Episode guide
Independent Lens: Season 8
27 episodes · premiered Oct 24, 2006
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- Episode 1: Still Life With Animated Dogs Oct 24, 2006 · 1h The World According to Sesame Street is a 2005 feature-length documentary created by Participant Productions, looking at the cultural impact of the children's television series Sesame…
- Episode 2: The World According to Sesame Street Oct 24, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 3: Muskrat Lovely Oct 31, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 4: Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire Nov 7, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 5: Democracy on Deadline Nov 21, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 6: Two Square Miles Nov 28, 2006 · 1h Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fired cement plant.
- Episode 7: A Sad Flower in the Sand Dec 12, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 8: Revolucion: Five Visions Dec 19, 2006 · 1h This documentary tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades and whose perspectives on photography are as varied as their opinions about…
- Episode 9: Short Stack 2006 Dec 26, 2006 · 1h
- Episode 10: A Fish Story Jan 2, 2007 · 1h Meet two women who lead in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing tradition and the health of the ocean hang…
- Episode 11: Shadya Jan 16, 2007 · 1h Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel. Despite her father's support…
- Episode 12: Beyond the Call Jan 23, 2007 · 1h
- Episode 13: Twisted Jan 30, 2007 · 1h
- Episode 14: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life Feb 6, 2007 · 1h As Duke Ellington's co-composer, arranger, and right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest American music of the 20th century. But as a gay man in the ’40s and ’50s…
- Episode 15: Motherland Afghanistan Feb 13, 2007 · 1h
- Episode 16: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Feb 20, 2007 · 1h Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Byron Hurt. The documentary explores the issues of masculinity, violence, homophobia and…
- Episode 17: Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? Feb 27, 2007 · 1h Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is a 2006 documentary film written by Matt Coen, Mike Kime and Frank Popper and directed by Frank Popper.
- Episode 18: Stolen Mar 20, 2007 · 1h In 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, successfully executing the largest art heist in modern history. Among the…
- Episode 19: Race to Execution Mar 27, 2007 · 1h Race discrimination infects America’s capital punishment system. According to a landmark study regarding race and the death penalty, a black defendant who kills a white victim is up to 30…
- Episode 20: China Blue Apr 3, 2007 · 1h They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and rent are deducted from their wages, which amount to less than a…
- Episode 21: Black Gold Apr 10, 2007 · 1h This eye-opening expose of the $80 billion coffee industry traces one man's fight for fair trade.
- Episode 22: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Apr 24, 2007 · 1h Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 people sacked…
- Episode 23: The Cats of Mirikitani May 8, 2007 · 1h In 2001, Japanese American painter Jimmy Mirikitani, over 80 years old, is living in the streets of lower Manhattan. Filmmaker Hattendorf takes an interest, and begins to engage with him…
- Episode 24: Sentenced Home May 15, 2007 · 1h
- Episode 25: Knocking May 22, 2007 · 1h
- Episode 26: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill May 29, 2007 · 1h This film tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Former street musician and San Francisco dharma bum…
- Episode 27: La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul May 6, 2007 · 1h Legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer Lupe Victoria Yoli, “The Queen of Latin Soul Music,” aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi, rose to fame in the 1960s and died in 1992 virtually unknown. Beautiful…