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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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Full episodes
2 VIDEOS
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
55:27
Air Date 02/02/12
Expires 02/17/12
Episode 3: Have You Heard From Johannesburg
55:05
Air Date 01/19/12
Expires 02/11/12
Previews
77 VIDEOS
Hell and Back Again Nominated for Academy Award
1:48
Air Date 05/24/12
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
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
Black History is American History
0:30
Air Date 02/02/12
A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented
1:08
Air Date 02/02/12
Free At Last - A Preview
3:40
Air Date 01/26/12
The Bottom Line - A Preview
3:02
Air Date 01/19/12
From Selma to Soweto - A Preview
2:41
Air Date 01/19/12
Road to Resistance - A Preview
1:46
Air Date 01/12/12
The African National Congress Turns 100
0:38
Air Date 01/12/12
Shorts
155 VIDEOS
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
How Does Confederate History Mesh with Black History?
3:35
Air Date 02/16/12
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
A Civil Rights Firebrand Still Inspires Fascination and Fear
2:46
Air Date 02/09/12
Angela Davis on Seeing Her Younger Self
2:30
Air Date 02/09/12
A Point Where Caution Ends and Cowardice Begins
2:35
Air Date 02/09/12
A Miscarriage of Justice or Conspiracy to Silence?
1:43
Air Date 02/09/12
A Civil Rights Hero Who Put Her Life on the Line
1:02
Air Date 02/02/12
