Independent Lens - Season 26

Independent Lens - Season 26

Season 26

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Datessept. 30, 2024 - nov. 3, 2025
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Episodes

One Person, One Vote?
Season 26Episode 190 min

One Person, One Vote?

Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.

sept. 30, 2024
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
Season 26Episode 290 min

Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

A Marine veteran hand-carves battlefield crosses to reconnect with Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing.

nov. 11, 2024
Dallas, 2019 - Week 1
Season 26Episode 360 min

Dallas, 2019 - Week 1

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 effects of natural and human-caused disasters while navigating a city in crisis.

janv. 3, 2025
Dallas, 2019 - Week 2
Season 26Episode 460 min

Dallas, 2019 - Week 2

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 sacrifices he's made in his career for a failing system; and Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown looks for respect while questioning the future of law enforcement amidst a seemingly endless cycle of incarceration.

janv. 3, 2025
Dallas, 2019 - Week 3
Season 26Episode 560 min

Dallas, 2019 - Week 3

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 commissioner has given 40 years of his life to his work but questions his role and identity; and the director of Health and Human Services wrestles with his new role while reflecting on his Asian American roots.

janv. 4, 2025
Dallas, 2019 - Week 4
Season 26Episode 660 min

Dallas, 2019 - Week 4

Meet a criminal district attorney bringing reform to an ineffectual yet functional incarceration system; a judge navigating the stress and expectations of upholding laws adversely affecting the very communities she comes from; the unapologetic owner of the largest bail bonds company in Dallas; and a community organizer with a mighty voice and warrior spirit.

janv. 4, 2025
Dallas, 2019 - Week 5
Season 26Episode 760 min

Dallas, 2019 - Week 5

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 Dallas what it is, the final episode of Dallas, 2019 poses the question: What does it mean to be alive?

janv. 4, 2025
Minted
Season 26Episode 890 min

Minted

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 and candid interviews with groundbreaking artists—like Beeple, Latasha Alcindor, and Loish— at the center of this phenomenon, Minted delves into the complex world of the $40 billion NFT digital art market.

janv. 6, 2025
Without Arrows
Season 26Episode 990 min

Without Arrows

Thirteen years after leaving South Dakota, a Lakota dancer returns to the reservation to carry on the family legacy.

janv. 13, 2025
The Strike
Season 26Episode 1090 min

The Strike

How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison turned into a massive statewide protest.

févr. 3, 2025
The In Between
Season 26Episode 1190 min

The In Between

In tribute to the brother she lost, a filmmaker returns home to reflect on life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

févr. 10, 2025
Skin of Glass
Season 26Episode 1290 min

Skin of Glass

A filmmaker reckons with Brazil's inequality when learning unhoused people occupy her father's architectural jewel.

févr. 17, 2025
Bike Vessel
Season 26Episode 1390 min

Bike Vessel

After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.

févr. 24, 2025
Home Court
Season 26Episode 1460 min

Home Court

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 as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

mars 24, 2025
We Want The Funk
Season 26Episode 1590 min

We Want The Funk

"WE WANT THE FUNK!" is Stanley Nelson's 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 Brown's dynamism, George Clinton's extraterrestrial Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on new wave and hip-hop.

avr. 8, 2025
Free for All: The Public Library
Season 26Episode 1690 min

Free for All: The Public Library

"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 librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free, and the doors are open to all.

avr. 29, 2025
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
Season 26Episode 1760 min

Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's

"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 roles and relationships. Whether it's a partner becoming a caregiver or an adult child shifting into being their parent's caretaker, these stories show how families evolve when a loved one is diagnosed.

mai 5, 2025
And So It Begins
Season 26Episode 1890 min

And So It Begins

"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 more progressive opponent, incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo. Following it all is independent journalist and Nobel-winner Maria Ressa, with an eye toward the specter of increasing autocracy. 

mai 12, 2025
Who Is Michael Jang?
Season 26Episode 1960 min

Who Is Michael Jang?

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 celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully. Then, during the pandemic, Jang set out to share his work with the world, street guerilla-style.

mai 19, 2025
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Season 26Episode 2090 min

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

A groundbreaking look at Phil Sharp's rise from being a rural Kentucky farm boy who battled dyslexia to Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Narrated by Mark Ruffalo with insights from Walter Isaacson, "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution" reveals how Sharp's RNA discovery transformed biology and launched the biotechnology revolution leading to life-saving treatments for millions.

oct. 6, 2025
Ratified
Season 26Episode 2190 min

Ratified

"Ratified" brings the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to life through Virginia's pivotal ratification battle. Led by Black women and with the support of a multi-racial, multi-generational coalition, this documentary traces the legal, political, and deeply personal fight to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution nearly a century after the ERA was first proposed.

oct. 20, 2025
Life After
Season 26Episode 2290 min

Life After

Filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, "Life After" explores who gets real choice, and who doesn't, in life and death.

nov. 3, 2025

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