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Pocahontas (character)
Pocahontas (character), also Matoaka in history, is Disney's 1995 animated heroine, daughter of Chief Powhatan, voiced by Irene Bedard and Judy Kuhn, famous for "Colors of the Wind" and criticized for romanticizing the historical figure.
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated sequel in which Pocahontas sails to England with John Rolfe to prevent war, voiced by Irene Bedard, Billy Zane, and Donal Gibson.
Poco Lee
Poco Lee (Iweh Pascal Odinaka, born 1996) is a Nigerian dancer, hypeman, and singer from Orlu, Imo State, raised in Ojo, Lagos. Known for the Zanku Legwork video with Zlatan Ibile, the Poco Dance, and introducing Portable to Olamide; distinct from the K-pop artist of the same name.
Pocoyo
Pocoyo (Pocoyó), Spanish preschool 3D CGI animated series created in 2002 by García Carsí, Cantolla, and Gallego, produced by Zinkia; minimalist white world, narrator Stephen Fry, BAFTA winner, sold to 150+ countries.
Pod Save America
Pod Save America is a liberal American politics podcast launched in January 2017 by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor.
Podaa Podi (போடா போடி)
Podaa Podi (போடா போடி), 2012 Tamil musical romantic comedy, Vignesh Shivan's directorial debut starring Silambarasan and debutant Varalaxmi Sarathkumar; released 13 November 2012 for Diwali opposite Thuppakki, set in London, music by Dharan Kumar, mixed reviews.
Podcast
Podcast: episodic internet audio or video distributed via RSS feeds for subscription and automatic download. Term coined by Ben Hammersley (2004); first show Christopher Lydon's Radio Open Source (2003); U.S. audience at record highs and shifting to video, led by YouTube.
Poe Dameron
Poe Dameron, also called the Resistance's best pilot, is a Star Wars sequel trilogy character played by Oscar Isaac: a Yavin 4-born ace, former spice runner, Leia's surrogate son, and eventual Resistance general at Exegol.
Poesía en Voz Alta
Poesía en Voz Alta is a Mexican poetry-and-theater project founded in 1956 under UNAM by Jaime García Terrés and Héctor Mendoza, active as a theater group until 1963.
Poetic Justice (film)
Poetic Justice is a 1993 American romantic drama directed and written by John Singleton, starring Janet Jackson in her film debut and Tupac Shakur in a road-trip romance.
Poetic License (film)
Poetic License is a 2025 American comedy, the feature directorial debut of Maude Apatow, written by Raffi Donatich, starring Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman, and Andrew Barth Feldman; premiered at TIFF 2025, later acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for 2027.
Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Peri poietikes), a two-book treatise of which the comedy book is lost, analyzes poetry as mimesis, defines tragedy by six parts with plot first, and ties tragic effect to catharsis through pity and fear.
Poetry (시) (2010 film)
Poetry (시, Shi) is Lee Chang-dong's 2010 South Korean drama about Mija, a grandmother with early Alzheimer's who joins a poetry class while her grandson is implicated in a schoolgirl's death. It won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2010 and starred Yoon Jeong-hee in her comeback.
Poetry slam
Poetry slam: competitive performance poetry event founded by Marc Kelly Smith in Chicago (Get Me High Lounge 1984, Green Mill 1986); audience judges score 0-10, three-minute limit, 0-30 totals; National Poetry Slam since 1990.
Pogaru (ಪೋಗರು)
Pogaru (ಪೊಗರು), also released dubbed as Seema Thimiru in Tamil, is a 2021 Kannada action drama directed by Nanda Kishore, starring Dhruva Sarja and Rashmika Mandanna, released 19 February 2021, first big-budget Kannada film post-COVID, later cut after Brahmin community objections.
Pogumidam Vegu Thooramillai (போகுமிடம் வேகு தூரமில்லை)
Pogumidam Vegu Thooramillai (போகுமிடம் வேகு தூரமில்லை) is a 2024 Tamil road drama directed by debutant Michael K Raja, starring Vimal as mortuary driver Kumar and Karunas as koothu artist Nalinamoorthy, released 23 August 2024, streaming on Prime Video.
Poh Si Teng
Poh Si Teng, Malaysian-born (Penang) documentary filmmaker and journalist in New York; founder of Tiny Boxer Films. Producer of Oscar-nominated St. Louis Superman, Emmy-winning Patrice: The Movie, and director of the 2026 Sundance debut feature American Doctor about US doctors in Gaza.
Poi (performance art)
Poi (performance art) is a Māori art from Aotearoa New Zealand: weighted balls on cords swung in circular patterns, traditionally a male wrist-training tool for combat, now a women-led kapa haka discipline and a global flow art in fire, LED, and practice forms.
Point Blank (1967 film)
Point Blank (1967) is John Boorman's neo-noir revenge thriller starring Lee Marvin as Walker, left for dead on Alcatraz; adapted from Westlake's The Hunter, 92 minutes, MGM, released 30 August 1967.
Point Blank (2019 film)
Point Blank (2019) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Joe Lynch, a remake of Fred Cavayé's French film À bout portant, starring Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, and Marcia Gay Harden, released July 12, 2019.
Point Break
Point Break (1991) is Kathryn Bigelow's action film in which FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) infiltrates surfing bank robbers, the Ex-Presidents, led by Bodhi (Patrick Swayze); originally titled Riders on the Storm, remade in 2015, sequel series planned.
Point Break (2015 film)
Point Break (2015) is Ericson Core's remake of the 1991 cult action film, starring Luke Bracey as FBI recruit Johnny Utah and Édgar Ramírez as Bodhi. Released December 25, 2015 by Warner Bros., it grossed $15.6 million in the US and scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Point of No Return (1993 film)
Point of No Return (The Assassin) is John Badham's 1993 American remake of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, starring Bridget Fonda as Maggie, a condemned killer retrained as a government assassin; it grossed $30 million domestically.
Point of Order
Point of Order! is a 1964 documentary by Emile de Antonio condensing 188 hours of kinescopes of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings into 97 narration-free minutes, ending with Welch's decency rebuke.
Point-of-view shot
Point-of-view shot (POV shot, subjective camera): a film technique placing the camera at a character's eyeline so viewers see what the character sees, typically within a gaze/object/gaze three-shot structure; distinct from the direct-to-camera subjective shot.
Pointe shoe
Pointe shoe: satin ballet shoe with a rigid toe box and shank enabling dancing en pointe; first danced fully by Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide (1832); professionals use 100-120 pairs per season.
Pointe technique
Pointe technique (sur les pointes) is classical ballet dancing on the tips of the toes in stiffened pointe shoes, debuted on stage by Brugnoli in 1823 and Taglioni's La Sylphide (1832), with loads up to 12 times body weight and strict readiness criteria.
Pointless
Pointless: British BBC One quiz show (first aired 24 August 2009, BBC Two) hosted by Alexander Armstrong, where teams of two seek obscure correct answers scored against a 100-person survey; pointless answers score 0.
Poison (1991 film)
Poison (1991) is Todd Haynes's feature debut, an 85-minute experimental drama intercutting three Genet-inspired tales (Hero, Horror, Homo), Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, NEA-funded, and a landmark of New Queer Cinema.
Poison 2
Poison 2 is the 2020 second season of ZEE5's Hindi crime thriller Poison, directed by Vishal Pandya, starring Aftab Shivdasani (Aditya/Jaiveer) and Raai Laxmi; 11 episodes about revenge around a Goa racecourse, released 16 October 2020.