Episode guide
POV: Season 2
14 episodes · premiered Jul 15, 1989
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- Episode 1: Girltalk Jul 15, 1989 · 1h 25m A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican girl, refuses to go to school. Mars, on the streets since age 13…
- Episode 2: Who Killed Vincent Chin? Jul 16, 1989 · 1h On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This…
- Episode 3: Coming Out Jul 23, 1989 · 1h The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC -- a meticulously planned ritual where networking and meeting people who can help you…
- Episode 4: Wise Guys! Jul 23, 1989 · 1h A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-kid law student square off in the Jeopardy! $100,000 Tournament of…
- Episode 5: The Family Album Jul 30, 1989 · 1h Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to experience.
- Episode 6: Dark Circle Aug 6, 1989 · 1h Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and immediate impacts of the nuclear age carries a chilling thesis: The Bomb…
- Episode 7: Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason Aug 13, 1989 · 1h A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering corrupt politicians, raging over social injustices, and…
- Episode 8: No Applause, Just Throw Money Aug 20, 1989 · 1h On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by, imitate Stevie Wonder, tap dance and perform classical music. A delightful mixture of…
- Episode 9: Partisans of Vilna Aug 27, 1989 · 1h The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.
- Episode 10: The Fighting Ministers Sep 3, 1989 · 1h Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the city's government and powerful corporations. Their…
- Episode 11: Binge Sep 17, 1989 · 1h Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her weight.
- Episode 12: Cowboy Poets Sep 17, 1989 · 1h For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. Several contemporary poet lariats keep that tradition alive — even on the Johnny Carson…
- Episode 13: Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug Sep 17, 1989 · 1h The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly gaining acclaim in the art world.
- Episode 14: Lost Angeles Sep 24, 1989 · 1h The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.