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POV - Season 17

POV

Run Time: 60 mins

Air Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004

Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)

PBS

16 Episodes

Farmingville

Farmingville

Season 17 - Episode 1

"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farmi...

War Feels Like War

War Feels Like War

Season 17 - Episode 2

War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. For three months,...

Thirst

Thirst

Season 17 - Episode 3

Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, Calif.

Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style

Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style

Season 17 - Episode 4

What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance...

A Family Undertaking

A Family Undertaking

Season 17 - Episode 5

The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into the family's hands.

Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story

Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story

Season 17 - Episode 6

A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.

Every Mother's Son

Every Mother's Son

Season 17 - Episode 7

Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.

Freedom Machines

Freedom Machines

Season 17 - Episode 8

Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people a...

A Panther in Africa

A Panther in Africa

Season 17 - Episode 9

Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.

Chisholm '72

Chisholm '72

Season 17 - Episode 10

Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

The Education of Shelby Knox

The Education of Shelby Knox

Season 17 - Episode 11

Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.

Big Enough

Big Enough

Season 17 - Episode 12

Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."

Lost Boys of Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan

Season 17 - Episode 13

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.

Wattstax

Wattstax

Season 17 - Episode 14

Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Wat...

Episode 15

Episode 15

Season 17 - Episode 15

Episode 16

Episode 16

Season 17 - Episode 16

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