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The Best Episodes of POV Season 25

Every episode of POV Season 25 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 25!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 25 Episode 12 - Nostalgia for the Light
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    S25:E12

    Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light is a remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity. Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea level, provides stunningly clear views of the heavens for astronomers. But it also holds secrets from the past: human remains, from pre-Columbian mummies to the bones of political prisoners "disappeared" during the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. POV Season 25 Episode 2 - Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    S25:E2

    In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war in the 1980s — and Pamela Yates’ 1983 documentary, When the Mountains Tremble, provided key evidence for bringing the indictment. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator tells the extraordinary story of how a film helped tip the scales of justice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 25 Episode 3 - The City Dark
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    S25:E3

    Is darkness becoming extinct? A meditation on the human relationship to the stars.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 25 Episode 1 - My Reincarnation
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E1

    High Tibetan Buddhist Master Chögyal Namkhal Norbu teaches in the West, while his son, Yeshi, breaks from tradition and embraces the modern world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 25 Episode 4 - Guilty Pleasures
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E4

    Every four seconds a romance novel published by Harlequin or its British counterpart, Mills & Boon, is sold somewhere in the world. Julie Moggan’s 'Guilty Pleasures' takes an amusing and touching look at this global phenomenon. Ironies abound in the contrasts between the everyday lives of the books’ readers and the fantasy worlds that offer them escape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 25 Episode 5 - The Light in Her Eyes
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E5

    Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur’an school for girls in Damascus, Syria, 30 years ago. Every summer, her students immerse themselves in a rigorous study of Islam. A surprising cultural shift is underway - women are claiming space within the mosque. Shot right before the uprising in Syria erupted, 'The Light in Her Eyes' offers an extraordinary portrait of a leader.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 25 Episode 6 - Up Heartbreak Hill
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E6

    Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three high school seniors living on the Navajo Nation and struggling to shape their identities as both Native American and modern American. They must decide whether to stay in their community - a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their beings - or leave in pursuit of educational and economic opportunities.

    Director:Erica Scharf
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 25 Episode 7 - POV Short Cuts
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E7

    Five shorts, including "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," about an octogenarian Alabama barber and WWII veteran who carried the American flag across the bridge on the first Selma to Montgomery march of 1965; and "Sin País (Without Country)," about illegal immigrants from Guatemala who, 20 years after arriving in the U.S., are deported to their home country. Also: three StoryCorps animations, including "Eyes on the Stars," about astronaut Ronald McNair.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 25 Episode 8 - I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E8

    Jonathan Demme’s portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans tells the story of Carolyn Parker, a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, who is fighting for the right to rebuild her home and community.

    Director:Jonathan Demme
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 25 Episode 9 - El Velador (The Night Watchman)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E9

    From dusk to dawn, 'El Velador' accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us that, amid the turmoil of a drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, ordinary existence persists in Mexico and quietly defies the dead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 25 Episode 10 - Give Up Tomorrow
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E10

    Exposing shocking corruption within the judicial system of the Philippines in one of the most sensational trials in the country’s history. Two grieving mothers, entangled in a case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment but fails to free an innocent man, dedicate more than a decade to executing or saving him.

    Director:Michael Collins
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 25 Episode 11 - Sun Kissed
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E11

    When a Navajo couple uncovers a hidden link between their children’s rare genetic disorder and the American government’s conquest of their tribe, their lives are changed forever.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 25 Episode 13 - Reportero
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E13

    A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly defy powerful drug cartels and corrupt officials to continue publishing the news in Mexico.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. POV Season 25 Episode 14 - Girl Model
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S25:E14

    A lyrical exploration of youth, beauty and ambition, seen through the eyes of a conflicted American scout and a 13-year-old she discovers.

    Directors:David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 25 Ratings Summary

"Nostalgia for the Light" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 25. It scored 7.8/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/25/2012. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator".