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 13, 2014 The story of the children bullied at school and online. The film questions as...
Aired: Oct 20, 2014 The poignant story of two girls from China adopted as infants by two separate...
Aired: Oct 27, 2014 Brakeless asks what led the driver of a Japanese commuter train to accelerate...
Aired: Nov 3, 2014 Electricity Theft in India. Powerless captures the cat-and-mouse game of an o...
Aired: Nov 17, 2014 A nine-year-old monk has never before left his Bhutanese village perched high...
Aired: Jan 5, 2015 Rich Hill, winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Bes...
Aired: Jan 12, 2015 Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe explores ...
Aired: Jan 19, 2015 A young man with integrity and honor enlists in the army, but is horrified by...
9. Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Aired: Feb 16, 2015Black photographers have recorded the lives and aspirations of generations, f...
Aired: Feb 23, 2015 In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue, American ...
Aired: Mar 23, 2015 A filmmaker unlocks a family secret that leads to the truth about her biologi...
Aired: Apr 6, 2015 The investigation into a spate of church burnings that occured in East Texas ...
Aired: Apr 13, 2015 Three homeless Chicago teens strive to graduate from high school despite the ...
Aired: Apr 20, 2015 First hand accounts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and its impact on the ...
Aired: May 4, 2015 A Hawaiian transgender woman finds acceptance, but still is searching for love.
16. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Aired: May 11, 2015Choreographer Elizabeth Streb pioneers a movement form that explores physical...
Aired: May 18, 2015 The story of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, which broke int...
Aired: Jun 15, 2015 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP is the love story between Filipino-American Richard Adams...
Aired: Jun 22, 2015 An African family’s tense experience during West African Ebola outbreak. This...
