POV (1988)
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.
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Episode 1 - Hybrid
Release Date: 2002-07-09Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.
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Episode 2 - Refrigerator Mothers
Release Date: 2002-07-16It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."
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Episode 3 - Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
Release Date: 2002-07-23How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
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Episode 4 - Sweet Old Song
Release Date: 2002-07-30Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
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Episode 5 - Mai's America
Release Date: 2002-08-06A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.
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Episode 6 - Senorita Extraviada
Release Date: 2002-08-20Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.
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Episode 7 - Escuela
Release Date: 2002-08-27A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
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Episode 8 - Afghanistan 1380
Release Date: 2002-09-10Surgeon 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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Episode 9 - Boomtown
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Episode 10 - Afghanistan 1380
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Episode 11 - Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Release Date: 2003-01-20Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.
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Episode 12 - Two Towns of Jasper
Release Date: 2023-01-22Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.
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Episode 13 - Flag Wars
Release Date: 2003-06-17A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.
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Episode 14 - Larry v. Lockney
Release Date: 2003-07-01A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during random testing.