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The film tells the story of a determined group of teenagers who, more than two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated their homes and scattered their families, return to New Orleans alone and struggle to graduate from high school. A touching and shocking story of the abandoned children of...
Air date: 09/22/2009
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Filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly talk about their film, The Way We Get By, which takes an intimate look at three elderly troop greeters in Maine, one of whom is Gaudet's mother Joan. The filmmakers talk about how they became close to the characters, what sending a loved one off to war...
Air date: 11/10/2009
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In 1996 POV launched a groundbreaking website, Re: Vietnam | Stories Since the War, which was a place for personal accounts about Vietnam's legacy. It was a companion site to the POV/PBS broadcast of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Clear Strong Vision, about the creator of the...
Air date: 11/12/2009
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Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. "Food, Inc." reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's...
Air date: 04/20/2010
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"Notes on Milk" take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America's favorite drink: the industry's spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.
Air date: 04/21/2010
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