P.O.V. Episode Guide

Episode Guide

P.O.V.: Season 22 (2009)

• Season 22 Episode 13: The Way We Get By

  Senior citizens Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet have greeted nearly 800,000 American troops in Bangor, Maine.

• Season 22 Episode 12: Bronx Princess

  A Bronx-bred teenager with Ghanaian parents, Rocky Otoo rebels against her mother's rules and flees to her father, a chief in Ghana.

• Season 22 Episode 11: The Principal Story

  Elementary school principals Tresa Dunbar and Kerry Purcell face similar challenges at their Chicago and Springfield, Ill., schools.

• Season 22 Episode 10: English Surgeon

  British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has traveled to Ukraine for 15 years to care for patients who have been left to die.

• Season 22 Episode 9: Ella es el Matador (She Is the Matador)

  Two female matadors -- Mari Paz Vega and Eva Florencia -- share a passion for bullfighting.

• Season 22 Episode 8: This Way Up

  Social, economic and religious barriers result from the security wall being constructed by Israel on the West Bank.

• Season 22 Episode 7: P.O.V. Shorts Program

  'Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall'; 'Nutkin's Last Stand'; '34x25x36' and 'City of Cranes.

• Season 22 Episode 6: Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go

  Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children.

• Season 22 Episode 5: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

  Thavisouk Phrasavath's family escapes Laos during the Vietnam War and settles in America.

• Season 22 Episode 4: The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court

  The International Criminal Court is the first permanent court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.

• Season 22 Episode 3: Life.Support.Music

  Guitarist Jason Crigler suffers a near-fatal brain hemorrhage in 2004.

• Season 22 Episode 2: Beyond Hatred

  The family of a murdered French gay man seeks justice while coming to terms with its unthinkable loss.

• Season 22 Episode 1: New Muslim Cool

  Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez converts to Islam and starts a new religious community in Pittsburgh.

P.O.V.: Season 21 (2008)

• Season 21 Episode 15: Inheritance

  Monika Hertwig, the daughter of Nazi commandant Amon Goeth, meets Helen Jonas, a woman enslaved by Goeth at the Plaszow concentration camp.

• Season 21 Episode 14: Soldiers of Conscience

  Eight U.S. soldiers discuss the tension between spiritual values and military orders.

• Season 21 Episode 13: Up the Yangtze

  China's massive Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in history, alters the landscape for people living along the Yangtze River.

• Season 21 Episode 12: In the Family

  Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick reaches out to other women who have tested positive for the breast cancer gene.

• Season 21 Episode 11: Critical Condition

  Four critically ill Americans discover the problems being uninsured can cause, such as losing their jobs, health, home and savings.

• Season 21 Episode 10: Calavera Highway

  While bringing their mother's ashes to south Texas, two brothers reunite with five other brothers and try to put together their family's history.

• Season 21 Episode 9: The Judge and the General

  Chilean judge Juan Guzmán's criminal cases against Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

• Season 21 Episode 8: Belarusian Waltz

  A performance artist stages public stunts mocking Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

• Season 21 Episode 7: Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

  A 1969 documentary features performance footage of Johnny Cash with his wife, June Carter Cash, and in a rare duet with Bob Dylan.

• Season 21 Episode 6: Campaign

  A man is chosen by Japan's Liberal Democratic Party to run for a seat on the suburban city council, even though he has no political experience or supporters.

• Season 21 Episode 5: 9 Star Hotel

  A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in.

  Next on: Saturday 12th December 3:00am EST - GPTV (PBS)
• Season 21 Episode 4: The Last Conquistador

  Sculptor John Houser faces moral implications of his bronze statue honoring Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

• Season 21 Episode 3: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez

  U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border kill 18-year-old Esequiel Hernández Jr., mistaking him for a drug runner; narrator Tommy Lee Jones.

• Season 21 Episode 2: Election Day

  American voters of all kinds make their votes count on Nov. 2, 2004.

• Season 21 Episode 1: Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North

  Filmmaker Katrina Browne traces the Triangle Trade -- from her hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba.

P.O.V.: Season 20 (2007)

• Season 20 Episode 7`: Following Sean

  Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck searches for Sean, a free-spirited child he profiled in a student film 30 years ago.

• Season 20 Episode 14: Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

  Playwright Tony Kushner won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for 'Angels in America.'

