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Independent Lens is an anthology of independent documentary films.
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16 this season · 560 totals23e01 Cured 2021-10-12 02:00
s23e02 Ferguson Rises 2021-11-09 03:00
Ferguson Rises
How does a father find purpose in pain? In 2014, Michael Brown Sr.'s son was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, an event that fueled the global Black Lives Matter movement. But his personal story seeking justice and healing has not been told until now.
s23e03 Storm Lake 2021-11-16 03:00
Storm Lake
Does American democracy survive without the backbone of independent local journalism? Go inside The Storm Lake Times, a newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its fair share of changes in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to the area. Pulitzer-winning editor Art Cullen and his family dedicate themselves to keeping the paper alive as local journalism across the country dies out.
s23e04 Duty Free 2021-11-23 03:00
Duty Free
75-year-old Rebecca loses the only job she's even known. She has no savings, no 401K safety net, and no employment prospects. Rebecca teams up with son Sian-Pierre to take the trip of a lifetime, one bucket list adventure at a time. Her journey uncovers the economic insecurity faced by millions of Americans.
s23e05 Home From School: The Children of Carlisle 2021-11-24 02:00
Home From School: The Children of Carlisle
'Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.' This was the guiding principle that removed thousands of Native American children and placed them in Indian boarding schools. Among the many who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School were three Northern Arapaho boys. Now, more than a century later, tribal members journey from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to help them finally come home.
s23e06 A Reckoning in Boston 2022-01-18 03:00
s23e07 Missing in Brooks County 2022-02-01 03:00
s23e08 Owned: A Tale of Two Americas 2022-02-08 03:00
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
Is the 'American Dream' of home ownership a false promise? While the government's postwar housing policy created the world's largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths – one of perceived wealth and the other of systematically defunded, segregated communities.
s23e09 Bulletproof 2022-02-15 03:00
s23e10 Apart 2022-02-22 03:00
s23e11 Writing With Fire 2022-03-29 02:00
s23e12 AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness 2022-04-26 02:00
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
What is the science behind consciousness? Six brilliant researchers from around the world—a brain scientist, a plant behaviorist, a healer, a philosophy professor, a psychedelics scientist, and a Buddhist monk—take you on a mind-blowing quest to investigate this seemingly unsolvable mystery.
s23e13 Try Harder! 2022-05-03 02:00
s23e14 When Claude Got Shot 2022-05-10 02:00
When Claude Got Shot
In Milwaukee, a 15-year-old attempted to carjack law student Claude Motley and shot him in the face. Through multiple surgeries and catastrophic health care bills, the effects of gun violence upends Claude's life. Yet he still finds himself torn between punishment for the young man and the injustice of mass incarceration for Black men and boys. Can he find mercy in his heart for his attacker?
s23e15 Scenes From the Glittering World 2022-05-17 02:00
Scenes From the Glittering World
Three Indigenous students experience the highs and lows of adolescence while attending one of the most remote high schools in the United States. Living in the uniquely beautiful but isolated Diné community within the Navajo Nation reservation, they navigate life as teenagers and dream of a glittering future.