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POV : Season 16
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Air date: 21 Apr '04 - 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. Discovering Dominga
08 Jul '03Massacre survivor Denese Becker returns to her Guatemalan village on a journey of self-discovery and to find her roots.
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POV (1988)
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2. Georgie Girl
22 Jun '03What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand by a conservative, rural district? What if that person were also a transsexual? The odds may seem daunting, but Georgina Beyer did it.
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POV (1988)
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3. The Flute Player
22 Jul '03Musician Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, travels to his native Cambodia to face his past.
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POV (1988)
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4. 90 Miles
29 Jul '0390 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar to become a Marielito and leave Cuba for a better life in Miami. It premiered in 2003 on PBS as part of its P.O.V. series. It won two awards: the Grand Coral, First Prize, for Documentary and the Memoria Documentary Award. 90 Miles recounts the strange twist of fate that took Juan Carlos Zaldívar across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of
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POV (1988)
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5. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i
05 Aug '03Few American icons are as well known for their popular kitsch as the hula dance. From old Hollywood movies to entertainment for tourists, the hip-swaying girls in grass skirts and colorful lei have long masked an ancient cultural tradition. Now, after years of being shadowed by stereotypes, the hula is experiencing a rebirth that celebrates Hawaiian culture.
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POV (1988)
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6. West 47th Street
19 Aug '03West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. "West 47th Street" is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people with serious mental illness as their lives naturally unfold over a three-year period beginning in spring 2001. The characters are all members of Fountain House, a psychiatric rehabilitation programme located on West 47th Street in a part of New York City once known as Hell's
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POV (1988)
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7. Family Fundamentals
26 Aug '03Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.
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POV (1988)
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8. Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section
02 Sep '03The experiences of Mexican-Americans participating in the Vietnam War.
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POV (1988)
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9. State of Denial
16 Sep '03State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks. The film follows the stories of HIV positive Africans and activists as well as their careers, interspersed with the harrowing statistics of the AIDS epidemic in
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POV (1988)
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10. What I Want My Words to Do to You
16 Dec '03Eve Ensler conducts a writing workshop for female inmates at a state prison in New York.
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POV (1988)
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11. Larry v. Lockney
01 Jul '03State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks. The film follows the stories of HIV positive Africans and activists as well as their careers, interspersed with the harrowing statistics of the AIDS epidemic in Afric
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POV (1988)
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12. Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas
29 Jun '04Filmmaker Richard Kassebaum chronicles his brother Bill's run for the Kansas House of Representatives.
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POV (1988)
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13. Love & Diane
21 Apr '04Flag Wars is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, Ohio fight to hold on to their homes. Realtors and gay home-buyers see fixer-uppers. The clashes expose prejudice and self-interest on both sides, as well as the common dream to have a home to call your own.
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