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Airing weekly on PBS, the Emmy Award®-winning series Independent Lens introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers: filmmakers who take creative risks, call their own shots and find untold stories in unexpected places.
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Previews
82 VIDEOS
Hell and Back Again Nominated for Academy Award
1:48
Air Date 05/24/12
It's Baaaaack!
1:44
Air Date 04/19/12
Haiti's Best Known Band Keeps Hope Alive
2:15
Air Date 04/12/12
Meet the Man Behind Elmo
2:15
Air Date 04/05/12
For Lee Gorewitz, Living With Alzheimer's is an Odyssey
1:45
Air Date 03/29/12
Reinventing a South Bronx School
0:31
Air Date 03/01/12
Black History Month...There's an App for That!
1:09
Air Date 02/16/12
End Black History Month?
1:55
Air Date 02/16/12
Looking Back at the Black Power Movement
1:59
Air Date 02/09/12
A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented
1:08
Air Date 02/02/12
Black History is American History
0:30
Air Date 02/02/12
Free At Last - A Preview
3:40
Air Date 01/26/12
Shorts
160 VIDEOS
Pimping Yesterday's Jalopies Into Futuristic Rides
1:07
Air Date 04/19/12
Meet Bob Lutz...Mr. Horsepower
0:52
Air Date 04/19/12
Enter the Emperor of the Electric Car
1:11
Air Date 04/19/12
The Incredible Awesomeness of Elon Musk
1:03
Air Date 04/19/12
Reinventing Family in the Face of Alzheimer's
1:04
Air Date 03/29/12
Making Mischief in the Alzheimer's Care Unit
0:50
Air Date 03/29/12
Hanging Onto Humor in the Alzheimer's Care Unit
1:11
Air Date 03/29/12
Philadelphia's Innovative Black History Requirement
4:59
Air Date 02/16/12
Where It's At With Marco and Shukree!
4:29
Air Date 02/16/12
Pounding the Pavement for Black History
2:29
Air Date 02/16/12
How Does Confederate History Mesh with Black History?
3:35
Air Date 02/16/12
A Point Where Caution Ends and Cowardice Begins
2:35
Air Date 02/09/12
