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StoryCorps Shorts: A Certain Kind of Love

Short Film

Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018

Glenda fell for Lauree at a time when both women felt societal pressure to pursue traditional paths. Though fate interfered with their plans to enjoy a late-in-life reunion, Glenda never forgot what it felt like to be loved by Lauree.

From This Day Forward

Feature Film

Encore Broadcast: Jan. 1, 2018

When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon's wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents' marriage, and their family, survived intact.

Memories of a Penitent Heart

Feature Film

PBS Premiere: July 31, 2017

Memories of a Penitent Heart excavates a buried conflict around filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo's uncle Miguel, who died at a time when AIDS was synonymous with sin. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB).

POV Snapchat Films

Digital Project

Digital Premiere: Oct. 23, 2016

What does a film look like on Snapchat? POV and NowThis are the first to bring independent films to Snapchat Discover. Watch the Snapchat-native films We'll Still Be Here and The Way It Should Be while you can.

Pink Boy

Short Film

PBS Premiere: Oct. 10, 2016

An intimate portrait of a gender-nonconforming child growing up in conservative rural Florida.

StoryCorps Shorts: The Saint of Dry Creek

Short Film

PBS Premiere: Aug. 1, 2016

Patrick Haggerty remembers his father's unexpected advice to his gay son in rural Washington during the 1950s.

Out in the Night

Feature Film

Encore Broadcast: June 6, 2016

A moving account of four women sensationalized by the media as a "Gang of Killer Lesbians" reveals the role that race, gender identity and sexuality play in our criminal justice system. A co-production of ITVS. A co-presentation with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).

StoryCorps Shorts 2015

Feature Film

Digital Premiere: Sept. 11, 2015

Since 2010, POV and StoryCorps have brought over 30 animated shorts to PBS and online audiences.

StoryCorps Shorts: A Good Man

Short Film

PBS Premiere: July 21, 2014

Bryan Wilmoth and his seven younger siblings were raised in a strict, religious home. In this StoryCorps Animated Short, he talks to his brother Mike about reconnecting years after their dad kicked Bryan out for being gay.

Adoption Stories

Feature Film

PBS Premiere: Aug. 31, 2010

POV features three films about adoption — Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy by Stephanie Wang-Breal; Off and Running by Nicole Opper; and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee by Deann Borshay Liem — and has launched a national public awareness campaign to examine issues facing adoptees and families who choose to adopt.

Beyond Hatred

Feature Film

PBS Premiere: June 30, 2009

The story of a family's struggle to seek justice for their murdered son while trying to transcend hatred and the desire for revenge.

Wrestling With Angels

Feature Film

PBS Premiere: Dec. 12, 2007

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in Americawon a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, begins a revival run in New York this week, is one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics.

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