2010 POV Season
by Judith Ehrlich , Rick Goldsmith
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In 1971, a whistleblower's daring act of conscience led directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.
by Robert Kenner
Premiere: April 21, 2010
In Food, Inc., producer-director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan lift the veil on the U.S. food industry ...
by Ariana Gerstein , Monteith McCollum
Premiere: April 21, 2010
Notes on Milk is a short variation of the 2007 feature documentary Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Filmmakers Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America’s favorite drink: the industry’s spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.
by Emily Kunstler , Sarah Kunstler
Premiere: June 22, 2010
In this intimate biography, Kunstler's daughters seek to recover the real story of what made their late father one of the most beloved, and hated, lawyers in America.
by Agnès Varda
Premiere: June 29, 2010
In this delightful memoir, the award-winning French filmmaker employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy.
by Yoruba Richen
Premiere: July 6, 2010
Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved — and the most potentially explosive issue is land.
by Landon Van Soest
Premiere: July 13, 2010
Good Fortune is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
by Natalia Almada
Premiere: July 20, 2010
Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006) brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became Mexico’s president in 1924.
by Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
Premiere: July 27, 2010
Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. The award-winning Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga.