POV
Season 12
199910 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Legacy
1999-06-01 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E2
Well-Founded Fear
6.31999-06-05 · 60m
Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its title from the formal definition of a refugee under the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as a person who deserves protection, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” The film analyzes the US asylum process by following several asylum applicants and asylum officers through actual INS interviews.
- E3
Golden Threads
1999-06-08 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E4
In My Corner
1999-06-22 · 60m
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- E5
The Green Monster
1999-06-29 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E6
Rabbit In The Moon
1999-07-06 · 60m
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- E7
Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena
1999-07-13 · 60m
Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. It places emphasis on the transformation of Selena from a popular entertainer into a modern-day saint and role model. This documentary uses authentic home videos, news stories, footage from concerts and a debate between intellectuals to analyze the effect of Selena and Selena’s murder at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan club.
- E8
School Prayer: A Community At War
1999-07-20 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez
1999-07-27 · 60m
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.
- E10
Regret to Inform
2000-01-24 · 60m
Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.