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POV - Season 4

POV

Run Time: 60 mins

Air Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991

Average Rating: ⭐ 6.9 (11 votes)

PBS

17 Episodes

Absolutely Positive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Notice: A Series of Short Films

Season 4 - Episode 17

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