Editing Point-of-view shot (section)

==Notable examples==
In making 1927's ''[[Napoléon (1927 film)|Napoléon]]'', director [[Abel Gance]] wrapped a camera and much of the lens in sponge padding so that it could be punched by other actors to portray the leading character's point of view during a fist fight, part of a larger [[snowball fight]] between schoolboys including young [[Napoleon]]. Gance wrote in the technical scenario that the camera "defends itself as if it were Bonaparte himself. It is in the fortress and fights back. It clambers on the wall of snow and jumps down, as if it were human. A punch in the lens. Arms at the side of the camera as if the camera itself had arms. Camera K falls on the ground, struggles, gets up." In the scenario, "Camera K" refers to Gance's main photographer, [[Jules Kruger]], who wore the camera mounted to a breastplate strapped to his chest for these shots.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brownlow |first=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Brownlow |title=Napoleon: Abel Gance's Classic Film |edition=1st |location=New York |publisher=Knopf |year=1983 |isbn=9780394533940 |pages=56–57, 76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HeGAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Camera+K%22 |access-date=2 September 2013}}</ref>

POV shots were used extensively by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] for various narrative effects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panix.com/~sallitt/intrarealism.html|title=Point of View and "Intrarealism" in Hitchcock|access-date=12 March 2014|first=Daniel|last= Sallitt}}</ref>{{clarify|date=March 2015}}

In ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' (1931), director [[Rouben Mamoulian]] uses a beginning point-of-view shot.
 
The long running British sitcom ''[[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]]'' is filmed entirely in point-of-view shots.

The film [[Friday the 13th (1980 film)|''Friday the 13th'']] often showed the killer's perspective, and the killer was not revealed until the end. Horror and thriller movies often use POV to make the audience see only what one character sees, to add suspense.

The film ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)]]'' (1991) contains a large number of shots shown from Clarice Starling's ([[Jodie Foster]]) POV, in which other characters often look at and talk directly into the camera lens.

''[[The Plainclothesman]]'', an early US television series, assumed the title character's POV.

''[[Enter the Void]]'' (2009) by [[Gaspar Noé]] is shot from the first-person viewpoint, although in an unusual way, since most of the movie involves an [[out-of-body experience]].

The action film ''[[Hardcore Henry]]'' (2015) consists entirely of POV shots, presenting events from the perspective of the title character, in the style of a [[first-person shooter]] video game.

Nearly the entire film ''[[Maniac (2012 film)|Maniac]]'' is shot from the murderer's point of view, with his face being shown only in reflections and occasionally in the third person.

The documentary ''[[I Didn't See You There]]'' (2022) is shot from the physical perspective of director Reid Davenport, largely from his electric wheelchair. The film expands the scope of point-of-view cinema towards a disabled aesthetic generated by Davenport's embodiment.