POV · SEASON 21
Election Day
Episode 2 · 2008-07-01
- Documentary
Episode overview
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines 11 stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count.
60 minutes
Season 21 episodes
1. Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North2008-06-24
2. Election Day2008-07-01
3. The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández2008-07-08
4. The Last Conquistador2008-07-15
5. 9 Star Hotel2008-07-22
6. Campaign2008-07-29
7. Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music2008-08-05
8. Belarusian Waltz2008-08-12
9. The Judge and the General2008-08-19
10. Calavera Highway2008-09-16
11. Critical Condition2008-09-30
12. In the Family2008-10-01
13. Up the Yangtze2008-10-08
14. Soldiers of Conscience2008-10-16
15. Inheritance2008-12-10
