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Independent Lens

Season 23 2021 - 2022
TV-PG

  • 2021-10-12T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • 15h 45m (15 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
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. INDEPENDENT LENS features unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history. The series is supported by interactive companion Web sites and national publicity and community engagement campaigns. Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Stanley Tucci hosts the series.

15 episodes

Season Premiere

2021-10-12T02:00:00Z

23x01 Cured

Season Premiere

23x01 Cured

  • 2021-10-12T02:00:00Z1h

When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be “cured," LGBTQ+ activists fought back.

2021-11-09T03:00:00Z

23x02 Ferguson Rises

23x02 Ferguson Rises

  • 2021-11-09T03:00:00Z1h

Michael Brown Sr. seeks justice after a white police officer kills his son in Ferguson.

2021-11-16T03:00:00Z

23x03 Storm Lake

23x03 Storm Lake

  • 2021-11-16T03:00:00Z1h

Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.

2021-11-23T03:00:00Z

23x04 Duty Free

23x04 Duty Free

  • 2021-11-23T03:00:00Z1h

Fired from a lifelong job, a 75-year-old mom teams up with her son to reclaim her future through bucket list adventures.

130 years after Native American boys died at an Indian boarding school, their tribe tries to bring them home.

2022-01-18T03:00:00Z

23x06 A Reckoning in Boston

23x06 A Reckoning in Boston

  • 2022-01-18T03:00:00Z1h

A white filmmaker collaborates with Clemente Course students of color to reckon with Boston's racial history.

2022-02-01T03:00:00Z

23x07 Missing in Brooks County

23x07 Missing in Brooks County

  • 2022-02-01T03:00:00Z1h

The deadliest part of a migrant's journey is just beyond the border. For those missing, one man offers a last hope.

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.

2022-02-15T03:00:00Z

23x09 Bulletproof

23x09 Bulletproof

  • 2022-02-15T03:00:00Z1h

What is the cost of feeling safe? In an era of mass shootings, lockdown drills and teacher firearms training are as much a part of life as homecoming dances and basketball practice. Take a provocative look at fear, violence, and what Americans will do to feel safe in schools.

2022-02-22T03:00:00Z

23x10 Apart

23x10 Apart

  • 2022-02-22T03:00:00Z1h

Since the beginning of the War on Drugs, the number of women in U.S. prisons has grown drastically. The majority are mothers. Three unforgettable formerly incarcerated mothers, jailed for drug-related charges, fight to overcome alienation—and a society that labels them "felons"—to readjust to life with their families.

2022-03-29T02:00:00Z

23x11 Writing With Fire

23x11 Writing With Fire

  • 2022-03-29T02:00:00Z1h

In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("News Wave") newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country's political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective. From underground network to independent media empire, they defy the odds to redefine power. Nominated for an Academy Award.

23x12 AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness

  • 2022-04-05T02:00:00Z1h 26m

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.

2022-05-03T02:00:00Z

23x13 Try Harder!

23x13 Try Harder!

  • 2022-05-03T02:00:00Z1h 23m

At Lowell High School, San Francisco's academic pressure cooker, the kids are stressed out. With a majority Asian American student body, high-achieving seniors share their dreams and anxieties about getting into a top university. But is college worth the grind?

2022-05-10T02:00:00Z

23x14 When Claude Got Shot

23x14 When Claude Got Shot

  • 2022-05-10T02:00:00Z1h

After getting shot in the face by a 15-year-old, Claude's path to recovery leads to forgiveness.

Season Finale

2022-05-17T02:00:00Z

23x15 Scenes From the Glittering World

Season Finale

23x15 Scenes From the Glittering World

  • 2022-05-17T02:00:00Z56m

On the Navajo Nation reservation, ​​Indigenous teens at one of the most remote schools in America plan their futures.

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