Independent Lens
(08/09/1999–11/04/2025)PBS (US)90 min
Source: unknown
Episodes
S01E01
Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang
S01E02
Nothing But the Truth
S01E03
Visas and Virtue / I Am Viet Hung
S01E04
The Man Who Drove with Mandela
S01E05
The Jew in the Lotus
S01E06
Holy Tortilla / Lock and Key
S01E07
And Baby Makes Two
S01E08
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
S01E09
Secret People
S01E10
I Can't Believe I Married A Lietendent
S02E01
Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
S02E02
No Hair Day
S02E03
Short Stories
S02E04
Born in the USA
S02E05
Girl Gone Bad
S02E06
Passing Through / Graham's Diner
S02E07
The Return of Navajo Boy
S02E08
Music in Their Bones
S02E09
In Harm's Way / Carved From the Heart
S02E10
A Wok in Progress
S03E01
Confederacy Theory
S03E02
Secrets of Silicon Valley
S03E03
Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants
S03E04
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
S03E05
Who Owns the Past?
S03E06
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
S03E07
Undetectable
S03E08
Gibtown
S03E09
Open Outcry
S03E10
Romancing the Throne
S04E01
Maggie Growls
S04E02
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
S04E03
On This Island
S04E04
Downside Up
S04E05
Los Trabajadores / The Workers
S04E06
Chiefs
S04E07
Strange Fruit
S04E08
Bird by Bird with Annie
S04E09
Sisters in Resistance
S04E10
Heart of the Sea
S04E11
Guns & Mothers
S04E12
Razing Appalachia
S04E13
Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
S04E14
Daddy & Papa
S05E01
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
S05E02
Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky
S05E03
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
S05E04
A Wedding in Ramallah
S05E05
Be Good, Smile Pretty
S05E06
Livermore
S05E07
Eroica!
S05E08
Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson
S05E09
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
S05E10
Man Bites Shorts
S05E11
Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
S05E12
Life Matters
S05E13
Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing
S05E14
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
S05E15
A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream
S05E16
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
S05E17
Sentencing the Victim
S05E18
T-Shirt Travels
S05E19
Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
S05E20
Love Inventory
S05E21
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
S05E22
The Weather Underground
S05E23
One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure
S05E24
Refugee
S05E25
Death of a Shaman
S05E26
Cosmopolitan
S05E27
Sumo East and West
S05E28
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
S06E01
The Political Dr. Seuss
S06E02
Polka Time
S06E03
Afghanistan Unveiled
S06E04
Los Angeles Now
S06E05
The Day My God Died
S06E06
Girl Wrestler
S06E07
Fine. / Doki-Doki
S06E08
Short, Not Sweet
S06E09
A Hard Straight
S06E10
A Touch of Greatness
S06E11
Power Trip
S06E12
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
S06E13
On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream
S06E14
Thunder in Guyana
S06E15
Sisters of '77
S06E16
Sunset Story
S06E17
Let the Church Say Amen
S06E18
A Lion's Trail
S06E19
Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton
S06E20
End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again
S06E21
The Last Letter / Zyklon Portrait and the Walnut Tree
S06E22
Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion
S06E23
Vietnam: The Next Generation
S06E24
Red Hook Justice
S06E25
Double Dare / Piki and Poko: Taking The Dare!
