Whitney Dow and Marco Williams explain and reflect on their experiences filming with segregated film crews.

Dow and Williams discuss the reactions of their subjects after seeing Two Towns of Jasper.

Brother Outsider filmmaker Nancy Kates and executive producer Sam Pollard describe the mark that Bayard Rustin left on America.

In her documentary "Senorita Extraviada," Lourdes Portillo investigates the murders of 271 girls in the border town of Juarez. In this interview, Portillo describes the fear and silence she experienced during filming, and the need to expose these crimes and raise awareness. (This is a rough cut from the POV archives.)

Highlights of filmmaker interviews and iconic films from the first 15 years of POV, the longest running nonfiction film series on TV. This highlight reel originally aired in 2002.

Want to remember high school? Director Frederick Wiseman talks about his 1968 documentary High School saying that he does not like to focus on a particular character, but rather make films that focus on a place. Never asking anyone to do anything special for the camera, he made a series of films about contemporary American life, of which High School became a true marker of the times.

In this interview conducted for the 2001 POV broadcast of "The Sweetest Sound," Alan Berliner talks about his inspiration for making a film about his name. He acknowledges the narcissism associated with such a project, but says he hopes his film will become a mirror for others to learn about the meaning of their own names. (This is a rough cut from the POV archives.)

Steven Cozza mounted a grassroots campaign at his local grocery store in California to end the Boy Scouts' discriminatory policy against gay people. Filmmaker Tom Shepard describes Steven's courage and determination which drew him to making the film Scout's Honor.

There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don’t know anything about them. It is one man’s obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led filmmaker Jasmine Dellal into their hidden thousand-year-old culture. Charming and outspoken, Spokane resident Jimmy Marks defies widely held stereotypes–and his own people’s code of secrecy–to unlock a Romani world in America

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. In this extended interview from 2000, Liem discusses making her personal documentary FIRST PERSON PLURAL and the difficulties of having intense discussions with loved ones.

Wagner and DiFeliciantonio talk about TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE, their short film about Dorothy Allison which premiered on POV in 1998 as part of the SHE SHORTS series. Allison is a writer from Greenville, NC. Her first book "Bastard Out of Carolina" was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The filmmakers talk about how her writing inspired them to make the film.

Winner of two awards at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker Arthur Dong goes inside prison to probe the minds and souls of men whose attitudes towards homosexuality have led them to murder. In this archived interview about LICENSED TO KILL, Arthur Dong explains the reasons for making this film, as well as his opinions on hate crimes, gay bashing, and a need for tolerance in our society.

Heading an African-American and Jewish production team, the filmmakers go behind the explosive headlines of conflict to reveal four riveting stories. From death on the streets of Crown Heights to director Steven Spielberg's controversial visit to a predominantly black high school in East Oakland, the film resists simple analysis and treads on the fault lines of racial coalition and conflict.

The filmmakers talk about 'Blacks and Jews' and describe how they wanted to highlight the differing voices in both communities when it came to racial conflicts.

In this interview from 1997, filmmaker Alan Berliner talks about the making of "Nobody's Business," a film in which he explores his relationship with his father. He describes the tension that arose in the making of the film, and how his relationship changed as a result. (This is a rough cut from the POV archives.)

The Vietnam War Memorial was one of the most controversial monuments of its time. Thrust in to the eye of the storm was architect-sculptor Maya Lin, whose design for the memorial was chosen when she was a 21-year-old college student. Withstanding bitter attacks, she held her ground with clarity and grace.

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock talks about the making of "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision."

Before freeways, traffic congestion and air pollution, public transportation was a vital part of the American landscape. Jim Klein and Martha Olson weave investigative journalism, urban history and social commentary to uncover General Motors' role in dismantling street car transportation in the 1930's, and in catapulting the automobile to the center of our national culture.

The filmmakers discuss uncovering the story of public transportation and the rise of our car culture.

In 'a.k.a. Don Bonus,' Cambodian-born teen Sokly Ny turns the camera on himself to document his senior year of high school in the inner city of San Francisco. In this 1996 interview, filmmaker Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Ny sit down with POV to explain how the two found each other and how they began working on the film.