2007 POV Season
by Andy Blubaugh
Broadcast Date: December 12, 2007
Scaredycat takes as a point of departure the beating of the filmmaker at the hands of a gang of young men who called themselves "The Portland Riders." (15 minutes)
by Freida Lee Mock
Broadcast Date: December 12, 2007
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America begins a revival run in New York this week, is one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics.
by Michael Apted
Broadcast Date: 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. (120 minutes)
by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III and Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True
Broadcast Date: 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. (60 minutes)
by Anthony Giacchino
Broadcast Date: 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 activists protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban America.
by May Lin Au Yong
Broadcast Date: September 4, 2007
Nine-year old Jyeshria wants a bullet proof vest — and she's dead serious. In Richmond, California, children don't walk to school; not if they want to live past the age of 18. (5 minutes)
by May Lin Au Yong
Broadcast Date: September 4, 2007
A reflection on a mother's resolute love as she confronts the fragile promise of life through the eyes of her son. (7 minutes)
by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Broadcast Date: September 4, 2007
Follow the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their long battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table. (90 minutes)
by Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr
Broadcast Date: 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. (60 minutes)