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Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.
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Episode 1 - Through the Wire
Release Date: 1990-06-26Produced in association with Amnesty International, THROUGH THE WIRE examines a controversial, underground high security isolation unit located in the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, built to house three female inmates convicted of politically-motivated crimes, and the international campaign to close the unit on humanitarian grounds.
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Episode 2 - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
Release Date: 1990-07-03 -
Episode 3 - Larry Wright
Release Date: 1990-07-10 -
Episode 4 - On Ice
Release Date: 1990-07-10 -
Episode 5 - Salesman
Release Date: 1990-07-24 -
Episode 6 - Police Chiefs
Release Date: 1990-07-31 -
Episode 7 - Kamala And Raji
Release Date: 1990-08-07 -
Episode 8 - Days of Waiting
Release Date: 1990-08-15Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to do so. Vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos and paintings, Days of Waiting reveals the shattering relocation experience from an "outsider's" perspective.
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Episode 9 - Golub
Release Date: 1990-08-14The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopping mall. Golub is more than a portrait of the socially committed painter Leon Golub, whose massive canvases are intended to provoke viewers. It is about media and contemporary society, social responsibility and creativity, art and information.
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Episode 10 - Green Streets
Release Date: 1990-08-21If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Maria De Luca's Green Streets charts the spontaneous emergence of community gardens in New York City and how they've helped to nourish neighborhood pride, racial tolerance and a budding sense of hope for hundreds of enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.
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Episode 11 - Going Up
Release Date: 1990-08-21The creation of a skyscraper is transformed by director Gary Pollard into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and construction worker choreography are set to a score by 15 new music composers in an urban ballet forty stories above New York harbor.
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Episode 12 - Motel
Release Date: 1990-08-28 -
Episode 13 - Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk
Release Date: 1990-09-04 -
Episode 14 - ¡Teatro!
Release Date: 1990-09-04 -
Episode 15 - People Power
Release Date: 1990-09-11 -
Episode 16 - Letter To The Next Generation
Release Date: 1990-07-17