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The Best Episodes of POV Season 3

Every episode of POV Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 3 Episode 1 - Through the Wire
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    #1 - Through the Wire

    S3:E1

    An underground, high-security isolation unit at the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was built to house three female inmates convicted of politically motivated crimes. An international campaign advocates closing the controversial unit on humanitarian grounds.

    Director:Nina Rosenblum
    Writer:Nina Rosenblum

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  2. POV Season 3 Episode 2 - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
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    #2 - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman

    S3:E2

    Gary, a 39 year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. A candid, non-sensational and sometimes humorous journey of nearly three years during which Gary prepares physically and emotionally for sex reassignment surgery, the film raises provocative questions about what really makes us men and women.

    Director:Lisa Leeman
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 3 Episode 3 - Larry Wright
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    #3 - Larry Wright

    S3:E3

    With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing talent. A rousing tribute to the Harlem youth and the rich culture of the urban streets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 3 Episode 4 - On Ice
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    #4 - On Ice

    S3:E4

    Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two science buffs-turned-film-majors. Alternately deadpan and dead serious, the film features commentary from Timothy Leary, a theologian, and skeptical scientists.

    Directors:Andrew Takeuchi, Grover Babcock
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 3 Episode 5 - Salesman
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    #5 - Salesman

    S3:E5

    In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. The critics used all the superlatives on this one, and it's as fresh today as when it was originally released.

    Directors:Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 3 Episode 6 - Police Chiefs
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    #6 - Police Chiefs

    S3:E6

    Three big-city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. Daryl Gates introduced SWAT to Los Angeles. Anthony Bouza ruffled feathers in Minneapolis. Lee Brown recently left Houston for New York. These top cops' ideas about the causes and cures of crime are as varied as their personalities.

    Directors:Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 3 Episode 7 - Kamala and Raji
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    #7 - Kamala and Raji

    S3:E7

    Two poor women in India attempt to improve their lives. Kamala and Raji's resourcefulness, aspirations, and capacity for joy shatter stereotypes of Indian women as voiceless figures leading desolate lives of abject poverty. They have joined a growing organization of street vendors and laborers; the husbands and wholesalers of Ahmedabad may never be the same.

    Director:Michael Camerini
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 3 Episode 8 - Days of Waiting
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    #8 - Days of Waiting

    S3:E8

    Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to do so. An "outsider's" perspective on the shattering experience of relocation is vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos, and paintings.

    Director:Steven Okazaki
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 3 Episode 9 - Golub
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    #9 - Golub

    S3:E9

    The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopping mall. More than a portrait of the socially committed painter Leon Golub, whose massive canvases are intended to provoke viewers, this film is about media and contemporary society, social responsibility and creativity, art and information.

    Director:Jerry Blumenthal
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 3 Episode 10 - Green Streets
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    #10 - Green Streets

    S3:E10

    If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Community gardens in New York City have helped to nourish neighborhood pride, racial tolerance, and a budding sense of hope for hundreds of enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.

    Director:Maria DeLuca
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 3 Episode 11 - Going Up
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    #11 - Going Up

    S3:E11

    The creation of a skyscraper is transformed into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and construction worker choreography are set to a score by 15 new music composers in an urban ballet forty stories above New York harbor.

    Director:Gary Pollard
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 3 Episode 12 - Motel
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    #12 - Motel

    S3:E12

    Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fate. Veteran filmmaker Christian Blackwood winds his way into the soul of remarkable people in uniquely American subculture.

    Director:Christian Blackwood
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 3 Episode 13 - Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk
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    #13 - Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk

    S3:E13

    Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age of four. At seven, his monastic order recognized Ossian as a tulku — a reincarnation of a high Tibetan lama. Ossian offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a young man who embodies a surprising meeting of Eastern and Western culture.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. POV Season 3 Episode 14 - ¡Teatro!
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    #14 - ¡Teatro!

    S3:E14

    Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras to enlighten and inspire villagers in the impoverished countryside.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. POV Season 3 Episode 15 - People Power
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    #15 - People Power

    S3:E15

    After years of witnessing firsthand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank to explore the development of "People Power" and to reexamine his own long-held belief in the necessary evil of violence to overthrow repressive governments. Set against the background of a predominantly nonviolent transformation of Eastern Europe, this is the first film to examine and evaluate nonviolence as an effective strategy for political change.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. POV Season 3 Episode 16 - Letter to the Next Generation
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    #16 - Letter to the Next Generation

    S3:E16

    Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a '60s radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the '90s.

    Director:Jim Klein
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Through the Wire" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Nina Rosenblum and written by Nina Rosenblum, it aired on 6/26/1990. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman".