1996 POV Season
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 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 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.
