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The Best Episodes of POV Season 4

Every episode of POV Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of POV Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    POV Season 4 Episode 1 - Absolutely Positive
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    Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about having HIV. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this stirring film is not about being sick; it is about being true to the emotional complexity of being mortal.

    Director:Peter Adair
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. POV Season 4 Episode 2 - Marc and Ann
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    Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as the music itself. Legendary filmmaker Les Blank delves directly into the heart of Cajun country to portray a couple devoted to the preservation of Louisiana French culture in both their personal and public lives. The joy of Cajun music, its signature yelps and wails, filter through many of the kitchens, porches, and dance halls of the Savoys' Eunice, LA, community.

    Director:Les Blank
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. POV Season 4 Episode 3 - Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song
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    Plena is in Puerto Rico what the blues are in the U.S.: a musical expression abounding with romance, daily news, and personal sagas. As the Puerto Rican community grows on the mainland, the infectious rhythms of Puerto Rico's most original contribution to Caribbean urban music are celebrated with gusto.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. POV Season 4 Episode 4 - Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing
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    Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rhyming names. Standing out amidst the lighthearted contests and games are filmmaker Sue Marcoux and her sister Michele, separated by 3,000 miles and a lifetime of anti-twin behavior.

    Director:Sue Marcoux
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. POV Season 4 Episode 5 - Honorable Nations
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    For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, N.Y. have rented the land under their homes for an average of $1/year from the Seneca Indians, under the terms of a lease imposed by Congress. Now, as the lease is about to expire, a century of bad business must be renegotiated. The survival of an American town and justice for the Senecas appear to be in conflict.

    Directors:Chana Gazit, David Steward
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. POV Season 4 Episode 6 - Chemical Valley
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    A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused the disaster in Bhopal, India, has alarmed area residents. But the area's fragile economy depends on the jobs provided by the plant, dividing the community.

    Directors:Mimi Pickering, Anne Lewis Johnson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. POV Season 4 Episode 7 - Sea of Oil
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    The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger and greed oozed through the small, formerly pristine town of Valdez. The human toll of an environmental nightmare is evoked in a haunting film which Exxon and the City of Valdez attempted, unsuccessfully, to suppress.

    Director:M.R. Katzke
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. POV Season 4 Episode 8 - Turn Here Sweet Corn
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    A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, the film juxtaposes innovative video techniques with slices of a simpler, threatened life, in an emotional and personal reflection on the colonization of cornfields by shopping malls.

    Director:Helen De Michiel
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. POV Season 4 Episode 9 - Tongues Untied
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    S4:E9

    Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it means to be black and gay jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem.

    Director:Marlon Riggs
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. POV Season 4 Episode 10 - Berkeley in the Sixties
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    S4:E10

    From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became synonymous with a generation's quest for social, political, and cultural transformation.

    Director:Mark Kitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. POV Season 4 Episode 11 - A Little Vicious
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    A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantly crafted, wryly narrated by Kevin Bacon, and infused with a blend of humor and pathos, Immy Humes' dog-umentary is a quirky, off-beat gem of a film.

    Director:Immy Humes
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. POV Season 4 Episode 12 - The Big Bang
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    S4:E12

    Whether the subject is sex, death, madness or God, The Big Bang never lets up in its weird and wonderful search for the meaning of it all.

    Director:James Toback
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. POV Season 4 Episode 13 - Maria's Story
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    S4:E13

    Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led to the historic peace pact of 1992. Skirting bullets and mortar attacks, recounting a childhood of poverty and abuse by government troops, suffering the tragic loss of her daughter to enemy fire, and spending precious moments with her husband and surviving daughters, Maria brings viewers to the heart of the fight for a more just society.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. POV Season 4 Episode 14 - Homes Apart
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    Ten million families were separated between North and South Korea when the Korean War ended in 1953. Beginning with the story of one man's journey to reunite with his sister in North Korea, the film reveals the personal, social, and political dimensions of the last divided nation on earth.

    Directors:Christine Choy, J.T. Takagi
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. POV Season 4 Episode 15 - Where the Heart Roams
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    S4:E15

    Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious, and all the endings are happy.

    Director:George Paul Csicsery
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. POV Season 4 Episode 16 - Casting the First Stone
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    S4:E16

    Abortion has been at the center of one of the most dramatic and wrenching debates of our times, but the social forces and the changing lives behind the rhetoric are rarely explored. This film draws complex portraits of individuals on both sides of the controversy in a small town in Pennsylvania, where very different life experiences have shaped conflicting values and beliefs.

    Director:Julie Gustafson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. POV Season 4 Episode 17 - Short Notice: A Series of Short Films
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    S4:E17

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Absolutely Positive" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Peter Adair and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/18/1991. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Marc and Ann".