Independent Lens
Aug 09, 1999 (en)
Documentary
[60] Min
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First Air DateAug 09, 1999
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ProductionITVS
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Rotten tomato68%
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Original titleIndependent Lens
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ReleaseAug 09, 1999
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Overview
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
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Season 1 ( 1999-08-09)
Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang
Episode: 1
Nothing but the Truth
Episode: 2
Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung
Episode: 3
The Man Who Drove with Mandela
Episode: 4
The Jew in the Lotus
Episode: 5
Holy Tortilla/Lock and Key
Episode: 6
Secret People
Episode: 7
I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian
Episode: 8
Season 2 ( 2000-10-06)
Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
Episode: 1
No Hair Day
Episode: 2
Short Stories
Episode: 3
Born in the USA
Episode: 4
Girl Gone Bad
Episode: 5
Passing Through; Graham's Diner
Episode: 6
The Return of Navajo Boy
Episode: 7
Music in Their Bones
Episode: 8
In Harm's Way; Carved from the Heart
Episode: 9
A Wok in Progress
Episode: 10
Season 3 ( 2001-09-07)
Confederacy Theory
Episode: 1
Who Owns the Past?
Episode: 2
Secrets of Silicon Valley
Episode: 3
Gibtown
Episode: 4
Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants
Episode: 5
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
Episode: 6
Open Outcry
Episode: 7
The Split Horn
Episode: 8
Undetectable
Episode: 9
Romancing the Throne
Episode: 10
Season 4 ( 2003-02-04)
Maggie Growls
Episode: 1
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
Episode: 2
On This Island
Episode: 3
Downside Up
Episode: 4
Los Trabajadores/The Workers
Episode: 5
Chiefs
Episode: 6
Strange Fruit
Episode: 7
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott
Episode: 8
Sisters in Resistance
Episode: 9
Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai
Episode: 10
Guns and Mothers
Episode: 11
Razing Appalachia
Episode: 12
Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
Episode: 13
Daddy & Papa
Episode: 14
Season 5 ( 2003-10-14)
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Episode: 1
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
Episode: 2
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Episode: 3
A Wedding in Ramallah
Episode: 4
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Episode: 5
Livermore
Episode: 6
Eroica!
Episode: 7
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Episode: 8
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
Episode: 9
Man Bites Shorts
Episode: 10
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
Episode: 11
Life Matters
Episode: 12
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
Episode: 13
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Episode: 14
A Place of Our Oen
Episode: 15
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Episode: 16
Sentencing the Victim
Episode: 17
T-Shirt Travels
Episode: 18
Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
Episode: 19
Love Inventory
Episode: 20
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Episode: 21
The Weather Underground
Episode: 22
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
Episode: 23
Refugee
Episode: 24
Death of a Shaman
Episode: 25
Cosmopolitan
Episode: 26
Sumo East and West
Episode: 27
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
Episode: 28
Season 6 ( 2004-10-26)
The Political Dr. Seuss
Episode: 1
Polka Time
Episode: 2
Afghanistan Unveiled
Episode: 3
Los Angeles Now
Episode: 4
The Day My God Died
Episode: 5
Girl Wrestler
Episode: 6
Fine; Doki-Doki
Episode: 7
Short, Not Sweet
Episode: 8
A Hard Straight
Episode: 9
A Touch of Greatness
Episode: 10
Power Trip
Episode: 11
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Episode: 12
On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream
Episode: 13
Thunder in Guyana/Unites States of Poetry
Episode: 14
Sisters of '77
Episode: 15
Sunset Story
Episode: 16
Let the Church Say Amen
Episode: 17
A Lion's Trail
Episode: 18
Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton
Episode: 19
End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again
Episode: 20
The Last Letter; Zyklon Portrait; The Walnut Tree
Episode: 21
Imelda
Episode: 22
Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion
Episode: 23
Red Hook Justice
Episode: 24
Double Dare; Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!
