Independent Lens

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  • : 1999
  • : 534
  • : 24
  • PBS
  • 22
  • Documentary Drama

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Chicago 10
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22, 2008
This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of .. show full overview
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Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
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28, 2008
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society.
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Knee Deep
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06, 2008
Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a deal which would have left the family farm to him.
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Lioness
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13, 2008
The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Without .. show full overview
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March Point
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18, 2008
Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lead to rehab and drug court, they are offered an alternative: to make a documentary .. show full overview
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The Atom Smashers
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25, 2008
THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific projects will be funded and which will be cut, and depicts the contradictions that arise .. show full overview
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Doc
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09, 2008
Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. Doc’s friends and family—including Norman .. show full overview
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Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
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16, 2008
This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars over .. show full overview
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Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
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23, 2008
This 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly mounted Broadway musical. Captured in the .. show full overview
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Operation Filmmaker
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30, 2008
Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed gets his dream job working on a Hollywood movie, where expectations and misunderstandings collide. / Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed, whose school was .. show full overview
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Helvetica
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06, 2009
Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger .. show full overview
10x12
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
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03, 2009
America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining everyone from the ghetto to the White .. show full overview
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Tulia, Texas
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10, 2009
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It was .. show full overview
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The Order of Myths
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24, 2009
The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama—events remain segregated between white .. show full overview
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Arusi Persian Wedding
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17, 2009
Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a .. show full overview
10x16
Lakshmi and Me
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24, 2009
Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been doing just that for her employers—virtually unnoticed. That is, until one of Lakshmi’s .. show full overview
10x17
Recycle
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31, 2009
Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in the Soviet-Afghan war. "Recycle" follows Amar's daily life as he scours the streets to .. show full overview
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Milking the Rhino
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07, 2009
Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here’s a different story about villagers navigating the dangers and costs of living with .. show full overview
10x19
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
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14, 2009
How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Ask Wangari Maathai of Kenya. In 1977, she suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming .. show full overview
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At Home in Utopia
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28, 2009
A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal Goldman traces the history of "The .. show full overview
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Wings of Defeat
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05, 2009
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she .. show full overview
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
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12, 2009
It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los .. show full overview
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Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
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19, 2009
This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16 young men (of 45 passengers and crew) of a .. show full overview
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Steal a Pencil for Me
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26, 2009
In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a married couple—a poor accountant named Jack Polak and his vivacious wife, Manja—at a .. show full overview
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Ask Not
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06, 2009
As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. ASK NOT explores the tangled political battles that led to the infamous .. show full overview
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Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos
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21, 2009
During the 1976-1983 military dictatorships in Argentina, thousands of citizens were kidnapped and never heard from again. Director Juan Mandelbaum returns to his native Argentina to .. show full overview

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