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Scout's Honor

  • Feature Film
  • 2001

Feature Film

To be physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight — this is the Boy Scout pledge. Since 1910, millions of boys have joined. But today, if you are openly gay, you can't. Witness how a 12-year-old Boy Scout named Steven Cozza ...

Memories of a Penitent Heart

  • Feature Film
  • 2017

Feature Film

Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo suspected that there was something ugly in her family's past. Memories of a Penitent Heart excavates a buried conflict around her uncle Miguel, who died at a time when AIDS was synonymous with sin. As she searches ...

Another Hayride

  • Short Film
  • 2021

Short Film

As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride. Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly pandemic, Louise promised that self-love would help them overcome AIDS.

Reluctantly Queer

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

A young gay man from Ghana struggles to reconcile his sexuality and love for his mother through a series of letters in this deceptively simple yet powerful piece.

Muxes

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into men and women. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes”—men who consider themselves women ...

Unlived Lives

POV Playlist 46: The lives we did and didn't live.

About Love

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

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 ...

Hardwood

  • Short Film
  • 2005

Feature Film

The Academy Award-nominated Hardwood is a deeply personal filmic journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. Mel, now a coach for young basketball players in Vancouver, recalls falling in love at first sight with ...

Voices of the Sea

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave ...

Love Child

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son Mani. Love Child is an intimate love story about an illicit family on a journey to seek asylum ...

Broken Heart Land

  • Feature Film
  • 2014

Feature Film

Broken Heart Land is a vérité documentary that follows a conservative family transformed as they find themselves unexpectedly embroiled in the controversial issue of LGBTQ rights in their Oklahoma town.

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

Airing July 5
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

Airing July 13
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

Airing July 19
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

Airing July 26
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

Feature Film

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 31
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 ...

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 ...

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

Explore what's coming soon to America ReFramed's brand-new season.

The Area

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

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

Feature Film

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

Feature Film

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

Trailer

Airing June 22
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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