POV

Indie Films Series / 13 Seasons

Since 1988, POV has been the home for the world’s boldest contemporary filmmakers, celebrating intriguing personal stories that spark conversation and inspire action.

Watch Latest: S37 E10

52m 52s / TV-14

Silverlake Life: Trailer

27s

Winner of over 10 international awards including the Prix Italia and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Silverlake Life is an extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS. From the emotional challenge of living with a fatal illness to the frustration of maintaining daily routines, this is a powerful tale of love, commitment, mortality and the strength of the human spirit.

Roger and Me: Promo

30s

In the 1980's when GM decided to reduce their operations in Flint and set up factories south of the border in Mexico, 30,000 of the 80,000 GM workers in Flint lost their jobs. The son of an auto factory worker, Michael Moore decided to embark upon a filmic odyssey to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and convince him to visit Flint for a first-hand look at how the layoffs affected the town.

Tongues Untied: Trailer

29s

"Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied rises above the 'deeply personal' — far above it — in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns ( and sometimes all at once), it jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem." — Craig Seligman, San Francisco Examiner

Tongues Untied: Filmmaker Interview with Marlon Riggs

1m 9s

In 'Tongues Untied,' Marlon Riggs examines what it means to be black and gay, confronting homophobia, racism, and mainstream culture with a poetic, angry, erotic, and funny documentary. In this interview from 1991, Riggs reveals his trepidation in making himself and his experiences the center subject of the film.

Salesman: Trailer

29s

This bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. The critics used all the superlatives on this one, and it's as fresh today as when it was originally released.

Salesman: Filmmaker Interview

'Salesman' is the bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. Co-directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin talk about the goals they set out with when they made 'Salesman' in the 1960s.

Jack Levine: Feast Of Pure Reason - Trailer

24s

David Sutherland's bold and unconventional film portrait reveals one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering corrupt politicians, raging over social injustices, and satirizing the petty foibles of humankind.

Dark Circle: Trailer

30s

This chilling — but ultimately hopeful — film explores in evocative, personal and immediate terms how all of us have been affected by the nuclear age. Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, many of the issues it raised have become today's front page headlines.

From the Archives: Filmmaker Alan Berliner (1989)

31m 40s

Discussing his early documentary "The Family Album," Alan Berliner describes the creative process he followed to create his documentary collage. His film juxtaposes home videos and audio recordings collected from many families. (This is a rough cut from the POV archives.)

Trailer | Who Killed Vincent Chin?

2m 55s

On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer, with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.

Who Killed Vincent Chin: Filmmaker Interview

28s

Academy Award-nominated 'Who Killed Vincent Chin?' relentlessly probes the implications of a murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. Filmmaker Renee Tajima talks about the conflicting viewpoints of the crime that she unearthed while making the film.

Gates of Heaven: Filmmaker Interivew with Errol Morris

1m 44s

On the surface, Gates of Heaven is a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries and their owners. But then it grows much more complicated and bizarre, until in the end it is about such large issues as love, immorality, failure, and the dogged elusiveness of the American Dream. Filmmaker Errol Morris describes the subject as well as his creative process in making the film.

Gates of Heaven: Trailer

47s

On the surface, this is a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries and their owners. But then it grows much more complicated and bizarre, until in the end it is about such large issues as love, immorality, failure, and the dogged elusiveness of the American Dream.

Rate It X - Trailer

1m 30s

Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men only are interviewed by the two filmmakers in a witty montage of free-wheeling encounters. Pornographers, corporate executives, a funeral parlor director and Santa Claus are among those who reveal more than they intended.

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