Iris: Individuality - Breaking Rules
Iris encourages people to express their individualism through their wardrobes. She states, "I like individuality. It’s so lost these days. There’s so much sameness. Everything is homogenized. I hate it."
Iris: Trailer
Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.
Pervert Park: Transition and Harassment
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
Pervert Park: Monitoring and Internet Crimes
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
Pervert Park: Trailer
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
The Look of Silence: News Report
Adi, whose brother Ramli was killed during the genocide, watches footage from the NBC news report. From the year following the Indonesian “purge” of communists, the clip reports on the violence, including the resulting benefits for Goodyear Tire and Rubber (a U.S. company).
The Look of Silence: Trailer
In this Oscar-nominated film, winner of more than 50 awards, an optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. He confronts them while testing their eyesight and demands they accept responsibility.
Of Men and War: Trailer
At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on their paths to recovery as they attempt to make peace with their pasts, their loved ones and themselves.
Of Men and War: Being Home
We hear from the soldier and his wife what it’s been like since he’s returned home from war.
Of Men and War: The Undertaker
The soldier graphically describes processing a truckload of bodies and how, in order to preserve his sanity, he had to stop seeing them as people with friends and wives and children.
Of Men and War: Surviving a Mortar
A soldier recalls what he was thinking as he was lying on the ground, staring at the sky after being hit by a mortar.
Of Men and War: Blinded
A soldier describes being blinded by an explosion, hearing screaming and then realizing he was the one screaming. He then describes telling his mother that he had lost his vision.
Of Men and War: Watching a Friend Die
A soldier describes the death of the guy next to him in a battle.
Of Men and War: Collateral Damage
A soldier describes riding in a truck that hit a child and wonders what he would have done if he had been driving.
Of Men and War: The Kill
A soldier describes killing a man who was just 25 meters away, and not knowing whether the man was actually an enemy or just a guy “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The Return: Trailer
The Return examines an unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law through the eyes of those on the front lines – prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down, reentry providers helping navigate complex transitions, and attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law.
POV Season 29 Reel
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films to public television audiences across the country.
The Return: Kenneth
Kenneth runs into unexpected obstacles enrolling in a trade school. He also talks about how his kids grew up while he was in prison and now they have babies. He also shares his difficulty re-establishing a bond with his ex-wife (with whom he has been living).
The Return: Shane & Bilal
The attorneys wonder if they are doing enough to help their clients adjust to their new lives. Shane shares some of the challenges of adjusting to life outside of prison, including concerns about having too much freedom. Then Bilal, who lives at a reentry center, works to create a resume and talks about his past experience being released with no support or transitional housing.
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