• Season 20 Episode 13: 49 Up

  A group of adults whose lives and ambitions have been documented since they were children embark on their 49th birthdays.

  Next on: Friday 11th December 3:00am EST - WNET (PBS)
• Season 20 Episode 12: Lumo

  Lumo Sinai awaits reconstructive surgery after being violently raped by soldiers in eastern Congo.

• Season 20 Episode 11: The Camden 28

  Four Catholic priests and a Lutheran minister were among the 28 people arrested for protesting the Vietnam War at a Camden, N.J., draft board office in 1971.

• Season 20 Episode 10: Made in L.A.

  Three Latina garment workers fight for better working conditions, waging a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.

• Season 20 Episode 9: Libby, Montana

  Hundreds of people are sick or have died from exposure to asbestos in the small town of Libby, Mont.

• Season 20 Episode 8: Arctic Son

  A man who keeps the traditions of the Gwitchin First Nation in Old Crow, Yukon, reunites with his son, who was raised in Seattle.

• Season 20 Episode 6: Prison Town, USA

  The small town of Susanville, Calif., tries to revitalize its economy by building a prison.

• Season 20 Episode 5: The Chances of the World Changing

  Writer Richard Ogust dedicates much of his time and resources to rescue hundreds of endangered turtles.

• Season 20 Episode 4: Revolution '67

  Activists Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James and other officials provide insight into the black urban rebellions of the 1960s.

• Season 20 Episode 3: Standing Silent Nation

  Federal agents raid Alex White Plume and his Lakota family's fields in South Dakota where they had planted industrial hemp.

• Season 20 Episode 2: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

  The six members of the Refugee All Stars band come together after civil war forces them from their homes in Sierra Leone.

• Season 20 Episode 1: Rain in a Dry Land

  Relief agencies transport two Somali Bantu families to the U.S., where they confront racism, poverty and culture shock.

P.O.V.: Season 19 (2006)

• Season 19 Episode 13: My Country, My Country

  An Iraqi medical doctor and Sunni political candidate pushes for democracy in his country and an end to the violence there.

• Season 19 Episode 12: No Bigger Than a Minute

  Filmmaker Steven Delano confronts misperceptions about little people while discussing the isolation he felt as a teenager and his strategies to fit in.

• Season 19 Episode 11: Maquilapolis (City of Factories)

  Two women confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos in Tijuana.

• Season 19 Episode 10: Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

  Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris shares the story of his stepfather, Benjamin Pule Leinaeng, who was among the first wave of exiles to leave South Africa in 1960.

• Season 19 Episode 9: The Boys of Baraka

  Four boys enter the strict Baraka School in Kenya, an educational program which removes American boys from low-performing public schools and unstable home environments.

• Season 19 Episode 8: Waging a Living

  Four low-wage earners struggle everyday to try to raise their families out of poverty.

• Season 19 Episode 7: Lomax the Songhunter

  Alan Lomax devoted his life to recording the world's folk songs.

• Season 19 Episode 6: Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)

  Aspiring composer Magdiel must choose between trafficking drugs or crossing the border illegally into the United States.

• Season 19 Episode 5: The Tailenders

  Global Recording Network distributes Bible story recordings to people in isolated regions and displaced migrant workers around the world.

• Season 19 Episode 4: The Fall of Fujimori

  As president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori fights a war on terrorism until accusations of corruption cause him to flee to his native Japan.

• Season 19 Episode 3: Tintin and I

  Insecurities and anxieties drive 'The Adventures of Tintin' creator Hergé.

• Season 19 Episode 2: Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

  As many as 4,000 teams enter, but only 49 remain to compete in Japan's national high-school baseball tournament each year.

• Season 19 Episode 1: No More Tears Sister

  Human rights activist Dr. Rajani Thiranagama was assassinated at the age of 35.

P.O.V.: Season 18 (2005)

• Season 18 Episode 12: Omar & Pete

  Two friends who have been in and out of prison over the years hope to change their lives for the better.

• Season 18 Episode 11: The Hobart Shakespeareans

  Teacher Rafe Esquith leads his fifth-grade students through a tough curriculum which culminates with each student performing in a full-length Shakespeare play.

• Season 18 Episode 10: Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust

  An Orthodox Jewish father and his sons travel to Poland to find the family who hid their grandfather for more than two years during World War II.

• Season 18 Episode 9: Bright Leaves

  Filmmaker Ross McElwee investigates the allure of cigarettes, from loss and preservation to addiction and denial.

• Season 18 Episode 8: Hardwood

  Hubert Davis explores the problems that have divided his family; a Vietnam veteran recaptures his war experience for his children.

• Season 18 Episode 7: In the Realms of the Unreal

  Artist Henry Darger dealt with his wounds of childhood abandonment and abuse by producing a novel on the exploits of the Vivian Girls.

• Season 18 Episode 6: The Self-Made Man

  Bob Stern's daughter tells his story after he takes his own life upon learning he is terminally ill.

• Season 18 Episode 5: The Brooklyn Connection

  A businessman raised $30 million during the Kosovo War, purchased weapons across the United States, and shipped them to Albania to be smuggled into Kosovo.

• Season 18 Episode 4: The Fire Next Time

  Flathead Valley, Mont. residents deal with local tensions due to rising unemployment.

• Season 18 Episode 3: Street Fight

  The campaign of 32-year-old Cory Booker, a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law graduate running for mayor of Newark, N.J.

• Season 18 Episode 2: Big Enough

  Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film 'Little People.'

• Season 18 Episode 1: The Education of Shelby Knox

  Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.

P.O.V.: Season 17 (2004 - 2005)

• Season 17 Episode 13: Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed

  Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

• Season 17 Episode 11: A Panther in Africa

  Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.

• Season 17 Episode 10: Freedom Machines

  Advancements in technology change the lives of disabled Americans.

• Season 17 Episode 8: Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story

  Ed 'Speedo' Jagger channels his frustrations while driving for demolition derby.

• Season 17 Episode 7: Every Mother's Son

  Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.

• Season 17 Episode 6: A Family Undertaking

  Families forgo a typical funeral to care for their loved ones at home.

• Season 17 Episode 5: Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style

  Candidates in Texas run for state representative and governor.

• Season 17 Episode 4: Thirst

  Activists object to corporations that buy water supplies.

• Season 17 Episode 3: War Feels Like War

  Journalists and photographers risk their lives to cover the war in Iraq.

• Season 17 Episode 2: Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas

  Bill Kassebaum becomes a candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives.

• Season 17 Episode 1: Farmingville

  Two Mexican day-laborers in Farmingville, N.Y., are the targets of a hate crime.

P.O.V.: Season 16 (2003 - 2004)

• Season 16 Episode 13: Love & Diane

  A former drug addict struggles to reconnect with her grown daughter.

• Season 16 Episode 12: What I Want My Words to Do to You

  Female inmates at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility struggle with their crimes and culpability during a writing workshop.

• Season 16 Episode 11: State of Denial

  The stories of six HIV-positive South Africans demonstrate the social stigma of AIDS and the unavailability of treatments.

• Season 16 Episode 10: Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam; The Sixth Section

  The experiences of Mexican-Americans participating in the Vietnam War; immigrants working in upstate New York raise money to help support their hometowns in Mexico.

• Season 16 Episode 9: Family Fundamentals

  Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.

• Season 16 Episode 8: West 47th Street

  Stories profile three people struggling with mental illness at Fountain House in New York.

• Season 16 Episode 7: American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i

  The hula dance tradition represents Hawaii's history and culture both on the islands and the mainland.

• Season 16 Episode 6: 90 Miles

  News clips, family photos and home movies depict the emotional journey of Cuban-born Juan Carlos Zaldivar's immigration to the United States.

• Season 16 Episode 5: The Flute Player

  Musician Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, travels to his native Cambodia to face his past.

• Season 16 Episode 4: Discovering Dominga

  Massacre survivor Denese Becker returns to her Guatemalan village on a journey of self-discovery and to find her roots.

• Season 16 Episode 3: Larry v. Lockney

  A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during random testing.

• Season 16 Episode 2: Georgie Girl

  Transsexual Georgina Beyer wins the 1999 election to New Zealand's Parliament.

• Season 16 Episode 1: Flag Wars

  A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.

P.O.V.: Season 15 (2002 - 2003)

• Season 15 Episode 12: Two Towns of Jasper

  The lynching of James Byrd Jr. results in trials in Jasper, Texas.

• Season 15 Episode 11: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

  Activist Bayard Rustin works for peace, racial equality and international human rights despite being beaten, imprisoned and denied leadership positions.

• Season 15 Episode 10: Afghanistan Year 1380

  Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan. (Dari, Italian and English with English subtitles)

• Season 15 Episode 9: Escuela

  Mexican-American sisters struggle with field work, education, migrating and citizenship.

• Season 15 Episode 8: Senorita Extraviada

  An investigation seeks to solve the rapes and murders of women since 1993 in Juarez, Mexico.

• Season 15 Episode 7: Mai's America

  A Vietnamese teen experiences life in rural Mississippi.

• Season 15 Episode 6: Sweet Old Song

  Romance develops between a 92-year-old fiddler from rural Tennessee and a 61-year-old fabric artist from Boston.

• Season 15 Episode 5: Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

  Residents of Norco, La., split over the possible links between sickness and the local oil refinery.

• Season 15 Episode 4: Refrigerator Mothers

  In the 1950s and '60s the term 'refrigerator mothers' referred to the belief that autism resulted from women failing to bond with their children.

• Season 15 Episode 3: Hybrid

  Archival footage and animation depict a family's relationship with a grandfather obsessed with corn.

• Season 15 Episode 2: Boomtown

  The Suquamish tribe sells fireworks near Seattle.

• Season 15 Episode 1: The Smith Family

  Mormons Steve and Kim Smith struggle to preserve their family and faith after discovering they are both HIV-positive.

P.O.V.: Season 14 (2001)

• Season 14 Episode 11: Promises

  Filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg interviews seven Palestinian and Israeli children about war, peace and growing up.

• Season 14 Episode 10: 5 Girls

  Chicago girls face the challenges of adolescence.

• Season 14 Episode 9: High School

  In Frederick Wiseman's 'High School,' Philadelphia teens experience the struggles of becoming adults in 1968.

• Season 14 Episode 8: Life and Debt

  An examination of the global economy shows the relationships between developed and developing nations.

• Season 14 Episode 7: In the Light of Reverence

  American Indians struggle to protect the sacred sites of Panther Meadows, Devils Tower and the Four Corners; narrators Peter Coyote and Tantoo Cardinal.

• Season 14 Episode 6: Take It From Me

  Working-class women struggle to get their families off public assistance.

• Season 14 Episode 5: True-Hearted Vixens

  Filmmaker Mylene Moreno depicts three women trying to become professional football players.

• Season 14 Episode 4: Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story

  A Japanese-American goes to the Supreme Court after his arrest for resisting forced internment during World War II.

• Season 14 Episode 3: My American Girls: A Dominican Story

  A Dominican family in the United States struggles with the rewards and costs of living the American dream.

• Season 14 Episode 2: The Sweetest Sound

  Filmmaker Alan Berliner explores the meanings and impacts of names.

• Season 14 Episode 1: Scout's Honor

  Steven Cozza campaigns to overturn a policy of the Boy Scouts of America regarding its leadership.

P.O.V.: Season 13 (2000)

• Season 13 Episode 10: First Person Plural

  A Korean-American woman unites her adoptive and biological families.

• Season 13 Episode 9: Live Free or Die

  A doctor's practice in New Hampshire tests community values.

• Season 13 Episode 8: KPFA on the Air

  Behind the scenes of a popular radio station.

• Season 13 Episode 7: American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land

  Filmmaker Jasmine Dellal profiles Gypsy culture.

• Season 13 Episode 6: Dreamland

  Gambling casinos are a temptation for residents of Las Vegas.

• Season 13 Episode 4: Blink

  Greg Withrow struggles with racial conflict and generations of hatred.

• Season 13 Episode 3: Stranger With a Camera

  In 1967 filmmaker Hugh O'Connor is murdered while shooting a documentary.

• Season 13 Episode 2: La Boda

  A couple get married.

• Season 13 Episode 1: Butterfly

  Julia Butterfly Hill climbs a redwood to save it from being cut down.

P.O.V.: Season 12 (1999 - 2000)

• Season 12 Episode 10: Well-Founded Fear

  The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

• Season 12 Episode 8: The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

  A boy, born to Puerto Rican revolutionaries, is sent to Mexico to be raised anonymously.

• Season 12 Episode 7: School Prayer: A Community at War

  A woman wants separation of church and state in her children's public school.

• Season 12 Episode 6: Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena

  Singer Selena's career and murder.

• Season 12 Episode 5: Rabbit in the Moon

  Filmmaker Emiko Omori records the feelings of Japanese-Americans who were forced into U.S. internment camps during World War II.

• Season 12 Episode 4: The Green Monster

  Art Arfons develops a supercharged automobile.

• Season 12 Episode 3: In My Corner

  Two teenagers seek refuge in a local gym.

• Season 12 Episode 2: Golden Threads

  Golden Threads is an international network for older lesbians.

P.O.V.: Season 11 (1998)

• Season 11 Episode 10: She Shorts

  Directors make short films about the female experience.

• Season 11 Episode 9: Sacrifice

  Burmese girls are lured into prostitution in Thailand.

• Season 11 Episode 8: The Vanishing Line

  Physician and filmmaker Maren Monsen examines medicine and death.

• Season 11 Episode 7: Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour

  Filmmaker Susan Stern explores the history and fantasy of the Barbie doll.

• Season 11 Episode 6: If I Can't Do It

  Arthur Campbell Jr. doesn't let disability interfere with independence.

• Season 11 Episode 5: Kelly Loves Tony

  Engaged Laotian-American teens record their struggles with pregnancy, career goals and adult responsibilities.

• Season 11 Episode 3: The Band

  Teens in a high-school band deal with life, love and hope.

• Season 11 Episode 2: Tobacco Blues

  Kentucky tobacco farmers deal with the cigarette controversy.

• Season 11 Episode 1: Baby It's You

  Filmmaker Anne Makepeace journeys through the complexities of fertility science.

P.O.V.: Season 10 (1997)

• Season 10 Episode 12: Acting Our Age

  Six women, 65 to 75, discuss family, sexuality, changing body image and death.

• Season 10 Episode 11: American Tongues

  Attitudes toward regional speech; winner of a 1987 Peabody Award.

• Season 10 Episode 8: Girls Like Us

  The lives of adolescent girls.

• Season 10 Episode 7: In Whose Honor?

  Debate concerns using American Indian names/symbols for sports team logos.

• Season 10 Episode 5: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

  The effects of Proposition 187 on immigrant education in California.

• Season 10 Episode 4: Jesse's Gone

  The effects of the murder of rap artist Jesse Hall.

• Season 10 Episode 3: A Healthy Baby Girl

  Filmmaker Judith Helfand documents her battle with cancer.

• Season 10 Episode 1: Nobody's Business

  The swirls of conflict and affection that bind families.

P.O.V.: Season 9 (1996)

• Season 9 Episode 11: Palante Siempre Palante! The Young Lords

  Interviews and archival footage chronicle Puerto Rican activists the Young Lords in the 1960s and '70s.

• Season 9 Episode 10: Taken for a Ride

  Jim Klein and Martha Olson explore an alleged General Motors' scheme to dismantle street car transportation in the 1930s.

• Season 9 Episode 9: Remembering Wei Yi-fang; Xich-lo

  A woman comes to terms with her race, culture and self; a woman returns to her ancestral homeland of Vietnam.

• Season 9 Episode 8: Just for the Ride

  The world of cowgirls and the women's rodeo in the '90s.

• Season 9 Episode 7: The Women Outside

  Filmmakers explore the lives of women working in brothels, bars and nightclubs around U.S. military bases in South Korea.

• Season 9 Episode 6: The Transformation

  A homeless HIV-positive transvestite undergoes change.

• Season 9 Episode 5: No Loans Today

  Lisanne Skyler profiles the ABC Loan Co., a black-owned pawnshop in Los Angeles.

• Season 9 Episode 3: A Litany for Survival: The Life & Work of Audre Lorde

  Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson chronicle the life of African-American poet Audre Lorde.

• Season 9 Episode 2: Personal Belongings

  Steven Bognar chronicles his father's 40-year search for identity and home.

• Season 9 Episode 1: Taking on the Kennedys

  Joshua Seftel profiles Kevin Vigilante's campaign to unseat Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).

P.O.V.: Season 8 (1995)

• Season 8 Episode 10: Leona's Sister Gerri

  Filmmaker Jane Gillooly unravels the mystery of Gerri Santoro, a young woman who died from an illegal abortion.

• Season 8 Episode 9: Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

  Helena Solberg's song-filled film profiles the life of entertainer Carmen Miranda.

• Season 8 Episode 8: Dealers Among Dealers

  Gaylen Ross films the drama, ritual and culture of New York's gem trade.

• Season 8 Episode 7: Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia

  Jenny Cool interviews women in a suburban development outside Los Angeles.

