Point of View (1988–present)

1. S01E01Acting Our AgeJuly 5, 1988—"There's nobody that's not going to get old — unless they die," says Enola Maxwell at the beginning of this engaging and refreshing film. Th
2. S01E02American TonguesJuly 5, 1988—Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other peopl
3. S01E03Fire From the MountainJuly 12, 1988—Based on the autobiography of Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas, Fire From the Mountain is the lyrical, earthy, sometimes humorous account of t
4. S01E04Knocking on Armageddon's DoorJuly 19, 1988—Half comedy, half horror story, this disturbing film focuses on several spokesmen for America's survivalist movement as they reveal the way
5. S01E05Living with AIDSJuly 19, 1988—If Armageddon's Door is about the explosion of community, Living with AIDS is just the opposite. It's a graceful, moving film about a commun
6. S01E06Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de MayoAugust 2, 1988—During the late 1970s, tens of thousands of men, women and even children were abducted by the right-wing military government in Argentina. W
7. S01E07The Good FightAugust 9, 1988—Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to fight the spread of fascism. At 18, 19 and 2
8. S01E08Louie BluieAugust 23, 1988—A lively portrait of 76-year-old Harold "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, musician, artist, raconteur and rogue.
9. S01E09Gates of HeavenAugust 30, 1988—On the surface, this is a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries and their owners. But then it grows much more complicated and bizarre,
10. S01E10Best BoySeptember 6, 1988—Hailed by many critics as a classic, Best Boy is the moving story of Philly, a 53-year-old mentally-disabled man who adapts to an independen
11. S01E11Rate It XJuly 26, 1988—Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men only are interviewed by the two filmmakers
12. S01E12Metropolitan AvenueAugust 16, 1988—Metropolitan Avenue is an inspiring contemporary story about women who strive to combine new roles and old values in our rapidly changing so

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01GirltalkJuly 15, 1989—A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican girl, refuses to go t
2. S02E02Who Killed Vincent Chin?July 16, 1989—On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he con
3. S02E03Coming OutJuly 23, 1989—The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC -- a meticulously planned ritual where n
4. S02E04Wise Guys!July 23, 1989—A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-kid law student squar
5. S02E05The Family AlbumJuly 30, 1989—Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves from childhood to ad
6. S02E06Dark CircleAugust 6, 1989—Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and immediate impacts of the
7. S02E07Jack Levine: Feast of Pure ReasonAugust 13, 1989—A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering corrupt polit
8. S02E08No Applause, Just Throw MoneyAugust 20, 1989—On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by, imitate Stevie Wonder, tap dance and pe
9. S02E09Partisans of VilnaAugust 27, 1989—The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.
10. S02E10The Fighting MinistersSeptember 3, 1989—Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the city's go
11. S02E11BingeSeptember 17, 1989—Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her wei
12. S02E12Cowboy PoetsSeptember 17, 1989—For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. Several contemporary poet lariats keep th
13. S02E13Doug and Mike, Mike and DougSeptember 17, 1989—The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly gaining accl
14. S02E14Lost AngelesSeptember 24, 1989—The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01Through the WireJune 26, 1990—An underground, high-security isolation unit at the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was built to house three female inmates convicted
2. S03E02Metamorphosis: Man Into WomanJuly 3, 1990—Gary, a 39 year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. A candid, non-sensat
3. S03E03Larry WrightJuly 10, 1990—With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing
4. S03E04On IceJuly 10, 1990—Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two science buffs-turned-film
5. S03E05SalesmanJuly 24, 1990—In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they wal
6. S03E06Police ChiefsJuly 31, 1990—Three big-city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. Daryl Gates introduced SWAT to Los Angeles. Anthony B
7. S03E07Kamala and RajiAugust 7, 1990—Two poor women in India attempt to improve their lives. Kamala and Raji's resourcefulness, aspirations, and capacity for joy shatter stereot
8. S03E08Days of WaitingAugust 15, 1990—Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to
9. S03E09GolubAugust 14, 1990—The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopping mall. More than a portrait of the so
10. S03E10Green StreetsAugust 21, 1990—If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Community gardens in New York City have helped to nourish neighborhoo
11. S03E11Going UpAugust 21, 1990—The creation of a skyscraper is transformed into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and constructio
12. S03E12MotelAugust 28, 1990—Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fate. Veteran filmmake
13. S03E13Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan MonkSeptember 4, 1990—Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age
14. S03E14¡Teatro!September 4, 1990—Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras to enlighten and in
15. S03E15People PowerSeptember 11, 1990—After years of witnessing firsthand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the
16. S03E16Letter to the Next GenerationJuly 17, 1990—Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators,

