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P.O.V.

P.O.V. is PBS's award-winning showcase for independent nonfiction films. Since 1988, P.O.V. has presented over 250 of the most important documentary films of our time. The series has provided a showcase for the early efforts of documentary superstars like Errol Morris, Jonathan Demme, Michael Moore and Freida Lee Mock, and introduced new generations of viewers to legendary films like Albert and David Maysles' Salesman, Fred Wiseman's High School and Mel Stuart's Wattstax. P.O.V. has won every coveted industry award, including 18 Emmys, 11 George Foster Peabody Awards, eight Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards, three Academy Awards, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.

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TRUE LIVES

True Lives is a new programming initiative that revisits classic documentaries from the P.O.V. series, as well as other films that have not aired on P.O.V., repackaging them into themed collections for broadcast by public television stations, including PDP stations.

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