Episode guide
POV: Season 26
16 episodes · premiered Jun 24, 2013
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- Episode 1: Homegoings Jun 24, 2013 · 1h Season 26 opens with "Homegoings," which profiles Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the son of a South Carolina sharecropper whose fascination with burials began as a boy, while also…
- Episode 2: Special Flight Jul 1, 2013 · 1h Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, and of the wardens who struggle to reconcile humane…
- Episode 3: Herman's House Jul 8, 2013 · 1h Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. He works with artist Jackie Sumell to imagine his "dream home," questioning justice and punishment in America.
- Episode 4: Only the Young Jul 15, 2013 · 1h Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of financial uncertainty.
- Episode 5: xoxosms Jul 15, 2013 · 1h The modern-day love story of a guy from small-town Illinois who reaches out to a beautiful New York City art student from Korea. They meet in the only place that such different people…
- Episode 6: High Tech, Low Life Jul 22, 2013 · 1h High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development.
- Episode 7: Neurotypical Jul 29, 2013 · 1h A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their lives, work with their perceptual and behavioral differences in a "neurotypical" world.
- Episode 8: The Law in These Parts Aug 19, 2013 · 1h For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are interviewed about this system, which mirrors the country’s toughest…
- Episode 9: 5 Broken Cameras Aug 26, 2013 · 1h Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was shot by a Palestinian and co-directed by an Israeli.
- Episode 10: Ping Pong Sep 9, 2013 · 1h Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. Ping Pong is a meditation on mortality and a joyous tribute to the human spirit.
- Episode 11: The World Before Her Sep 16, 2013 · 1h The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman leads a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.
- Episode 12: Best Kept Secret Sep 23, 2013 · 1h A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and "age out" of a unique and caring…
- Episode 13: Brooklyn Castle Oct 7, 2013 · 1h Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 national chess championships, the country’s best record.
- Episode 14: 56 Up Oct 14, 2013 · 1h In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56.
- Episode 15: Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special Nov 28, 2013 · 1h Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history project StoryCorps, which captures intimate conversations among everyday people.
- Episode 16: American Promise Feb 3, 2014 · 1h American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best…