POV - Season 3
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Through the Wire
Season 3 - Episode 1
An underground, high-security isolation unit at the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was built to house three female inmates convicted...
Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
Season 3 - Episode 2
Gary, a 39 year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. A candid, non-sensat...
Larry Wright
Season 3 - Episode 3
With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing ...
On Ice
Season 3 - Episode 4
Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two science buffs-turned-film...
Salesman
Season 3 - Episode 5
In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they wal...
Police Chiefs
Season 3 - Episode 6
Three big-city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. Daryl Gates introduced SWAT to Los Angeles. Anthony B...
Kamala and Raji
Season 3 - Episode 7
Two poor women in India attempt to improve their lives. Kamala and Raji's resourcefulness, aspirations, and capacity for joy shatter stereot...
Days of Waiting
Season 3 - Episode 8
Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to...
Golub
Season 3 - Episode 9
The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopping mall. More than a portrait of the so...
Green Streets
Season 3 - Episode 10
If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Community gardens in New York City have helped to nourish neighborhoo...
Going Up
Season 3 - Episode 11
The creation of a skyscraper is transformed into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and constructio...
Motel
Season 3 - Episode 12
Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fate. Veteran filmmake...
Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk
Season 3 - Episode 13
Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age ...
¡Teatro!
Season 3 - Episode 14
Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras to enlighten and in...
People Power
Season 3 - Episode 15
After years of witnessing firsthand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the...
Letter to the Next Generation
Season 3 - Episode 16
Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, ...