POV

by Freida Lee Mock

Premiere: December 12, 2007

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from September 11, 2001, up to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play.

by Michael Apted

Premiere: October 9, 2007

In one of documentary cinema's more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up is the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a group of English children every seven years, beginning in 1964.

by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III, Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True

Premiere: September 18, 2007

Lumo Sinai was raped by marauding soldiers in the Congo, which resulted in a fistula, a medical condition that renders her incontinent and threatens her ability to bear children.

by Anthony Giacchino

Premiere: September 11, 2007

How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a draft board office by 'Catholic Left' activists protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban America.

by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

Premiere: September 4, 2007

Encore presentation: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Follow the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles's garment factories and their three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.

by Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr

Premiere: August 28, 2007

In the small town of Libby, many hundreds are sick or have already died from exposure to asbestos, a notorious industrial toxin that many Americans consider long banned or under control.

by Andrew Walton

Premiere: August 21, 2007

A clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the remote village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arctic Circle.

by Ariana Gerstein

Premiere: August 21, 2007

Encore presentation: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM

In the darkness outside of our cities, there are lights that we have forgotten how to see. Alice laments the loss of her view of the universe, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in her environment is the result of "security lighting" for a large corporate storage facility.

by Ralph Arlyck

Premiere: July 31, 2007

Ralph Arlyck goes back to San Francisco to find out what happened to the precocious four-year-old he'd met during the height of the '60s.