POV Shorts
The best and boldest independent short films, curated by America's longest-running documentary
POV Shorts: You Are My Sunshine
Three stories about care and connection.
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POV Shorts: You Are My Sunshine
POV Shorts: Our Motherland Fantasy Nightmare
Two families experience homeland violence across generations.
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POV Shorts: Our Motherland Fantasy Nightmare
POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million
A modern contemplation on the generational divide.
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POV Shorts: Happiness is £4 Million
Two stories from the heart of New York.
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POV Shorts: Take the A Train
A story of familial sacrifice and the bonds of brotherhood.
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POV Shorts: Le Frère
Slices of life from opposite sides of the world--where the everyday veers into comedy.
POV Shorts: Comic Culture
A South Korean community is torn apart by a disaster. The victims’ families seek justice.
POV Shorts: In The Absence
Three stories reflecting the many faces of love through memory, community and family.
POV Shorts: Cherish
One man runs a marathon in hopes of lifting the veil of racial terror in his town.
POV Shorts: The Changing Same
A plague of North American grey squirrels threatens the beloved British red squirrel.
Nutkin's Last Stand
Black women create a space for freedom through the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition.
You Can't Stop Spirit
A filmmaker looks for greater meaning from the sheep living where his parents are buried.
Some Kind of Intimacy
A perilous swim from China to Hong Kong parallels a new generation's quest for freedom.
Freedom Swimmer
Call Me Anytime, I'm Not Leaving the House
Two Ukrainian sisters separated by distance and war and a call that could be their last.
Call Me Anytime, I'm Not Leaving the House
A portrait of the life and work of Jamaican New Yorker and visual artist Michael Richards.
Are You Down?
The Beautiful Colors of Jeremy Sicile-Kira
Jeremy Sicile-Kira uses painting to transcend his disability and communicate his dreams.
The Beautiful Colors of Jeremy Sicile-Kira
Meryland Gonzales, a twelve-year-old boxer trains to be the 2019 Junior Olympics champion.
Team Meryland
Kathleen reflects on her experience as a hairdresser while we bear witness to her work.
The Hairdresser
A story about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa.
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
A nonbinary trans boy is found between his immigrant family and living happily ever after.
To The Future, with Love
Un adolescente trans entrapado entre la lealtad a su familia inmigrante y sus sueños.
Al Futuro, con Amor
StoryCorps Shorts: September 12
A man reflects on feeling responsible for the September 11 attacks.
StoryCorps Shorts: September 12
StoryCorps Shorts: Father Mychal's Blessing
Remembering the September 11 victim who died praying for others.
StoryCorps Shorts: Father Mychal's Blessing
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred mountain.
Standing Above the Clouds
In the 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing -- called the Hayride.
Another Hayride
A daughter searches for her mother's birth parents in Taiwan, unraveling complex tensions.
