NaN/100 votes#1 - My Reincarnation
Season 25 Episode 1 - Aired 6/21/2012
High Tibetan Buddhist Master Chögyal Namkhal Norbu teaches in the West, while his son, Yeshi, breaks from tradition and embraces the modern world.
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7.7/1010 votes#2 - Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Season 25 Episode 2 - Aired 6/28/2012
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.
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7.1/1011 votes#3 - The City Dark
Season 25 Episode 3 - Aired 7/5/2012
Is darkness becoming extinct? A meditation on the human relationship to the stars.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Guilty Pleasures
Season 25 Episode 4 - Aired 7/12/2012
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.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - The Light in Her Eyes
Season 25 Episode 5 - Aired 7/19/2012
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.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Up Heartbreak Hill
Season 25 Episode 6 - Aired 7/26/2012
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
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NaN/100 votes#7 - POV Short Cuts
Season 25 Episode 7 - Aired 8/9/2012
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.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
Season 25 Episode 8 - Aired 9/20/2012
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
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NaN/100 votes#9 - El Velador (The Night Watchman)
Season 25 Episode 9 - Aired 9/27/2012
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.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Give Up Tomorrow
Season 25 Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2012
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
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Sun Kissed
Season 25 Episode 11 - Aired 10/18/2012
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.
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7.5/1010 votes#12 - Nostalgia for the Light
Season 25 Episode 12 - Aired 10/25/2012
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.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Reportero
Season 25 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/2013
A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly defy powerful drug cartels and corrupt officials to continue publishing the news in Mexico.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Girl Model
Season 25 Episode 14 - Aired 3/24/2013
A lyrical exploration of youth, beauty and ambition, seen through the eyes of a conflicted American scout and a 13-year-old she discovers.
Director: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
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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!
Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating...
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Season 25 Ratings Summary
"My Reincarnation" is the best rated episode of "POV" season 25. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/21/2012. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator".