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  • Three Classic Documentaries from the POV Archive to Watch in 2017
    'The End of the Nightstick,' 'Rabbit in the Moon,' and 'William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe' are available at pov.org/video and on the POV channel on your PBS app.
    POV Staff 2 min read July 14, 2017 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Memo: Backstage with Hamilton on PBS, Sharon Jones Doc to Premiere
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read July 29, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • What's Streaming This Summer on POV?
    Discover new and classic films at pov.org/video and on the POV channel on your PBS app.
    POV Staff 0 min read July 13, 2016 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Doc Memo: Must-Follow Doc Accounts, The Millenial Case for Public Media
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 24, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • The Year in Human Rights Video
    Madeleine Bair of WITNESS rounds up some of the year's most important moments in human rights footage.
    Madeleine Bair 8 min read December 22, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • The State of Web Video: Awesome But Broken (Part 4)
    Delivering, playing and remixing video in real time in a browser is ambitious today, so here's the reality of what you can do when the browser fails you.
    Brian Chirls 9 min read October 3, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The State of Web Video: Awesome But Broken (Part 3)
    Brand new web video tech will let us fling our creations far and wide. But using them will take careful preparation and, as always, lots of testing.
    Brian Chirls 4 min read October 2, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The State of Web Video: Awesome But Broken (Part 2)
    Real-time image and audio manipulation are now available almost everywhere, but they don't always work the way they should.
    Brian Chirls 5 min read October 1, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The State of Web Video: Awesome But Broken (Part 1)
    Web video technology is advancing rapidly, and it's time for an update on what's possible, what's broken and what's on the horizon. The first in this series of blog posts covers the state of basic video playback in late 2014.
    Brian Chirls 6 min read September 30, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • POV Tech: Video Synchronization for Collective Viewing
    A new tool that gives filmmakers the ability to create shared video experiences across a variety of devices.
    Brian Chirls 5 min read September 24, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Empire: Lessons from Pushing the Boundaries of Web Video
    Working on the POV interactive documentary Empire raised a few technical challenges that are certain to come up again with future non-linear video projects. Here's how we solved them.
    Brian Chirls 6 min read September 23, 2014 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
  • The Real Fake Promotion for 'Fake It So Real'
    Robert Greene's new documentary about a band of amateur wrestlers opens in New York this weekend and he's enlisted an equally motley set of independent filmmaking enemies to help promote it.
    Paul Buser 2 min read January 13, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • This is My Family – Announcing the Judges
    We are excited to announce our This is My Family jury members — journalists, filmmakers, songwriters and adoption experts including CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Dr. Jane Aronson, Zara Phillips and Phil Bertelsen to name just a few. Check out the full list here: This Is My Family: The Jury. This is your chance to dig into […]
    POV Staff 1 min read November 1, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • This is My Family – Defining Family
    We were excited this week to see the launch of This is My Family pull in our first video submissions. The range of style was as eclectic as the perspectives and individuals posting the videos. Already we have children of LGBTQ parents, extended-family-families, foster families, adoptive parents, adoptees — singing songs, recording from their computer’s […]
    POV Staff 1 min read October 7, 2010 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
  • 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
  • How Did “The Way We Get By” End Up on POV?
    The Way We Get By premieres on PBS next Wednesday, November 11 at 9 pm on most PBS stations. (Check local listings.) In this video clip from the film’s world premiere screening at the SXSW Film Festival, a member of the audience asked how the film got chosen to be on POV. Here’s what filmmaker […]
    theresa 1 min read November 4, 2009 Documentary News Comments