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Season 4

POV Season 4

June. 15,1991
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POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 14-16 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 300 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, including Michael Moore, Jonathan Demme, Terry Zwigoff, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, Michael Apted, Frederick Wiseman, Marlon Riggs, and Ross McElwee have had work screened as part of the POV series. The series has garnered both critical and industry acclaim over its 20-plus years on television. POV programs have also won major industry awards including three Oscars, 32 Emmys, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, 15 Peabody Awards, 11 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.

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POV Season 4 Full Episode Guide

Episode 17 - Casting The First Stone
First Aired: September. 03,1991

Episode 16 - Short Notice: A Series of Short Films
First Aired: September. 03,1991

Episode 15 - Where the Heart Roams
First Aired: July. 30,1991

Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious and all the endings are happy.

Episode 14 - Homes Apart: The Two Koreas
First Aired: August. 20,1991

Episode 13 - Maria's Story: A Documentary Portrait of Love and Survival in El Salvador's Civil War
First Aired: August. 13,1991

Episode 12 - The Big Bang
First Aired: August. 06,1991

Episode 11 - A Little Vicious
First Aired: July. 30,1991

A Little Vicious is a 1991 short documentary film directed by Immy Humes. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Episode 10 - Berkeley In The Sixties
First Aired: July. 23,1991

Episode 9 - Tongues Untied
First Aired: July. 16,1991

Episode 8 - Turn Here Sweet Corn
First Aired: July. 09,1991

Episode 7 - Sea Of Oil
First Aired: July. 09,1991

Episode 6 - Chemical Valley
First Aired: July. 09,1991

Episode 5 - Honorable Nations
First Aired: July. 02,1991

Marlon Rigg' "Tongues Untied" rises above the 'deeply personal' - far above it - in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns ( and sometimes all at once), it jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem. Craig Seligman, San Francisco Examiner A daring, visionary work that speaks with the eloquence of barbed wire. Steve Dollar, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Episode 4 - Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing
First Aired: June. 25,1991

Episode 3 - Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song
First Aired: June. 25,1991

Episode 2 - Marc And Ann
First Aired: June. 25,1991

Episode 1 - Absolutely Positive
First Aired: June. 15,1991

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