POV - Season 1
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1988
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
PBS12 Episodes
Acting Our Age
Season 1 - Episode 1
"There's nobody that's not going to get old — unless they die," says Enola Maxwell at the beginning of this engaging and refreshing film. Th...
American Tongues
Season 1 - Episode 2
Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other peopl...
Fire From the Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 3
Based on the autobiography of Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas, Fire From the Mountain is the lyrical, earthy, sometimes humorous account of t...
Knocking on Armageddon's Door
Season 1 - Episode 4
Half comedy, half horror story, this disturbing film focuses on several spokesmen for America's survivalist movement as they reveal the way ...
Living with AIDS
Season 1 - Episode 5
If Armageddon's Door is about the explosion of community, Living with AIDS is just the opposite. It's a graceful, moving film about a commun...
Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Season 1 - Episode 6
During the late 1970s, tens of thousands of men, women and even children were abducted by the right-wing military government in Argentina. W...
The Good Fight
Season 1 - Episode 7
Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to fight the spread of fascism. At 18, 19 and 2...
Louie Bluie
Season 1 - Episode 8
A lively portrait of 76-year-old Harold "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, musician, artist, raconteur and rogue.
Gates of Heaven
Season 1 - Episode 9
On the surface, this is a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries and their owners. But then it grows much more complicated and bizarre, ...
Best Boy
Season 1 - Episode 10
Hailed by many critics as a classic, Best Boy is the moving story of Philly, a 53-year-old mentally-disabled man who adapts to an independen...
Rate It X
Season 1 - Episode 11
Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men only are interviewed by the two filmmakers...
Metropolitan Avenue
Season 1 - Episode 12
Metropolitan Avenue is an inspiring contemporary story about women who strive to combine new roles and old values in our rapidly changing so...