POV - Season 35

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Wuhan Wuhan

1 - Wuhan Wuhan

Air Date: July 11, 2022

Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a mysterious virus.

Manzanar, Diverted: When water becomes dust

2 - Manzanar, Diverted: When water becomes dust

Air Date: July 18, 2022

Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar World War II concentration camp; Native Americans forced from their land; ranchers bought out by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Winter's Yearning

3 - Winter's Yearning

Air Date: July 25, 2022

Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant.

He's My Brother

4 - He's My Brother

Air Date: August 1, 2022

Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter.

President

5 - President

Air Date: August 8, 2022

A new leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.

Faya Dayi

6 - Faya Dayi

Air Date: August 29, 2022

A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia.

Love & Stuff

7 - Love & Stuff

Air Date: September 5, 2022

A multigenerational love story focuses on a daughter who cares for her terminally ill mother and adopts a baby in her 50s.

Delikado

8 - Delikado

Air Date: September 26, 2022

Locals on an island paradise risk death to save the Philippines' last ecological frontier.

The Last Out

9 - The Last Out

Air Date: October 3, 2022

Three Cuban baseball players risk exile to chase their dream of playing in the US major leagues.

Accepted

10 - Accepted

Air Date: October 10, 2022

A prep school in Louisiana that sends 100% of its grads to college is rocked by scandal.

An Act of Worship

11 - An Act of Worship

Air Date: October 17, 2022

The past 30 years of American history through the perspective of Muslims across the U.S. who have lived it.

Midwives

12 - Midwives

Air Date: November 21, 2022

Two women in a region beset by violent ethnic divisions run a makeshift medical clinic.

Let the Little Light Shine

13 - Let the Little Light Shine

Air Date: December 12, 2022

An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.

I Didn't See You There

14 - I Didn't See You There

Air Date: January 9, 2023

A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.