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01Absolutely PositiveJune 18, 1991—Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about having HIV. Alternately
2. S04E02Marc and AnnJune 25, 1991—Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as the music itself. Legendary filmmaker Les
3. S04E03Plena Is Work, Plena Is SongJune 25, 1991—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
4. S04E04Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin ThingJune 25, 1991—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 rh
5. S04E05Honorable NationsJuly 2, 1991—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, und
6. S04E06Chemical ValleyJuly 9, 1991—A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused the disaster in Bhopal, India, has alar
7. S04E07Sea of OilJuly 9, 1991—The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger and greed oozed through the small, form
8. S04E08Turn Here Sweet CornJuly 9, 1991—A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves
9. S04E09Tongues UntiedJuly 16, 1991—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 inter
10. S04E10Berkeley in the SixtiesJuly 23, 1991—From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became synonymous with a g
11. S04E11A Little ViciousJuly 30, 1991—A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantly crafted, wryly narrated by Kevin Bacon
12. S04E12The Big BangAugust 6, 1991—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. S04E13Maria's StoryAugust 13, 1991—Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led to the historic peace pact
14. S04E14Homes ApartAugust 20, 1991—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 j
15. S04E15Where the Heart RoamsJuly 30, 1991—Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has
16. S04E16Casting the First StoneSeptember 3, 1991—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
17. S04E17Short Notice: A Series of Short FilmsSeptember 3, 1991—

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

1. S05E01Episode 1June 15, 1992—
2. S05E02Intimate StrangerJune 22, 1992—
3. S05E03Finding ChristaJune 29, 1992—
4. S05E04Last Images of WarJuly 6, 1992—
5. S05E05The Longest ShadowJuly 6, 1992—
6. S05E06A Season in HellJuly 20, 1992—
7. S05E07Promise Not to TellJuly 27, 1992—
8. S05E08Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas PriestAugust 3, 1992—Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest is a TV series.
9. S05E09Fast Food WomenAugust 10, 1992—
10. S05E10TakeoverAugust 10, 1992—
11. S05E11Faith Even to the FireAugust 21, 1992—
12. S05E12Louisiana Boys: Raised on PoliticsAugust 31, 1992—
13. S05E13Pets or MeatSeptember 28, 1992—
14. S05E14Roger and MeSeptember 28, 1992—

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

1. S06E01Silverlake Life: The View From HereJune 15, 1993—
2. S06E02Who's Going To Pay For These Donuts, Anyway?June 22, 1993—
3. S06E03When Your Head's Not A Head, It's A NutJune 29, 1993—
4. S06E04Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai LamaJuly 6, 1993—
5. S06E05For Better Or For WorseJuly 13, 1993—
6. S06E06MotelJuly 20, 1993—
7. S06E07Money ManAugust 3, 1993—
8. S06E08Building Bombs: The LegacyAugust 10, 1993—
9. S06E09Miami-HavanaAugust 17, 1993—
10. S06E10Cousin BobbyAugust 24, 1993—Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Demme's cousin, Robert W. Castle, an Episco
11. S06E11The Women Next DoorAugust 24, 1993—
12. S06E12Sa-I-GuSeptember 10, 1993—

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

1. S07E01Time IndefiniteJune 7, 1994—
2. S07E02One Nation Under GodJune 14, 1994—
3. S07E03Memories of TataJune 28, 1994—
4. S07E04The End of the NightstickJuly 5, 1994—
5. S07E05The Heart of the MatterJuly 12, 1994—
6. S07E06Passin' It OnJuly 19, 1994—Passin' It On is a 1993 documentary film directed by Jon Valadez.
7. S07E07Hearts of DarknessJuly 26, 1994—
8. S07E08Dialogues with MadwomenAugust 2, 1994—Dialogues with Madwomen is a 1993 documentary by Allie Light focusing on mental illness in women.
9. S07E09The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran-Contra ScandalAugust 9, 1994—
10. S07E10Escape From ChinaJune 21, 1994—

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

1. S08E01Leona's Sister GerriJune 1, 1995—
2. S08E02Complaints of a Dutiful DaughterJune 6, 1995—Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a 1994 documentary film directed by Deborah Hoffmann, with her wife, Frances Reid, as cinematographer. I
3. S08E03No Place Like HomeJune 13, 1995—
4. S08E04Out of SightJune 20, 1995—
5. S08E05Satya: A Prayer for the EnemyJune 14, 1995—Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy is a 1995 short documentary film directed by Ellen Bruno.
6. S08E06Lighting the 7th FireJuly 4, 1995—
7. S08E07Twitch and ShoutJuly 11, 1995—
8. S08E08Home Economics: A Documentary of SuburbiaJuly 18, 1995—
9. S08E09Dealers Among DealersJuly 25, 1995—Dealers Among Dealers is a 1995 documentary film directed by Gaylen Ross.
10. S08E10Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My BusinessOctober 6, 1995—

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

1. S09E01Taking On The KennedysMay 28, 1996—
2. S09E02¡Palante Siempre Palante! The Young LordsJune 1, 1996—
3. S09E03Personal BelongingsJune 11, 1996—
4. S09E04A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre LordeJune 18, 1996—A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde is a 1995 documentary film directed by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson.
5. S09E05a.k.a. Don BonusJune 25, 1996—"Although Ny admits that it is very uncomfortable for a traditional Cambodian family to talk about its secrets publicly, Sokly “Don Bonus” N
6. S09E06No Loans TodayJuly 2, 1996—
7. S09E07The TransformationJuly 9, 1996—
8. S09E08The Women OutsideJuly 16, 1996—
9. S09E09Just For The RideJuly 23, 1996—
10. S09E10Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering MyselfJuly 30, 1996—
11. S09E11Xich-lo (Cyclo)July 30, 1996—
12. S09E12Taken for a RideAugust 6, 1996—This documentary exposes the role of General Motors' in the "Great American Street Car Scandal" of the 1930s. The scandal involved the disma
13. S09E13Maya Lin: A Strong Clear VisionNovember 27, 1996—

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

1. S10E01Nobody's BusinessJune 3, 1997—
2. S10E02Battle for the MindsJune 10, 1997—
3. S10E03A Healthy Baby GirlJune 17, 1997—
4. S10E04Jesse's GoneJune 24, 1997—
5. S10E05Fear and Learning at Hoover ElementaryJuly 1, 1997—
6. S10E06Who Is Henry Jaglom?July 8, 1997—Who Is Henry Jaglom? is a 1997 documentary film directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman.
7. S10E07In Whose Honor?July 15, 1997—Takes a critical look at the long-standing practice of 'honoring' American Indians by using their names for mascots and sports teams and del
8. S10E08Girls Like UsJuly 22, 1997—
9. S10E09Blacks and JewsJuly 29, 1997—
10. S10E10A Perfect CandidateAugust 5, 1997—Disproving the adage that there are no second acts in American life, Iran/Contra legend Oliver North re-emerged to challenge incumbent Charl

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

1. S11E01Baby, It's YouJune 2, 1998—
2. S11E02Tobacco BluesJune 9, 1998—
3. S11E03The BandJune 16, 1998—
4. S11E04Licensed to KillJune 23, 1998—
5. S11E05Kelly Loves TonyJune 30, 1998—
6. S11E06If I Can't Do ItJuly 7, 1998—
7. S11E07Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized TourJuly 14, 1998—
8. S11E08The Vanishing LineJuly 21, 1998—
9. S11E09SacrificeJuly 28, 1998—
10. S11E10She Shorts: Cuba 15August 4, 1998—
11. S11E11She Shorts: Repetition CompulsionAugust 4, 1998—
12. S11E12She Shorts: Two or Three Things But Nothing For SureAugust 4, 1998—
13. S11E13Family NameSeptember 15, 1998—

Season 11 ranked & reviewed

1. S12E01The LegacyJune 1, 1999—
2. S12E02Well-Founded FearJune 5, 1999 6.3Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its title from the formal d
3. S12E03Golden ThreadsJune 8, 1999—
4. S12E04In My CornerJune 22, 1999—
5. S12E05The Green MonsterJune 29, 1999—
6. S12E06Rabbit In The MoonJuly 6, 1999—
7. S12E07Corpus: A Home Movie For SelenaJuly 13, 1999—Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
8. S12E08School Prayer: A Community At WarJuly 20, 1999—
9. S12E09The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez GomezJuly 27, 1999—The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.
10. S12E10Regret to InformJanuary 24, 2000—Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documenta

Season 12 ranked & reviewed

1. S13E01ButterflyJune 20, 2000—Chronicling the two-year “tree-sit” by environmental activist Julia Hill, examining the controversy over clear-cutting in old-growth Norther
2. S13E02La BodaJune 27, 2000—“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during the six days prior to her nuptials. Bride-to-be Elizabeth Luis,
3. S13E03Stranger With A CameraJuly 11, 2000—Stranger With A Camera is a 2000 documentary film by director Elizabeth Barret investigating the circumstances surrounding the 1967 death of
4. S13E04BlinkJuly 18, 2000—Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a California college, discusses why he became a racist and why he
5. S13E05Our House in HavanaJuly 25, 2000—Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar planter, as she returns to her homeland after an absence of 37 years
6. S13E06DreamlandAugust 22, 2000—Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Vegas residents living with constant temptation. “The hardest par
7. S13E07American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's LandAugust 29, 2000 7.0Exploring the secretive and largely unassimilated Romani culture as it follows one Spokane, Wash., Gypsy family. That family, the Markses, h
8. S13E08KPFA on the AirSeptember 20, 2000—A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, the Pacifica Foundation's eclectic flagship, based in Berkeley,
9. S13E09Live Free or DieSeptember 27, 2000—Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. town, Bedford, N.H. It focuses on OB/GYN Wayne Goldner, who perf
10. S13E10First Person PluralDecember 18, 2000—A Korean-American adoptee tries to forge relationships with her biological family as she sorts out her feelings toward her adoptive one in “

Season 13 ranked & reviewed

1. S14E01Scout's HonorJune 19, 2001—
2. S14E02The Sweetest SoundJune 26, 2001—
3. S14E03My American Girls: A Dominican StoryJuly 3, 2001—
4. S14E04Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu StoryJuly 10, 2001—
5. S14E05True-Hearted VixensJuly 17, 2001—
6. S14E06Take It from MeJuly 24, 2001—
7. S14E07In the Light of ReverenceAugust 14, 2001—A beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect
8. S14E08Life and DebtAugust 21, 2001—Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy o
9. S14E09High SchoolAugust 28, 2001—
10. S14E105 GirlsOctober 2, 2001—
11. S14E11PromisesDecember 13, 2001—

