Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 16
19 episodes · premiered Oct 13, 2014
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- Episode 1: Bully Oct 13, 2014 · 1h The story of the children bullied at school and online. The film questions assumptions about bullying behaviour beyond cliches and stereotypes of the past. It also examines changes in how…
- Episode 2: Twin Sisters Oct 20, 2014 · 1h Two sisters adopted in China as infants by Californian and Norwegian parents grow up knowing they have a twin living on the other side of the world. Although language is a barrier, their…
- Episode 3: Brakeless Oct 27, 2014 · 1h In April, 2005 a Japanese train engineer accelerated beyond permissible speeds in order to make up an 80-second delay. Brakeless examines the aftermath and questions if Japan is cutting…
- Episode 4: Powerless Nov 3, 2014 · 1h Powerless tracks the battle between an Indian electric company and a renegade electrician who illegally connects poor families to the grid.
- Episode 5: Happiness Nov 17, 2014 · 1h A nine-year-old child in Burma is spurred to leave his village for the first time in his life when his village gets electricity. He walks for over three days to in search of a seeing his…
- Episode 6: Rich Hill Jan 5, 2015 · 1h Rich Hill, winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, goes inside the homes and lives of small town America, where kids confront heartbreaking…
- Episode 7: Evolution of a Criminal Jan 12, 2015 · 1h Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe explores what led him to pull a heist as a teenager in Texas, and returns to the scene of the crime. In this gripping…
- Episode 8: The Kill Team / Confusion Through Sand Jan 19, 2015 · 1h Winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Kill Team tells the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan…
- Episode 9: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People Feb 16, 2015 · 1h For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — have recorded the dramas and aspirations of generations. Through a Lens Darkly…
- Episode 10: American Denial Feb 23, 2015 · 1h In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue, American Denial explores the power of unconscious biases around race and class. Using Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 investigation…
- Episode 11: Little White Lie Mar 23, 2015 · 1h Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two loving Jewish parents. When she discovers that the man she's always assumed was her father is not her biological parent…
- Episode 12: Little Hope Was Arson / A City in Flames Apr 6, 2015 · 1h The investigation into a spate of church burnings that occured in East Texas during January and February 2010 is chronicled.
- Episode 13: The Homestretch Apr 13, 2015 · 1h Three homeless Chicago teens strive to graduate from high school despite the difficulties inherent in their situations.
- Episode 14: The Great Invisible Apr 20, 2015 · 1h First hand accounts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico.
- Episode 15: Kumu Hina May 4, 2015 · 1h A Hawaiian transgender woman finds acceptance, but still is searching for love.
- Episode 16: Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity May 11, 2015 · 1h Examining daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme Action Company. Included: the evolution of her philosophy, which challenges assumptions about art, aging, injury…
- Episode 17: 1971 May 18, 2015 · 1h The story of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, which broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pa., on the night of March 8, 1971, and stole hundreds of secret files that…
- Episode 18: Limited Partnership Jun 15, 2015 · 1h Married in 1975, Richard and Tony lead a 40-year fight for legal immigration status for same sex spouses.
- Episode 19: In the Shadow of Ebola Jun 22, 2015 · 1h An African family’s tense experience during West African Ebola outbreak. This intimate film brings us on Emmanuel’s journey as he battles to keep his wife and children safe while the…