Episode guide
POV: Season 4
17 episodes · first aired Jun 18, 1991
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- 1 Absolutely Positive Jun 18, 1991 · 1h Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about having HIV. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this stirring…
- 2 Marc and Ann Jun 25, 1991 · 27m Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as the music itself. Legendary filmmaker Les Blank delves directly into the heart of Cajun…
- 3 Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song Jun 25, 1991 · 1h Plena is in Puerto Rico what the blues are in the U.S.: a musical expression abounding with romance, daily news, and personal sagas. As the Puerto Rican community grows on the mainland…
- 4 Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing Jun 25, 1991 · 1h Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rhyming names. Standing out amidst the…
- 5 Honorable Nations Jul 2, 1991 · 1h For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, N.Y. have rented the land under their homes for an average of $1/year from the Seneca Indians, under the terms of a lease imposed by Congress…
- 6 Chemical Valley Jul 9, 1991 · 1h A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused the disaster in Bhopal, India, has alarmed area residents. But the area's fragile…
- 7 Sea of Oil Jul 9, 1991 · 1h The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger and greed oozed through the small, formerly pristine town of Valdez. The human toll of…
- 8 Turn Here Sweet Corn Jul 9, 1991 · 1h A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a…
- 9 Tongues Untied Jul 16, 1991 · 1h Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it means to be black and gay jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary…
- 10 Berkeley in the Sixties Jul 23, 1991 · 1h From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became synonymous with a generation's quest for social, political, and…
- 11 A Little Vicious Jul 30, 1991 · 1h A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantly crafted, wryly narrated by Kevin Bacon, and infused with a blend of humor and pathos…
- 12 The Big Bang Aug 6, 1991 · 1h Whether the subject is sex, death, madness or God, The Big Bang never lets up in its weird and wonderful search for the meaning of it all.
- 13 Maria's Story Aug 13, 1991 · 1h Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led to the historic peace pact of 1992. Skirting bullets and mortar attacks…
- 14 Homes Apart Aug 20, 1991 · 1h Ten million families were separated between North and South Korea when the Korean War ended in 1953. Beginning with the story of one man's journey to reunite with his sister in North…
- 15 Where the Heart Roams Jul 30, 1991 · 1h Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George…
- 16 Casting the First Stone Sep 3, 1991 · 1h Abortion has been at the center of one of the most dramatic and wrenching debates of our times, but the social forces and the changing lives behind the rhetoric are rarely explored. This…
- 17 Short Notice: A Series of Short Films Sep 3, 1991 · 1h