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: S37 E703

24m 50s / TV-PG

When It's Good, It's Good

10m 35s / TV-14

A filmmaker returns to her hometown in West Texas to document the effects of the boom-and-bust nature of the oil industry. An intimate portrait of family, memory, and economy, When It’s Good, It’s Good centers around life in an oil town called Denver City, Texas.

StoryCorps Shorts: Dreamer's Gift

2m 7s

For decades, Dreamer has been generously offering free haircuts to veterans from a trailer stationed in the heart of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Campus. At StoryCorps, Dreamer sits down with his friend, Paul Crowley, to discuss the transformative power of a haircut.

StoryCorps Shorts: Family Harmony

2m 50s

When Gilbert Zermeño dreamed of joining his school band, he pictured himself playing a shiny saxophone. To his dismay, his family—getting by on the $100 a week that his father made working in the nearby cotton fields—couldn’t afford one. At StoryCorps, he shares with his wife, Patricia Powers-Zermeño, how his musical journey began on a bad note, but ended in harmony.

Freshwater

9m 43s / TV-PG

Detroiters experienced an enhanced form of water destruction from massive flooding that destroyed homes, belongings and lives in the summer of 2021. The water rose in streets, alleys, yards and, most devastatingly, in people’s homes, where it submerged possessions and memories, and surfaced emotions many were not prepared to confront.

By Way of Canarsie

14m 15s / TV-PG

A portrait of an oft-neglected community imagining possible futures at odds with the present. Using various formats, these vignettes explore Canarsie’s unique relationship to the water through recreation, brief encounters, and expressive use of analog film, granting an understanding of this predominantly Black neighborhood’s shared desires for recognition and respect.

The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms

10m 23s / TV-PG

A magical-realist window into life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Combining paintings and live-action footage to reveal the emotional depth of Samuel Geiger's physical world–with his partner, painter Lauryn Welch– while exploring disability, love, and the forms they take within the bodies and spaces we are given.

StoryCorps Shorts: Role Models

3m 22s

Reverend Farrell Duncombe's childhood in Alabama was shaped by his mischievous ways and the role models who kept him in line, including his father and Rosa Parks. At StoryCorps, Rev. Farrell reflects on the people who nurtured him.

StoryCorps Shorts: The Room

3m 30s

Debbie Fisher's father was a Holocaust survivor but, for years, he kept his painful memories of Auschwitz to himself. At StoryCorps, Debbie recounts the moment she convinced him to share his story, unleashing a flood of emotions and long-buried memories.

StoryCorps: The Busboy

3m 28s

A famous photograph taken moments after Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and a teenaged hotel busboy kneels beside him, cradling the Senator’s head. That busboy was Juan Romero. At StoryCorps, Juan remembered the night of the assassination — and how that moment impacted his life.

StoryCorps Shorts: The Echoes of War

2m 8s

Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium near the border with Germany. At StoryCorps, he tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about being called upon for a special assignment.

You Can't Stop Spirit

15m 7s / TV-14

You Can’t Stop Spirit centers the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition: a group of self-liberated Black women who created an alternative social space where they are encouraged to be free.

StoryCorps Shorts: What's for Dinner

2m 50s

In 1971, George Ju was running a Chinese restaurant in Miami, Florida. George was born in China and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he settled in Miami, and this is where he met Angela Rivas. One night, while attending her friend’s engagement party, Angela met George, who was cooking for the event. There began their journey of love and laughter.

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