S06E26
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
S06E27
Brother to Brother
S07E01
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
S07E02
En Route to Baghdad
S07E03
The Last Cowboy
S07E04
A Family at War
S07E05
Mirror Dance
S07E06
Race is the Place
S07E07
Maid in America
S07E08
Seoul Train
S07E09
Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community
S07E10
Short Stack: Lost & Found
S07E11
Sheriff
S07E12
Girl Trouble
S07E13
Almost Home
S07E14
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
S07E15
July '64
S07E16
The Loss of Nameless Things
S07E17
Troop 1500
S07E18
Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City
S07E19
Trudell
S07E20
La Sierra
S07E21
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
S07E22
Music from the Inside Out
S07E23
Fishbowl / American Made
S07E24
Frozen Angels
S07E25
The Devil's Miner
S07E26
The Great Pink Scare
S07E27
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
S07E28
A Lion in the House: Part 1
S07E29
A Lion in the House: Part 2
S08E01
Still Life with Animated Dogs
S08E02
The World According to Sesame Street
S08E03
Muskrat Lovely
S08E04
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
S08E05
Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press
S08E06
Two Square Miles
S08E07
A Sad Flower in the Sand
S08E08
Revolucion: Five Visions
S08E09
Short Stack 2006
S08E10
A Fish Story
S08E11
Shadya
S08E12
Beyond the Call
S08E13
Twisted
S08E14
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
S08E15
Motherland Afghanistan
S08E16
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
S08E17
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
S08E18
Stolen
S08E19
Race to Execution
S08E20
China Blue
S08E21
Black Gold
S08E22
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
S08E23
The Cats of Mirikitani
S08E24
Sentenced Home
S08E25
Knocking
S08E26
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
S08E27
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
S09E01
Wordplay
S09E02
Please Vote for Me
S09E03
Storm of Emotions
S09E04
Red White Black & Blue
S09E05
Miss Navajo
S09E06
The Creek Runs Red
S09E07
Sisters in Law
S09E08
The Paper
S09E09
An Unreasonable Man
S09E10
Today's Man
S09E11
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
S09E12
A Son's Sacrifice
S09E13
How Is Your Fish Today?
S09E15
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America
S09E16
Hard Road Home
S09E17
Iron Ladies of Liberia
S09E18
Compañeras
S09E19
Water Flowing Together
S09E20
King Corn
S09E21
Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula
S09E22
A Dream in Doubt
S09E23
New Year Baby
S09E24
Writ Writer
S09E25
The Cool School
S09E26
Deep Water
S09E27
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
S10E01
Chicago 10
S10E02
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
S10E03
Knee Deep
S10E04
Lioness
S10E05
March Point
S10E06
The Atom Smashers
S10E07
Doc
S10E08
Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
S10E09
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
S10E10
Operation Filmmaker
S10E11
Helvetica
S10E12
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
S10E13
Tulia, Texas
S10E14
The Order of Myths
S10E15
Arusi Persian Wedding
S10E16
Lakshmi and Me
S10E17
Recycle
S10E18
Milking the Rhino
S10E19
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
S10E20
At Home in Utopia
S10E21
Wings of Defeat
S10E22
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
S10E23
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
S10E24
Steal a Pencil for Me
S10E25
Ask Not
S11E01
Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos
S11E02
Herb and Dorothy
S11E03
Butte, America
S11E04
Journals of a Wily School
S11E05
Power Paths
S11E06
D Tour
S11E07
No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
S11E08
Objectified
S11E09
Between the Folds
S11E10
Scenes from a Parish
S11E11
Young@Heart
S11E12
Copyright Criminals
S11E13
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
S11E14
P-Star Rising
S11E15
Mine / Home
S11E16
Behind the Rainbow
S11E17
The Eyes of Me
S11E18
Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
S11E19
Whatever It Takes
S11E20
Unmistaken Child
S11E21
Blessed Is the Match
S11E22
Dirt! The Movie
S11E23
Garbage Dreams
S11E24
Sunshine
S11E25
The Horse Boy
S11E26
Project Kashmir
S11E27
A Village Called Versailles
S11E28
Goodbye Solo
S12E01
The Parking Lot Movie
S12E02
Art & Copy
S12E03
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
S12E04
The Longoria Affair
S12E05
Lost Sparrow
S12E06
Deep Down
S12E07
45365
S12E08
The Calling, Part 1
S12E09
The Calling, Part 2
S12E10
Men Who Swim
S12E11
Children of Haiti
S12E12
For Once in My Life
S12E13
When I Rise
S12E14
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
S12E15
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
S12E16
Pushing the Elephant
S12E17
The Desert of Forbidden Art
S12E18
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
S12E19
Waste Land
S12E20
Marwencol
S12E21
A Film Unfinished
S12E22
Bhutto
S12E23
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
S12E24
Welcome to Shelbyville
S12E25
Two Spirits
S13E01
Wham! Bam! Islam!
S13E02
Donor Unknown
S13E03
Lives Worth Living
S13E04
Deaf Jam
S13E05
We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
S13E06
The Woodmans
S13E07
These Amazing Shadows
S13E08
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance
S13E09
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation
S13E10
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto
S13E11
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line
S13E12
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last
S13E13
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
S13E14
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
S13E15
More Than A Month
S13E16
You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
S13E17
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
S13E18
When the Drum Is Beating
S13E19
Revenge of the Electric Car
S13E20
Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
S13E21
Circo
S13E22
Summer Pasture
S13E23
Precious Knowledge
S13E24
Left by the Ship
S13E25
Hell and Back Again
S13E26
We Were Here
S13E27
Strong!
S14E01
As Goes Janesville
S14E02
Love Free or Die
S14E03
Solar Mamas
S14E04
Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
S14E05
Soul Food Junkies
S14E06
Beauty Is Embarrassing
S14E07
The Revisionaries
S14E08
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
S14E09
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
S14E10
Kind Hearted Woman
S14E11
The House I Live In; As I Am
S14E12
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
S14E13
The Island President
S14E14
The Undocumented
S14E15
Seeking Asian Female
S14E16
The Invisible War
S14E17
Detropia
S14E18
The Revolutionary Optimists
S15E01
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
S15E02
The Waiting Room
S15E03
The Graduates/Los Graduados
S15E04
Indian Relay
S15E05
Young Lakota
S15E06
Playwright: From Page to Stage
S15E07
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
S15E08
How to Survive a Plague
S15E09
At Berkeley
S15E10
Blood Brother
S15E11
The State of Arizona
S15E12
Spies of Mississippi
S15E13
Las Marthas
S15E14
All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts
S15E15
Medora
S15E16
Brothers Hypnotic
S15E17
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
S15E18
Muscle Shoals
S15E19
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times
S15E20
Let the Fire Burn
S15E21
God Loves Uganda
S15E22
The New Black
S16E01
Bully
S16E02
Twin Sisters
S16E03
Brakeless
S16E04
Powerless
S16E05
Happiness
S16E06
Rich Hill
S16E07
Evolution of a Criminal
S16E08
The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand
S16E09
A Path Appears
S16E10
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
S16E11
American Denial
S16E12
Little White Lie
S16E13
Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames
S16E14
The Homestretch
S16E15
The Great Invisible
S16E16
Kumu Hina
S16E17
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
S16E18
1971
S16E19
Limited Partnership
S17E01
Stray Dog
S17E02
India's Daughter
S17E03
Mimi and Dona
S17E04
East of Salinas
S17E05
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
S17E06
Autism in Love
S17E07
In Football We Trust
S17E08
No Más Bebés (No More Babies)
S17E09
A Ballerina's Tale
S17E10
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
S17E11
(T)ERROR
S17E12
Wilhemina's War
S17E13
An Honest Liar
S17E14
Welcome to Leith
S17E15
Democrats
S17E16
My Nazi Legacy
S17E17
Peace Officer
S17E18
The Armor of Light
S17E19
Dogtown Redemption
S17E20
Trapped
S17E21
T-rex Her Fight For Gold
S18E01
Best of Enemies
S18E02
Meet the Patels
S18E03
Best And Most Beautiful Things
S18E04
Containment; Excerpt From Uranium Drive-in
S18E05
What Was Ours
S18E06
The Witness
S18E07
Birth Of A Movement
S18E08
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
S18E09
Tower
S18E10
The Bad Kids
S18E11
Ovarian Psycos
S18E12
Newtown
S18E13
Seed: The Untold Story
S18E14
The Last Laugh
S18E15
National Bird
S18E16
The Prison In Twelve Landscapes
S18E17
Forever Pure
S18E18
They Call Us Monsters
S18E19
Farmer Veteran
S18E20
Real Boy
S19E01
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
S19E02
Shadow World
S19E03
Supergirl
S19E04
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
S19E05
Unrest
S19E06
I Am Not Your Negro
S19E07
The Force
S19E08
I Am Another You
S19E09
Winnie
S19E10
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story Of Black Colleges And Universities
S19E11
Rat Film
S19E12
Dolores
S19E13
When God Sleeps
S19E14
The Art Of The Shine
S19E15
What Lies Upstream
S19E16
Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
S19E17
True Conviction
S19E18
No Man's Land
S19E19
ACORN and the Firestorm
S19E20
Served Like a Girl
S20E01
Wildland
S20E02
Dawnland
S20E03
The Cleaners
S20E04
The Judge
S20E05
Man on Fire
S20E06
My Country No More
S20E07
Rodents Of Unusual Size
S20E08
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
S20E09
The King
S20E10
Black Memorabilia
S20E11
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
S20E12
People's Republic Of Desire
S20E13
Tre Maison Dasan
S20E14
The Providers
S20E15
Charm City
S20E16
Out Of State
S20E17
Harvest Season
S20E18
Wrestle
S21E01
Made in Boise
S21E02
Decade of Fire
S21E03
The Interpreters
S21E04
Conscience Point
S21E05
ATTLA
S21E06
American Nomads
S21E07
Accept the Call
S21E08
The First Rainbow Coalition
S21E09
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
S21E10
Leftover Women
S21E11
Blind Love
S21E12
We Believe In Dinosaurs
S21E13
Always in Season
S21E14
One Child Nation
S21E15
Bedlam
S21E16
The Hottest August
S21E17
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
S21E18
Rewind
S21E19
Eating Up Easter
S21E20
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
S21E21
Pipe Dreams
S22E01
Feels Good Man
S22E02
Represent
S22E03
Jonathan Scott's Power Trip
S22E04
Belly Of The Beast
S22E05
A Woman's Work: The Nfl's Cheerleader Problem
S22E06
A Day in the Life of America
S22E07
9to5: The Story Of A Movement
S22E08
Women In Blue
S22E09
Mr. SOUL!
S22E10
Coded Bias
S22E11
'til Kingdom Come/the Debate
S22E12
Down A Dark Stairwell
S22E13
The Donut King
S22E14
Two Gods
S22E15
The People Vs. Agent Orange
S23E01
Cured
S23E02
Ferguson Rises
S23E03
Storm Lake
S23E04
Duty Free
S23E05
Home From School: The Children of Carlisle
S23E06
A Reckoning in Boston
S23E07
Missing in Brooks County
S23E08
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
S23E09
Bulletproof
S23E10
Apart
S23E11
Writing With Fire
S23E12
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
S23E13
Try Harder!
S23E14
When Claude Got Shot
S23E15
Scenes From the Glittering World
S23E16
A Once and Future Peace
S24E01
Hazing
S24E02
TikTok, Boom.
S24E03
Move Me
S24E04
Children of Las Brisas
S24E05
The Big Payback
S24E06
No Straight Lines
S24E07
The Picture Taker
S24E08
Outta the Muck
S24E09
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
S24E10
Storming Caesars Palace
S24E11
Hidden Letters
S24E12
Free Chol Soo Lee
S24E13
Matter of Mind: My ALS
S24E14
Sam Now
S24E15
Silent Beauty
S24E16
Mama Bears
S25E01
Sansón and Me
S25E02
El Equipo
S25E03
Three Chaplains
S25E04
A Town Called Victoria - The Fire
S25E05
A Town Called Victoria - The Suspect
S25E06
A Town Called Victoria - The Trial
S25E07
Beyond Utopia
S25E08
Racist Trees
S25E09
Razing Liberty Square
S25E10
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
S25E11
Breaking The News
S25E12
Greener Pastures
S25E13
A Thousand Pines
S25E14
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's
S25E15
One With the Whale
S25E16
Space: The Longest Goodbye
S25E17
The Tuba Thieves
S26E01
One Person, One Vote?
S26E02
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
S26E03
Dallas, 2019 - Week 1
S26E04
Dallas, 2019 - Week 2
S26E05
Dallas, 2019 - Week 3
S26E06
Dallas, 2019 - Week 4
S26E07
Dallas, 2019 - Week 5
S26E08
Minted
S26E09
Without Arrows
S26E10
The Strike
S26E11
The In Between
S26E12
Skin of Glass
S26E13
Bike Vessel
S26E14
Home Court
S26E15
We Want The Funk
S26E16
Free for All: The Public Library
S26E17
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
S26E18
And So It Begins
S26E19
Who Is Michael Jang?
S26E20
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
S26E21
Ratified
S26E22
Life After