POV: Season 10 (1997)

Filmmaker Steven Lipscomb examines the controversy surrounding women pastors in the Southern Baptist Church. The hour focuses on whether Biblical scripture or sexism is responsible for keeping women from serving.

Judith Helfand's chronicle of her battle with cancer, which she developed as a result of her mother's use of the drug DES to prevent a miscarriage. Included: comments from her parents; and members of the DCN ("the DES Cancer Network").

Examining the unsolved murder of 22-year-old rapper Jesse Hall in East Oakland, Cal. Also: the emotional effects of the crime on his family and friends; and the increase in violence in America's inner cities.

Teacher Laura Angelica Simon turns filmmaker for "Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary," a study of how her students have been affected by California's Proposition 187, which denies public education and health care to undocumented immigrants. Included: testimonials from students.

Filmmakers H. Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman pose the question "Who Is Henry Jaglom?" to a variety of coworkers, friends and fans in a portrait of the independent director. The hour includes interviews with Jaglom, Candice Bergen, Karen Black and Ron Silver.

Originally aired on thePBS series P.O.V., this award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary examines the racism, paternalism, and stereotyping -- inadvertent or not -- in making sports mascots out of Native Americans. Director Jay Rosenstein profiles Native American Charlene Teters and her fight to remove such mascots. Rosenstein tackles the issue of where free speech ends, featuring corporate sports flacks figuratively wrapping themselves in the American flag in defense of their mascots, and insisting that such mascots honor Native Americans. The antics of mascots on the sidelines and caricatured logos argue otherwise. Hailed as "powerful" by the Chicago Tribune. The documentary won a CINE Golden Eagle.

"Girls like Us" tracks four South Philadelphia teens over the course of four years, letting them describe what it's like to be a female teenager in America's inner cities. Filmmakers Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.

Documentary footage, interviews, and excerpts from a play are used to explore the shared history and current troubled state of black and Jewish relations. Featured: four stories dealing with such issues as the 1960s civil-rights movement and the 1991 Crown Heights riots.