Season 14 ranked & reviewed

1. S15E01HybridJuly 9, 2002—Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.
2. S15E02Refrigerator MothersJuly 16, 2002—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 rai
3. S15E03Fenceline: A Company Town DividedJuly 23, 2002—How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
4. S15E04Sweet Old SongJuly 30, 2002—Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
5. S15E05Mai's AmericaAugust 6, 2002—A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.
6. S15E06Senorita ExtraviadaAugust 20, 2002—Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.
7. S15E07EscuelaAugust 27, 2002—A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
8. S15E08Afghanistan 1380September 10, 2002—Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan.
9. S15E09BoomtownJuly 2, 2002—
10. S15E11Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard RustinJanuary 20, 2003—Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Sing
11. S15E12Two Towns of JasperJanuary 22, 2023—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 cri
12. S15E13Flag WarsJune 17, 2003—A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.
13. S15E14Larry v. LockneyJuly 1, 2003—A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during random testing.

Season 15 ranked & reviewed

1. S16E01Discovering DomingaJuly 8, 2003—Massacre survivor Denese Becker returns to her Guatemalan village on a journey of self-discovery and to find her roots.
2. S16E02Georgie GirlJune 22, 2003—What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand by a conservative, rural district?
3. S16E03The Flute PlayerJuly 22, 2003—Musician Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, travels to his native Cambodia to face his past.
4. S16E0490 MilesJuly 29, 2003 6.390 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar
5. S16E05American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'iAugust 5, 2003—Few American icons are as well known for their popular kitsch as the hula dance. From old Hollywood movies to entertainment for tourists, th
6. S16E06West 47th StreetAugust 19, 2003—West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Med
7. S16E07Family FundamentalsAugust 26, 2003—Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.
8. S16E08Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth SectionSeptember 2, 2003—The experiences of Mexican-Americans participating in the Vietnam War.
9. S16E09State of DenialSeptember 16, 2003—State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of
10. S16E10What I Want My Words to Do to YouDecember 16, 2003—Eve Ensler conducts a writing workshop for female inmates at a state prison in New York.
11. S16E11Larry v. LockneyJuly 1, 2003—
12. S16E12Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural KansasJune 29, 2004—Filmmaker Richard Kassebaum chronicles his brother Bill's run for the Kansas House of Representatives.
13. S16E13Love & DianeApril 21, 2004—Flag Wars is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, Ohio fight to hold on

Season 16 ranked & reviewed

1. S17E01FarmingvilleJune 22, 2004—"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farmi
2. S17E02War Feels Like WarJuly 6, 2004—War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. For three months,
3. S17E03ThirstJuly 13, 2004—Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, Calif.
4. S17E04Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas StyleJuly 20, 2004—What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance
5. S17E05A Family UndertakingAugust 3, 2004 5.0The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into the family's hands.
6. S17E06Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love StoryAugust 24, 2004—A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.
7. S17E07Every Mother's SonAugust 17, 2004—Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.
8. S17E08Freedom MachinesSeptember 14, 2004—Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people a
9. S17E09A Panther in AfricaSeptember 21, 2004—Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.
10. S17E10Chisholm '72February 7, 2005—Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.
11. S17E11The Education of Shelby KnoxJune 21, 2005—Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.
12. S17E12Big EnoughJune 28, 2005—Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."
13. S17E13Lost Boys of SudanSeptember 28, 2004—Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
14. S17E14WattstaxSeptember 7, 2004—Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Wat
15. S17E15Episode 15June 29, 2004 8.0
16. S17E16Episode 16September 21, 2004—

