P.O.V. Episode Guide
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Episode Guide
P.O.V.: Season 22 (2009)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 22 Episode 6: Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children.
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Season 22 Episode 5: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Thavisouk Phrasavath's family escapes Laos during the Vietnam War and settles in America.
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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.
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Season 22 Episode 3: Life.Support.Music
Guitarist Jason Crigler suffers a near-fatal brain hemorrhage in 2004.
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Season 22 Episode 2: Beyond Hatred
The family of a murdered French gay man seeks justice while coming to terms with its unthinkable loss.
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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)
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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.
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Season 21 Episode 14: Soldiers of Conscience
Eight U.S. soldiers discuss the tension between spiritual values and military orders.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 21 Episode 9: The Judge and the General
Chilean judge Juan Guzmán's criminal cases against Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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Season 21 Episode 8: Belarusian Waltz
A performance artist stages public stunts mocking Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 21 Episode 4: The Last Conquistador
Sculptor John Houser faces moral implications of his bronze statue honoring Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.
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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.
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Season 21 Episode 2: Election Day
American voters of all kinds make their votes count on Nov. 2, 2004.
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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)
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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.
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Season 20 Episode 14: Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Playwright Tony Kushner won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for 'Angels in America.'
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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.
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Season 20 Episode 12: Lumo
Lumo Sinai awaits reconstructive surgery after being violently raped by soldiers in eastern Congo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 20 Episode 6: Prison Town, USA
The small town of Susanville, Calif., tries to revitalize its economy by building a prison.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Season 19 Episode 11: Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
Two women confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos in Tijuana.
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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.
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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.
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Season 19 Episode 8: Waging a Living
Four low-wage earners struggle everyday to try to raise their families out of poverty.
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Season 19 Episode 7: Lomax the Songhunter
Alan Lomax devoted his life to recording the world's folk songs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 19 Episode 3: Tintin and I
Insecurities and anxieties drive 'The Adventures of Tintin' creator Hergé.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 18 Episode 9: Bright Leaves
Filmmaker Ross McElwee investigates the allure of cigarettes, from loss and preservation to addiction and denial.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 18 Episode 4: The Fire Next Time
Flathead Valley, Mont. residents deal with local tensions due to rising unemployment.
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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.
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Season 18 Episode 2: Big Enough
Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film 'Little People.'
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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)
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Season 17 Episode 13: Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.
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Season 17 Episode 11: A Panther in Africa
Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.
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Season 17 Episode 10: Freedom Machines
Advancements in technology change the lives of disabled Americans.
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Season 17 Episode 8: Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story
Ed 'Speedo' Jagger channels his frustrations while driving for demolition derby.
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Season 17 Episode 7: Every Mother's Son
Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.
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Season 17 Episode 6: A Family Undertaking
Families forgo a typical funeral to care for their loved ones at home.
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Season 17 Episode 5: Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style
Candidates in Texas run for state representative and governor.
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Season 17 Episode 4: Thirst
Activists object to corporations that buy water supplies.
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Season 17 Episode 3: War Feels Like War
Journalists and photographers risk their lives to cover the war in Iraq.
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Season 17 Episode 2: Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas
Bill Kassebaum becomes a candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives.
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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)
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Season 16 Episode 13: Love & Diane
A former drug addict struggles to reconnect with her grown daughter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 16 Episode 9: Family Fundamentals
Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.
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Season 16 Episode 8: West 47th Street
Stories profile three people struggling with mental illness at Fountain House in New York.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 16 Episode 2: Georgie Girl
Transsexual Georgina Beyer wins the 1999 election to New Zealand's Parliament.
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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)
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Season 15 Episode 12: Two Towns of Jasper
The lynching of James Byrd Jr. results in trials in Jasper, Texas.
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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.
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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)
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Season 15 Episode 9: Escuela
Mexican-American sisters struggle with field work, education, migrating and citizenship.
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Season 15 Episode 8: Senorita Extraviada
An investigation seeks to solve the rapes and murders of women since 1993 in Juarez, Mexico.
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Season 15 Episode 7: Mai's America
A Vietnamese teen experiences life in rural Mississippi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 15 Episode 3: Hybrid
Archival footage and animation depict a family's relationship with a grandfather obsessed with corn.
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Season 15 Episode 2: Boomtown
The Suquamish tribe sells fireworks near Seattle.
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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)
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Season 14 Episode 11: Promises
Filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg interviews seven Palestinian and Israeli children about war, peace and growing up.
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Season 14 Episode 10: 5 Girls
Chicago girls face the challenges of adolescence.
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Season 14 Episode 9: High School
In Frederick Wiseman's 'High School,' Philadelphia teens experience the struggles of becoming adults in 1968.
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Season 14 Episode 8: Life and Debt
An examination of the global economy shows the relationships between developed and developing nations.
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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.
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Season 14 Episode 6: Take It From Me
Working-class women struggle to get their families off public assistance.
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Season 14 Episode 5: True-Hearted Vixens
Filmmaker Mylene Moreno depicts three women trying to become professional football players.
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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.
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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.
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Season 14 Episode 2: The Sweetest Sound
Filmmaker Alan Berliner explores the meanings and impacts of names.
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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)
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Season 13 Episode 10: First Person Plural
A Korean-American woman unites her adoptive and biological families.
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Season 13 Episode 9: Live Free or Die
A doctor's practice in New Hampshire tests community values.
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Season 13 Episode 8: KPFA on the Air
Behind the scenes of a popular radio station.
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Season 13 Episode 7: American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
Filmmaker Jasmine Dellal profiles Gypsy culture.
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Season 13 Episode 6: Dreamland
Gambling casinos are a temptation for residents of Las Vegas.
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Season 13 Episode 4: Blink
Greg Withrow struggles with racial conflict and generations of hatred.
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Season 13 Episode 3: Stranger With a Camera
In 1967 filmmaker Hugh O'Connor is murdered while shooting a documentary.
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Season 13 Episode 2: La Boda
A couple get married.
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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)
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Season 12 Episode 10: Well-Founded Fear
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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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.
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Season 12 Episode 7: School Prayer: A Community at War
A woman wants separation of church and state in her children's public school.
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Season 12 Episode 6: Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena
Singer Selena's career and murder.
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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.
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Season 12 Episode 4: The Green Monster
Art Arfons develops a supercharged automobile.
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Season 12 Episode 3: In My Corner
Two teenagers seek refuge in a local gym.
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Season 12 Episode 2: Golden Threads
Golden Threads is an international network for older lesbians.
P.O.V.: Season 11 (1998)
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Season 11 Episode 10: She Shorts
Directors make short films about the female experience.
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Season 11 Episode 9: Sacrifice
Burmese girls are lured into prostitution in Thailand.
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Season 11 Episode 8: The Vanishing Line
Physician and filmmaker Maren Monsen examines medicine and death.
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Season 11 Episode 7: Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour
Filmmaker Susan Stern explores the history and fantasy of the Barbie doll.
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Season 11 Episode 6: If I Can't Do It
Arthur Campbell Jr. doesn't let disability interfere with independence.
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Season 11 Episode 5: Kelly Loves Tony
Engaged Laotian-American teens record their struggles with pregnancy, career goals and adult responsibilities.
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Season 11 Episode 3: The Band
Teens in a high-school band deal with life, love and hope.
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Season 11 Episode 2: Tobacco Blues
Kentucky tobacco farmers deal with the cigarette controversy.
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Season 11 Episode 1: Baby It's You
Filmmaker Anne Makepeace journeys through the complexities of fertility science.
P.O.V.: Season 10 (1997)
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Season 10 Episode 12: Acting Our Age
Six women, 65 to 75, discuss family, sexuality, changing body image and death.
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Season 10 Episode 11: American Tongues
Attitudes toward regional speech; winner of a 1987 Peabody Award.
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Season 10 Episode 8: Girls Like Us
The lives of adolescent girls.
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Season 10 Episode 7: In Whose Honor?
Debate concerns using American Indian names/symbols for sports team logos.
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Season 10 Episode 5: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
The effects of Proposition 187 on immigrant education in California.
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Season 10 Episode 4: Jesse's Gone
The effects of the murder of rap artist Jesse Hall.
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Season 10 Episode 3: A Healthy Baby Girl
Filmmaker Judith Helfand documents her battle with cancer.
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Season 10 Episode 1: Nobody's Business
The swirls of conflict and affection that bind families.
P.O.V.: Season 9 (1996)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 9 Episode 8: Just for the Ride
The world of cowgirls and the women's rodeo in the '90s.
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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.
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Season 9 Episode 6: The Transformation
A homeless HIV-positive transvestite undergoes change.
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Season 9 Episode 5: No Loans Today
Lisanne Skyler profiles the ABC Loan Co., a black-owned pawnshop in Los Angeles.
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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.
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Season 9 Episode 2: Personal Belongings
Steven Bognar chronicles his father's 40-year search for identity and home.
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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)
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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.
