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P.O.V. brings a collection of documentary filmmakers, writers, historians, and others together for conversations about themes and topics relevant to P.O.V.'s non-fiction films. Find out more about PBS's award-winning documentary film series at pbs.org/pov. Primary Format : Arts Also Listed as: Arts Documentaries Films News City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Fiction News | Writers Arts | cum | Documentary | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of PBS Point of View (POV) Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of PBS Point of View (POV) Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of PBS Point of View (POV) Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. P.O.V. - The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Kieran Fitzgerald talks about his film, "The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez," which chronicles the shooting of an American citizen at the U.S./Mexico Border by the U.S. Marines. (19 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Election Day . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS "Election Day," shot over the course of November 2, 2004, documents the street-level experience of voters in today's America. Filmmaker Katy Chevigny talks about the process of making the film. (17 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS In "Traces of the Trade", filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. History. Katrina talks about her journey and her film. (19 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock talks about how she became interested in the subject of her film, "Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner," how she pursued him and why she thinks he is an inspirational figure. (12 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - 49 Up . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Michael Apted talks about the drama of ordinary life in his film "49 Up," the seventh installment of the Up Series, one of documentary cinema's most remarkable enterprises, and according to Apted, "the most important work" that he's ever done. (34 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Lumo . A Conversation with Eve Ensler . Podcast | PBS Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, talks to journalist Michele Kort of Ms. Magazine about the horrors of sexual violence and its aftermath in the Congo. A special podcast released in conjunction with the P.O.V. broadcast of the film Lumo. (16 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Lumo . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III talk about their film "Lumo," which follows Lumo Sinai, a young woman in eastern Congo who fell victim to rape. Lumo's rape left her with a fistula, which is a chronic condition that leaves women incontinent. (14 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Camden 28 . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS How far would you go to stop a war? For a group of Catholic Left activists during the Vietnam War, the answer involved breaking into a draft board office. Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks about making his film, "The Camden 28." (10 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Made in L.A. . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar talk about the making of their film "Made in L.A.," which follows three Latina garment workers as they participate in a boycott campaign against Forever 21, a clothing retailer whose clothes they sew. (13 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Libby, Montana . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr talk about their film "Libby, Montana," which documents the story of a seemingly ideal American town that was also the site of the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. (11 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Arctic Son . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS The clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in a remote village 80 miles above the Arctic Circle in "Arctic Son." Filmmaker Andrew Walton talks the process of making the film and how he built trust with his characters. (11 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - A Family Undertaking . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate talks about her film "A Family Undertaking," which explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life. (10 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Hobart Shakespeareans . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Mel Stuart has been directing feature films and documentaries for over 40 years. Listen as he reflects on the making of "The Hobart Shakespeareans" and why, along with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he counts it among his favorites. (12 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Following Sean . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks about his film, "Following Sean." Arlyck first met 4 year old Sean in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years and a lifetime later, Arlyck returns in search of the adult Sean might have become. (11 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Prison Town, USA . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Hear from filmmakers Po Kutchins and Katie Galloway, who talk about their film "Prison Town, USA," which tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that tries to resucitate its economy by building a prison - with unanticipated consequences. (11 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Chances of the World Changing . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS "The Chances of the World Changing" chronicles Richard Ogust, who kept 1,200 turtles in his Manhattan apartment in an effort to save endangered turtles. Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks about the film, airing on P.O.V. on July 17, 2007. (8 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Revolution '67 . New Jersey Historical Society Panel Discussion . Podcast | PBS Listen to a special panel of historians and activists discuss the 1967 Newark riots and their aftermath. Recorded at the New Jersey Historical Society's special screening of "Revolution '67." (21 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Revolution '67 . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks about the making of her film, "Revolution '67," which chornicles the six-day Newark, New Jersey urban rebellion that occurred forty years ago. (8 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Standing Silent Nation . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Suree Towfighnia and Courtney Hermann talk about their film "Standing Silent Nation," about a Lakota family that planted hemp, a relative of marijuana that is illegal to grow in the U.S. (8 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS This week, filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White talk about how they came to make "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars," an extraordinary story of a group of refugees who fight back with music. The film premieres on P.O.V. on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. (12 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Rain in a Dry Land . