Seven Songs for a Long Life: Filmmaker Interview
Filmmaker Amy Hardie discusses the making of POV documentary Seven Songs for a Long Life.
Seven Songs for a Long Life: Trailer
Hospice care is rarely associated with singing and laughter, but at Strathcarron it's different. At this remarkable Scottish hospice center, patients face pain, uncertainty and the possibility of life's end with song and humor.
Implicit Bias: High Heels, Violins and a Warning
Orchestras made clever changes to deal with centuries-old bias. If an orchestra can do it, there's hope for all of us — but a final word of caution.
Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism
What is implicit bias? NYT/POV's Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.
Implicit Bias: Snacks and Punishment
Need justification for taking breaks and naps? Turns out those activities could make us less biased toward people of other races.
Implicit Bias: Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias
Signs of implicit bias lurk within our inboxes, social networks and the patterns of our daily lives. Looking at our own data can help us change our ways.
Implicit Bias: Why We're Awkward
Here’s a paradox: The harder we try to act "super normal" around people of other races, the more likely we'll be super weird. Is there a way around this? Hint: Yes.
Implicit Bias: Make Friends to Tackle Bias
To reduce implicit bias, build friendships that cross the racial divide. Sound too easy to actually work? Researchers beg to differ. Worst case, you have more friends.
Racist Objects: The Activist
A Native American's decades-long struggle against a baseball team's racist logo.
Racist Objects: The Collector
A family in Harlem keeps racist objects to remember old stories – and to build new ones.
Racist Objects: The Seller
Racist objects are a source of income, and difficulty, at a family auction house in Texas.
Misunderstood Voters
Here's why 'the working class vote', 'women voters', 'latinos' and a few other terms you heard in campaign lead-up didn't really turn out to mean what people may have thought.
What Tomorrow Brings: Trailer
Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they dream of leading.
What Tomorrow Brings: A Proud Moment
The students practice English presentations for their new pen pals in Nebraska. An elder remarks on the enormous progress the town has because of girls' education.
What Tomorrow Brings: Rihala's Future
Rihala enrolls at school as the oldest student, but family issues and unpleasant marriage prospects cloud her future.
What Tomorrow Brings: Holding Your Head Up High
Razia meets with the mayor and town elders to discuss the benefits of the school. Fatema assures Pashtana that she will enroll her in school despite her uncle's disapproval.
What Tomorrow Brings: Poisoned Hope
Despite community resistance and threats of attack, Razia is committed to opening her girls' school, and the girls are determined to improve their futures.
Thank You for Playing: Trailer
When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife begin documenting their emotional journey with a poetic video game.
Thank You For Playing: Playing the Game
Ryan and his team take "That Dragon, Cancer" to a video game conference, where it moves players to deep emotion and connection.
Thank You For Playing: Death & Gaming - Do They Go Together?
This clip discusses the ethics of making a video game about death, and how it can help players cope with grief, confront a fear of death, and break taboos on these topics.
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