U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, General Craig R. McKinley and the National Guard Bureau, Military to Medicine and POV recently screened the documentary in Washington, D.C.

Read what critics have to say about the POV documentary Where Soldiers Come From. Watch it now for free on the PBS mobile app, or tune in to its U.S. broadcast premiere on PBS this Thursday (Nov. 10, 2011).

POV's 2011 season on PBS concludes Thursday, November 10, 2011, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Where Soldiers Come From, a compelling documentary following childhood friends from Michigan to the battlefield of Afghanistan and back.

POV community partners honor Veterans Day with screenings of the documentaries Where Soldiers Come From, Armadillo and The Way We Get By.

As the winter weather rolls in head inside for POV films that tell stories from the Cambodian killing fields to the mountains in Afghanistan and see the memories of ordinary Americans brought to life with StoryCorps' animated shorts. Don't miss these upcoming screenings near you!

With its PBS broadcast just around the corner, POV community partners across the country are presenting special sneak-preview screenings of Where Soldiers Come From.

POV partners have an exciting lineup of events coming up this weekend and early next week, and don't miss POV films at upcoming festival screenings!

Where Soldiers Come From (POV, 2011) opens Friday, September 9 at Village East Cinemas in New York before opening in select theaters across the country.

In this dispatch from BAMcinemaFEST 2011, Heather Courtney tells freelance journalist Adam Schartoff how a filmmaking project about her Michigan hometown took a detour to Afghanistan.

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.

Freelance journalist and film programmer Adam Schartoff previews the documentary slate at Brooklyn's BAMcinemaFEST, June 16-26, 2011.