POV - Season 3

1. Through the Wire

Aired: 6/26/1990

Produced in association with Amnesty International, THROUGH THE WIRE examines a controversial, underground high security isolation unit located in the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, built to house three female inmates convicted of politically-motivated crimes, and the international campaign to close the unit on humanitarian grounds.

2. Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman

Aired: 7/3/1990

3. Larry Wright

Aired: 7/10/1990

4. On Ice

Aired: 7/10/1990

5. Salesman

Aired: 7/24/1990

6. Police Chiefs

Aired: 7/31/1990

7. Kamala And Raji

Aired: 8/7/1990

8. Days of Waiting

Aired: 8/15/1990

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. Vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos and paintings, Days of Waiting reveals the shattering relocation experience from an "outsider's" perspective.

9. Golub

Aired: 8/14/1990

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

10. Green Streets

Aired: 8/21/1990

If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Maria De Luca's Green Streets charts the spontaneous emergence of community gardens in New York City and how they've helped to nourish neighborhood pride, racial tolerance and a budding sense of hope for hundreds of enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.

11. Going Up

Aired: 8/21/1990

The creation of a skyscraper is transformed by director Gary Pollard 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.

12. Motel

Aired: 8/28/1990

13. Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk

Aired: 9/4/1990

14. ¡Teatro!

Aired: 9/4/1990

15. People Power

Aired: 9/11/1990

16. Letter To The Next Generation

Aired: 7/17/1990