POV Season 31, Episode 5: The Workers Cup

1

Bill Nye: Science Guy

The Rainey family are an African-American family living in Philadelphia.

104 min

2

Quest

Bill Nye advocates the importance of science, research and discovery.

95 min

3

Singing With Angry Bird

Jae-Chang Kim, a Korean opera singer who runs a children's choir in India, trains parents and their children for a joint concert.

88 min

4

Brimstone & Glory

The town of Tultepec in south-central Mexico becomes famous for its manufacturing of fireworks.

64 min

5

The Workers Cup

African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar participate in a football tournament for laborers.

89 min

6

Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2

A juror deals with guilt and regret after she and 11 others hand down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted of a double homicide.

85 min

7

Girl Unbound

Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player.

77 min

8

Whose Streets?

An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it.

90 min

9

Still Tomorrow

Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becomes a best-seller in China.

88 min

10

Nowhere To Hide

Male nurse Nori Sharif and his family experience many changes as conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the Islamic State group in central Iraq's "triangle of death."

62 min

11

Voices of the Sea

A Cuban mother of four longs for escape and a chance to build a better life.

90 min

12

93Queen

Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn, create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York.

90 min

13

Survivors

Two health care workers in Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country.

87 min

14

Dark Money

A journalist in Montana investigates the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

98 min

15

The Apology

Former comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II fight for justice and reconciliation.

105 min

16

Minding the Gap

Three young men bond through skateboarding to escape their volatile family life in their Rust Belt home town.

93 min

17

306 Hollywood

Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house.

94 min