7.2/106 votes#1 - The Return
Season 29 Episode 1 - Aired 5/23/2016
An unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law seen through the eyes of those on the front lines – prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down, reentry providers helping navigate complex transitions, and attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law.
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7.2/105 votes#2 - Of Men and War
Season 29 Episode 2 - Aired 5/30/2016
At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on their paths to recovery as they attempt to make peace with their pasts, their loved ones and themselves.
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8.7/1012 votes#3 - The Look of Silence
Season 29 Episode 3 - Aired 6/27/2016
An optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. He confronts them while testing their eyesight and demands they accept responsibility.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Pervert Park
Season 29 Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2016
Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Iris
Season 29 Episode 5 - Aired 8/1/2016
Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse
Season 29 Episode 6 - Aired 9/5/2016
An escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginations. An experience for smartphones composed of a suite of interconnected nonfiction stories, EXIT dares users to entertain a shocking possibility: that mankind may survive (and even thrive) beyond the challenges that await us in the future.
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#7 - The Birth of Saké
Season 29 Episode 7 - Aired 9/5/2016
Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six months in nearly monastic isolation as they follow an age-old process to create saké, the nation's revered rice wine.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - All the Difference
Season 29 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/2016
The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly--and heroically--to life in All the Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Kingdom of Shadows
Season 29 Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/2016
Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico drug war. Witness the human side of the conflict through the eyes of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, an activist nun in Mexico and a former Texas smuggler.
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#10 - From This Day Forward
Season 29 Episode 10 - Aired 10/10/2016
When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon's wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents' marriage, and their family, survived intact.
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#11 - Hooligan Sparrow
Season 29 Episode 11 - Aired 10/17/2016
The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (aka Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to southern China as they seek justice in the case of six elementary school girls allegedly sexually abused by their principal.
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#12 - Thank You For Playing
Season 29 Episode 12 - Aired 10/24/2016
When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife begin documenting their emotional journey with a poetic video game. Follow Ryan and his family over two years creating "That Dragon, Cancer," which evolves from a cathartic exercise into a critically acclaimed work of art that sets the gaming industry abuzz.
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#13 - What Tomorrow Brings
Season 29 Episode 13 - Aired 10/31/2016
Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they dream of leading.
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The Best Episodes of POV Season 29
Every episode of POV Season 29 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 29!
Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
Season 29 Ratings Summary
"The Return" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 29. It scored 7.2/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/23/2016. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Of Men and War".