Independent Lens - Season 25
Season 25
Episodes
Sansón and Me
The life story of an incarcerated young man, told through dramatic reenactments.
El Equipo
An unlikely collaboration changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.
Three Chaplains
Muslim chaplains work for change inside the U.S. military, fighting for equality and religious freedom.
A Town Called Victoria - The Fire
When arson strikes the local mosque, a Texas town must reckon with its troubled past.
A Town Called Victoria - The Suspect
When arson strikes the local mosque, a Texas town must reckon with its troubled past.
A Town Called Victoria - The Trial
When arson strikes the local mosque, a Texas town must reckon with its troubled past.
Beyond Utopia
The Liberty City public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
Racist Trees
In Palm Springs, a historically Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.
Razing Liberty Square
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood's higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators' market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Four Midwestern families deal with the unseen mental health issues affecting farmers in America.
Breaking The News
Over the course of a season, Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America's forests.
Greener Pastures
There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change, the pandemic, and the domination of megafarms have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four family farms in the Midwest over several years, the documentary Greener Pastures is a story of perseverance and survival within the farming industry in the heartland.
A Thousand Pines
A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America's forests.
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's
Three individuals navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson's disease.
One With the Whale
An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don't hunt, you die.
Space: The Longest Goodbye
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a three-year-long mission to Mars.
The Tuba Thieves
The central mystery of this unconventional documentary isn't about theft; it's about the nature of sound itself.
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