Episode: 25
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Episode: 26
Brother to Brother
Episode: 27
Season 7 ( 2005-10-11)
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Episode: 1
En Route to Baghdad
Episode: 2
The Last Cowboy
Episode: 3
A Family at War
Episode: 4
Mirror Dance
Episode: 5
Race Is the Place
Episode: 6
Maid in America
Episode: 7
Seoul Train
Episode: 8
Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community
Episode: 9
Short Stack: Lost & Found
Episode: 10
Sheriff
Episode: 11
Girl Trouble
Episode: 12
Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Episode: 13
July '64
Episode: 14
Almost Home
Episode: 15
The Loss of Nameless Things
Episode: 16
Troop 1500
Episode: 17
Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City
Episode: 18
Trudell
Episode: 19
La Sierra
Episode: 20
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Episode: 21
Music from the Inside Out
Episode: 22
Fishbowl; American Made
Episode: 23
Frozen Angels
Episode: 24
The Devil's Miner
Episode: 25
The Great Pink Scare
Episode: 26
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Episode: 27
A Lion in the House
Episode: 28
A Lion in the House
Episode: 29
Season 8 ( 2006-10-24)
Still Life With Animated Dogs
Episode: 1
The World According to Sesame Street
Episode: 2
Muskrat Lovely
Episode: 3
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
Episode: 4
Democracy on Deadline
Episode: 5
Two Square Miles
Episode: 6
A Sad Flower in the Sand
Episode: 7
Revolucion: Five Visions
Episode: 8
Short Stack 2006
Episode: 9
A Fish Story
Episode: 10
Shadya
Episode: 11
Beyond the Call
Episode: 12
Twisted
Episode: 13
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Episode: 14
Motherland Afghanistan
Episode: 15
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Episode: 16
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Episode: 17
Stolen
Episode: 18
Race to Execution
Episode: 19
China Blue
Episode: 20
Black Gold
Episode: 21
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Episode: 22
The Cats of Mirikitani
Episode: 23
Sentenced Home
Episode: 24
Knocking
Episode: 25
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Episode: 26
La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul
Episode: 27
Season 9 ( 2007-10-16)
Wordplay
Episode: 1
Please Vote for Me
Episode: 2
Storm of Emotions
Episode: 3
Red White Black & Blue
Episode: 4
Miss Navajo
Episode: 5
The Creek Runs Red
Episode: 6
The Paper
Episode: 8
An Unreasonable Man
Episode: 9
Today's Man
Episode: 10
A Son's Sacrifice
Episode: 11
American Made
Episode: 12
How Is Your Fish Today?
Episode: 13
Banished
Episode: 14
Hard Road Home
Episode: 15
Iron Ladies of Liberia
Episode: 16
Compañeras
Episode: 17
Water Flowing Together
Episode: 18
Water Flowing Together
Episode: 19
Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
Episode: 20
A Dream in Doubt
Episode: 21
New Year Baby
Episode: 22
The Cool School
Episode: 23
Writ Writer
Episode: 24
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Episode: 25
Deep Water
Episode: 26
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Episode: 27
Season 10 ( 2008-10-22)
Chicago 10
Episode: 1
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
Episode: 2
Knee Deep
Episode: 3
Lioness
Episode: 4
March Point
Episode: 5
The Atom Smashers
Episode: 6
Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"
Episode: 7
Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
Episode: 8
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
Episode: 9
Helvetica
Episode: 10
Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Episode: 11
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Episode: 12
The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
Episode: 13
The Order of Myths
Episode: 14
Lakshmi and Me
Episode: 15
Recycle
Episode: 16
Milking the Rhino
Episode: 17
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Episode: 18
Steal a Pencil for Me
Episode: 19
At Home in Utopia
Episode: 20
Wings of Defeat
Episode: 21
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Episode: 22
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
Episode: 23
Steal a Pencil for Me
Episode: 24
Ask Not
Episode: 25
Season 11 ( 2009-09-21)
Our Disappeared
Episode: 1
Butte, America
Episode: 2
Journals of a Wily School
Episode: 3
Power Paths
Episode: 4
D Tour
Episode: 5
No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
Episode: 6
Objectified
Episode: 7
Between the Folds
Episode: 8
Scenes From a Parish
Episode: 9
Young@Heart
Episode: 10
Copyright Criminals
Episode: 11
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Episode: 12
P-Star Rising
Episode: 13
Mine / Home
Episode: 14
Behind the Rainbow
Episode: 15
The Eyes of Me
Episode: 16
Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
Episode: 17
Whatever It Takes
Episode: 18
Unmistaken Child
Episode: 19
Blessed Is the Match
Episode: 20
Dirt! The Movie
Episode: 21
Garbage Dreams
Episode: 22
Sunshine
Episode: 23
The Horse Boy
Episode: 24
Project Kashmir
Episode: 25
A Village Called Versailles
Episode: 26
Our Disappeared
Episode: 27
Season 12 ( 2010-10-19)
The Parking Lot Movie
Episode: 1
Art & Copy
Episode: 2
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
Episode: 3
The Longoria Affair
Episode: 4
Lost Sparrow
Episode: 5
Deep Down
Episode: 6
45365
Episode: 7
The Calling, Part 1
Episode: 8
The Calling, Part 2
Episode: 9
Men Who Swim
Episode: 10
Children of Haiti
Episode: 11
For Once in My Life
Episode: 12
When I Rise
Episode: 13
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Episode: 14
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Episode: 15
Pushing the Elephant
Episode: 16
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Episode: 17
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Episode: 18
Waste Land
Episode: 19
Marwencol
Episode: 20
A Film Unfinished
Episode: 21
Bhutto
Episode: 22
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Episode: 23
Welcome to Shelbyville
Episode: 24
Two Spirits
Episode: 25
Season 13 ( 2011-10-13)
Wham! Bam! Islam!
Episode: 1
Donor Unknown
Episode: 2
Lives Worth Living
Episode: 3
Deaf Jam
Episode: 4
We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
Episode: 5
The Woodmans
Episode: 6
These Amazing Shadows
Episode: 7
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance
Episode: 8
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation
Episode: 9
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto
Episode: 10
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line
Episode: 11
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last
Episode: 12
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
Episode: 13
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Episode: 14
More Than A Month
Episode: 15
You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
Episode: 16
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Episode: 17
When the Drum Is Beating
Episode: 18
Revenge of the Electric Car
Episode: 19
Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
Episode: 20
Circo
Episode: 21
Summer Pasture
Episode: 22
Precious Knowledge
Episode: 23
Left by the Ship
Episode: 24
Hell and Back Again
Episode: 25
We Were Here
Episode: 26
Strong!
Episode: 27
Season 14 ( 2012-10-08)
As Goes Janesville
Episode: 1
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
Episode: 2
Love Free or Die
Episode: 4
Solar Mamas
Episode: 5
Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
Episode: 6
Soul Food Junkies
Episode: 7
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Episode: 8
The Revisionaries
Episode: 9
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
Episode: 10
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Episode: 11
The House I Live In; As I Am
Episode: 12
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Episode: 13
The Island President
Episode: 14
The Undocumented
Episode: 15
Seeking Asian Female
Episode: 16
The Invisible War
Episode: 17
Detropia
Episode: 18
The Revolutionary Optimists
Episode: 19
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
Episode: 20
The Waiting Room
Episode: 21
The Graduates
Episode: 22
Young Lakota
Episode: 24
Playwright: From Page to Stage
Episode: 25
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Episode: 26
Season 15 ( 2013-10-28)
The Graduates - The Girls
Episode: 1
The Graduates - The Boys
Episode: 2
Indian Relay
Episode: 3
Young Lakota
Episode: 4
Playwright: From Page to Stage
Episode: 5
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Episode: 6
How to Survive a Plague
Episode: 7
At Berkeley
Episode: 8
Blood Brother
Episode: 9
The State of Arizona
Episode: 10
Spies of Mississippi
Episode: 11
Las Marthas
Episode: 12
All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts
Episode: 13
Medora
Episode: 14
Brother's Hypnotic
Episode: 15
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Episode: 16
Muscle Shoals
Episode: 17
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times
Episode: 18
Let the Fire Burn
Episode: 19
God Loves Uganda
Episode: 20
The New Black
Episode: 21
Season 16 ( 2014-10-13)
Bully
Episode: 1
Twin Sisters
Episode: 2
Brakeless
Episode: 3
Powerless
Episode: 4
Happiness
Episode: 5
Rich Hill
Episode: 6
Evolution of a Criminal
Episode: 7
The Kill Team / Confusion Through Sand
Episode: 8
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Episode: 9
American Denial
Episode: 10
Little White Lie
Episode: 11
Little Hope Was Arson / A City in Flames
Episode: 12
The Homestretch
Episode: 13
The Great Invisible
Episode: 14
Kumu Hina
Episode: 15
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Episode: 16
1971
Episode: 17
Limited Partnership
Episode: 18
In the Shadow of Ebola
Episode: 19
Season 17 ( 2015-11-09)
Stray Dog
Episode: 1
India's Daughter
Episode: 2
Mimi and Dona
Episode: 3
East of Salinas
Episode: 4
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
Episode: 5
Autism in Love
Episode: 6
No Más Bebés (No More Babies)
Episode: 7
In Football We Trust
Episode: 8
A Ballerina's Tale
Episode: 9
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Episode: 10
(T)ERROR
Episode: 11
Wilhemina’s War
Episode: 12
An Honest Liar
Episode: 13
Welcome to Leith
Episode: 14
Democrats
Episode: 15
My Nazi Legacy
Episode: 16
Peace Officer
Episode: 17
The Armor of Light
Episode: 18
Dogtown Redemption
Episode: 19
TRAPPED
Episode: 20
T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold
Episode: 21
Season 18 ( 2016-10-02)
Best of Enemies
Episode: 1
Meet the Patels
Episode: 2
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Episode: 3
Containment
Episode: 4
What Was Ours
Episode: 5
The Witness
Episode: 6
Birth of a Movement
Episode: 7
Accidental Courtesy
Episode: 8
TOWER
Episode: 9
The Bad Kids
Episode: 10
Ovarian Psycos
Episode: 11
Newtown
Episode: 12
SEED: The Untold Story
Episode: 13
The Last Laugh
Episode: 14
National Bird
Episode: 15
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Episode: 16
Forever Pure
Episode: 17
They Call Us Monsters
Episode: 18
Farmer/Veteran
Episode: 19
Real Boy
Episode: 20
Season 19 ( 2017-11-06)
Chasing Trane
Episode: 1
Shadow World
Episode: 2
Supergirl
Episode: 3
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Episode: 4
Unrest
Episode: 5
I Am Not Your Negro
Episode: 6
The Force
Episode: 7
I Am Another You
Episode: 8
Winnie
Episode: 9
Tell Them We Are Rising
Episode: 10
Rat Film
Episode: 11
Dolores
Episode: 12
When God Sleeps
Episode: 13
The Art of the Shine
Episode: 14
What Lies Upstream
Episode: 15
Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
Episode: 16
True Conviction
Episode: 17
No Man's Land
Episode: 18
ACORN and the Firestorm
Episode: 19
Served Like a Girl
Episode: 20
Season 20 ( 2018-10-29)
Wildland
Episode: 1
Dawnland
Episode: 2
The Cleaners
Episode: 3
The Judge
Episode: 4
Man on Fire
Episode: 5
My Country No More
Episode: 6
Rodents of Unusual Size
Episode: 7
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World
Episode: 8
The King
Episode: 9
Black Memorabilia
Episode: 10
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Episode: 11
People's Republic of Desire
Episode: 12
Tre Maison Dasan
Episode: 13
The Providers
Episode: 14
Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Episode: 15
Charm City
Episode: 16
Out of State
Episode: 17
Harvest Season; The Seed Saver
Episode: 18
Wrestle
Episode: 19
Season 21 ( 2019-10-28)
Made in Boise
Episode: 1
Decade of Fire
Episode: 2
The Interpreters
Episode: 3
Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
Episode: 4
ATTLA
Episode: 5
Accept the Call
Episode: 6
The First Rainbow Coalition
Episode: 7
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Episode: 8
Leftover Women
Episode: 9
We Believe In Dinosaurs
Episode: 10
Always in Season
Episode: 11
One Child Nation
Episode: 12
Bedlam
Episode: 13
The Hottest August
Episode: 14
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Episode: 15
Rewind
Episode: 16
Eating Up Easter
Episode: 17
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Episode: 18
Pipe Dreams
Episode: 19
Season 22 ( 2020-10-19)
Feels Good Man
Episode: 1
Represent
Episode: 2
Jonathan Scott's Power Trip
Episode: 3
Belly of the Beast
Episode: 4
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem
Episode: 5
A Day in the Life of America / American Nomads
Episode: 6
9to5: The Story of a Movement
Episode: 7
Women in Blue
Episode: 8
Mr. SOUL!
Episode: 9
Coded Bias
Episode: 10
Down a Dark Stairwell
Episode: 11
The Donut King
Episode: 12
Two Gods
Episode: 13
The People vs. Agent Orange
Episode: 14
Season 23 ( 2021-10-10)
Cured
Episode: 1
Ferguson Rises
Episode: 2
Storm Lake
Episode: 3
Duty Free
Episode: 4
Home From School: The Children of Carlisle
Episode: 5
A Reckoning in Boston
Episode: 6
Missing in Brooks County
Episode: 7
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
Episode: 8
Bulletproof
Episode: 9
Apart
Episode: 10
Writing With Fire
Episode: 11
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
Episode: 12
Try Harder!
Episode: 13
When Claude Got Shot
Episode: 14
Scenes From The Glittering World
Episode: 15
Season 24 ( 2022-09-12)
Hazing
Episode: 1
TikTok, Boom.
Episode: 2
Move Me
Episode: 3
Children of Las Brisas
Episode: 4
The Big Payback
Episode: 5
No Straight Lines
Episode: 6
The Picture Taker
Episode: 7
Outta the Muck
Episode: 8
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Episode: 9
Storming Caesars Palace
Episode: 10
Hidden Letters
Episode: 11
Free Chol Soo Lee
Episode: 12
Matter of Mind: My ALS
Episode: 13
Sam Now
Episode: 14
Silent Beauty
Episode: 15
Mama Bears
Episode: 16
Season 25 ( 2023-09-19)
Sansón and Me
Episode: 1
El Equipo
Episode: 2
Three Chaplains
Episode: 3
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1
Episode: 4
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2
Episode: 5
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3
Episode: 6
Beyond Utopia
Episode: 7
Racist Trees
Episode: 8
Razing Liberty Square
Episode: 9
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Episode: 10
Breaking the News
Episode: 11
Greener Pastures
Episode: 12
A Thousand Pines
Episode: 13
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Episode: 14
One With the Whale
Episode: 15
Space: The Longest Goodbye
Episode: 16
