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Hummingbirds

Bordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.

07/01/2024 | Expires 09/01/2025 | Rating TV-14

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Hummingbirds

Season 37 Episode 2 | 1h 15m 25sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

Bordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.

In Hummingbirds, Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.

07/01/2024 | Expires 09/01/2025 | Rating TV-14

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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, the Open Society Foundations and the...

POV

Hummingbirds

Season 37 Episode 2 | 1h 15m 25sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

In Hummingbirds, Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.

07/01/2024 | Expires 09/01/2025 | Rating TV-14

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