• Season 8 Episode 6: Twitch and Shout

  Filmmaker Laurel Chiten profiles people who have Tourette's syndrome.

• Season 8 Episode 5: Lighting the 7th Fire

  Filmmaker Sandra Osawa examines how the Chippewa (Ojibwa) strive to restore the tradition of spearfishing.

• Season 8 Episode 4: The Uprising of '34

  In 1934, 500,000 Southern mill-workers walk off their jobs.

• Season 8 Episode 3: Out of Sight

  David Sutherland's film depicts the life of Diane Starin, a blind cowgirl.

• Season 8 Episode 2: Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy/No Place Like Home

  Buddhist nuns lead a nonviolent resistance against Chinese occupation of Tibet; a 10-year-old girl longs for permanence and security.

• Season 8 Episode 1: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

  Filmmaker Deborah Hoffmann comes to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease.

P.O.V.: Season 7 (1994)

• Season 7 Episode 10: The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran/Contra Scandal

  Outraged by the Iran/Contra affair, a man steals the sign from a street named after Adm. John Poindexter.

• Season 7 Episode 7: Passin' It On

  Dhoruba Bin Wahad recalls his role as a leader of the Black Panthers.

• Season 7 Episode 6: The Heart of the Matter

  The story of an HIV-positive woman focuses on sexuality in the age of AIDS.

• Season 7 Episode 5: The End of the Nightstick

  The efforts of a citizens group prompts an investigation of police brutality and causes the dismissal of a Chicago police commander.

• Season 7 Episode 4: Memories of Tata

  Sheldon Schiffer researches his Nicaraguan grandfather's treatment of the women in his family.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Escape From China

  A Chinese journalist returns to retrace the escape of Zhang Boli, a leader of the Tiananmen Square uprising.

P.O.V.: Season 6 (1993)

• Season 6 Episode 11: SA-I-GU

  Korean-American women describe the Los Angeles riot from their point of view.

• Season 6 Episode 10: The Women Next Door/Tell Me Something I Can't Forget

  West Bank women share their stories with an all-woman Israeli/Palestinian film crew; a group of women discovers life through writing.

• Season 6 Episode 9: Miami -- Havana

  Divided families share their personal accounts of the U.S./Cuba conflict.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Building Bombs: The Legacy

  The impact of 40 years of nuclear weapons production at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Money Man

  An investigation into J.S.G. Boggs' money drawings.

• Season 6 Episode 5: For Better or for Worse

  Filmmaker David Collier presents five couples -- each together for more than 50 years -- discussing marriage, sex, infidelity and keeping the spark alive.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Compassion in Exile

  A portrait of the Dalai Lama of Tibet focuses on the plight of his native land under occupation by China.

• Season 6 Episode 3: When Your Head's Not a Head, It's a Nut

  A family prepares for a member's brain surgery to cure epilepsy.

• Season 6 Episode 2: Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?

  Filmmaker Janice Tanaka assesses her life as she searches for her father.

P.O.V.: Season 5

• Season 5 Episode 10: Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics

  An overview of colorful politicians and politics includes the Political Museum and Hall of Fame.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Faith Even to the Fire

  Filmmaker Sylvia Morales profiles three nuns who accused the Roman Catholic Church of sexism and racism.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Fast-Food Women/Takeover

  Women with low-paying jobs support families; homeless in eight cities occupy abandoned, government-owned property.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest

  A family sues Judas Priest, claiming its music spurred teen suicide attempts.

• Season 5 Episode 6: Promise Not to Tell

  Allegations and subsequent investigations of sexual child-abuse rock a Utah community.

• Season 5 Episode 5: A Season in Hell

  A woman and her family describe life during five years of her battle with bulimia.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Last Images of War/The Longest Shadow

  Photojournalists perilously cover the war in Afghanistan; a woman searches for her grandfather in Bulgaria as the country moves toward democracy.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Finding Christa

  In 1991, filmmaker Camille Billops is reunited with her adult daughter, whom she gave up for adoption in 1962.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Intimate Stranger

  Alan Berliner uses memorabilia and recollections of family, friends and business associates to profile his maternal grandfather.

P.O.V.: Season 4

• Season 4 Episode 12: Casting the First Stone

  Activists in Paoli, Pa., represent both viewpoints on abortion.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Short Notice

  Short films: 'Auto Bond,' 'Mirror, Mirror,' 'Binge,' 'Who's Going to Care for These Children,' 'Crutemobile.'

• Season 4 Episode 10: Homes Apart: The Two Koreas

  A brother and sister separated by the Korean War reunite many years later in 'Homes Apart: The Two Koreas.'

• Season 4 Episode 9: Maria's Story

  Filmmakers Pamela Cohen, Catherine Ryan and Monona Wali profile a female guerrilla leader in El Salvador's rebel army.

• Season 4 Episode 7: A Little Vicious/Where the Heart Roams

  A bulldog, his owner and a trainer interact in 'A Little Vicious'; 'Where the Heart Roams' follows fans and writers of romances on a 1983 Los Angeles to New York train trip.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Tongues Untied

  Director Marlon Riggs uses poetry, rap and drama to examine the black homosexual's identity and oppose racism and homophobia.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Sea of Oil/Chemical Valley/Turn Here Sweet Corn

  Sea of Oil' recounts the Alaskan oil spill; West Virginians fear disaster in 'Chemical Valley'; developers take a Minnesota farm in 'Turn Here Sweet Corn.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Honorable Nations

  A 99-year lease requiring residents of Salamanca, N.Y., to pay rent to the Seneca Indians expires.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing/Marc & Ann/Plena

  Sisters reunite in 'Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing'; 'Marc and Ann' shows Cajun life; 'Plena' gives a musical impression of Puerto Rico.

P.O.V.: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 12: People Power

  Producer Ilan Ziv films people of Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank using peaceful means to fight repressive governments.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Teatro!/Ossian

  A Jesuit from St. Louis founds a traveling theater in Honduras in 'Teatro!'; a western boy enters a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 'Ossian.'

• Season 3 Episode 9: Going Up/Green Streets/Hugo & the Blue Whale

  Going Up' shows a skyscraper's construction; 'Green Streets' examines the impact of community gardens; a modern building stands near an old one in 'Hugo and the Blue Whale.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Golub/Days of Waiting

  Leon Golub paints controversial pictures in 'Golub'; an artist stays with her imprisoned husband in 'Days of Waiting.'

• Season 3 Episode 7: Kamala & Raji

  Two impoverished Indian women use their wits and desires to improve their lives.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Police Chiefs

  Three city police chiefs reveal disparate personalities and philosophies of law enforcement.

• Season 3 Episode 3: On Ice/Larry Wright

  A wry view of cryonics; a teen plays a unique drum on a subway platform.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman

  A man prepares emotionally, mentally and physically for a sex-change operation.

P.O.V.: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 10: Lost Angeles

  A temporary resident of an urban campground films the lives of Los Angeles homeless over several months.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Cowboy Poets/Binge/Doug & Mike, Mike & Doug

  Three cowboys write poetry; a woman describes her relationship with food; twin artists/photographers.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Fighting Ministers

  Clergymen, congregations and authorities take sides over Pittsburgh steel-industry layoffs.

• Season 2 Episode 6: No Applause, Just Throw Money/Whatever Happened to Zworl Quern?

  'No Applause, Just Throw Money'; 'Whatever Happened to Zworl Quern' profiles Janet Wolfe.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason

  Director David Sutherland examines a painter's message in 'Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason.'

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Family Album

  American birthdays, weddings, graduations and honeymoons, from the 1920s to the '50s.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Wise Guys!/Coming Out

  Disparate personalities converge for a TV game show; a debutante ball, from planning to actuality.

P.O.V.: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 8: Louie Bluie

  String musician Howard Armstrong plays and discusses his influence on blues, jazz, and other forms.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Metropolitan Avenue

  Brooklyn homemakers rally to save their community from economic and racial problems.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

  Argentine women demand their kidnapped children's release.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Rate It X

  Interviews with American men provide a disarming view of attitudes and prejudices about women.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Knocking on Armageddon's Door/Living With AIDS

  Survivalists speak out; homosexuals help a man dying of AIDS.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Fire From the Mountain

  Nicaraguan student Omar Cabezas becomes a guerrilla, an official and an author.

P.O.V.:

• American Tongues/Acting Our Age

  Six women, 65 to 75, discuss family, sexuality, changing body image and death; attitudes toward regional speech.

• Days of Waiting

  An artist stays with her imprisoned husband.

• Marc and Ann

  'Marc and Ann' shows Cajun life.

• Taking on the Kennedys
• Taylor