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Trailer of Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision by director Freida Lee Mock.

Behind the Lens interview with Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision director Freida Lee Mock.

Behind the Lens interview with The Ride Ahead directors Samuel Habib and Dan Habib.

Trailer for The Ride Ahead by directors Samuel Habib and Dan Habib.

Behind the Lens interview with directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan of Made In Ethiopia.

Trailer of Made in Ethiopia

Behind the Lens interview with the director of Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place.

Trailer for Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place

Trailer of Jane Wagner's documentary Break the Game.

Trailer of UNION by directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.

Trailer for An Act of Worship, directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy.

Trailer for Tunde Skovran's film Who I Am Not.

Trailer for Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough's film The Body Politic.

Trailer for Taku Aoyagi's film Tokyo Uber Blues.

Trailer for Maciek Hamela's film In the Rearview.

Trailer for Lin Alluna's film Twice Colonized.

Trailer for Edward Lovelace's film Name Me Lawand.

Trailer for Joe Piscatella's film Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?

Trailer for Pau Faus' film Fauna.

Trailer of Sarvnik Kaur's film Against the Tide.

Trailer for Ella Bee Glendining's film Is There Anybody Out There?

Trailer for Estefanía “Beba” Contreras and Silvia Del Carmen Castaños' film Hummingbirds.

Trailer of Elaine McMillion Sheldon's film King Coal

POV is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films.

A look behind the barricades of the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

A short trailer for POV Interactive Documentary Shorts

A look at the designer of the Vietnam War Memorial

Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter.

Two young protesters are accused of domestic terrorism

Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of girls of color at the front lines of social justice.

Close bonds are forged between parents, children and caregivers at a 24-hour daycare.

Native teens torn between opportunities outside the reservation and cultural ties at home

An Alabama barber celebrates the election of the first black president.

Airs Friday, March 9, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.

Preview the new slate of documentaries coming to POV starting June 24, 2013.

Why is the mere mention of Blacks and Jews in the same breath so riddled with complexity?

In 2012, POV celebrates 25 years of broadcasting on PBS!

2009 Emmy Nominee: A 27-year-old discovers that she has the "breast cancer gene."

A raw, revealing video diary by a Cambodian-born teenager who turns the camera on himself

Three teens in a California town wrestle with questions of love, friendship and the future

Photographer Murray Fredericks visits Lake Eyre, the world's most featureless landscape.

The grace of African-American funerals as seen through a Harlem funeral director.

POV is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films.

Premieres Monday, July 1, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.

This bittersweet classic follows four door-to-door Bible salesman.

The drama, ritual, and culture of the amazing world of New York's gem trade.

A profile of Robert Castle, a fiery Harlem-based white Episcopal priest.

Modeling seen by a conflicted American scout and a 13-year-old she discovers.

A lively portrait of 76-year-old Harold "Louie Bluie" Armstrong.

Three films about adoption on PBS

Here's a sample of the mobile premieres POV featured in 2012, our 25th Anniversary Season.

Exploring autism from the point of view of autistic people themselves.

A mobile experience offering an escape from doomsday thinking.

Premieres Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.

In Japan, baseball is not a pastime it's a national obsession

Eight players between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships.

A teacher tries to help her autistic students as they "age out" of the education system.

Three friends attempt to see as many species as possible in 24 hours

Premieres Monday, September 16, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.

Modern-day cowboys in the American West

In 1930s Brooklyn, Van Harris grew up a block away from his wife-to-be Shirley.

Jeff Dupre remembers the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a national publication.

Cheri Lindsay and her father Phillip talk about the rare skin condition they share called vitiligo.

Growing up as the youngest in a tight-knit family, Barry Romo wasn’t much older than his niece and nephews. He was especially close with his nephew, Robert, who everyone called Bobby. They came of age during the Vietnam War. Barry remembers his nephew who served in his brigade and

Rob Rigano always loved vehicles — and the thrill of sneakily rolling a car down the driveway as a child. So when @StoryCorps’ Airstream trailer stopped in San Diego, his older brother, Phil, knew it was the perfect place to take him. The brothers traveled down memory lane, laughing about high

Bud Jones started his taxidermy business when he was a teenager in Tallapoosa, Georgia. When Jackie and Bud went on their first date in 1954, little did she know that his calling would set the scene for their love story.

Every Christmas Eve, people worldwide use NORAD's Santa Tracker to follow Santa Claus as he flies across the globe to deliver presents. The merry mission started during the Cold War, when Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup received an unexpected call on his red phone — a top secret hotline

In 1958, John Cruitt was in third-grade. His teacher was Cecile Doyle. That year, his mother was seriously ill with multiple sclerosis. At StoryCorps, he talks with his former teacher about why he reached out to her decades later.

A Vietnamese American daughter captures her mother and father—former refugees of the American War in Vietnam / Vietnam War—as they dream of their late parents, childhood, and homeland.

