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The Best Episodes of POV Season 26

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 26 Episode 1 - Homegoings
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    #1 - Homegoings

    S26:E1

    Season 26 opens with "Homegoings," which profiles Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the son of a South Carolina sharecropper whose fascination with burials began as a boy, while also examining the traditions of African-American funerals. Owens' fascination with burials dates to his childhood: He buried matchsticks at age 5, then progressed to actual dead things, including chickens, dogs and even a mule. He moved to NYC at age 17 to learn the craft and, in time, opened his own funeral home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. POV Season 26 Episode 2 - Special Flight
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    #2 - Special Flight

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    Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, and of the wardens who struggle to reconcile humane values with the harsh realities of a strict deportation system. The 25 Frambois inmates featured are among the thousands of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants imprisoned without charge or trial and facing deportation to their native countries, where they fear repression or even death. The film, made in Switzerland, is a heart-wrenching exposé of the contradictions between the country's compassionate social policies and the intractability of its immigration laws.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 26 Episode 3 - Herman's House
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    #3 - Herman's House

    S26:E3

    Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. He works with artist Jackie Sumell to imagine his "dream home," questioning justice and punishment in America.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 26 Episode 4 - Only the Young
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    #4 - Only the Young

    S26:E4

    Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of financial uncertainty.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 26 Episode 5 - xoxosms
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    #5 - xoxosms

    S26:E5

    The modern-day love story of a guy from small-town Illinois who reaches out to a beautiful New York City art student from Korea. They meet in the only place that such different people might ever find each other—online.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 26 Episode 6 - High Tech, Low Life
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    #6 - High Tech, Low Life

    S26:E6

    High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 26 Episode 7 - Neurotypical
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    #7 - Neurotypical

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    A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their lives, work with their perceptual and behavioral differences in a "neurotypical" world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 26 Episode 8 - The Law in These Parts
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #8 - The Law in These Parts

    S26:E8

    For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are interviewed about this system, which mirrors the country’s toughest moral quandaries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 26 Episode 9 - 5 Broken Cameras
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    #9 - 5 Broken Cameras

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    Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was shot by a Palestinian and co-directed by an Israeli.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 26 Episode 10 - Ping Pong
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    #10 - Ping Pong

    S26:E10

    Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. Ping Pong is a meditation on mortality and a joyous tribute to the human spirit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 26 Episode 11 - The World Before Her
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    #11 - The World Before Her

    S26:E11

    The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman leads a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 26 Episode 12 - Best Kept Secret
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    #12 - Best Kept Secret

    S26:E12

    A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and "age out" of a unique and caring support system.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 26 Episode 13 - Brooklyn Castle
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    #13 - Brooklyn Castle

    S26:E13

    Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 national chess championships, the country’s best record.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. POV Season 26 Episode 14 - 56 Up
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #14 - 56 Up

    S26:E14

    In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. POV Season 26 Episode 15 - Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
    3.9/10(17 votes)

    #15 - Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special

    S26:E15

    Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history project StoryCorps, which captures intimate conversations among everyday people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. POV Season 26 Episode 16 - American Promise
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    #16 - American Promise

    S26:E16

    American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan's Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 26 Ratings Summary

"Homegoings" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 26. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/24/2013. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Special Flight".