back to Abnormal' Premieres Tonight
    Getting Back to Abnormal premieres tonight on PBS. Check out our Storify round-up to see how people are using Tweets and Facebook posts to let their community know about the films. Use our partner toolkit for easy ways to help spread the word.
    POV Staff 1 min read July 14, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: American Promise
    American Promise spans 13 years as middle-class African-American parents turn their cameras on their son and his best friend through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Premieres Monday, February 3, 2014 on PBS stations. Watch online for free starting February 4, 2014.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 30, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Coming Soon to POV: American Promise
    American Promise spans 13 years as middle-class African-American parents turn their cameras on their son and his best friend through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Premieres Monday, February 3, 2014 on PBS stations.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 15, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch the New Trailer for American Promise and Information About Its Oct. 18 NYC Premiere
    American Promise (POV 2014) presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity. Watch it in theaters (before it airs on POV) starting in New York City this Friday, October 18.
    POV Staff 2 min read October 15, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Soup: Coincidence or Codes in Nature Docs?
    First, there was March of the Penguins, that outrageously successful 2005 nature doc about the life and times of penguins. Because the film’s only stars are penguins, it occurred to me that only human being who shares the, er, bill with them is the film’s narrator, Morgan Freeman. And then that was that. And then […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read April 20, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Farmingville Redux
    In 2001, the hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapulted the town of Farmingville, New York into national headlines. Filmmakers Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini spent a year there so they could capture first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate, and Farmingville premiered on POV […]
    POV Guest Blogger 4 min read January 5, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Talking Back: 'Traces of the Trade'
    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North chronicles a unique and disturbing journey into the history and legacy of the U.S. slave trade. The documentary tracks what happens as filmmaker Katrina Browne comes to grips with the discovery that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Her […]
    Catherine Jhee 2 min read June 24, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Pose a question to Traces of the Trade's Tom DeWolf
    Tom DeWolf is filmmaker Katrina Browne‘s cousin and the author of Inheriting the Trade, the unique story of his experiences during the making of Traces of the Trade, which airs on POV on June 24th (check your local listings). In 2001, Tom was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading […]
    Ruiyan Xu 7 min read June 20, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: Traces of the Trade's Katrina Browne
    When Katrina Browne discovered that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she embarked on a journey with nine fellow descendants to retrace the Triangle Trade, from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back. They uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while also stumbling through the […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read June 20, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • 2008 POV Preview: 'Traces of the Trade'
    Get ready to park yourself on the couch on Tuesday nights this summer (or, set up your Tivo to record), because POV has just announced our 2008 schedule, and as usual, we’ll be presenting a slate of insightful and thought-provoking documentaries. We’re back on your local PBS stations starting Tuesday, June 24 at 10 PM […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read March 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • NYC Panel on Reel Images: Stereotypes in Contemporary Media
    This looks interesting for New Yorkers. Tomorrow night at 7 pm, the Center for Communication at The New School presents a panel discussion on “Reel Images: Stereotypes in Contemporary Media.” A panel of filmmakers will discuss representations of race and class in current Hollywood cinema, independent films, and commercial television. Where do these images originate? […]
    theresa 1 min read February 27, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • A Family Member Speaks About 'Traces of the Trade'
    On January 21, Katrina Browne‘s Traces of the Trade had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
    Catherine Jhee 5 min read January 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • 'Traces of the Trade' and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Sundance
    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was marked at Sundance with two special events.
    Simon Kilmurry 4 min read January 24, 2008 Documentary News Comments