Season 17 ranked & reviewed

1. S18E01Chisholm `72: Unbought & UnbossedFebruary 7, 2005—Chisholm `72: Unbought Unbossed is a PBS P.O.V. documentary about Shirley Chisholm.
2. S18E02The Education of Shelby KnoxJune 21, 2005—The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming-of-age story of public speaker and feminist Shelby Knox, a teena
3. S18E03Big EnoughJune 28, 2005—A follow-up to the 1982 Emmy-nominated film Little People, Big Enough is a 2004 documentary film about Anu Trombino, Karla and John Lizzo, L
4. S18E04Street FightJuly 5, 2005—
5. S18E05The Fire Next TimeJuly 12, 2005—
6. S18E06The Brooklyn ConnectionJuly 19, 2005—
7. S18E07The Self-Made ManJuly 26, 2005—
8. S18E08In the Realms of the UnrealAugust 2, 2005—In the Realms of the Unreal is a 2004 documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. An obscure janitor during his life, Darger is known f
9. S18E09HardwoodAugust 16, 2005—Hardwood is a 2005 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his father, former Harlem Globetrotters memb
10. S18E10Bright LeavesAugust 23, 2005—Bright Leaves is a 2003 documentary film by independent filmmaker Ross McElwee about the association his family had with the tobacco industr
11. S18E11Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the HolocaustAugust 30, 2005—Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jew and son of German
12. S18E12The Hobart ShakespeareansSeptember 6, 2005—The Hobart Shakespeareans of Hobart Boulevard Elementary School is a 2005 documentary film that tells the story of the inspirational inner-c
13. S18E13Omar & PeteSeptember 13, 2005—
14. S18E14A Thousand WordsAugust 16, 2005—
15. S18E15A Song for DanielAugust 23, 2005—
16. S18E16I Used to Be a FilmmakerAugust 16, 2005—

Season 18 ranked & reviewed

1. S19E01No More Tears SisterJune 27, 2006—A story of love, revolution and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the price of truth in times of war. Set during the violent ethnic co
2. S19E02Kokoyakyu: High School BaseballJuly 4, 2006—In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many of the country's youth, the sport has become a rite of passage
3. S19E03Tintin and IJuly 11, 2006—Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate us decades after their publication? "Tint
4. S19E04The Fall of FujimoriJuly 18, 2006—In 1990, an unknown candidate named Alberto Fujimori rode a wave of popular support to become the president of Peru. He fought an allout war
5. S19E05The TailendersJuly 25, 2006—Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and a
6. S19E06Al Otro LadoAugust 1, 2006—The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte and the late Chalino Sanchez—
7. S19E07Lomax the SonghunterAugust 22, 2006—Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the r
8. S19E08Waging a LivingAugust 29, 2006—The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans — one in fo
9. S19E09The Boys of BarakaSeptember 12, 2006—Devon, Montrey, Richard, and Romesh are just at that age — 12 and 13 years old — when boys start to become men. But in their hometown of Bal
10. S19E10Twelve Disciples of Nelson MandelaSeptember 19, 2006—In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but w
11. S19E11No Bigger Than a MinuteOctober 3, 2006—"My name is Steven, and I am a dwarf..." So begins No Bigger than a Minute, a stylishly eclectic documentary film that introduces viewers to
12. S19E12Maquilapolis: City of FactoriesOctober 10, 2006—Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned by the world's largest multinational cor
13. S19E13My Country, My CountryOctober 24, 2006 6.5My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras.
14. S19E14LawnJuly 11, 2006—

Season 19 ranked & reviewed

1. S20E01Rain in a Dry LandJune 19, 2007—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?"
2. S20E02Sierra Leone's Refugee All StarsJune 26, 2007—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
3. S20E03Standing Silent NationJuly 3, 2007—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 he
4. S20E04Revolution '67July 10, 2007—Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history – the black urban rebellions of the 196
5. S20E05The Chances of the World ChangingJuly 17, 2007 6.0A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescuing endangered turtl
6. S20E06Prison Town, USAJuly 24, 2007—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
7. S20E07Following SeanJuly 31, 2007—Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits living in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury di
8. S20E08Arctic SonAugust 21, 2007—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 Arc
9. S20E09Libby, MontanaAugust 28, 2007—Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a representation of America’s “purple mountain majesties” as one
10. S20E10Made in L.A.September 4, 2007—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 2
11. S20E11The Camden 28September 11, 2007—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 pro
12. S20E12LumoSeptember 18, 2007—The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the Rwanda border, vying militias, armies an
13. S20E1349 UpOctober 9, 2007—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 tha
14. S20E14Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony KushnerDecember 12, 2007—Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country’s leading playwrights

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