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POV : Season 15
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Air date: 20 Jan '03 - 13 episodesPOV 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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List of Episodes (13)
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POV (1988)
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1. Hybrid
09 Jul '02Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.
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POV (1988)
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2. Refrigerator Mothers
16 Jul '02It 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
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POV (1988)
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3. Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
23 Jul '02How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
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POV (1988)
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4. Sweet Old Song
30 Jul '02Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
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POV (1988)
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5. Mai's America
06 Aug '02A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.
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POV (1988)
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6. Senorita Extraviada
20 Aug '02Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.
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POV (1988)
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7. Escuela
27 Aug '02A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
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POV (1988)
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8. Afghanistan 1380
10 Sep '02Surgeon 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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POV (1988)
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9. Boomtown
02 Jul '02
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POV (1988)
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10. Afghanistan 1380
10 Sep '02
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POV (1988)
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11. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
20 Jan '03Brother 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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POV (1988)
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12. Two Towns of Jasper
22 Jan '23Two 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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POV (1988)
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13. Flag Wars
17 Jun '03A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.
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POV (1988)
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14. Larry v. Lockney
01 Jul '03A 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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