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS P.O.V.'s director of programming and production Chris White interviews filmmaker Anne Makepeace about her film, "Rain in a Dry Land," which opens P.O.V.'s 20th anniversary season on Tuesday, June 19. The film follows two Somali Bantu families from a refugee camp in Kenya through their first year and a half in America. Makepeace talks about her inspiration for "Rain in a Dry Land," the plight of refugees in America and the ethical challenges of making a verité film. (14 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - 2007 Season Preview . Presented by Simon Kilmurry . Podcast | PBS P.O.V.'s executive producer Simon Kilmurry talks about upcoming 2007 films, including "Rain in a Dry Land" which opens P.O.V.'s 20th anniversary season on June 19, and "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars" which follows a group of refugees from Sierra Leone as they make music to heal trauma and wounds from civil war. (5 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - My Country, My Country . A Conversation with George Packer . Podcast | PBS George Packer, author of The Assassin's Gate, joins filmmaker Laura Poitras and Maria Hinojosa from PBS's NOW for a special conversation about the war in Iraq and "My Country, My Country," a film about the January 2005 elections in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Maquilapolis . Filmmaker Interview Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre talk about the making of their film, Maquilapolis, City of Factories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - No Bigger Than a Minute . Filmmaker Interview Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Steven Delano, a little person, talks about making "No Bigger Than a Minute," starring...himself! With irreverent humor, the film shows what it's like to be a dwarf in front of and behind the camera. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela . Filmmaker Interview Podcast | PBS Filmmakers Thomas Allen Harris talks about his motivation for making "Twel Disciples of Nelson Mandela," a journey of reconciliation with his late stepfather, B. Pule Leinaeng, a South African exile and early supporter of Nelson Mandela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Boys of Baraka . Filmmaker Interview and Update Podcast | PBS Hear from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who talk about their motivations for making "The Boys of Baraka," and the boys themselves, who talk about what they've been up to since filming ended, and who ask Heidi and Rachel a few questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - September Preview . Podcast | PBS P.O.V.'s executive producer Cara Mertes talks about two upcoming P.O.V. films in September, 2006. "The Boys of Baraka" is about African-American boys, and "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela" is about a South African supporter of Nelson Mandela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Waging a Living . Beyond the Living Wage . Podcast | PBS In conjunction with the P.O.V. broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking to experts about the nation-wide struggle for a living wage, and the future of the living wage movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V.- Waging a Living . Barbara Ehrenreich . Podcast | PBS In conjunction with the P.O.V. broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, journalist David Brancaccio hosts a special podcast conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich on the state of American workers and wages today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Waging a Living . Howard Zinn and Amy Goodman . Podcast | PBS In conjunction with the P.O.V. broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features historian Howard Zinn talking with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman about the history of workers' movements in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Waging a Living . New York City Poverty . Podcast | PBS In conjunction with the P.O.V. broadcast of "Waging a Living" on August 29th, this podcast features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking with experts about poverty in New York City and the struggle toward a living wage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Waging a Living . Chicago's Big Box Ordinance . Podcast | PBS In conjunction with the broadcast of "Waging a Living", Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talks with experts about the passage of the Big Box Ordinance in Chicago, which requirs large retailers to pay their workers $10 an hour with $3 in benefits by 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Waging a Living . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Roger Weisberg talks about how he found the people featured in "Waging a Living," why there is a lack of media coverage of this issue and his use of cinema verite style in the film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Al Otro Lado . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Natalia Almada talks about the making of "Al Otro Lado," a documentary about the proud Mexican tradition of corrido music, and an examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - August Preview . Podcast | PBS Executive Director Cara Mertes talks about two upcoming P.O.V. films. "Al Otro Lado" and "Lomax the Songhunter" are are documentaries about the storytelling potential of music, in this case, Mexican corrido and European folk music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Tailenders . Filmmaker Interview | PBS Filmmaker Adele Horne talks about what drew her to make a film about a group of evangelical missionaries who use ultra-low-tech hand-crank recordings of Bible stories to reach people in the most isolated areas of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Fall of Fujimori . Filmmaker Interview | PBS Filmmaker Ellen Perry talks about the making of "The Fall of Fujimori" and the lessons that Americans might learn from Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's aggressive and violent war on terrorism during the 1990s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Tintin and I . Filmmaker Interview | PBS Why does the comic strip "The Adventures of Tintin," about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate us decades after their publication? "Tintin and I" highlights the potent social and political underpinnings that give Tintin's world such depth, and delve into the mind of Hergé, Tintin's work-obsessed Belgian creator, to reveal the creation and development of Tintin. In this week's podcast, filmmaker Anders Østergaard talks about Hergé and the audio interview the cartoonist gave t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "P.O.V. - Kokoyakyu . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS "Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball" is a documentary by Kenneth Eng that chronicles two Japanese high school baseball teams as they compete in the national high school baseball tournament known as "Koshien." In this podcast, Kenneth Eng and producer Alex Shear talk about the making of "Kokoyakyu" and former Mets manager Bobby Valentine talks about the differences between American and Japanese baseball culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "P.O.V. - No More Tears Sister . Filmmaker Interview . Podcast | PBS Filmmaker Helene Klodawsky discusses the making of her film that chronicles the events leading up to the assassination of human rights activist, Rajani Thiranagama, in Sri Lanka in 1989. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. 2006 Season Preview P.O.V.'s Executive Director, Cara Mertes, talks about the 2006 season with audio previews of some of the films in the summer schedule. P.O.V. begins on Tuesday, June 27th at 10 PM on your PBS station. Video trailers are available for all films at pbs.org/pov. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Borders: American ID . Keith Reinhard Podcast 2 | PBS P.O.V.'s Borders: American ID Border Talk guest Keith Reinhard, chairman of Business for Diplomatic Action, talks about how the world sees America. This is the second installment in a series of podcasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Borders: American ID . Keith Reinhard Podcast 1 | PBS P.O.V.'s Border Talk guest Keith Reinhard, chairman of Business for Diplomatic Action, talks about how the world sees America, and what we can do to improve America's image in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Borders: American ID . Advertising Democracy Podcast | PBS "Advertising Democracy" producer Gregory Warner talks to a U.S. Information Agency librarian, a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a Jordanian teen talk show host, and a nation branding expert about America's attempts to advertise itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Hybrid: Interview with Filmmaker Monteith Mccollum | PBS Monteith McCollum made "Hybrid" about his grandfather, Milford Beeghley. Beeghley was a laconic Midwestern farmer who dedicated his life to the hybridization of corn. In addition to directing "Hybrid," McCollum also created the animation and composed the score. He talks about the film and his goals for the feature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Flag Wars: Interview with Filmmakers Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras | PBS Filmmakers Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras talk about their 2003 P.O.V. film, "Flag Wars." The documentary is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, Ohio fight to hold on to their homes. Realtors and gay home-buyers see fixer-uppers. The clashes expose prejudice and self-interest on both sides, as well as the common dream to have a home to call your own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Lost Boys of Sudan: Interview with Filmmakers Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk | PBS Filmmakers Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk talk about their motivations for making the "Lost Boys of Sudan" which premiered on P.O.V. in 2004. The film follows the the first year of several refugees from the Dinka tribe who arrive in the US after a decade in a Kenyan refugee camp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Education of Shelby Knox: Interview with Filmmakers Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt | PBS A self-described "good Southern Baptist girl," 15-year-old Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas has pledged abstinence until marriage. But she becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed when she finds that Lubbock, where high schools teach abstinence as the only safe sex, has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the state. Hear from documentary filmmakers Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt about the making of "The Education of Shelby Knox," a film that appeared on P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - In the Realms of the Unreal: Interview with Filmmaker Jessica Yu | PBS From 1997 Documentary Oscar winner Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien) comes "In the Realms of the Unreal," the astounding tale of Henry Darger. An orphaned recluse who lived out his life of menial labor in a one-room downtown Chicago apartment, Darger was a social non-entity. So little remarked was he in life that only three photographs of him are known to exist. The amazing secret at the center of Darger's existence only emerged when ill health forced him to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Self-Made Man: Interview with Filmmaker Susan Stern | PBS Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch in central California, 77-year-old solar-energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he is seriously ill -- possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is slowly declining on artificial life support in a hospital. Bob decides to cheat that fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. But first, Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter and filmmaker Susan Stern tells the story of her father's quirky, inspiring life and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Brooklyn Connection: Interview with Filmmaker Klaarjte Quirijns | PBS Dutch filmmaker Klaarjte Quirijns talks about making "The Brooklyn Connection," a film that shows the terrifying ease with which a charming Brooklyn businessman raised $30 million during the Kosovo War, purchased weapons across the USA, and shipped them legally to Albania to be smuggled into Kosovo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Street Fight: Interview with Filmmaker Marshall Curry | PBS "Street Fight" filmmaker Marshall Curry talks about covering the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law graduate running for mayor of Newark, N.J. against Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age in 2002. The battle sheds light on important questions about democracy, power, poverty and race. When the mayor accuses the Ivy League-educated challenger of not being "really black," the campaign forces voters to examine how we define race in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Wattstax: Interview with Filmmaker Mel Stuart | PBS P.O.V. brings back the cult favorite "Wattstax," the 1973 concert documentary directed by Mel Stuart ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"). In August 1972, seven years after the Watts riots, the legendary Stax recording label staged a benefit concert in Los Angeles for 90,000 people. As time went by, it became known as the Black Woodstock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - True Lives - Breathing Lessons: Interview with Filmmaker Jessica Yu | PBS Filmmaker Jessica Yu completed her short documentary film "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien" in 1995 and won an Academy Award that same year. "Breathing Lessons" will be featured as part of P.O.V.'s sister series, True Lives, on PBS in 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Big Enough: Interview with Filmmaker Jan Krawitz | PBS In this intimate portrait, Jan Krawitz revisits some of the subjects who appeared in her 1982 award-winning film "Little People." Through a prism of 'then and now,' she contrasts the youth of these individuals affected with dwarfism with their lives 20 years later. From navigating everyday life to dating and marrying, they confront physical and emotional challenges with humor, grace and sometimes, frustration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Fire Next Time: Interview with Filmmaker Patrice O'Neill | PBS Over a stormy two-year period, "The Fire Next Time" follows a deeply divided group of Flathead Valley, Montana citizens caught in a web of conflicts intensified by rapid growth and the power of talk radio. Filmmaker Patrice O'Neill talks about the conflict and her film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - Omar and Pete: Interview with Filmmaker Tod Lending | PBS Filmmaker Tod Lending is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy award winning producer, director and writer. His film, "Omar and Pete" premieres on PBS this Tuesday, September 13 on P.O.V. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.O.V. - The Hobart Shakespeareans . Interview with Filmmaker Mel Stuart | PBS Filmmaker Mel Stuart has been directing feature films, television shows and documentaries for over 40 years. Listen as he reflects on the making of "The Hobart Shakespeareans." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website