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 28, 2019 Four surrogates and the parents-to-be navigate pregnancy and the mixed emotio...
Aired: Nov 4, 2019 Community leaders unite to save their neighborhoods after an epidemic of fire...
Aired: Nov 11, 2019 Thousands of local interpreters who helped U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanis...
4. Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
Aired: Nov 18, 2019The plight of the Shinnecock Nation and land development in the Hamptons. Thi...
Aired: Dec 16, 2019 Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and pe...
Aired: Jan 20, 2020 25 years after Yusuf Abdurahman left Somalia as a refugee to begin his life a...
7. The First Rainbow Coalition
Aired: Jan 27, 2020In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across ethnic and r...
8. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Aired: Feb 3, 2020The July 1995 heat wave in Chicago claimed 739 lives in a single week, and be...
Aired: Feb 10, 2020 Leftover Women follows three successful Chinese women who, despite thriving c...
Aired: Feb 17, 2020 In We Believe in Dinosaurs the Bible and science collide amid the battlegroun...
Aired: Feb 24, 2020 Was it suicide, as the white police insists, or was it a suppressed lynching,...
Aired: Mar 20, 2020 Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang investigates the untold history of China's one-c...
Aired: Apr 13, 2020 Psychiatrist Kenneth Rosenberg visits emergency rooms, jails, and homeless ca...
Aired: Apr 20, 2020 Anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies of New York residents during...
Aired: Apr 27, 2020 Immunologist Jim Allison discovers a new way to use the immune system to help...
Aired: May 11, 2020 Made up of home video footage that reveals a long-kept secret, Sasha Joseph N...
Aired: May 25, 2020 More than just a picture-perfect postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, ...
18. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Aired: Jun 15, 2020For 30 years, Marion Stokes records American television, creating a comprehen...
Aired: Jun 22, 2020 Pipe Dreams challenges preconceived notions about an age-old instrument—the p...
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