5.1/107 votes#1 - And She Could Be Next, Part 1
Season 33 Episode 1 - Aired 6/29/2020
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
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7.0/107 votes#2 - And She Could Be Next, Part 2
Season 33 Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2020
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized
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NaN/100 votes#3 - We Are the Radical Monarchs
Season 33 Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/2020
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Follow the group as they earn badges for completing units on such subjects as being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment and disability justice.
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8.1/107 votes#4 - Advocate
Season 33 Episode 4 - Aired 7/27/2020
Meet Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, a political firebrand who is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate" for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently.
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7.3/1018 votes#5 - Chez Jolie Coiffure
Season 33 Episode 5 - Aired 8/3/2020
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
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- 6.5/106 votes
#6 - About Love
Season 33 Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/2020
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.
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- 6.2/106 votes
#7 - Portraits and Dreams
Season 33 Episode 7 - Aired 9/7/2020
Photographs taken by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s, their lives since then, and the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.
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#8 - Love Child
Season 33 Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/2020
A young couple flees Iran with their son, Mani, seeking asylum in Turkey so they can start a new life.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - In My Blood It Runs
Season 33 Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/2020
Ten-year-old Aboriginal Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages.Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education. We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures and shares his truths.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Our Time Machine
Season 33 Episode 10 - Aired 9/28/2020
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
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#11 - The Infiltrators
Season 33 Episode 11 - Aired 10/5/2020
Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a for-profit detention centre.
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#12 - Softie
Season 33 Episode 12 - Aired 10/12/2020
Political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, but learns that conducting a clean campaign against corrupt opponents is increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone.
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#13 - The Mole Agent
Season 33 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/2021
An investigator poses as a new resident in a retirement home after a family grows concerned for their mother's well-being.
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#14 - Through the Night
Season 33 Episode 14 - Aired 5/10/2021
The stories of two working mothers and a child care provider whose lives intersect at a 24-hour day care in New Rochelle, N.Y.
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The Best Episodes of POV Season 33
Every episode of POV Season 33 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 33!
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...
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Network:PBS
Season 33 Ratings Summary
"And She Could Be Next, Part 1" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 33. It scored 5.1/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/29/2020. This episode is rated 1.9 points higher than the second-best, "And She Could Be Next, Part 2".