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: Nov 6, 2017 Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasin...
Aired: Nov 20, 2017 Explore the shocking realities of the billion-dollar global arms trade throug...
Aired: Dec 18, 2017 A profile of a seemingly ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen from New Jersey who...
4. The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Aired: Jan 1, 2018A profile of "Tales of the City" creator Armistead Maupin, including his evol...
Aired: Jan 8, 2018 Director Jennifer Brea, confined to her bed due to chronic fatigue syndrome, ...
Aired: Jan 15, 2018 Filmmaker Raoul Peck examines James Baldwin's unfinished book about the lives...
Aired: Jan 22, 2018 A cinema vérité look at the Oakland Police Department as it struggles to conf...
Aired: Jan 29, 2018 Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows a homeless man on a journey across Ameri...
Aired: Feb 5, 2018 One of the more misunderstood and intriguing contemporary female political fi...
Aired: Feb 19, 2018 Historically black colleges and universities play a pivotal role in shaping A...
Aired: Feb 26, 2018 The history and cultural fabric of Baltimore is explored through the lens of ...
Aired: Mar 27, 2018 The story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activ...
Aired: Apr 2, 2018 The story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi's stand for freedom of expression...
Aired: Apr 9, 2018 Shining shoes is a calling and a passion, a way to be one’s own boss and conn...
Aired: Apr 16, 2018 The lives of the men and women around the world who make their living shining...
Aired: Apr 23, 2018 A portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America th...
17. Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
Aired: Apr 30, 2018After serving a combined 60 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, t...
Aired: May 7, 2018 Three ex-prisoners start a detective agency to help free wrongly incarcerated...
Aired: May 14, 2018 For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN sought to empower poor and...
Aired: May 28, 2018 A candid look at a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless wo...
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