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Independent Lens

Season 25 2023 - 2024
TV-PG

  • 2023-09-20T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • 14h 56m (12 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.

12 episodes

Season Premiere

2023-09-20T02:00:00Z

25x01 Sansón and Me

Season Premiere

25x01 Sansón and Me

  • 2023-09-20T02:00:00Z1h 26m

Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes is inspired to make a documentary about Sansón, an immigrant serving life for first-degree murder, but authorities won’t allow the incarcerated young man to be filmed. In light of this, Sansón’s story is shared through dramatic reenactments of his letters, using members of his own family as actors.

2023-10-10T02:00:00Z

25x02 El Equipo

25x02 El Equipo

  • 2023-10-10T02:00:00Z1h 26m

Legendary U.S. anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow sets out to train a new group of Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology. Their goal: to investigate disappearances in Argentina during the “dirty war”. The group expands its horizons, traveling to El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico, doggedly working behind the scenes to establish the facts for the families of the victims.

2023-11-07T03:00:00Z

25x03 Three Chaplains

25x03 Three Chaplains

  • 2023-11-07T03:00:00Z56m

Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military support and defend the religious rights of all service members. But their leadership sparks accusations of disloyalty and even disapproval from within their own communities. Resisting calls to blend in, the chaplains fight to maintain a balanced devotion to Islam, the Constitution and the military.

A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history with racism.

With the arson trial near, the suspect’s family argues his innocence. Meanwhile, facets of Victoria reveal the ingredients that might have turned him to hate and support for the town’s Muslim community begins to wane.

The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria seek a way to build a more inclusive community.

2024-01-10T03:00:00Z

25x07 Beyond Utopia

25x07 Beyond Utopia

  • 2024-01-10T03:00:00Z1h 52m

A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history with racism.

2024-01-23T03:00:00Z

25x08 Racist Trees

25x08 Racist Trees

  • 2024-01-23T03:00:00Z1h 24m

Were trees intentionally planted to exclude and segregate a Black neighborhood? Racial tensions ignite in this documentary, when a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, California, fights to remove a towering wall of tamarisk trees. The trees form a barrier, believed by some to segregate the community, frustrating residents who regard them as an enduring symbol of racism.

2024-01-30T03:00:00Z

25x09 Razing Liberty Square

25x09 Razing Liberty Square

  • 2024-01-30T03:00:00Z1h 24m

The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria seek a way to build a more inclusive community.

25x10 Sister Una Lived a Good Death

  • 2024-02-06T03:00:00Z55m

Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” plans her funeral in her last nine months to live.

2024-02-20T03:00:00Z

25x11 Breaking the News

25x11 Breaking the News

  • 2024-02-20T03:00:00Z1h 24m

Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.

2024-03-26T02:00:00Z

25x12 Greener Pastures

25x12 Greener Pastures

  • 2024-03-26T02:00:00Z1h 25m

There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change and the pandemic have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four family farms in the Midwest over several years, the documentary Greener Pastures is a story of perseverance and survival within the farming industry in the heartland.

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