P.O.V.

Season 17 Episode 6: Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story

32 SeasonsJul 20, 2004NR1h8

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 from life's only inevitability — death. A Family Undertaking explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Far from being a radical innovation, keep...

Season 17 Episodes:

Episode 2 Thirst

2. Thirst

Aired: Jun 22, 2004

"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sand...

Episode 4 A Family Undertaking

4. A Family Undertaking

Aired: Jul 6, 2004

Prior to the 20th century, most Americans prepared their dead for burial with...

Episode 7 Freedom Machines

7. Freedom Machines

Aired: Aug 3, 2004

Freedom Machines is an unprecedented look at disability in the age of technol...

Episode 11 Big Enough

11. Big Enough

Aired: Sep 14, 2004

Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in...


Info about P.O.V.

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary