Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 15
21 episodes · premiered Oct 28, 2013
TMDB has no overview for this season.
- Episode 1: The Graduates - The Girls Oct 28, 2013 · 1h Part 1 of 2. The Latino dropout crisis is examined through the eyes of six students from across the U.S., beginning with three young women. One left school after becoming pregnant, but has…
- Episode 2: The Graduates - The Boys Nov 4, 2013 · 1h Conclusion. The Latino dropout crisis is seen through the eyes of three young men. One, whose parents moved from Mexico to San Diego so that he and his siblings could have a better…
- Episode 3: Indian Relay Nov 18, 2013 · 1h Episode Synopsis: "Indian Relay" chronicles a season of Indian relay-horse races, which are popular within Native American communities across the Rocky Mountain West. Teams from the…
- Episode 4: Young Lakota Nov 25, 2013 · 1h Three young people living in the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better future. When the first female president of Oglala Lakota defies a South Dakota law criminalizing abortion by…
- Episode 5: Playwright: From Page to Stage Dec 16, 2013 · 1h The lives of two outstanding young playwrights — an African American from Miami’s inner city and an Indian American from Cleveland — are brought together inextricably in the process of…
- Episode 6: Jiro Dreams of Sushi Dec 23, 2013 · 1h Eighty-five-year-old Jiro Ono, considered the world’s greatest sushi chef, is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station…
- Episode 7: How to Survive a Plague Dec 30, 2013 · 1h This acclaimed film tells the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), two groups whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition…
- Episode 8: At Berkeley Jan 13, 2014 · 1h Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman goes back to school for this intimate yet sprawling film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of…
- Episode 9: Blood Brother Jan 20, 2014 · 1h An intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, who travels to India as a disillusioned tourist. When he meets a group of HIV-positive children living at an AIDS hostel, a place of unspeakable…
- Episode 10: The State of Arizona Jan 27, 2014 · 1h The turbulent battle over illegal immigration in Arizona that came to a head with Senate Bill 1070 frames this riveting documentary that tracks multiple perspectives as America eyes the…
- Episode 11: Spies of Mississippi Feb 10, 2014 · 1h The story of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a secret agency created by the state during the 1950s to spy on its citizens and maintain segregation. Included: remarks from author…
- Episode 12: Las Marthas Feb 17, 2014 · 1h Dating from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is unlike any other. Las Marthas follows two Mexican American girls carrying this gilded…
- Episode 13: All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts Mar 24, 2014 · 1h A group of women friends who met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and have tried every diet and diet pill, go through weight-loss surgery in an…
- Episode 14: Medora May 31, 2014 · 1h The story of a high school basketball team suffering from a long losing streak in a small town.
- Episode 15: Brother's Hypnotic Mar 17, 2014 · 1h Eight brothers who were forged into a band as children by their father, Chicago jazz maverick Phil Cohran, now try to march to their own beat on the streets of New York and in the music…
- Episode 16: The Trials of Muhammad Ali Mar 24, 2014 · 1h The story of the explosive crossroads of Muhammad Ali’s life, after the famed boxer’s conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War left him banned from boxing and facing a…
- Episode 17: Muscle Shoals Mar 31, 2014 · 1h How a small town in Alabama became influential in the music of Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aretha Franklin.
- Episode 18: A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times Apr 7, 2014 · 1h A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked The New York Times and the…
- Episode 19: Let the Fire Burn Apr 14, 2014 · 1h This documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between government and citizens in modern U.S. history, as a longtime feud between Philadelphia police and radical urban…
- Episode 20: God Loves Uganda May 5, 2014 · 1h Inspired by his own African American Baptist roots, director Roger Ross Williams explores a place where religion and African culture intersect, as Ugandan and American pastors spread…
- Episode 21: The New Black Jun 16, 2014 · 1h How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights movement.