POV Season 36, Episode 7: While We Watched

After Sherman

A poetic quest in coastal South Carolina unearths Black inheritance amidst a violent past.

83 min

A Story of Bones

A burial site containing thousands of once enslaved Africans is discovered on St. Helena.

83 min

Liquor Store Dreams

Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.

83 min

A House Made of Splinters

By the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, social workers create a sanctuary for kids in limbo.

83 min

Eat Your Catfish

A woman's battle with late-stage Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) leaves her paralyzed and pushes her family to the breaking point.

71 min

Children of the Mist

A 13-year-old Hmong girl is caught between tradition and modernity in rural northwest Vietnam.

Bulls and Saints

An undocumented family decides to return home after 20 years of living in the U.S.

53 min

Uýra: The Rising Forest

Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon.

53 min

Murders That Matter

Black Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell transforms from a victim of violent trauma to a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.

83 min

Aurora's Sunrise

At 14, Aurora Mardiganian survives the Armenian Genocide and escapes to New York, finding fame in "Auction of Souls."

83 min

Fire Through Dry Grass

Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown.

83 min

Wisdom Gone Wild

A film blending humour and sadness focuses on a mother and daughter confronting the reality of wisdom "gone wild" in the shadows of dementia.

71 min

How to Have an American Baby

A series of vignettes provide insight into Chinese tourists who travel to the U.S. to give birth in order to obtain citizenship for their babies.

116 min

Brief Tender Light

At MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of positive change for their home countries.

83 min

unseen

A blind, undocumented immigrant faces uncertainty to obtain his college degree.

83 min