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  • The Nipple Artist: Behind the Scenes with Journalist Kassie Bracken
    The New York Times video journalist Kassie Bracken on roadtripping with Caitlin Kiernan to Finksburg, Maryland in search of nipples.
    POV Staff 8 min read June 3, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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
  • 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