How do we find home when borders—physical, political, and personal—constantly shift beneath our feet? This Hispanic Heritage Month collection captures resilience across landscapes of identity and belonging. In rural Mexico, mothers become environmental investigators when children die from contaminated water, while Arizona volunteers search tirelessly for migrants lost in the desert. Two friends transform their Texas-Mexico border town into a creative wonderland during their final summer, as displaced queer asylum seekers contemplate uncertain futures in America. A filmmaker documents how oil economies shape her West Texas hometown, while in Oakland, a formerly incarcerated gardener cultivates new roots after sixteen years. Through intimate portraits, we witness a wife caring for her chronically ill husband and a nonbinary trans teen navigating Guatemalan family expectations alongside dreams of self-determination. These stories reveal how Latino communities create home not as a place, but as a practice of love, memory, and resistance that transcends borders and generations.
The complete Hispanic Heritage Monthcollection is available from September 15 through October 15 on pov.org and the PBS App.
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On America’s highways, long-haul truck drivers face isolation, exploitation, and a system stacked against them. At the center is Desiree Wood, a trucker and labor organizer who leads a community of women drivers demanding dignity, safety, and fair pay. DRIVER is a powerful story of resilience, solidarity, and workers pushing back against an industry built on their labor.
When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a hydrogeologist to investigate their water supply. The discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community backlash and government denial. As they uncover how industrial farming is tapping ancient, contaminated aquifers, their fight for justice shows the personal cost of exposing environmental threats.
In a remote Siberian coal mining city, residents discover deadly gases seeping from an abandoned mine into their homes. Local journalist Natalia Zubkova begins investigating, but her viral reporting triggers an aggressive government cover-up. Facing mounting pressure from authorities, she risks everything to expose an environmental catastrophe that threatens her entire community.
With his hometown ravaged by the opioid epidemic, attorney Paul Farrell Jr. takes on pharmaceutical giants to secure funds for recovery efforts. When his innovative legal strategy catches national attention, the case transforms into America’s largest civil litigation. As stakes escalate, Farrell fights for justice—not just for his community, but for a nation in crisis.
Amidst the brutal Russian invasion, three Ukrainian artists find creative inspiration and resilience as they defend their culture and their country. Choosing to stay behind they are armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. As the war intensifies, they document themselves to capture an idyllic past, uncertain present, and hopeful future.
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.
A Ghanaian MIT alum follows four African students at his alma mater as they strive to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves. Co-produced with ITVS and co-presented with Black Public Media and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative from The WNET Group.
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