Episodes

EPISODE 1 2003-10-14 Episode 1 "Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet o... EPISODE 2 2003-10-21 Episode 2 "Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'" EPISODE 3 2003-10-28 Episode 3 "Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America" EPISODE 4 2003-11-04 Episode 4 "A Wedding in Ramallah" EPISODE 5 2003-11-11 Episode 5 "Be Good, Smile Pretty" EPISODE 6 2003-11-25 Episode 6 "Livermore" EPISODE 7 2003-12-09 Episode 7 "Eroica!" EPISODE 8 2003-12-16 Episode 8 "Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson" EPISODE 9 2003-12-23 Episode 9 "Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad" EPISODE 10 2003-12-30 Episode 10 "Man Bites Shorts" EPISODE 11 2004-01-13 Episode 11 "Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story" EPISODE 12 2004-01-20 Episode 12 "Life Matters" EPISODE 13 2004-01-27 Episode 13 "Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurf... EPISODE 14 2004-02-10 Episode 14 "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property" EPISODE 16 2004-02-24 Episode 16 "Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew" EPISODE 17 2004-03-02 Episode 17 "Sentencing the Victim" EPISODE 18 2004-03-23 Episode 18 "T-Shirt Travels" EPISODE 19 2004-03-30 Episode 19 "Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of... EPISODE 20 2004-04-13 Episode 20 "Love Inventory" EPISODE 21 2004-04-20 Episode 21 "Ram Dass: Fierce Grace" EPISODE 22 2004-04-27 Episode 22 "The Weather Underground" EPISODE 23 2004-05-04 Episode 23 "One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure" EPISODE 24 2004-05-11 Episode 24 "Refugee" EPISODE 25 2004-05-27 Episode 25 "Death of a Shaman" EPISODE 26 2004-06-01 Episode 26 "Cosmopolitan" EPISODE 27 2004-06-08 Episode 27 "Sumo East and West" EPISODE 28 2004-06-15 Episode 28 "The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out"
EPISODE 1 2004-10-26 Episode 1 "The Political Dr. Seuss" EPISODE 2 2004-11-09 Episode 2 "Polka Time" EPISODE 3 2004-11-16 Episode 3 "Afghanistan Unveiled" EPISODE 4 2004-11-23 Episode 4 "Los Angeles Now" EPISODE 5 2004-11-30 Episode 5 "The Day My God Died" EPISODE 6 2004-12-14 Episode 6 "Girl Wrestler" EPISODE 7 2004-12-21 Episode 7 "Fine; Doki-Doki" EPISODE 8 2004-12-28 Episode 8 "Short, Not Sweet" EPISODE 9 2005-01-04 Episode 9 "A Hard Straight" EPISODE 10 2005-01-11 Episode 10 "A Touch of Greatness" EPISODE 11 2005-01-25 Episode 11 "Power Trip" EPISODE 12 2005-02-01 Episode 12 "February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four" EPISODE 14 2005-02-22 Episode 14 "Thunder in Guyana\/Unites States of Poetry" EPISODE 15 2005-03-01 Episode 15 "Sisters of '77" EPISODE 16 2005-03-22 Episode 16 "Sunset Story" EPISODE 17 2005-03-29 Episode 17 "Let the Church Say Amen" EPISODE 18 2005-04-05 Episode 18 "A Lion's Trail" EPISODE 19 2005-04-12 Episode 19 "Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of M... EPISODE 20 2005-04-26 Episode 20 "End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Ro... EPISODE 21 2005-05-03 Episode 21 "The Last Letter; Zyklon Portrait; The Walnut Tree" EPISODE 22 2005-05-10 Episode 22 "Imelda" EPISODE 23 2005-05-10 Episode 23 "Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion" EPISODE 24 2005-05-24 Episode 24 "Red Hook Justice" EPISODE 25 2005-05-31 Episode 25 "Double Dare; Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!" EPISODE 26 2005-06-07 Episode 26 "Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story" EPISODE 27 2005-06-14 Episode 27 "Brother to Brother"
