Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
28 Episodes
  • Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
    Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik MunizEpisode 1
  • Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
    Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'Episode 2
  • Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
    Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in AmericaEpisode 3
  • A Wedding in Ramallah
    A Wedding in RamallahEpisode 4
  • Be Good, Smile Pretty
    Be Good, Smile PrettyEpisode 5
  • Livermore
    LivermoreEpisode 6
  • Eroica!
    Eroica!Episode 7
  • Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
    Loaded Gun: Life and Death and DickinsonEpisode 8
  • Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
    Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries AbroadEpisode 9
  • Man Bites Shorts
    Man Bites ShortsEpisode 10
  • Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
    Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' StoryEpisode 11
  • Life Matters
    Life MattersEpisode 12
  • Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
    Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour ResurfacingEpisode 13
  • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
    Nat Turner: A Troublesome PropertyEpisode 14
  • A Place of Our Oen
    A Place of Our OenEpisode 15
  • Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
    Jimmy Scott: If You Only KnewEpisode 16
  • Sentencing the Victim
    Sentencing the VictimEpisode 17
  • T-Shirt Travels
    T-Shirt TravelsEpisode 18
  • Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
    Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri ThomasEpisode 19
  • Love Inventory
    Love InventoryEpisode 20
  • Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
    Ram Dass: Fierce GraceEpisode 21
  • The Weather Underground
    The Weather UndergroundEpisode 22
  • One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
    One Night at the Grand Star; Double ExposureEpisode 23
  • Refugee
    RefugeeEpisode 24
  • Death of a Shaman
    Death of a ShamanEpisode 25
  • Cosmopolitan
    CosmopolitanEpisode 26
  • Sumo East and West
    Sumo East and WestEpisode 27
  • The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
    The Amasong Chorus: Singing OutEpisode 28
Cast of Season 5
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Peter Coyote
  • America Ferrera
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Stanley Tucci

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