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POV: Season 20

14 episodes · first aired Jun 19, 2007

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1 Rain in a Dry Land Jun 19, 2007 · 1h How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be a refugee in today's "global village?" Rain in a Dry Land provides eye-opening answers…
2 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Jun 26, 2007 · 1h If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a reggae-inflected band born in the camps of West Africa, represents a real-life story of…
3 Standing Silent Nation Jul 3, 2007 · 1h What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota…
4 Revolution '67 Jul 10, 2007 · 1h Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history – the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J…
5 The Chances of the World Changing Jul 17, 2007 · 1h 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…
6 Prison Town, USA Jul 24, 2007 · 1h In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. Prison Town, USA tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that…
7 Following Sean Jul 31, 2007 · 1h 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…
8 Arctic Son Aug 21, 2007 · 1h In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arctic Circle. Stanley, Jr., raised in Seattle, is…
9 Libby, Montana Aug 28, 2007 · 1h Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a representation of America’s “purple mountain majesties” as one can find—lies the worst case of community-wide…
10 Made in L.A. Sep 4, 2007 · 1h Los Angeles is now the country’s center for apparel manufacturing, but many of its factories bear an eerie resemblance to New York’s early 20th century sweatshops. Made in L.A. follows the…
11 The Camden 28 Sep 11, 2007 · 1h How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a Camden, N.J., draft board office by “Catholic Left” activists protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban…
12 Lumo Sep 18, 2007 · 1h The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the Rwanda border, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. Lumo…
13 49 Up Oct 9, 2007 · 1h In one of documentary cinema’s more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up makes its U.S. broadcast premiere as the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a group of English children every…
14 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner Dec 12, 2007 · 1h 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…