POV - Season 26
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Homegoings
Season 26 - Episode 1
Season 26 opens with "Homegoings," which profiles Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the son of a South Carolina sharecropper whose fasci...
Special Flight
Season 26 - Episode 2
Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, and o...
Herman's House
Season 26 - Episode 3
Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. He works with artist Jackie Sumell to imagine his "dream home," questi...
Only the Young
Season 26 - Episode 4
Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of financial uncertainty.
xoxosms
Season 26 - Episode 5
The modern-day love story of a guy from small-town Illinois who reaches out to a beautiful New York City art student from Korea. They meet i...
High Tech, Low Life
Season 26 - Episode 6
High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the co...
Neurotypical
Season 26 - Episode 7
A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their lives, work with their perceptual and beha...
The Law in These Parts
Season 26 - Episode 8
For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are interviewed about thi...
5 Broken Cameras
Season 26 - Episode 9
Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was shot by a Palestinian...
Ping Pong
Season 26 - Episode 10
Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. Ping Pong is a meditation on mortality an...
The World Before Her
Season 26 - Episode 11
The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman l...
Best Kept Secret
Season 26 - Episode 12
A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they grad...
Brooklyn Castle
Season 26 - Episode 13
Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 national chess champions...
56 Up
Season 26 - Episode 14
In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film the...
Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Season 26 - Episode 15
Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history project StoryCorps, which captures intimate...
American Promise
Season 26 - Episode 16
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their ...