POV (1988)
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 14-16 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 300 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, including Michael Moore, Jonathan Demme, Terry Zwigoff, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, Michael Apted, Frederick Wiseman, Marlon Riggs, and Ross McElwee have had work screened as part of the POV series. The series has garnered both critical and industry acclaim over its 20-plus years on television. POV programs have also won major industry awards including three Oscars, 32 Emmys, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, 15 Peabody Awards, 11 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.
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Episode 1 - Silverlake Life: The View From Here
Release Date: 1993-06-15 -
Episode 2 - Who's Going To Pay For These Donuts, Anyway?
Release Date: 1993-06-22 -
Episode 3 - When Your Head's Not A Head, It's A Nut
Release Date: 1993-06-29 -
Episode 4 - Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama
Release Date: 1993-07-06 -
Episode 5 - For Better Or For Worse
Release Date: 1993-07-13 -
Episode 6 - Motel
Release Date: 1993-07-20 -
Episode 7 - Money Man
Release Date: 1993-08-03 -
Episode 8 - Building Bombs: The Legacy
Release Date: 1993-08-10 -
Episode 9 - Miami-Havana
Release Date: 1993-08-17 -
Episode 10 - Cousin Bobby
Release Date: 1993-08-24Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Demme's cousin, Robert W. Castle, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem, New York. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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Episode 11 - The Women Next Door
Release Date: 1993-08-24 -
Episode 12 - Sa-I-Gu
Release Date: 1993-09-10