Explore the stories of three women quilters whose lives complement and contrast each other across stunning landscapes in rural Colorado, Utah, and the Navajo Nation of New Mexico.

A young Kyrgyz girl named Altynai works as a truck driver—a male-dominated and physically demanding job—as a way to pay for her medical school at Columbia University.

The Race to Pit Row - NASCAR’s first black woman pit crew member.

As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favor. Using a striking metaphor, Boat People traces one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.

In one of the most remote places of the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant river catfish using just a hook to start his journey to becoming an adult. This film is a glimpse at a vanishing way of life as a father

One late October evening, Juliet Jegasothy was home alone with her baby when her doorbell started ringing. Terrified, she hid in her room and called her husband, Brian, who was working late. The newlyweds had just moved to Brooklyn, NY from Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, and were still getting

In the 1980s, Ed Cage fell in love with beatboxing through the St. Louis hip hop scene. When he became a dad, his talent became a way to connect with his daughter, Nicole Paris. At StoryCorps, Ed and Nicole talk about how he passed the beat on to the next

In 1972, Sarah Churchill gave birth to her third child, Yomi. After she was born, doctors told her the baby had a rare genetic disorder that causes bones to break under the slightest pressure. At StoryCorps, Yomi asked her mom to tell her about the night she was born.

An idealistic, young journalist in Beijing profiles China's biggest real estate speculator. Their divergent life experiences and clashing values reflect the generational and societal changes happening in the country.

When her son leaves to study abroad, a Polish mother feels bereft until she finds a baby squirrel in her backyard.

Against the backdrop of a community pool, a young Yezidi girl wrestles quietly with her traumatic memories of the Mediterranean Sea.

In the projects of Watts, Meryland Gonzales, a twelve-year-old female boxer trains to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics champion. Meanwhile, her immigrant parents work tirelessly to give their child a shot at achieving her dreams.

This animated short recounts the Velvet Underground's first gig—in 1965, in front of a crowd of shocked kids at a suburban New Jersey high school.

20/Nothing follows Evan Smith, a man who lost his left eye many years ago. This experimental film takes an in-depth look at a life with no depth perception.

Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women's professional wrestling. Filmed in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl – a notorious district of Mexico City – Irma contradicts everything we have come to expect from stories reported from Mexico. Featuring music written and performed by Ms. Gonzalez,

Four distinct women in Central Florida form a bond over crickets, superworms, and roaches on an insect farm in the small town of LaBelle.

Kathleen reflects on her experience as a hairdresser while we bear witness to her unusual work.

In 1983 the German energy giant RWE started digging for coal in the Garzweiler II pit. Since then 16 villages around the mine have been resettled. Against all odds, brothers Helmut and Joachim Meier run the nursery they built 30 years ago until the very end. Life is grey and

An 18-year old influencer attempts to reconcile his identity online with his identity in real life.

A collective of Palestinian-American dancers living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn use traditional Dabka as a way to connect to their community and homeland.

Along the scorching southern border in Arizona, only an estimated one out of every five missing migrants is ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers–the Águilas del Desierto–who volunteer monthly to recover the missing.

Tristan takes a chance on an experimental therapy, finding their authentic place.

Lourdes Villanueva’s parents worked as migrant workers picking fruit across the country.

Bryan Wilmoth and his brother talk about reconnecting.

Asma was assaulted for speaking Swahili; she talks with her attacker's sister, Dawn.

Judge Olly Neal recounts how a book cover turned him around academically.

Muhammad talks to his dad about what it was like to grow up as the son of cab driver.

Maria Rivas and her daughter prepare for her to lose her legal immigration status.

Partner, father, and giant among men.

Crescenciana Tan came to the U.S. from the Philippines to help raise her grandchildren.

Sissy talks with his wife Vickie about how they forged a new path.

Robert Cochran thanks Herman Travis for the many ways he helps his community.

“It was this common ‘that’s not okay,’ moment.”

“That was the first time that anyone was proud to say that they loved me.”

Two sets of twins fall in love with eachother.

Language is not a barrier for love.

A Marine Corps veteran is caught between two cultures.

After ten years of marriage and two children, Les GrantSmith had a secret to tell.

Laura talks with her daughter about realizing that not every family was like hers.

Betty started a second career at the only remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.

A father and daughter talk about how politics affect their relationship.

Noe Rueda tells Alex Fernandez about launching his first business venture.

Gweneviere Mann talks to her boyfriend Yasir Salem about losing her short term memory.

In New York, 73-year-old Jackie Miller talks to her adopted son, Scott.

A formerly enslaved midwife who helped deliver generations.

A California teenager gets sent to Louisiana for a summer with her great-grandmother.

Space-obsessed six year old Jerry Morrison talks to his uncle Joey, an engineer at NASA.

Mary Mills was an only child, but her house was always filled with neighborhood kids.

2012 Emmy nominee. Two cousins recall their inimitable Sunday school teacher.

Studs Terkel talks about modern life.

The daughter of immigrants reminisces with her mother.