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 19, 2010 This documentary is about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia...
Aired: Oct 26, 2010 A look at the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising cre...
3. Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
Aired: Nov 2, 2010Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian.
Aired: Nov 9, 2010 Private Felix Longoria fought and died while fighting the Japanese during Wor...
Aired: Nov 16, 2010 Filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the deaths of his adopted brothers, two ...
Aired: Nov 23, 2010 Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up on opposite sides of a mountain ridge i...
Aired: Dec 14, 2010 An inquisitive look at everyday life in Middle America. "45365" explores the ...
Aired: Dec 20, 2010 This mini-series follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and...
Aired: Dec 21, 2010 Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians embark on the...
Aired: Jan 4, 2011 A group of middle-aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Swed...
Aired: Jan 11, 2011 In the midst of Haiti's lush mountains and historical relics are 500,000 orph...
Aired: Feb 1, 2011 Made up of 28 musicians and singers with severe mental and physical disabilit...
Aired: Feb 8, 2011 A profile of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student...
14. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Aired: Feb 22, 2011An iconoclast who himself became an icon, William Burroughs explored the oute...
15. Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Aired: Mar 1, 2011In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of a 43-year-old man. Cynt...
Aired: Mar 29, 2011 Civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, with it the nighttime arrest of h...
17. The Desert of Forbidden Art
Aired: Apr 5, 2011This story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dol...
18. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Aired: Apr 12, 2011In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Discovered in the...
Aired: Apr 19, 2011 Artist Vik Muniz journeys from to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim G...
Aired: Apr 26, 2011 After being beaten into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left brain damaged and trau...
Aired: May 3, 2011 A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before t...
Aired: May 10, 2011 As the first Muslim woman to lead an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime M...
23. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Aired: May 17, 2011Cultural and historical references untangle Japan's fascination with insects.
Aired: May 24, 2011 Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one s...
Aired: Jun 14, 2011 Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history wh...
