Jan 16 2008 - Three films selected for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival will have their national broadcast premieres on the P.O.V., it was announced by Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director, American Documentary | P.O.V. Patti Smith: Dream of Life, NERAKHOON (The Betrayal) and Traces... | »
Jan 16 2008 - American Documentary, Inc., producer of PBS's acclaimed independent documentary series P.O.V., will present a third season of the True Lives limited series to public television stations starting in March 2008. The new season will showcase five documentary films that originally... | »
Feb 26 2008 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has renewed its support of American Documentary | P.O.V. with a grant of $1,500,000 over the next three years. The funds will support the P.O.V. ("Point of View") series and related online... | »
Mar 18 2008 - Fresh on the heels of its 2007 Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, P.O.V. returns for its 21st season on PBS with a powerful and provocative slate of films that explore the human stakes in such American election-year issues as war and peace, health care, border issues and race relations. | »
Apr 17 2008 - During this election season, P.O.V. wants to know what your point of view is. As a leading broadcaster of social-issue documentary films, P.O.V. is partnering with NPR, WGHB Lab, and Film Your Issue to encourage talented young visionaries to produce work that will address issues related to the elections. | »
Apr 8 2008 - The P.O.V. Web site, www.pbs.org/pov, has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award in the category of Movie and Film, it was announced today. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet," the Webby Film and Video Awards are the leading industry awards honoring original film and video premiering on the Internet. Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at a ceremony in New York City on June 9. | »
Jul 16 2008 - P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent point-of-view films, has received six nominations in the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards. | »
Jul 7 2008 - Thousands of Americans are joining forces online to find the best news coverage of the 2008 presidential election, thanks to a partnership between PBS's social media site, PBS Engage, the award-winning documentary series P.O.V. and NewsTrust, a social news network promoting quality journalism. | »
Sep 24 2008 - Film by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar looks inside Los Angeles' garment industry through the eyes of immigrant workers wins Emmy in the category of Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story Long Form. | »
Sep 10 2008 - Special broadcast of Critical Condition on Sept. 30 looks at America's uninsured, followed by MacNeil/Lehrer Election Special; On Oct. 1, In the Family spotlights DNA testing through the eyes of a young woman carrying the "breast cancer gene" | »
High School (P.O.V. 2001).
Remember high school? Renowned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's classic documentary High School renders this nearly universal American experience in unforgettable terms. Cited by the Library of Congress as a National Treasure, this 1968 film is both a document of the times and a statement of the ways in which school is used by one generation to pass its values on to the next.