Different celebrity hosts present new independent documentaries..
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.
Aired: Oct 22, 2008 A Feature Documentary Presentation.
2. Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
Aired: Oct 28, 2008Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized so...
Aired: Nov 6, 2008 Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother...
Aired: Nov 13, 2008 The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first wom...
Aired: Nov 18, 2008 Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After ha...
Aired: Nov 25, 2008 The Atom Smashers chronicles the search for the Higgs boson: a yet-undiscover...
Aired: Dec 16, 2008 Jam-packed with cultural figures, from Norman Mailer to Timothy Leary, Immy H...
8. Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
Aired: Dec 16, 2008This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the a...
9. Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
Aired: Dec 23, 2008This 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cu...
Aired: Jan 6, 2009 Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed gets his dream job working on a Hollywood m...
Aired: Feb 3, 2009 Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It l...
12. Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Aired: Feb 3, 2009America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction ...
Aired: Feb 24, 2009 A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blaz...
14. The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
Aired: Feb 24, 2009The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At...
Aired: Mar 24, 2009 Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to ...
Aired: Mar 31, 2009 Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six year...
Aired: Apr 7, 2009 Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after ...
Aired: Apr 14, 2009 Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti...
19. Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Aired: Apr 21, 2009How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Pri...
Aired: Apr 28, 2009 A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the drea...
Aired: May 5, 2009 A few of Japan's Divine Wind Special Attack Unit (Kamikaze) survived. Now old...
22. Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Aired: May 12, 2009It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought ...
23. Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
Aired: May 19, 2009This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after thei...
Aired: May 26, 2009 In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamo...
Aired: Jun 16, 2009 As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits...
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