Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 10
25 episodes · premiered Oct 22, 2008
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- Episode 1: Chicago 10 Oct 22, 2008 · 1h This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of…
- Episode 2: Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey Oct 28, 2008 · 1h Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society.
- Episode 3: Knee Deep Nov 6, 2008 · 1h Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a deal which would have left the family farm to him.
- Episode 4: Lioness Nov 13, 2008 · 1h The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Without sufficient…
- Episode 5: March Point Nov 18, 2008 · 1h Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lead to rehab and drug court, they are offered an alternative: to make a documentary about…
- Episode 6: The Atom Smashers Nov 25, 2008 · 1h THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific projects will be funded and which will be cut, and depicts the contradictions that arise…
- Episode 7: Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic" Dec 16, 2008 · 1h Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. Doc’s friends and family—including Norman Mailer…
- Episode 8: Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic' Dec 16, 2008 · 1h This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars over the…
- Episode 9: Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway Dec 23, 2008 · 1h his 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly mounted Broadway musical. Captured in the 1975…
- Episode 10: Helvetica Jan 6, 2009 · 1h 20m Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger…
- Episode 11: Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene Feb 3, 2009 · 1h Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger…
- Episode 12: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene Feb 3, 2009 · 1h America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining everyone from the ghetto to the White House…
- Episode 13: The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair Feb 24, 2009 · 1h A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It was…
- Episode 14: The Order of Myths Feb 24, 2009 · 1h The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama—events remain segregated between white and…
- Episode 15: Lakshmi and Me Mar 24, 2009 · 1h Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a traditional…
- Episode 16: Recycle Mar 31, 2009 · 1h Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been doing just that for her employers—virtually unnoticed. That is, until one of Lakshmi’s…
- Episode 17: Milking the Rhino Apr 7, 2009 · 1h Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in the Soviet-Afghan war. "Recycle" follows Amar's daily life as he scours the streets to…
- Episode 18: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Apr 14, 2009 · 1h Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here’s a different story about villagers navigating the dangers and costs of living with…
- Episode 19: Steal a Pencil for Me Apr 21, 2009 · 1h How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Ask Wangari Maathai of Kenya. In 1977, she suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming…
- Episode 20: At Home in Utopia Apr 28, 2009 · 1h A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal Goldman traces the history of "The Coops,"…
- Episode 21: Wings of Defeat May 5, 2009 · 1h What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she…
- Episode 22: Crips and Bloods: Made in America May 12, 2009 · 1h It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles…
- Episode 23: Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors May 19, 2009 · 1h This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16 young men (of 45 passengers and crew) of a…
- Episode 24: Steal a Pencil for Me May 26, 2009 · 1h In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a married couple—a poor accountant named Jack Polak and his vivacious wife, Manja—at a birthday…
- Episode 25: Ask Not Jun 16, 2009 · 1h As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. ASK NOT explores the tangled political battles that led to the infamous…