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 16, 2007 Fifty million Americans do crossword puzzles each week, many in the venerable...
Aired: Oct 23, 2007 This film follows eight-year-old students in an elementary school in China as...
Aired: Oct 30, 2007 This is a film explores the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and eff...
Aired: Nov 6, 2007 U.S. soldiers who fought on the island of Attu in Alaska during WWII journey ...
Aired: Nov 13, 2007
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Aired: Dec 11, 2007 Chronicles the pressure of a year in the life of Pennsylvania State Universit...
Aired: Dec 18, 2007 This program offers an unsparing look at Ralph Nader, one of the most importa...
Aired: Jan 8, 2008
11. Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
Aired: Jan 22, 2008Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to st...
Aired: Jan 22, 2008
Aired: Jan 29, 2008 While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao experiences writer...
Aired: Feb 19, 2008 In the early 20th century, three southern communities forcibly remove African...
Aired: Feb 26, 2008 Banished is a documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of man...
Aired: Mar 18, 2008 Follows two former felons in different stages of life "on the outside." / Exa...
Aired: Apr 1, 2008 With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes w...
Aired: Apr 8, 2008
Aired: Apr 8, 2008 Jock Soto, who is Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican as well as gay, retired in J...
20. Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
Aired: May 6, 2008King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following co...
Aired: May 20, 2008
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Aired: Jun 10, 2008 This film follows one woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family ...
Aired: Jun 3, 2008 The Cool School is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch...
Aired: Jun 19, 2008
26. Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Aired: Jun 15, 2008The amazing and compelling true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhur...
27. Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Aired: Jun 19, 2008A Japanese family searches for their daughter who was abducted by North Korea...