EPISODE 1 2005-10-11 Episode 1 "Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove" EPISODE 2 2005-10-18 Episode 2 "En Route to Baghdad" EPISODE 3 2005-10-25 Episode 3 "The Last Cowboy" EPISODE 4 2005-11-08 Episode 4 "A Family at War" EPISODE 5 2005-11-15 Episode 5 "Mirror Dance" EPISODE 6 2005-11-22 Episode 6 "Race Is the Place" EPISODE 7 2005-11-29 Episode 7 "Maid in America" EPISODE 8 2005-12-13 Episode 8 "Seoul Train" EPISODE 9 2005-12-20 Episode 9 "Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community" EPISODE 10 2005-12-27 Episode 10 "Short Stack: Lost & Found" EPISODE 11 2006-01-03 Episode 11 "Sheriff" EPISODE 12 2006-01-17 Episode 12 "Girl Trouble" EPISODE 13 2006-02-07 Episode 13 "Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power" EPISODE 14 2006-02-14 Episode 14 "July '64" EPISODE 15 2006-02-21 Episode 15 "Almost Home" EPISODE 16 2006-02-28 Episode 16 "The Loss of Nameless Things" EPISODE 17 2006-03-21 Episode 17 "Troop 1500" EPISODE 18 2006-03-28 Episode 18 "Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of... EPISODE 19 2006-04-11 Episode 19 "Trudell" EPISODE 20 2006-04-18 Episode 20 "La Sierra" EPISODE 21 2006-04-25 Episode 21 "A League of Ordinary Gentlemen" EPISODE 22 2006-05-02 Episode 22 "Music from the Inside Out" EPISODE 23 2006-05-09 Episode 23 "Fishbowl; American Made" EPISODE 24 2006-05-16 Episode 24 "Frozen Angels" EPISODE 25 2006-05-23 Episode 25 "The Devil's Miner" EPISODE 26 2006-06-06 Episode 26 "The Great Pink Scare" EPISODE 27 2006-06-13 Episode 27 "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" EPISODE 28 2006-06-21 Episode 28 "A Lion in the House" EPISODE 29 2006-06-22 Episode 29 "A Lion in the House"
EPISODE 1 2006-10-24 Episode 1 "Still Life With Animated Dogs" EPISODE 2 2006-10-24 Episode 2 "The World According to Sesame Street" EPISODE 3 2006-10-31 Episode 3 "Muskrat Lovely" EPISODE 4 2006-11-07 Episode 4 "Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire" EPISODE 5 2006-11-21 Episode 5 "Democracy on Deadline" EPISODE 6 2006-11-28 Episode 6 "Two Square Miles" EPISODE 7 2006-12-12 Episode 7 "A Sad Flower in the Sand" EPISODE 8 2006-12-19 Episode 8 "Revolucion: Five Visions" EPISODE 9 2006-12-26 Episode 9 "Short Stack 2006" EPISODE 10 2007-01-02 Episode 10 "A Fish Story" EPISODE 11 2007-01-16 Episode 11 "Shadya" EPISODE 12 2007-01-23 Episode 12 "Beyond the Call" EPISODE 13 2007-01-30 Episode 13 "Twisted" EPISODE 14 2007-02-06 Episode 14 "Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life" EPISODE 15 2007-02-13 Episode 15 "Motherland Afghanistan" EPISODE 16 2007-02-20 Episode 16 "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes" EPISODE 17 2007-02-27 Episode 17 "Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?" EPISODE 18 2007-03-20 Episode 18 "Stolen" EPISODE 19 2007-03-27 Episode 19 "Race to Execution" EPISODE 20 2007-04-03 Episode 20 "China Blue" EPISODE 21 2007-04-10 Episode 21 "Black Gold" EPISODE 22 2007-04-24 Episode 22 "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" EPISODE 23 2007-05-08 Episode 23 "The Cats of Mirikitani" EPISODE 24 2007-05-15 Episode 24 "Sentenced Home" EPISODE 25 2007-05-22 Episode 25 "Knocking" EPISODE 26 2007-05-29 Episode 26 "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" EPISODE 27 2007-05-06 Episode 27 "La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul"
EPISODE 1 2008-10-22 Episode 1 "Chicago 10" EPISODE 2 2008-10-28 Episode 2 "Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey" EPISODE 3 2008-11-06 Episode 3 "Knee Deep" EPISODE 4 2008-11-13 Episode 4 "Lioness" EPISODE 5 2008-11-18 Episode 5 "March Point" EPISODE 6 2008-11-25 Episode 6 "The Atom Smashers" EPISODE 7 2008-12-16 Episode 7 "Wonders Are Many: The Making of \"Doctor Atomic\"" EPISODE 8 2008-12-16 Episode 8 "Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'" EPISODE 9 2008-12-23 Episode 9 "Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway" EPISODE 10 2009-01-06 Episode 10 "Helvetica" EPISODE 11 2009-02-03 Episode 11 "Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene" EPISODE 12 2009-02-03 Episode 12 "Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene" EPISODE 13 2009-02-24 Episode 13 "The Order of Myths\/Bi-Racial Hair" EPISODE 14 2009-02-24 Episode 14 "The Order of Myths" EPISODE 15 2009-03-24 Episode 15 "Lakshmi and Me" EPISODE 16 2009-03-31 Episode 16 "Recycle" EPISODE 17 2009-04-07 Episode 17 "Milking the Rhino" EPISODE 18 2009-04-14 Episode 18 "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai" EPISODE 19 2009-04-21 Episode 19 "Steal a Pencil for Me" EPISODE 20 2009-04-28 Episode 20 "At Home in Utopia" EPISODE 21 2009-05-05 Episode 21 "Wings of Defeat" EPISODE 22 2009-05-12 Episode 22 "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" EPISODE 23 2009-05-19 Episode 23 "Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors" EPISODE 24 2009-05-26 Episode 24 "Steal a Pencil for Me" EPISODE 25 2009-06-16 Episode 25 "Ask Not"
EPISODE 1 2011-10-13 Episode 1 "Wham! Bam! Islam!" EPISODE 2 2011-10-20 Episode 2 "Donor Unknown" EPISODE 3 2011-10-27 Episode 3 "Lives Worth Living" EPISODE 4 2011-11-03 Episode 4 "Deaf Jam" EPISODE 5 2011-11-17 Episode 5 "We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean" EPISODE 6 2011-12-22 Episode 6 "The Woodmans" EPISODE 7 2011-12-29 Episode 7 "These Amazing Shadows" EPISODE 8 2012-01-12 Episode 8 "Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resist... EPISODE 9 2012-01-12 Episode 9 "Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Genera... EPISODE 10 2012-01-19 Episode 10 "Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to ... EPISODE 11 2012-01-19 Episode 11 "Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line" EPISODE 12 2012-01-26 Episode 12 "Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last" EPISODE 13 2012-02-02 Episode 13 "Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock" EPISODE 14 2012-02-09 Episode 14 "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975" EPISODE 15 2012-02-16 Episode 15 "More Than A Month" EPISODE 16 2012-03-30 Episode 16 "You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't" EPISODE 17 2012-04-05 Episode 17 "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey" EPISODE 18 2012-04-12 Episode 18 "When the Drum Is Beating" EPISODE 19 2012-04-19 Episode 19 "Revenge of the Electric Car" EPISODE 20 2012-04-26 Episode 20 "Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison" EPISODE 21 2012-05-03 Episode 21 "Circo" EPISODE 22 2012-05-10 Episode 22 "Summer Pasture" EPISODE 23 2012-05-17 Episode 23 "Precious Knowledge" EPISODE 24 2012-05-24 Episode 24 "Left by the Ship" EPISODE 25 2012-05-28 Episode 25 "Hell and Back Again" EPISODE 26 2012-06-07 Episode 26 "We Were Here" EPISODE 27 2012-06-26 Episode 27 "Strong!"
Independent Lens

Independent Lens

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
Typetv
Duration1h
Release1999
Rating6.5