About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Hybrid
Aired 9 July 2002 • 60 min
Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.
2. Refrigerator Mothers
Aired 16 July 2002 • 60 min
It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."
3. Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
Aired 23 July 2002 • 60 min
How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
4. Sweet Old Song
Aired 30 July 2002 • 60 min
Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
5. Mai's America
Aired 6 August 2002 • 60 min
A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.
6. Senorita Extraviada
Aired 20 August 2002 • 60 min
Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.
7. Escuela
Aired 27 August 2002 • 60 min
A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
8. Afghanistan 1380
Aired 10 September 2002 • 60 min
Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan. (Dari, Italian and English with English subtitles)
9. Boomtown
Aired 2 July 2002 • 60 min
11. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Aired 20 January 2003 • 60 min
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.
12. Two Towns of Jasper
Aired 22 January 2023 • 60 min
Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.
13. Flag Wars
Aired 17 June 2003
A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.
14. Larry v. Lockney
Aired 1 July 2003
A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during random testing.