P.O.V.

Season 2 Episode 2: Who Killed Vincent Chin?

32 SeasonsJul 16, 1989NR1h8

On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.

Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Girltalk

1. Girltalk

Aired: Jul 15, 1989

Girltalk is Kate Davis' heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway g...

Episode 3 Coming Out

3. Coming Out

Aired: Jul 23, 1989

Coming Out reveals that the debutante tradition is alive and well. Follow Mis...

Episode 4 Wise Guys!

4. Wise Guys!

Aired: Jul 23, 1989

In Wise Guys!, a stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form ...

Episode 5 The Family Album

5. The Family Album

Aired: Jul 30, 1989

Watching The Family Album is like coming across a long-lost box of family pho...

Episode 6 Dark Circle

6. Dark Circle

Aired: Aug 6, 1989

The Bomb is killing ordinary Americans, even in the absence of a nuclear war....

Episode 9 Partisans of Vilna

9. Partisans of Vilna

Aired: Aug 27, 1989

This riveting film recounts the untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who...

Episode 10 Nowhere to Hide

10. Nowhere to Hide

Aired: Sep 3, 1989

Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a gr...

Episode 11 Binge

11. Binge

Aired: Sep 17, 1989

In Binge, videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intima...

Episode 12 Cowboy Poets

12. Cowboy Poets

Aired: Sep 17, 1989

For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the lif...

Episode 14 Lost Angeles

14. Lost Angeles

Aired: Sep 24, 1989

A uniquely powerful and intimate look at the lives and struggles of a group o...


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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary