POV

by Martha Olson and Jim Klein and

Broadcast Date: August 6, 1996

A startling expose of General Motors' role in dismantling street car transportation in the 1930's and in catapulting the automobile to the center of our national culture.

by M. Trinh Nguyen

Broadcast Date: July 30, 1996

A meditative journey of a Vietnamese woman, now a U.S. citizen, who returns to her homeland and wonders where she really belongs.

by Yvonne Welbon

Broadcast Date: July 30, 1996

Yvonne Welbon presents a witty and original coming-to-terms with race, culture and self. A six year stay in Taiwan transforms her understanding of what it means to be an African American and illuminates her connection to her Honduran-born grandmother.

by J.T.Orinne Takagi and Hye Jung Park

Broadcast Date: July 16, 1996

A provocative, emotional journey into the lives of women who work in the brothels, bars and nightclubs around U.S. military bases in South Korea.

by Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aiken

Broadcast Date: July 9, 1996

Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. Today he is a churchgoing, married man, saved by a Dallas ministry.

by Lisanne Skyler

Broadcast Date: July 2, 1996

The ABC Loan Co. of South Central Los Angeles, a successful black-owned pawnshop, is a unique entree to inspiring stories of economic and emotional survival.

by Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Don Bonus Ny

Broadcast Date: June 25, 1996

A raw and revealing video diary by a Cambodian-born teenager who now lives in San Francisco's inner city.

by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

Broadcast Date: June 18, 1996

Poet, lover, mother, warrior — Audre Lorde wrote passionately of love and anger, civil rights and sexuality, family politics and the glories of nature. (60 minutes)

by Steven Bognar

Broadcast Date: June 11, 1996

Bela Bognar is no ordinary American dad. Now a suburbanite, he once fought against Soviet domination during the Hungarian revolution. Ever since, his life has been a longing for the glories of the past. Steven Bognar crafts a moving portrait of his father's 40-year quest for identity and home.