POV - Season 21
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North
Season 21 - Episode 1
The 21st-season opener features "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North," an exploration of filmmaker Katrina Brown's slave-tradin...
Election Day
Season 21 - Episode 2
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a ...
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
Season 21 - Episode 3
In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández Jr. Mistaken for a d...
The Last Conquistador
Season 21 - Episode 4
Renowned sculptor John Houser has a dream: to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for the city of El Paso, Texas. He envision...
9 Star Hotel
Season 21 - Episode 5
A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in. Caught between Israeli security law...
Campaign
Season 21 - Episode 6
This is democracy — Japanese style. Campaign provides a startling insider's view of Japanese electoral politics in this portrait of a man pl...
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
Season 21 - Episode 7
In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a looming roller-coaster career. Fresh on t...
Belarusian Waltz
Season 21 - Episode 8
Belarus has been called "Europe's last dictatorship." Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the ex-Soviet republic with a despotic hand...
The Judge and the General
Season 21 - Episode 9
When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no...
Calavera Highway
Season 21 - Episode 10
When brothers Armando and Carlos Peña set off to carry their mother's ashes to south Texas, their road trip turns into a quest for answers a...
Critical Condition
Season 21 - Episode 11
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? Critical Condition by Roger Weisberg (Wa...
In the Family
Season 21 - Episode 12
How much would you sacrifice to survive? When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the "breast cancer gene" at age 27, she k...
Up the Yangtze
Season 21 - Episode 13
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River...
Soldiers of Conscience
Season 21 - Episode 14
When is it right to kill? In the midst of war, is it right to refuse? Eight U.S. soldiers today, some who killed and some who said no, revea...
Inheritance
Season 21 - Episode 15
Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant played by Ralph Fiennes was your father. Inheritance is the ...