We’re gearing up for the year ahead and celebrating heritage holidays, the art of filmmaking, and the people whose lives inspire and enrich the world around us. Our curated digital collections bring together our most beloved films, from our recent seasons on POV and POV Shorts exemplifying selections we can’t stop thinking about.
Here’s what you can look forward to this February and March:
FEBRUARY COLLECTION
Featured Collection: Black History Month Collection Streaming through Feb 28
While February is short on days, it's long on films! Our Black History Month Collection, presented in partnership with our longtime partner and ally in the documentary field, Black Public Media, shares incredible stories featuring Black voices, Black culture and brings Black history to the forefront. This expansive collection celebrates and illuminates a range of themes from ambitious political campaigns that take us to Zimbabwe (President) and Baltimore (The Body Politic), to in-depth looks at the unique circumstances around two high achieving schools: Accepted and Let the Little Light Shine.
Experience films that shine on light on how community both empowers and unifies people across generations. The People Could Fly, Songs of Black Folk, Shut Up and Paintand You Can’t Stop Spiritshow people finding joy in creative self-expression and traditions. A Story of Bones, FreshwaterandAfter Sherman shows what happens when collective history intersects with personal experiences to reveal how the past continues to profoundly shape contemporary life. Head Over the Walland get an immersive look at how one woman carves out a place for herself in the pit crew of NASCAR. While not exhaustive, this collection features some of our favorite titles and will enrich every American's Black History Month observance.
Featured Collection:
Celebrating Cinematography Collection Streaming through Feb 28
While we know you love our POV films and admire our alumni directors and producers, now it is time to honor other unseen forces behind the camera with our Celebrating Cinematography Collection. Using technical prowess and creative solutions, the cameraperson and their crew are responsible for capturing the pivotal moments that alight these unforgettable stories on the big and small screen.
The word cinematic comes to mind with the dreamlike vision of Faya Dayiand the lyrical camerawork of King Coalwhose artfully rendered shots take viewers into a suspended world of beauty and timelessness without sacrificing the urgency of the story. After Sherman intertwines interviews, animation, home movies and meditative shots that move fluidly within spaces as the filmmaker considers the weight of history as a Gullah Geechee descendent. Taking place inside conflict zones, Midwivesutilizes a cinema vérité approach that brings viewers inside a makeshift medical clinic in Myanmar, a region torn apart by warring factions. In Ukraine, with their lives upended by the Russian invasion, the protagonists in Porcelain War pick up the camera to give a first-hand look at their lives as artists and soldiers as they fight to defend their nation as well as their culture.I Didn’t See You Thereoffers a literal ‘POV’ (point of view) to viewers by placing the camera into the perspective of a disabled filmmaker. This collection highlights the many ways to present a story.
Featured Collections: Women's History Month &
Transgender Visibility Day
Streaming March 1- 31
In March, our Women’s History Month Collection brings together stories about a diversity of women whose leadership, fearlessness, creativity, and resourcefulness ignite the screen. From intimate family stories likeChildren of the MistandAurora’s Sunrisethat show lives in flux during seemingly insurmountable circumstances, to Igualada: Refusing to Know Your PlaceandTwice Colonizedboth offering portraits of women speaking truth to power and carving out places for themselves in the world. These films are sure to inspire conversation and dialogue across generations.
Also during March, we'll highlight Transgender Visibility andcelebrate trans stories all month with a slate of films about remarkable individuals who are blazing trails of their own as they seek autonomy and the simple right to exist amidst a world seeking to tell them who they should be. Including POV Shorts stand outs, JardinesandMnM, offering intimate portraits of people whose lives are forever changed by the bonds of friendship and chosen family. Part of POV Season 38, Break the Game, considers the perils of celebrity and explores toxic behavior within the online gaming community through the experiences of Narcissa Wright, a world-famous Legend of Zelda high scorer who comes out as transgender. Catch these films and more in our curated collections that foreground people whose radical acts of dreaming, self-determination, and living authentically against all odds proves the journey is as important as the destination.
February America ReFramed Encores
An unflinching exploration of identity, fatherhood, life, and death.The Death of My Two Fathersfollows filmmaker Sol Guy as he confronts the legacy of his late father and the truths we inherit and pass on. After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol's children, The Death Of My Two Fathers reveals the complexities of identity, racial trauma, and fatherhood -- as well as the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality.
Big Chief T is a high school senior and the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. During COVID-19, he and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. Through haute couture, movement, and words, Big Chief, Black Hawkcelebrates the beauty and resilience of “the culture,” even in the face of crisis and change.
Kendra, a Native adoptee, grew up assimilated in a loving, upper middle-class white family with little connection to her heritage. Now, as an adult with a family of her own, she embarks on a seven year journey to find her biological mother, April, and return to her Lummi homeland. Together, Kendra and April, also a Native adoptee, navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in. Daughter of a Lost Birddocuments the complex process of finding oneself in the context of a history filled with both trauma and resiliency.
On the barrier island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the island like their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, did as a child. As Sapelo’s storyteller and elder matriarch, Cornelia works to preserve what remains of this unique community established by her ancestors as it is encroached and transformed by outside property developers. With poetic power, Sapelo captures the story of a family and community on an island saturated with an ancestral history whose beauty demands preservation.
Sapelowill have its encore broadcast on March 19, 2026 @ 8/pm ET / 7pm CT on the GBH or for free online.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Perspective Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
