POV - Season 20
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Rain in a Dry Land
Season 20 - Episode 1
How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be a refugee in today's "global village?" ...
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Season 20 - Episode 2
If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a reggae-inflected band born in the camps ...
Standing Silent Nation
Season 20 - Episode 3
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial he...
Revolution '67
Season 20 - Episode 4
Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history – the black urban rebellions of the 196...
The Chances of the World Changing
Season 20 - Episode 5
A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescuing endangered turtl...
Prison Town, USA
Season 20 - Episode 6
In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. Prison Town, USA tells the story of...
Following Sean
Season 20 - Episode 7
Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits living in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury di...
Arctic Son
Season 20 - Episode 8
In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arc...
Libby, Montana
Season 20 - Episode 9
Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a representation of America’s “purple mountain majesties” as one...
Made in L.A.
Season 20 - Episode 10
Los Angeles is now the country’s center for apparel manufacturing, but many of its factories bear an eerie resemblance to New York’s early 2...
The Camden 28
Season 20 - Episode 11
How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a Camden, N.J., draft board office by “Catholic Left” activists pro...
Lumo
Season 20 - Episode 12
The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the Rwanda border, vying militias, armies an...
49 Up
Season 20 - Episode 13
In one of documentary cinema’s more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up makes its U.S. broadcast premiere as the seventh in a series of films tha...
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Season 20 - Episode 14
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country’s leading playwrights ...