Point of View: Season 27
Season 27 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Point of View Season 26.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 27 Progress Shield
When I Walk
Jun 23, 2014 · 60 min
The Season 27 premiere features Jason DaSilva's "When I Walk," in which the filmmaker chronicles his life for five years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 25. By
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Jun 30, 2014 · 60 min
A profile of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American social activist in Detroit who has spent much of her adult life fighting for civil rights and female equality.
My Way to Olympia
Jul 7, 2014 · 60 min
Filmmaker Niko von Glasow profiles participants at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, including a one-handed Norwegian table tennis player, the Rwandan sitting volleyball team, a
Getting Back to Abnormal
Jul 14, 2014 · 60 min
The changed realities of post-Katrina New Orleans, including a population that is less African-American and less poor than before the storm, are examined in this documentary, which
Dance for Me
Jul 21, 2014 · 60 min
The world of professional ballroom dancing in Denmark, where participants often look beyond the country's borders for the perfect partner, is examined. The documentary follows Egor
Fallen City
Jul 28, 2014 · 60 min
After Beichuan, China was destroyed in an earthquake, buildings are rebuilt more quickly than the community. Official Selection of Sundance 2013.
15 to Life: Kenneth's Story
Aug 4, 2014 · 60 min
The story of a 15-year old sentenced to four life sentences. Does society benefit from incarcerating young teens to a lifetime in prison?
A World Not Ours
Aug 18, 2014 · 60 min
A family's experience living in a Lebanese refugee camp for multiple generations. Love and family are tinged with desperation. Official Selection of the 2013 Berlin International F
Big Men
Aug 25, 2014 · 60 min
Explorers the world of backroom negotiations and deal making in Ghana's oil business.
After Tiller
Sep 1, 2014 · 60 min
The story of the four abortion doctors that remained in Wichita, Kansas after the assassination of George Tiller in 2009.
The Genius of Marian
Sep 8, 2014 · 60 min
Pam White and her family struggle to retain her memories and life by recording their interactions in the face of an Alzheimer diagnoses.
Koch
Sep 22, 2014 · 60 min
The mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, Ed Koch fought crime and financial difficulties during a difficult period for the City of New York.
The Act of Killing
Oct 7, 2014 · 60 min
Joshua Oppenheimer visits men accused of playing a key role in the killing of over one-million Indonesians in 1965. Initially, the men explain their actions as patriotic and necess