Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 26
19 episodes · premiered Sep 29, 2024
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- Episode 1: One Person, One Vote? Sep 30, 2024 · 1h 17m At a time when many Americans question democratic institutions, One Person, One Vote? unveils the complexities of the Electoral College, the uniquely American and often misunderstood…
- Episode 2: Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen Nov 11, 2024 · 1h 26m Riddled with survivor's guilt after his unit lost 17 men during "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan, Marine veteran Anthony Marquez makes it his mission to reconnect with the Gold…
- Episode 3: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1 Jan 3, 2025 · 52m Tornados. Drive-by shootings. Environmental racism, The stark North-South Dallas economic divide. Dallas residents and city workers like City Manager T.C. Broadnax respond to the causal…
- Episode 4: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2 Jan 3, 2025 · 52m Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student prepares to navigate the real world; Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa reflects on…
- Episode 5: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3 Jan 3, 2025 · 50m Three spirits with longstanding Texas roots struggle with their place in the world: a transgender woman working at an LGBTQ organization lives her full truth; a Dallas County Court…
- Episode 6: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 4 Jan 3, 2025 · 55m Meet a criminal district attorney bringing reform to a complex and disparate justice system; a judge who is dedicated to breaking cycles of incarceration and knows what it's like to have a…
- Episode 7: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 5 Jan 3, 2025 · 48m Featuring intimate stories of workers and young people—the chief medical examiner, a hospital worker, an auto body shop owner, and a high school senior—who all in their own ways make…
- Episode 8: Minted Jan 6, 2025 · 1h 16m An insider’s look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon and how technology transformed the traditional art world, for better and worse. Featuring verité footage…
- Episode 9: Without Arrows Jan 13, 2025 · 1h 25m After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in…
- Episode 10: The Strike Feb 3, 2025 · 1h 25m The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger…
- Episode 11: The In Between Feb 10, 2025 · 1h 23m Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas bordertown where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family. She finds a treasure trove of his…
- Episode 12: Skin of Glass Feb 17, 2025 · 1h 25m A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known…
- Episode 13: Bike Vessel Feb 24, 2025 · 1h 25m Knowing his dad miraculously recovered from three open-heart surgeries after discovering a passion for cycling, filmmaker Eric D. Seals proposes an ambitious idea: Bike together from St…
- Episode 14: Home Court Mar 24, 2025 · 1h 25m Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury…
- Episode 15: WE WANT THE FUNK! Apr 8, 2025 · 1h 22m WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James…
- Episode 16: Free For All: The Public Library Apr 29, 2025 · 1h 24m Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
- Episode 17: Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's May 5, 2025 · 54m Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s is an intimate portrayal of three families confronting the unique challenges of Alzheimer’s and how this progressive neurodegenerative disease transforms…
- Episode 18: And So It Begins May 12, 2025 · 1h 24m And So It Begins follows the Philippines’ turbulent 2022 presidential race, with the son of ousted former dictator Ferdinand Marcos waging a combative social media campaign against his…
- Episode 19: Who is Michael Jang? May 19, 2025 · 42m After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s—both candid…