POV - Season 15
Season 15
Network
DatesJun 25, 2002 - Jan 22, 2003
Episodes
Season 15Episode 160 min
The Smith Family
Jun 25, 2002
Season 15Episode 260 min
Boomtown
It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."
Jul 2, 2002
Season 15Episode 360 min
Hybrid
How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
Jul 9, 2002
Season 15Episode 460 min
Refrigerator Mothers
It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother".Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."Once isolated and unheard, these mothers have emerged with strong, resilient voices to share the details of their personal journeys. Through their poignant stories, Refrigerator Mothers puts a human face on what can happen when authority goes unquestioned and humanity is removed from the search for scientific answers.
Jul 16, 2002
Season 15Episode 560 min
Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.
Jul 23, 2002
Season 15Episode 660 min
Sweet Old Song
Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
Jul 30, 2002
Season 15Episode 760 min
Mai's America
A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
Aug 6, 2002
Season 15Episode 860 min
Señorita Extraviada
Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan. (Dari, Italian and English with English subtitles)
Aug 20, 2002
Season 15Episode 960 min
Escuela
Aug 27, 2002
Season 15Episode 1060 min
Afghanistan Year 1380
Sep 9, 2002
Season 15Episode 1160 min
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.
Jan 20, 2003
Season 15Episode 1260 min
Two Towns of Jasper
Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.
Jan 22, 2003
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