Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 24
16 episodes · premiered Sep 12, 2022
TMDB has no overview for this season.
- Episode 1: Hazing Sep 12, 2022 · 1h 44m Hazing is a widespread, far-reaching practice fueled by tradition, secrecy, groupthink, power, and the desire to belong in fraternities and sororities on college campuses across the U.S…
- Episode 2: TikTok, Boom. Oct 24, 2022 · 1h 25m What does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sections—algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural—to explore the impact of the…
- Episode 3: Move Me Nov 7, 2022 · 1h 23m At 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior as a dancer and emerged paralyzed. But within the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) community, she found allies in her quest to discover who she is…
- Episode 4: Children of Las Brisas Jan 2, 2023 · 1h 23m In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra offers children hope and the opportunity to pursue a life of art in spite of the…
- Episode 5: The Big Payback Jan 16, 2023 · 1h 25m An Evanston, Illinois rookie alderwoman led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make…
- Episode 6: No Straight Lines Jan 23, 2023 · 1h 26m When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American culture. From DIY underground…
- Episode 7: The Picture Taker Jan 30, 2023 · 1h 26m The vibrant life of Ernest Withers—civil rights photographer, and FBI informant—was anything but black and white. From his Memphis studio, Withers' nearly 2 million images were a treasured…
- Episode 8: Outta the Muck Feb 6, 2023 · 1h 26m Wade into the rich soil of Pahokee, Florida, a town on the banks of Lake Okeechobee. Beyond its football legacy, including sending over a dozen players to the NFL (like Anquan Boldin, Fred…
- Episode 9: Love in the Time of Fentanyl Feb 13, 2023 · 1h 26m As fentanyl overdose deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors—a renegade safe injection site that employs current or former drug…
- Episode 10: Storming Caesars Palace Mar 20, 2023 · 1h 25m After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for guaranteed income, Ruby…
- Episode 11: Hidden Letters Mar 27, 2023 · 1h 25m The bonds of sisterhood, and the parallels of struggles among generations of women in China, are drawn together by the once-secret written language of Nüshu, the only script designed and…
- Episode 12: Free Chol Soo Lee Apr 24, 2023 · 1h 25m Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans…
- Episode 13: Matter of Mind: My ALS May 1, 2023 · 1h 25m Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular disease with an average survival time of 2-5 years from diagnosis. In this intimate exploration, three people with ALS, or Lou…
- Episode 14: Sam Now May 8, 2023 · 1h 25m In this coming-of-age documentary about generational trauma, follow Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36 as his middle-class Seattle family is heartbroken and unsure of what to do after his…
- Episode 15: Silent Beauty May 15, 2023 · 1h 26m In this autobiographical exploration of survivorship, New Orleans journalist and filmmaker Jasmin Mara López unabashedly shares her process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. After…
- Episode 16: Mama Bears Jun 20, 2023 · 1h 25m They call one another “mama bears” because of the ferocity with which they fight for their children’s rights. Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians praying for…