Point of View: Season 22
Season 22 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 21.
- 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 22 Progress Shield
New Muslim Cool
Jun 23, 2009 · 60 min
Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to sta
Beyond Hatred
Jun 30, 2009 · 60 min
In September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking to "do an Arab," when they settled for a gay man instead. Twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu foug
Life.Support.Music
Jul 7, 2009 · 60 min
In 2004, Jason Crigler's life was taking off. He was one of New York's hottest young guitarists, his new CD was due for release and his wife, Monica, was pregnant with their first
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
Jul 14, 2009 · 60 min
The International Criminal Court is the first permanent court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Jul 21, 2009 · 60 min
Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award-nominated directorial debut of renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras in a unique collaboration with the film's subject and co
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Jul 28, 2009 · 60 min
One of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry's heroically forbearing staff gree
Shorts Program
Aug 18, 2009 · 60 min
A collection of short documentaries, including "Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall," about the 7-million-square-foot South China Mall, which was built in 2005 and is
This Way Up
Aug 25, 2009 · 60 min
This is a story about a wall - the separations it's meant to enforce, and the unintended ones it creates. The security wall being constructed by Israel on the West Bank has divided
Ella es el Matador (She Is the Matador)
Sep 1, 2009 · 60 min
For Spaniards — and for the world — nothing has expressed their country's traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. So sacred was the bul
English Surgeon
Sep 8, 2009 · 60 min
What is it like to have power over life and death, and yet to struggle with your own humanity? This is the story of acclaimed British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who has traveled to
The Principal Story
Sep 15, 2009 · 60 min
Two stories that paint a dramatic portrait of the challenges facing America's public schools — and of the great difference a dedicated principal can make. Tresa Dunbar is a second-
Bronx Princess
Sep 22, 2009 · 60 min
Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a sassy high-achiever bound for college. With freedom in sight, Rocky rebels agains
The Way We Get By
Nov 11, 2009 · 60 min
On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. The Emmy-no
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Dec 30, 2009 · 60 min
Take a remarkable plunge into the life, art, memories and philosophical reflections of the legendary rocker, poet and artist.