Point of View: Season 17
Season 17 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Point of View Season 16.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 17 Progress Shield
Farmingville
Jun 22, 2004 · 60 min
"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farmingville, a previously unassuming Long Is
War Feels Like War
Jul 6, 2004 · 60 min
War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. For three months, Spanish filmmaker Esteban Manzanares Uy
Thirst
Jul 13, 2004 · 60 min
Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, Calif.
Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style
Jul 20, 2004 · 60 min
What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans f
A Family Undertaking
Aug 3, 2004 · 60 min
The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into the family's hands.
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story
Aug 24, 2004 · 60 min
A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.
Every Mother's Son
Aug 17, 2004 · 60 min
Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.
Freedom Machines
Sep 14, 2004 · 60 min
Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8-93, whose talents and independence
A Panther in Africa
Sep 21, 2004 · 60 min
Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.
The Education of Shelby Knox
Jun 21, 2005
Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.
Big Enough
Jun 28, 2005
Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."
Lost Boys of Sudan
Sep 28, 2004 · 83 min
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
Wattstax
Sep 7, 2004 · 60 min
Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. The film