Point of View
Synopsis
Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.
Season 17 Episodes
EP 1
"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farm…
EP 2
War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. For three months…
EP 3
Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, Calif.
EP 4
What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased relianc…
EP 5
The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into the family's hands.
EP 6
A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.
EP 7
Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.
EP 8
Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people …
EP 9
Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.
EP 10
Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.
EP 11
Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.
EP 12
Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."
EP 13
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
EP 14
Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Wa…
EP 15
EP 16
