The Body Politic

In Baltimore, a young mayor fights to enact a bold plan to end chronic violence.
Filmmakers
Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Dawne Langford
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A teenage girl escapes a genocide and makes a meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom.

In Baltimore, a young mayor fights to enact a bold plan to end chronic violence.

Locals on an island paradise risk death to save the Philippines’ last ecological frontier. A co-production of POV and ITVS.

Kids learn to swim - and, in their lessons, we discover profound wisdom for all.

Ahmed must find a way to get his son’s remains back home to Morocco so he can say goodbye.

Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies “what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall...

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