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POV Playlist 47: Statues of (Un)liberty

Films about history, memory and monuments

Bisbee '17

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Trailer

Radically combining documentary and narrative elements, Bisbee '17 follows several members of the close-knit community in Bisbee, Arizona, a former mining town, as they commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, when 1,200 immigrant miners were violently taken ...

Grit

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Trailer

A multinational natural gas drilling company is believed to be responsible for the displacement of 60,000 people in an East Java village left submerged by a tsunami of mud. Fed up with the company's delayed cleanup, Dian, a politically ...

Graven Image

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument: Georgia’s Stone Mountain.

Where the Pavement Ends

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

Where The Pavement Ends transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the ...

POV Season 34

Powerful points of view into immigration, economic inequality and racial justice—more than half directed by people of color and women, with a spotlight on Latinx cinema.

The Neutral Ground

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that ...

Landfall

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma ...

Stateless

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign ...

Mayor

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Musa Hadid is the Christian mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority. As he tries to keep his city running while paving sidewalks, planning holidays and building a new fountain, his job is made increasingly difficult ...

Pier Kids

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Airing August 2
On the Christopher Street Pier in New York City, homeless queer and trans youth of color forge friendships and chosen families, withstanding tremendous amounts of abuse while working to carve out autonomy in their lives. With intimate, immersive access to ...

The Song of the Butterflies

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Airing August 30
Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his ...

Fruits of Labor

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Airing October 4
Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in California, dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a ...

La Casa de Mama Icha

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Airing October 18
Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there. Now ...

Things We Dare Not Do

  • Feature Film
  • 2021
Airing October 26
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family ...

North By Current

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Airing November 1
Filmmaker and artist Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown after a family tragedy. Weaving vignettes of VHS and Super 8 home movies with the present day, Madsen creates a poetic, nuanced portrait of a family navigating grief ...

Unapologetic

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Airing December 27
After two police killings, Black millennial organizers challenge a Chicago administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents. Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for ...

Not Going Quietly

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

Airing January 24, 2022
A rising star in progressive politics and new father, Ady Barkan’s career and family are upended when he is diagnosed with ALS at age 32. After a chance encounter with a powerful Senator on an airplane catapults him to ...

On the Divide

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

Airing April 1, 2022
On The Divide follows the story of three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas who, despite their views, are connected by the most unexpected of places: the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. As threats to the ...

America ReFramed Season 9

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The Area

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

The Area is the odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where hundreds of Black American families are being expelled from their homes by a multi-billion-dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be "the ...

Pahokee

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

In the rural town of Pahokee, four teenagers experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school. This tightly knit community in the Florida everglades struggles with financial insecurity and pin their hopes for the future on ...

Busy Inside

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Through personal stories, Busy Inside delves deeply into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. A respected therapist specializing in the condition's treatment, and her patients, confront past trauma and embrace their different personalities.

Bring It Home

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Bring It Home tells the story of five families at a crossroads after the closing of the GM Lordstown auto plant. GM's decision forced thousands to decide between transferring out-of-state or staying put. If they stay, they risk loss of ...

The Place That Makes Us

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

A quintessential post-industrial American city is seen through the efforts of a new generation. This film is an inspiring portrait of Youngstown, Ohio, activists and leaders who have chosen not to abandon their hometown, but to stay, rebuild and make ...

Sisters Rising

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women, and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. Sisters Rising follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of ...

Far East Deep South

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Charles Chiu and his family’s search for their roots takes them on an eye-opening journey through the Mississippi Delta, uncovering otherwise unknown stories and the racially complex history of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South. This Chinese American family ...

Curtain Up!

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

In New York City's Chinatown, the theater club of PS 124 is staging an adaptation of the film "Frozen”. As the 5th graders gear up and rehearse for the musical production, nervous excitement and flubbed lines brush up against cultural ...

Hamtramck, USA

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Once known as a Polish Catholic town, Hamtramck, MI is now home to America’s first Muslim-majority city. As election season approaches, candidates set out to win hearts, minds and votes in this rapidly changing city. Going behind the scenes ...

The Falconer

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

One of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community. This is a story of second chances: for ...

Meltdown in Dixie

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

In the wake of the 2015 Charleston Massacre, a battle erupts in Orangeburg, South Carolina between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot. MELTDOWN IN DIXIE ...

Jack & Yaya

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

From a young age, Yaya and Jack saw each other as they truly were, a girl and a boy, even though most of the world didn’t see them that way. As they grew older, they supported each other as ...

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POV Shorts Season 3

Critically-Acclaimed Festival and Oscar Nominated Shorts That Highlight Our Interconnectedness

The Spectrum of Divide

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

Two perspectives on how shared beliefs connect and divide.

In The Absence

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

A South Korean community is torn apart by a ferry disaster which claimed the lives of hundreds of children. When government incompetence is revealed as the main cause, the victims’ families seek justice.

Legacy

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

Three stories looking at time encapsulated.

Uniquely Euro

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

Two quirky stories as distinctive as the countries from which they hail, Ukraine and Austria.

Comic Culture

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

Slices of life from opposite sides of the world--where the everyday veers into comedy.

The Calling

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

Two films exploring creed and conviction.

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