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 2 Episodes
EP 1
A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican girl, refuses to go …
EP 2
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he co…
EP 3
The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC -- a meticulously planned ritual where …
EP 4
A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-kid law student squa…
EP 5
Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves from childhood to a…
EP 6
Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and immediate impacts of th…
EP 7
A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering corrupt poli…
EP 8
On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by, imitate Stevie Wonder, tap dance and p…
EP 9
The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.
EP 10
Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the city's g…
EP 11
Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her we…
EP 12
For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. Several contemporary poet lariats keep t…
EP 13
The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly gaining acc…
EP 14
The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.
