P.O.V.

Season 13 Episode 6: Dreamland

32 SeasonsAug 22, 2000NR1h8

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Vegas residents living with constant temptation. “The hardest part of living in Las Vegas is the gambling machines,” says one woman. “They're everywhere.” Adds Lou Gerard, a Los Angeles tailor who retired to Las Vegas (and is the film's primary focus),about his gambling: “Sometimes I feel sorry for myself but I get over it. There's always a next time.” (But Gerard did stop gambling in 1999).

P.O.V. background

Season 13 Episodes:

Episode 1 Butterfly

1. Butterfly

Aired: Jun 20, 2000

Chronicling the two-year “tree-sit” by environmental activist Julia Hill, exa...

Episode 2 La Boda

2. La Boda

Aired: Jun 27, 2000

“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during ...

Episode 4 Blink

4. Blink

Aired: Jul 18, 2000

Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a C...

Episode 5 Our House in Havana

5. Our House in Havana

Aired: Jul 25, 2000

Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar plant...

Episode 6 Dreamland

6. Dreamland

Aired: Aug 22, 2000

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Ve...

Episode 8 KPFA on the Air

8. KPFA on the Air

Aired: Sep 20, 2000

A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, t...

Episode 9 Live Free or Die

9. Live Free or Die

Aired: Sep 27, 2000

Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. t...

Episode 10 First Person Plural

10. First Person Plural

Aired: Dec 18, 2000

A Korean-American adoptee tries to forge relationships with her biological fa...


Info about P.O.V.

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary