Point of View (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.

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    Roll Red Roll (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2019-06-17

    Runtime: 80 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Gospel of Eureka (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2019-06-24

    Runtime: 75 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Call Her Ganda (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2019-07-01

    Runtime: 93 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Bisbee 17 (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2019-07-15

    Runtime: 124 min

    Overview: 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.

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    On Her Shoulders (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2019-07-22

    Runtime: 95 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Inventing Tomorrow (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2019-07-22

    Runtime: 87 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Distant Barking of Dogs (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2019-08-05

    Runtime: 91 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Happy Winter (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2019-08-12

    Runtime: 91 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Farmsteaders (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2019-09-02

    Runtime: 53 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Grit (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2019-09-09

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Silence of Others (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2019-09-30

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later.

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    America (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2019-10-07

    Runtime: 94 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Feeling of Being Watched (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2019-10-14

    Runtime: 87 min

    Overview: Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe conducted in Illinois.

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    Blowin’ Up (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2019-10-21

    Runtime: 94 min

    Overview: The challenges facing a group of women determined to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.

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    Midnight Traveler (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2019-12-30

    Runtime: 88 min

    Overview: The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey from Afghanistan to Germany.

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    The Rescue List (Episode 16)

    Air date: 2020-03-23

    Runtime: 80 min

    Overview: Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.

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    Episode 17 (Episode 17)

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