POV - Season 4

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)
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Absolutely Positive
Season 4 - Episode 1
Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about having HIV. Alternately ...

Marc and Ann
Season 4 - Episode 2
Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as the music itself. Legendary filmmaker Les...

Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song
Season 4 - Episode 3
Plena is in Puerto Rico what the blues are in the U.S.: a musical expression abounding with romance, daily news, and personal sagas. As the ...

Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing
Season 4 - Episode 4
Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rh...

Honorable Nations
Season 4 - Episode 5
For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, N.Y. have rented the land under their homes for an average of $1/year from the Seneca Indians, und...

Chemical Valley
Season 4 - Episode 6
A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused the disaster in Bhopal, India, has alar...

Sea of Oil
Season 4 - Episode 7
The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger and greed oozed through the small, form...

Turn Here Sweet Corn
Season 4 - Episode 8
A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves...

Tongues Untied
Season 4 - Episode 9
Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it means to be black and gay jumps from inter...

Berkeley in the Sixties
Season 4 - Episode 10
From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became synonymous with a g...

A Little Vicious
Season 4 - Episode 11
A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantly crafted, wryly narrated by Kevin Bacon...

The Big Bang
Season 4 - Episode 12
Whether the subject is sex, death, madness or God, The Big Bang never lets up in its weird and wonderful search for the meaning of it all.

Maria's Story
Season 4 - Episode 13
Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led to the historic peace pact...

Homes Apart
Season 4 - Episode 14
Ten million families were separated between North and South Korea when the Korean War ended in 1953. Beginning with the story of one man's j...

Where the Heart Roams
Season 4 - Episode 15
Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has...

Casting the First Stone
Season 4 - Episode 16
Abortion has been at the center of one of the most dramatic and wrenching debates of our times, but the social forces and the changing lives...

Short Notice: A Series of Short Films
Season 4 - Episode 17