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- Season 33 2020-06-29
- Season 34 2021-07-05
- Season 35 2022-07-11
- Season 36 2023-06-26
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- Season 16 Love & Diane
- Season 16 Georgie Girl
- Season 16 Larry v. Lockney
- Season 16 Discovering Dominga
- Season 16 The Flute Player
- Season 16 90 Miles
- Season 16 American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i
- Season 16 West 47th Street
- Season 16 Family Fundamentals
- Season 16 Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section
- Season 16 State of Denial
- Season 16 What I Want My Words to Do to You
POV - Season 16 Episode 11 State of Denial
6.80 60 minutes State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks. The film follows the stories of HIV positive Africans and activists as well as their careers, interspersed with the harrowing statistics of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. It features various HIV positive patients coping with the disease in times when the use of ARV medicine was strongly discouraged by the South African government.
The movie captures the desperation and growing discontent of average South Africans infected and affected by the disease. Some of the subjects interviewed make heartbreaking but inspirational statements about AIDS and how living with it is like. After the death of his brother who also succumbed to the disease, a young man is filmed saying the following:
For me, it was the most traumatic time in my life because I could see myself in him. You know, he didn’t really have to die as helplessly as he did. And not only him, but thousands and thousands of people are dying unnecessarily. It makes me sick.
