Marco Williams
Director
POV (1988)
Season 32
Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.
Released July 5, 1988
Episode 64 min
14+
Genres: Documentary
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Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S32E16 - The Rescue List
Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.
March 23, 2020, midnight
S32E17 - Episode 17
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S32E1 - Roll Red Roll
At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team.
June 17, 2019, midnight
S32E2 - The Gospel of Eureka
Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an infamous gospel drag show.
June 24, 2019, midnight
S32E3 - Call Her Ganda
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case - an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother)–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
July 1, 2019, midnight
S32E4 - Bisbee 17
Residents of Bisbee, Ariz., commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation when 1,200 immigrant miners were taken from their homes, shipped to the desert and left to die.
July 15, 2019, midnight
S32E5 - On Her Shoulders
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people’s good intentions.
July 22, 2019, midnight
S32E6 - Inventing Tomorrow
Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet’s environmental threats while navigating adolescence.
July 22, 2019, midnight
S32E7 - The Distant Barking of Dogs
Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother’s death, because they have nowhere to go.
Aug. 5, 2019, midnight
S32E8 - Happy Winter
Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same number of groups of bathers who will spend the season in them.
Aug. 12, 2019, midnight
S32E9 - Farmsteaders
Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.
Sept. 2, 2019, midnight
S32E10 - Grit
A teenager recruits her neighbours to fight against a multinational natural gas drilling company allegedly responsible for displacing 60,000 people in an Indonesian village that was submerged in mud.
Sept. 9, 2019, midnight
S32E11 - The Silence of Others
Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later.
Sept. 30, 2019, midnight
S32E12 - America
When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmother, they clash over money, communication and caregiving.
Oct. 7, 2019, midnight
S32E13 - The Feeling of Being Watched
Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe conducted in Illinois.
Oct. 14, 2019, midnight
S32E14 - Blowin’ Up
The challenges facing a group of women determined to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
Oct. 21, 2019, midnight
S32E15 - Midnight Traveler
The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey from Afghanistan to Germany.
Dec. 30, 2019, midnight
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64 min/ep
33024 min
July 5, 1988
Dec. 8, 2025, midnight
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TV-14 / 14+
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