POV - Season 2

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1989
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Girltalk
Season 2 - Episode 1
A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican girl, refuses to go t...

Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Season 2 - Episode 2
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he con...

Coming Out
Season 2 - Episode 3
The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC -- a meticulously planned ritual where n...

Wise Guys!
Season 2 - Episode 4
A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-kid law student squar...

The Family Album
Season 2 - Episode 5
Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves from childhood to ad...

Dark Circle
Season 2 - Episode 6
Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and immediate impacts of the...

Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason
Season 2 - Episode 7
A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering corrupt polit...

No Applause, Just Throw Money
Season 2 - Episode 8
On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by, imitate Stevie Wonder, tap dance and pe...

Partisans of Vilna
Season 2 - Episode 9
The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.

The Fighting Ministers
Season 2 - Episode 10
Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the city's go...

Binge
Season 2 - Episode 11
Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her wei...

Cowboy Poets
Season 2 - Episode 12
For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. Several contemporary poet lariats keep th...

Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug
Season 2 - Episode 13
The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly gaining accl...

Lost Angeles
Season 2 - Episode 14
The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.