POV Season 32, Episode 14: Blowin’ Up

Roll Red Roll

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team.

80 min

The Gospel of Eureka

Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an infamous gospel drag show.

75 min

Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case - an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother)–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

93 min

Bisbee 17

Residents of Bisbee, Ariz., commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation when 1,200 immigrant miners were taken from their homes, shipped to the desert and left to die.

124 min

On Her Shoulders

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people’s good intentions.

95 min

Inventing Tomorrow

Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet’s environmental threats while navigating adolescence.

87 min

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother’s death, because they have nowhere to go.

91 min

Happy Winter

Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same number of groups of bathers who will spend the season in them.

91 min

Farmsteaders

Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.

53 min

Grit

A teenager recruits her neighbours to fight against a multinational natural gas drilling company allegedly responsible for displacing 60,000 people in an Indonesian village that was submerged in mud.

90 min

The Silence of Others

Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 years later.

90 min

America

When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmother, they clash over money, communication and caregiving.

94 min

The Feeling of Being Watched

Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe conducted in Illinois.

87 min

Midnight Traveler

The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey from Afghanistan to Germany.

88 min

The Rescue List

Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.

80 min

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