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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. | Life. Support. Music. | PBS (#2203)
In 2004, Jason Crigler's life was taking off. He was one of New York's hottest young guitarists, his new CD was due for release and his wife, Monica, was pregnant with their first child. Then, at a gig ... 01:57
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P.O.V. | New Muslim Cool | PBS (#2201)
When the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and himself. 03:37
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P.O.V. | Critical Condition | Karen's Story | PBS (#2111)
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? 07:23
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P.O.V. | Critical Condition | Joe's Story | PBS (#2111)
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? 06:32
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P.O.V. | Critical Condition | Hector's Story | PBS
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? 07:28
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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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