
About this season
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.
Episodes (17)
1. Roll Red Roll
Aired 17 June 2019 • 80 min
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.
2. The Gospel of Eureka
Aired 24 June 2019 • 75 min
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.
3. Call Her Ganda
Aired 1 July 2019 • 93 min
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.
4. Bisbee 17
Aired 15 July 2019 • 124 min
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.
5. On Her Shoulders
Aired 22 July 2019 • 95 min
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.
6. Inventing Tomorrow
Aired 22 July 2019 • 87 min
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.
7. The Distant Barking of Dogs
Aired 5 August 2019 • 91 min
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.
8. Happy Winter
Aired 12 August 2019 • 91 min
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.
9. Farmsteaders
Aired 2 September 2019 • 53 min
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.
10. Grit
Aired 9 September 2019 • 90 min
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.
11. The Silence of Others
Aired 30 September 2019 • 90 min
Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later.
12. America
Aired 7 October 2019 • 94 min
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.
13. The Feeling of Being Watched
Aired 14 October 2019 • 87 min
Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe conducted in Illinois.
14. Blowin’ Up
Aired 21 October 2019 • 94 min
The challenges facing a group of women determined to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
15. Midnight Traveler
Aired 30 December 2019 • 88 min
The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey from Afghanistan to Germany.
16. The Rescue List
Aired 23 March 2020 • 80 min
Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.