POV
Season 12
199910 episodes
Episode 1
The Legacy
Jun 1, 19991h
Episode 2
Well-Founded Fear
Jun 5, 19991h
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
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.
Episode 3
Golden Threads
Jun 8, 19991h
Episode 4
In My Corner
Jun 22, 19991h
Episode 5
The Green Monster
Jun 29, 19991h
Episode 6
Rabbit In The Moon
Jul 6, 19991h
Episode 7
Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena
Jul 13, 19991h
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.
Episode 8
School Prayer: A Community At War
Jul 20, 19991h
Episode 9
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez
Jul 27, 19991h
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.
Episode 10
Regret to Inform
Jan 24, 20001h
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.