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The Best Episodes of POV Season 16

Every episode of POV Season 16 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 16!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 16 Episode 1 - Discovering Dominga
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    #1 - Discovering Dominga

    S16:E1

    Massacre survivor Denese Becker returns to her Guatemalan village on a journey of self-discovery and to find her roots.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. POV Season 16 Episode 2 - Georgie Girl
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    #2 - Georgie Girl

    S16:E2

    What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand by a conservative, rural district? What if that person were also a transsexual? The odds may seem daunting, but Georgina Beyer did it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 16 Episode 3 - The Flute Player
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    #3 - The Flute Player

    S16:E3

    Musician Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, travels to his native Cambodia to face his past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 16 Episode 4 - 90 Miles
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - 90 Miles

    S16:E4

    90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar to become a Marielito and leave Cuba for a better life in Miami. It premiered in 2003 on PBS as part of its P.O.V. series. It won two awards: the Grand Coral, First Prize, for Documentary and the Memoria Documentary Award. 90 Miles recounts the strange twist of fate that took Juan Carlos Zaldívar across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water. It is a journey of a family in search for healing and understanding. Probing and thoughtful, Zaldívar uncovers the emotional distance opened in thousands of families by the 90 miles between the U.S. and Cuba.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 16 Episode 5 - American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i
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    #5 - American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i

    S16:E5

    Few American icons are as well known for their popular kitsch as the hula dance. From old Hollywood movies to entertainment for tourists, the hip-swaying girls in grass skirts and colorful lei have long masked an ancient cultural tradition. Now, after years of being shadowed by stereotypes, the hula is experiencing a rebirth that celebrates Hawaiian culture.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 16 Episode 6 - West 47th Street
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    #6 - West 47th Street

    S16:E6

    West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. "West 47th Street" is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people with serious mental illness as their lives naturally unfold over a three-year period beginning in spring 2001. The characters are all members of Fountain House, a psychiatric rehabilitation programme located on West 47th Street in a part of New York City once known as Hell's Kitchen. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street provided an unprecedented window on the lives of people who are often feared and ignored, seldom understood. The film features Fitzroy Fredericks; Zeinab Wali; Nathanial "Tex" Gordon; and Frances Olivero. The film highlights the faith and courage with which these four people fight to regain control of their lives. Viewers see them on and off the streets, in and out of the hospital, on and off medication, at home and at work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 16 Episode 7 - Family Fundamentals
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    #7 - Family Fundamentals

    S16:E7

    Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 16 Episode 8 - Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section
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    #8 - Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section

    S16:E8

    The experiences of Mexican-Americans participating in the Vietnam War.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 16 Episode 9 - State of Denial
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    #9 - State of Denial

    S16:E9

    State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks. The film follows the stories of HIV positive Africans and activists as well as their careers, interspersed with the harrowing statistics of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. It features various HIV positive patients coping with the disease in times when the use of ARV medicine was strongly discouraged by the South African government. The movie captures the desperation and growing discontent of average South Africans infected and affected by the disease. Some of the subjects interviewed make heartbreaking but inspirational statements about AIDS and how living with it is like.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 16 Episode 10 - What I Want My Words to Do to You
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    #10 - What I Want My Words to Do to You

    S16:E10

    Eve Ensler conducts a writing workshop for female inmates at a state prison in New York.

    Directors:Whitney Dow, Marco Williams
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 16 Episode 11 - Larry v. Lockney
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    #11 - Larry v. Lockney

    S16:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 16 Episode 12 - Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas
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    #12 - Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas

    S16:E12

    Filmmaker Richard Kassebaum chronicles his brother Bill's run for the Kansas House of Representatives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 16 Episode 13 - Love & Diane
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    #13 - Love & Diane

    S16:E13

    Flag Wars is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, Ohio fight to hold on to their homes. Realtors and gay home-buyers see fixer-uppers. The clashes expose prejudice and self-interest on both sides, as well as the common dream to have a home to call your own.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 16 Ratings Summary

"Discovering Dominga" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 16. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/8/2003. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Georgie Girl".