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Season 8 Episode 9: Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
Helena Solberg's song-filled film profiles the life of entertainer Carmen Miranda.
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Season 8 Episode 8: Dealers Among Dealers
Gaylen Ross films the drama, ritual and culture of New York's gem trade.
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Season 8 Episode 7: Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
Jenny Cool interviews women in a suburban development outside Los Angeles.
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Season 8 Episode 6: Twitch and Shout
Filmmaker Laurel Chiten profiles people who have Tourette's syndrome.
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Season 8 Episode 5: Lighting the 7th Fire
Filmmaker Sandra Osawa examines how the Chippewa (Ojibwa) strive to restore the tradition of spearfishing.
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Season 8 Episode 4: The Uprising of '34
In 1934, 500,000 Southern mill-workers walk off their jobs.
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Season 8 Episode 3: Out of Sight
David Sutherland's film depicts the life of Diane Starin, a blind cowgirl.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Season 7 Episode 7: Passin' It On
Dhoruba Bin Wahad recalls his role as a leader of the Black Panthers.
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Season 7 Episode 6: The Heart of the Matter
The story of an HIV-positive woman focuses on sexuality in the age of AIDS.
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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.
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Season 7 Episode 4: Memories of Tata
Sheldon Schiffer researches his Nicaraguan grandfather's treatment of the women in his family.
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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)
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Season 6 Episode 11: SA-I-GU
Korean-American women describe the Los Angeles riot from their point of view.
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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.
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Season 6 Episode 9: Miami -- Havana
Divided families share their personal accounts of the U.S./Cuba conflict.
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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.
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Season 6 Episode 7: Money Man
An investigation into J.S.G. Boggs' money drawings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Season 5 Episode 10: Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics
An overview of colorful politicians and politics includes the Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
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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.
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Season 5 Episode 8: Fast-Food Women/Takeover
Women with low-paying jobs support families; homeless in eight cities occupy abandoned, government-owned property.
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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.
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Season 5 Episode 6: Promise Not to Tell
Allegations and subsequent investigations of sexual child-abuse rock a Utah community.
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Season 5 Episode 5: A Season in Hell
A woman and her family describe life during five years of her battle with bulimia.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Season 4 Episode 12: Casting the First Stone
Activists in Paoli, Pa., represent both viewpoints on abortion.
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Season 4 Episode 11: Short Notice
Short films: 'Auto Bond,' 'Mirror, Mirror,' 'Binge,' 'Who's Going to Care for These Children,' 'Crutemobile.'
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Season 4 Episode 3: Honorable Nations
A 99-year lease requiring residents of Salamanca, N.Y., to pay rent to the Seneca Indians expires.
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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
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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Season 3 Episode 7: Kamala & Raji
Two impoverished Indian women use their wits and desires to improve their lives.
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Season 3 Episode 6: Police Chiefs
Three city police chiefs reveal disparate personalities and philosophies of law enforcement.
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Season 3 Episode 3: On Ice/Larry Wright
A wry view of cryonics; a teen plays a unique drum on a subway platform.
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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
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Season 2 Episode 10: Lost Angeles
A temporary resident of an urban campground films the lives of Los Angeles homeless over several months.
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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.
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Season 2 Episode 8: Fighting Ministers
Clergymen, congregations and authorities take sides over Pittsburgh steel-industry layoffs.
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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.
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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.'
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Season 2 Episode 3: The Family Album
American birthdays, weddings, graduations and honeymoons, from the 1920s to the '50s.
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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
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Season 1 Episode 8: Louie Bluie
String musician Howard Armstrong plays and discusses his influence on blues, jazz, and other forms.
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Season 1 Episode 7: Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn homemakers rally to save their community from economic and racial problems.
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Season 1 Episode 5: Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Argentine women demand their kidnapped children's release.
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Season 1 Episode 4: Rate It X
Interviews with American men provide a disarming view of attitudes and prejudices about women.
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Season 1 Episode 3: Knocking on Armageddon's Door/Living With AIDS
Survivalists speak out; homosexuals help a man dying of AIDS.
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Season 1 Episode 2: Fire From the Mountain
Nicaraguan student Omar Cabezas becomes a guerrilla, an official and an author.
P.O.V.:
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American Tongues/Acting Our Age
Six women, 65 to 75, discuss family, sexuality, changing body image and death; attitudes toward regional speech.
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Days of Waiting
An artist stays with her imprisoned husband.
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Marc and Ann
'Marc and Ann' shows Cajun life.
- Taking on the Kennedys
- Taylor
