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  • How Would the Health Care Bill Have Changed the Lives of the “Critical Condition” Subjects?
    In 2008, POV aired Roger Weisberg‘s Critical Condition, which put a human face on the nation’s growing health care crisis by capturing the harrowing struggles of four critically ill Americans. Viewers were introduced to Joe, Karen, Hector and Carlos, and watched as they discovered that being uninsured could mean losing your job, health, home, savings, […]
    theresa 4 min read March 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • “Critical Condition” to be Featured on “Bill Moyers Journal” Tonight
    Tonight’s Bill Moyers Journal will focus on the health care debate, featuring a substantial portion of POV’s Critical Condition, a documentary by Roger Weisberg, that was originally broadcast last October in the lead up to the 2008 presidential election. (Watch a preview.) Critical Condition follows a group of ordinary hard-working Americans struggling to survive serious […]
    theresa 1 min read August 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • President Obama and His “Entourage”
    Last summer I wrote a post riffing off of a Bill Moyers Journal blog post asking you what one documentary you thought the next president should screen in the White House. Responses included Sicko, An Incovenient Truth and Our Brand is Crisis, among others. Earlier this month, Politico.com offered a glimpse at some of the […]
    theresa 1 min read April 21, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Health Care Reform: Clinton's Defeat, Obama's Hope
    Last September, POV broadcast Critical Condition, a film by Roger Weisberg about four critically ill Americans and their struggle to survive without health insurance. We chose to air the film shortly before the election because health care reform was such a major issue in the 2008 presidential election. In conjunction with that broadcast, we produced […]
    theresa 4 min read March 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Five Most Popular Web Features of the Year
    As we prepare to ring in the new year, we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back on the Web features that POV viewers liked most and to create a year-end list of our own. In 2008, the most popular features on the POV website were the ones that followed the characters featured in […]
    Ruiyan Xu 3 min read December 31, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Critical Condition's Roger Weisberg Answers Viewer Questions
    Roger Weisberg is the director of Critical Condition, which aired on POV on September 30, 2008 and is streaming in its entirety online until November 11, 2008. After the broadcast, many viewers wrote with questions for Roger. Read on for Weisberg’s responses to some of the questions he received. Margo asks: What can I and […]
    Ruiyan Xu 7 min read October 21, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch 'In the Family' and 'Critical Condition' Online
    If you missed the premier of two great P.O.V films this week, you have a chance to watch the full films online! In the Family is streaming online until October 31, 2008 while Critical Condition is streaming until November 11, 2008. Both films document intensely personal journeys and stories, and both are engaged with the […]
    POV Guest Blogger 2 min read October 3, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Rx for Change: Susan Dentzer of NewsHour Talks about Health Care in America
    In conjunction with the September 30, 2008 broadcast of Critical Condition, POV has partnered with NewsHour to learn more about health care in America, and what presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are proposing for medical coverage. Susan Dentzer, the editor of Health Affairs journal and the host of NewsHour‘s Rx for Change, answered […]
    Ruiyan Xu 7 min read September 30, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • What's Your POV About ”Critical Condition'?
    Joe, Karen, Hector and Carlos are just four of the 47 million Americans who do not have health insurance. Their harrowing stories of battling critical illnesses without health insurance are portrayed in Roger Weisberg‘s film Critical Condition, which dramatizes how being uninsured can cost someone his job, health, home, savings and even his life. Critical […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read September 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Ask the Filmmaker: Critical Condition's Roger Weisberg
    Veteran filmmaker Roger Weisberg, who also made the 2006 POV film Waging a Living, turns his lens on uninsured Americans in Critical Condition to give us a powerful, eye-opening look at the health care crisis in America. In an election season in which health care reform has become one of the nation’s most hotly debated […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read September 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Looking Ahead to the Oscars
    With the Oscar deadline for submissions now long passed by (September 2; in order to be eligible, a film had to show for one week in Los Angeles and Manhattan), I figured it’s time to stick my head out the window and check who’s in the running for an Academy Award for this year. I […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read September 22, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Critical Condition: Get Involved
    According to a recent poll conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans say that health care is one of the most important issues in the 2008 presidential election. Roger Weisberg’s film Critical Condition paints a disturbing and gripping portrait of what happens when you’re sick and uninsured in America. As health care becomes […]
    Eliza Licht 1 min read September 15, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Human Rights Watch & SILVERDOCS
    Two major festivals have been taking place over the past two weeks, making June a time for a real feast for documentary lovers in the New York and Washington, D.C. areas. The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival runs through June 26 at Lincoln Center. The festival showcases films from the U.S. and around the […]
    Simon Kilmurry 3 min read June 23, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Roundup: June 20, 2008
    IN THEATERS Werner Herzog‘s Encounters at the End of the World opened in limited release on June 11. The film follows Herzog’s travels in Antarctica, from the 1,100-person community of McMurdo Station, to the Ross Sea, to the Erebus volcano, capturing as many of nature’s sights as possible. Encounters at the End of the World […]
    POV Guest Blogger 1 min read June 20, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • What happens when you're sick and uninsured in America?
    Roger Weisberg‘s Critical Condition, which airs this fall on POV, answers the question with the stories of four individuals who struggle with health problems without insurance: together with their loved ones, they are forced to confront difficult financial and emotional decisions as they fight for their lives. It’s a problem that faces a sixth of […]
    David Nanasi 1 min read June 19, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Looking into Oscar's Crystal Ball
    The Oscars are taking place this Sunday, so I’ll do my best to break down who has the best shot at winning in the Documentary Feature category. First, let’s just do away with Operation Homecoming and War/Dance. You know it hurts me to say it, after having advocated so strongly for both films, but their […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read February 22, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Questions for 'Critical Condition' Filmmaker Roger Weisberg
    With Critical Condition, Roger Weisberg takes an unflinching look at what it’s like to be sick and uninsured in America. He took a few minutes to answer some questions about his film and why health care and universal health insurance should be a critical issue during this election year. Critical Condition will have its broadcast […]
    Catherine Jhee 7 min read February 4, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Looking Forward to the Oscars
    Now that Sundance is over, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary: No End In Sight Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience Richard E. Robbins Sicko Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara Taxi To The Dark Side Alex Gibney and Eva Orner War/Dance […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read February 1, 2008 Doc Soup Comments

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