POV - Season 24

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Kings of Pastry
Season 24 - Episode 1
When Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, award-winning filmmakers of The War Room, Startup.com and Don’t Look Back, turn their sights on the c...

My Perestroika
Season 24 - Episode 2
My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children. Five classmates go from living sheltered childhoods to experie...

Sweetgrass
Season 24 - Episode 3
Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out. Shot amidst th...

Enemies of the People
Season 24 - Episode 4
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the “killing fields” of Cambodia have remained largely unexplai...

Biblioburro: The Donkey Library
Season 24 - Episode 5
The Donkey Library is the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other. A decade ago, Colombian teacher Luis Soriano was inspired to...

Mugabe and the White African
Season 24 - Episode 6
Mugabe and the White African, much of which was filmed clandestinely, tells an alarming story from one of the world’s most troubled nations....

Steam of Life
Season 24 - Episode 7
From a land of long, dark winters comes Steam of Life, a moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men as framed by the national obsession wi...

POV Short Cuts
Season 24 - Episode 8
A one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers, including: Big Birding Day – David Wilson offers a gli...

Armadillo
Season 24 - Episode 9
In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afg...

Better This World
Season 24 - Episode 10
The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramat...

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Season 24 - Episode 11
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front explores two of America’s most pressing issues — environmentalism and terrorism — by ...

The Learning
Season 24 - Episode 12
One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking turnab...

Last Train Home
Season 24 - Episode 13
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the wo...

Where Soldiers Come From
Season 24 - Episode 14
From a small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, "Where Soldiers Come From" follows the journey of childhood friends ...

Racing Dreams
Season 24 - Episode 15
'Racing Dreams' chronicles a year in the life of three "tweens" who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. Though they aren't old enough for driv...

American Tongues
Season 24 - Episode 16

American Gypsy
Season 24 - Episode 17
There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don’t know anything about them. It is one man’s obsessive pursui...