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The Best Episodes of POV Season 2

Every episode of POV Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 2 Episode 1 - Girltalk
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    #1 - Girltalk

    S2:E1

    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, works as a stripper. Martha, who has lived in a dozen foster homes, confronts teenage motherhood. Music, humor, and intimate conversations play against the disturbing reality of these girls' lives.

    Director:Kate Davis
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. POV Season 2 Episode 2 - Who Killed Vincent Chin?
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    #2 - Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    S2:E2

    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 gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 2 Episode 3 - Coming Out
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    #3 - Coming Out

    S2:E3

    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 later are as important to today's debs as the style of the gown or the height of the escort.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 2 Episode 4 - Wise Guys!
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    #4 - Wise Guys!

    S2:E4

    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 Champions. Peek behind the scenes and into the fact-filled minds of contestants in one of America's favorite game shows.

    Director:David Hartwell
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 2 Episode 5 - The Family Album
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    #5 - The Family Album

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Alan Berliner
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 2 Episode 6 - Dark Circle
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    #6 - Dark Circle

    S2:E6

    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 is killing ordinary Americans, even in the absence of a nuclear war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 2 Episode 7 - Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason
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    #7 - Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason

    S2:E7

    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 satirizing the petty foibles of humankind.

    Director:David Sutherland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 2 Episode 8 - No Applause, Just Throw Money
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    #8 - No Applause, Just Throw Money

    S2:E8

    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 music and magic moments, celebrating some joyful encounters in New York City streets.

    Director:Karen Goodman
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 2 Episode 9 - Partisans of Vilna
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    #9 - Partisans of Vilna

    S2:E9

    The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 2 Episode 10 - The Fighting Ministers
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    #10 - The Fighting Ministers

    S2:E10

    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 passionate, controversial, and unorthodox actions lead to profound soul-searching, Church rejection, and imprisonment.

    Director:Richard Wormser
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 2 Episode 11 - Binge
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    #11 - Binge

    S2:E11

    Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her weight.

    Director:Lynn Hershman-Leeson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 2 Episode 12 - Cowboy Poets
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    #12 - Cowboy Poets

    S2:E12

    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 show.

    Director:Kim Shelton
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 2 Episode 13 - Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug
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    #13 - Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Cindy Kleine
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. POV Season 2 Episode 14 - Lost Angeles
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    #14 - Lost Angeles

    S2:E14

    The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.

    Director:Tom Seidman
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Girltalk" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 2. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Kate Davis and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/15/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?".