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 (14)
1. And She Could Be Next, Part 1
Aired 29 June 2020 • 60 min
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
2. And She Could Be Next, Part 2
Aired 30 June 2020 • 60 min
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized
3. We Are the Radical Monarchs
Aired 20 July 2020 • 60 min
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Follow the group as they earn badges for completing units on such subjects as being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment and disability justice.
4. Advocate
Aired 27 July 2020 • 60 min
Meet Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, a political firebrand who is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate" for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently.
5. Chez Jolie Coiffure
Aired 3 August 2020 • 60 min
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
6. About Love
Aired 10 August 2020 • 60 min
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.
7. Portraits and Dreams
Aired 7 September 2020 • 52 min
Photographs taken by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s, their lives since then, and the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.
8. Love Child
Aired 14 September 2020 • 112 min
A young couple flees Iran with their son, Mani, seeking asylum in Turkey so they can start a new life.
9. In My Blood It Runs
Aired 21 September 2020 • 60 min
Ten-year-old Aboriginal Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages.Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education. We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures and shares his truths.
10. Our Time Machine
Aired 28 September 2020 • 60 min
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
11. The Infiltrators
Aired 5 October 2020 • 95 min
Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a for-profit detention centre.
12. Softie
Aired 12 October 2020 • 92 min
Political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, but learns that conducting a clean campaign against corrupt opponents is increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone.
13. The Mole Agent
Aired 5 January 2021 • 89 min
An investigator poses as a new resident in a retirement home after a family grows concerned for their mother's well-being.
14. Through the Night
Aired 10 May 2021 • 76 min
The stories of two working mothers and a child care provider whose lives intersect at a 24-hour day care in New Rochelle, N.Y.