• POV : Season 4

    • Air date: 15 Jun '91 17 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (17)
    • 1. Absolutely Positive

      15 Jun '91
    • 2. Marc And Ann

      25 Jun '91
    • 3. Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song

      25 Jun '91
    • 4. Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing

      25 Jun '91
    • 5. Honorable Nations

      02 Jul '91
      Marlon Rigg' "Tongues Untied" rises above the 'deeply personal' - far above it - in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns ( and sometimes all at once), it jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem. Craig Seligman, San Francisco Examiner A daring, visionary work that speaks with the eloquence of barbed wire. Steve Dollar, Atlanta Journal Constitution
    • 6. Chemical Valley

      09 Jul '91
    • 7. Sea Of Oil

      09 Jul '91
    • 8. Turn Here Sweet Corn

      09 Jul '91
    • 9. Tongues Untied

      16 Jul '91
    • 10. Berkeley In The Sixties

      23 Jul '91
    • 11. A Little Vicious

      30 Jul '91
      A Little Vicious is a 1991 short documentary film directed by Immy Humes. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
    • 12. The Big Bang

      06 Aug '91
    • 13. Maria's Story: A Documentary Portrait of Love and Survival in El Salvador's Civil War

      13 Aug '91
    • 14. Homes Apart: The Two Koreas

      20 Aug '91
    • 15. Where the Heart Roams

      30 Jul '91
      Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious and all the endings are happy.
    • 16. Short Notice: A Series of Short Films

      03 Sep '91
    • 17. Casting The First Stone

      03 Sep '91