P.O.V.

Season 20 Episode 2: The Chances of the World Changing

32 SeasonsJun 26, 2007NR1h8

If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a reggae-inflected band born in the camps of West Africa, represents a real-life story of survival and hope. The six-member Refugee All Stars came together in Guinea after civil war forced them from their native Sierra Leone. Traumatized by physical injuries and the brutal loss of family and community, they fight back with the only means they have – music. The result, as shown in Sierra Leone’s R...

Season 20 Episodes:

Episode 1 Revolution '67

1. Revolution '67

Aired: Jun 19, 2007

How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? ...

Episode 2 The Chances of the World Changing

2. The Chances of the World Changing

Aired: Jun 26, 2007

If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’...

Episode 3 Prison Town, USA

3. Prison Town, USA

Aired: Jul 3, 2007

What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 200...

Episode 4 Following Sean

4. Following Sean

Aired: Jul 10, 2007

Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to fo...

Episode 5 Arctic Son

Aired: Jul 17, 2007

A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began...

Episode 6 Libby, Montana

6. Libby, Montana

Aired: Jul 24, 2007

In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in r...

Episode 7 Made in L.A.

7. Made in L.A.

Aired: Jul 31, 2007

Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old ch...

Episode 8 The Camden 28

8. The Camden 28

Aired: Aug 21, 2007

In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and...

Episode 9 Libby, Montana

9. Libby, Montana

Aired: Aug 28, 2007

Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a...

Episode 10 49 Up

Aired: Sep 4, 2007

In 1964, to explore the adage "Give me a child until he is seven and I will g...

Episode 11 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

11. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Aired: Sep 11, 2007

How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a Ca...

Episode 12 Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

12. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

Aired: Sep 18, 2007

History finally gets rewritten as descendants of the largest slave-trading fa...

Episode 13 Election Day

13. Election Day

Aired: Oct 9, 2007

In one of documentary cinema’s more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up makes its ...

Episode 14 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

14. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Aired: Dec 12, 2007

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony ...

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary