POV - Season 17

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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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
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
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
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
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
Season 17 - Episode 6
A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.

Every Mother's Son
Season 17 - Episode 7
Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.

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
Season 17 - Episode 9
Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.

Chisholm '72
Season 17 - Episode 10
Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

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
Season 17 - Episode 12
Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."

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
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
Season 17 - Episode 15

Episode 16
Season 17 - Episode 16