POV (1988)
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 14-16 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 300 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, including Michael Moore, Jonathan Demme, Terry Zwigoff, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, Michael Apted, Frederick Wiseman, Marlon Riggs, and Ross McElwee have had work screened as part of the POV series. The series has garnered both critical and industry acclaim over its 20-plus years on television. POV programs have also won major industry awards including three Oscars, 32 Emmys, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, 15 Peabody Awards, 11 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.
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Episode 1 - Scout's Honor
Release Date: 2001-06-19 -
Episode 2 - The Sweetest Sound
Release Date: 2001-06-26 -
Episode 3 - My American Girls: A Dominican Story
Release Date: 2001-07-03 -
Episode 4 - Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story
Release Date: 2001-07-10 -
Episode 5 - True-Hearted Vixens
Release Date: 2001-07-17 -
Episode 6 - Take It from Me
Release Date: 2001-07-24 -
Episode 7 - In the Light of Reverence
Release Date: 2001-08-14A beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect their sacred sites.
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Episode 8 - Life and Debt
Release Date: 2001-08-21Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
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Episode 9 - High School
Release Date: 2001-08-28 -
Episode 10 - 5 Girls
Release Date: 2001-10-02 -
Episode 11 - Promises
Release Date: 2001-12-13