Video: Independent Lens
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. Actor Stanley Tucci hosts.
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Independent Lens | The Revolutionary Optimists | PBS (#1417)
Full Program: Watch this film through July 8. 55:26
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Independent Lens | As I Am | PBS (#1410)
Full Program: Watch this film by Alan Spearman. 06:45
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Independent Lens | Guess Who?: The Soldier | PBS
Full Program: From University of Southern California. 02:06
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Independent Lens | Guess Who?: The Mayor and The Judge | PBS
Full Program: From Columbia College Chicago. 02:09
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Independent Lens | Guess Who?: The Race Car Driver and The Pilot | PBS
Full Program: From Lipscomb University, Nashville. 02:32
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Independent Lens | Guess Who?: The Nurse and The Firefighter | PBS
Full Program: From Boston University. 02:45
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Independent Lens | Steal a Pencil For Me | PBS (#1020)
Full Program: The true story of the troubled marriage of Jaap and Manja Polak, who lived in German occupied Amsterdam. 01:34:18
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Independent Lens | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | PBS (#1023)
Full Program: With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in... 01:33:05
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Independent Lens | The Beales of Grey Gardens | PBS (#1009)
Full Program: From Grey Gardens filmmakers Albert and David Maysles comes a tribute to the eccentric East Hampton recluses (and counterculture icons) Big and Little Edie Beale, and to their landmark documentary's... 01:31:32
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Independent Lens | Grey Gardens | PBS (#1009)
Full Program: Mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Beale, high-society dropouts and reclusive cousins of Jackie O., thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. 01:35:17
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Independent Lens | Red White Black & Blue | PBS (#904)
Full Program: In 1942, 3,000 Japanese troops invaded the Aleutian Island of Attu in Alaska, the only invasion of American soil since the War of 1812. Sixty years later, two U.S. soldiers who fought on the remote... 56:16
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Independent Lens | A Fish Story | PBS (#810)
Full Program: A Fish Story is a tale of two women who lead their communities in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing tradition... 54:27
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Independent Lens | Milking the Rhino | PBS (#1018)
Full Program: Native herding tribes in Africa are caught between their cattle and wildlife. 55:15
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Independent Lens | The Atom Smashers | PBS (#1006)
Full Program: Scientists are struggling with more than physics in the quest to find "the God particle." "Atom Smashers" examines 15 months at Fermilab as it scours the subatomic world for the Higgs boson particle. 55:12
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Independent Lens | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | PBS (#1013)
Full Program: The unlikely story of America's original shock-jock--Petey Greene--who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in the nation's capital. 56:18
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Independent Lens | Polka Time | PBS (#902)
Full Program: Minnesota’s Gibbon Polka Fest hosts thousands of polka-loving partiers in this high-spirited documentary. 24:54
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Independent Lens | Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas | PBS (#519)
Full Program: Poet Piri Thomas uses creative expression to confront poverty, racism, violence and isolation. 54:38
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Off the Charts | PBS (#402)
Full Program: A fascinating, at times unsettling, look at the strange underworld of the song-poem industry. 54:39
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Independent Lens | Still Life of Animated Dogs | PBS (#803)
Full Program: Czech animator Paul fierlinger's playful and personal ode to the power of man's best friend. 26:34
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Chiefs | PBS (#406)
Full Program: CHIEFS explores the struggles of Native American basketball players at Wyoming Indian High School. 01:24:37
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