P.O.V.

Season 29 Episode 12: Thank You For Playing

32 SeasonsOct 24, 2016NR1h8

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.

Season 29 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Return

Aired: May 23, 2016

Families, attorneys and judges struggle with California's decision to amend i...

Episode 2 Of Men and War

2. Of Men and War

Aired: May 30, 2016

At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and A...

Episode 3 The Look of Silence

3. The Look of Silence

Aired: Jun 27, 2016

An optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965...

Episode 4 Pervert Park

4. Pervert Park

Aired: Jul 11, 2016

Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all ba...

Episode 5 Iris

Aired: Aug 1, 2016

Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, t...

Episode 6 The Birth of Saké

6. The Birth of Saké

Aired: Sep 5, 2016

An escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginati...

Episode 7 All the Difference

7. All the Difference

Aired: Sep 5, 2016

Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artis...

Episode 8 Kingdom of Shadows

8. Kingdom of Shadows

Aired: Sep 12, 2016

The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American ...

Episode 9 From This Day Forward

9. From This Day Forward

Aired: Sep 19, 2016

Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard...

Episode 10 Hooligan Sparrow

10. Hooligan Sparrow

Aired: Oct 10, 2016

When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in...

Episode 11 Thank You for Playing

11. Thank You for Playing

Aired: Oct 17, 2016

The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maveric...

Episode 12 Thank You For Playing

12. Thank You For Playing

Aired: Oct 24, 2016

When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has ...

Episode 13 What Tomorrow Brings

13. What Tomorrow Brings

Aired: Oct 31, 2016

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes...

Creators

Beth Murphy

Beth Murphy Director

Info about P.O.V.

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary