Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 12
25 episodes · premiered Oct 19, 2010
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- Episode 1: The Parking Lot Movie Oct 19, 2010 · 1h This documentary is about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the select group of parking lot attendants that inhabit its microcosm. The attendants are a uniquely…
- Episode 2: Art & Copy Oct 26, 2010 · 1h A look at the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time - artists and writers who brought a rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often…
- Episode 3: Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian Nov 2, 2010 · 1h The portrayal of Native Americans in cinema. / Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of…
- Episode 4: The Longoria Affair Nov 9, 2010 · 1h Private Felix Longoria fought and died while fighting the Japanese during World War II. When his body was sent back to his small hometown in Texas, the only funeral parlor there refused to…
- Episode 5: Lost Sparrow Nov 16, 2010 · 1h Filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the deaths of his adopted brothers, two Crow Indian boys who disappeared in 1978. / Some questions are never answered. Some answers are hard to take…
- Episode 6: Deep Down Nov 23, 2010 · 1h Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. When a mountaintop removal coal mine encroaches on their community, the two find themselves…
- Episode 7: 45365 Dec 14, 2010 · 1h An inquisitive look at everyday life in Middle America. "45365" explores the vagaries of daily life in an American town -- Sidney, Ohio. Through an intimate look at the lives and…
- Episode 8: The Calling, Part 1 Dec 20, 2010 · 1h This mini-series follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Jews in training to become professional clergy. Embarking on life paths that demand tremendous personal…
- Episode 9: The Calling, Part 2 Dec 21, 2010 · 1h Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians embark on their life path in a secular and cynical era. A close look at how faith is lived today. / The conclusion of "The…
- Episode 10: Men Who Swim Jan 4, 2011 · 1h A group of middle-aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Sweden's all-male synchronized swimming team. What begins as a weekly escape from the daily grind of work and…
- Episode 11: Children of Haiti Jan 11, 2011 · 1h In the midst of Haiti's lush mountains and historical relics are 500,000 orphan children who live in the streets -- known as "the soulless" and forgotten by their own people. This program…
- Episode 12: For Once in My Life Feb 1, 2011 · 1h Made up of 28 musicians and singers with severe mental and physical disabilities, the Spirit of Goodwill Band is a raucous home away from home where members are free to display their…
- Episode 13: When I Rise Feb 8, 2011 · 1h A profile of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student, who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately…
- Episode 14: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Feb 22, 2011 · 1h An iconoclast who himself became an icon, William Burroughs explored the outer boundaries of culture and identity in the 1950s. His work was vilified by conservatives and banned by the…
- Episode 15: Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story Mar 1, 2011 · 1h At the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown, who had suffered a long history of abuse, killed a man who picked her up for sex. The filmmaker has unprecedented access to Cyntioa in prison, and spends…
- Episode 16: Pushing the Elephant Mar 29, 2011 · 1h Civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, with it the nighttime arrest of her entire family, the execution of her husband and grim negotiations with guards which led to her separation…
- Episode 17: The Desert of Forbidden Art Apr 5, 2011 · 1h This story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a larger exploration of how art survives in…
- Episode 18: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Apr 12, 2011 · 1h In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Discovered in the late 1970s through his graffiti art on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for…
- Episode 19: Waste Land Apr 19, 2011 · 1h Artist Vik Muniz journeys from to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There Muniz photographs…
- Episode 20: Marwencol Apr 26, 2011 · 1h After being beaten into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left brain damaged and traumatized. He devises his own brand of therapy by constructing a 1/6th-scale World War II-era town in his…
- Episode 21: A Film Unfinished May 3, 2011 · 1h This haunting film about a film examines a classic Nazi propaganda movie used by historians for decades to provide insight into the realities of life in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. The…
- Episode 22: Bhutto May 10, 2011 · 1h As the first Muslim woman to lead an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto evolved from a pampered princess to a polarizing politician in one of the most dangerous…
- Episode 23: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo May 17, 2011 · 1h Beginning in the modern day and working backward, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the history of Japan's love affair with bugs. Using insects like an anthropologist's toolkit, the…
- Episode 24: Welcome to Shelbyville May 24, 2011 · 1h Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart of America's Bible Belt, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Just a…
- Episode 25: Two Spirits Jun 14, 2011 · 1h Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl, and…