Video: P.O.V.
P.O.V. presents an array of groundbreaking and distinctive perspectives on contemporary life as chronicled by some of America' s and Europe's most visionary non-fiction filmmakers.
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P.O.V. | The Judge and the General | PBS (#2109)
When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzman was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. 02:13
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P.O.V. | Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music | PBS (#2107)
Fresh on the heels of his Folsom Prison album, Cash reveals the dark intensity and raw talent that made him a country music star and cultural icon. 02:49
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P.O.V. | Campaign by Kazuhiro Soda | PBS (#2106)
This is democracy — Japanese style. A startling insider’s view of Japanese electoral politics in this portrait of a man plucked from obscurity by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to run for a critical ... 01:48
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P.O.V. | Election Day by Katy Chevigny | PBS (#2102)
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? 02:56
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P.O.V. | Traces of the Trade | PBS (#2101)
First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. 02:17
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P.O.V. | 2008 Season Preview | PBS
Fresh on the heels of its 2007 Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, P.O.V. returns for its 21st season on PBS with a powerful and provocative slate of films that explore the ... 05:04
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P.O.V. | Wrestling With Angels | Preview | PBS (#2014)
Tony Kushner, whose epochal "Angels in America" won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film "Wrestling ... 03:01
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P.O.V. | Standing Silent Nation | Preview | PBS (#2003)
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? "Standing Silent Nation," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on July 3, 2007, features Alex White Plume and his Lakota family, who planted ... 01:30
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P.O.V. | Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | Preview | PBS (#2002)
If the refugee is today's tragic icon of a war-ravaged world, then "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on June 26, 2007, featuring a reggae-inflected band born in the camps ... 02:50
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P.O.V. | Lumo | Preview | PBS (#2012)
The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched on the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the Rwandan border, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. Lumo Sinai was just ... 05:45
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P.O.V. | Prison Town USA | Preview | PBS (#2006)
In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. "Prison Town, USA," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on July 24, 2007, tells the story of Susanville, ... 03:56
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P.O.V. | Rain in a Dry Land | Preview | PBS (#2001)
P.O.V. kicks off its 20th anniversary season on PBS on World Refugee Day, June 19, 2007, with "Rain in A Dry Land" by Anne Makepeace. How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American ... 02:30
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P.O.V. | Libby, Montana | Preview | PBS (#2009)
Nestled under the spectacular peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana — as iconic a representation of America's "purple mountain majesties" as one can find — lies one of the country's worst cases of ... 02:21
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P.O.V. | The Camden 28 | Preview | PBS (#2011)
How far would you go to stop a war? "The Camden 28," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on September 11, 2007, recalls a 1971 raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board office by "Catholic Left" activists protesting ... 05:22
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P.O.V. | Arctic Son | Preview | PBS (#2008)
In "Arctic Son," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on August 21, 2007, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the remote village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arctic ... 05:46
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P.O.V. | Following Sean | Preview | PBS (#2007)
Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits living in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district at the height of the 1960s, Ralph Arlyck attempts the ... 02:03
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P.O.V. | The Chances of the World Changing | Preview | PBS (#2005)
A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescuing endangered turtles — confiscating hundreds bound for Southeast Asian food markets. ... 01:53
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P.O.V. | 49 Up | Preview | PBS (#2013)
In one of documentary cinema's more remarkable enterprises, "49 Up" makes its U.S. broadcast premiere on P.O.V. on PBS in October 9, 2007 as the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a group ... 02:08
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P.O.V. - My Country, My Country | Preview | PBS (#1913)
Airs Wed., Oct. 25, 2006 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings) Is it possible to conduct democratic elections in a war zone? Can a foreign military force bring Western-style democracy to the Muslim world? ... 02:15
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