POV is airing an encore presentation of 1987’s Best Doc Feature nominee Who Killed Vincent Chin? on Monday June 20. The PBS documentary show used to store the film in its archive; although it’s no longer available there, you may be able to find it using the PBS/Passport app…but it looks like they’ve pulled it in advance of the re-airing.
Susan Howard reviewed it for us a couple years back:
It’s good to remember, every now and then, the time in the true-crime genre before streaming, when said genre basically consisted of Ann Rule; the occasional New Yorker “[Major City] Notebook” feature that happened to concern a felony; Unsolved Mysteries; and feature documentaries you had to take your ass to see in person, in a dingy 50-seat theater in the city, and it was a couple unhomed citizens getting out of the rain in the back row, three cotton-tops working the senior discount down front, and you. I don’t exactly “miss” those days, but as I stare down the barrel of the streaming services’ equivalent of sweeps, the minimalism does have some appeal.