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POV — Season 12
POV (1988)

Season 12

6.3 1999 10 episodes

Episodes

  1. 1. The Legacy

    Jun 1, 1999 1h

  2. 2. Well-Founded Fear

    Jun 5, 1999 1h 6.3

    Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its title from the formal definition of a refugee under the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as a person who deserves protection, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” The film analyzes the US asylum process by following several asylum applicants and asylum officers through actual INS interviews.

  3. 3. Golden Threads

    Jun 8, 1999 1h

  4. 4. In My Corner

    Jun 22, 1999 1h

  5. 5. The Green Monster

    Jun 29, 1999 1h

  6. 6. Rabbit In The Moon

    Jul 6, 1999 1h

  7. 7. Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena

    Jul 13, 1999 1h

    Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. It places emphasis on the transformation of Selena from a popular entertainer into a modern-day saint and role model. This documentary uses authentic home videos, news stories, footage from concerts and a debate between intellectuals to analyze the effect of Selena and Selena’s murder at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan club.

  8. 8. School Prayer: A Community At War

    Jul 20, 1999 1h

  9. 9. The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

    Jul 27, 1999 1h

    The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.

  10. 10. Regret to Inform

    Jan 24, 2000 1h

    Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.