Different celebrity hosts present new independent documentaries..
Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
1. The Graduates/Los Graduados - Girls Hour
Aired: Oct 28, 2013Part 1 of 2. The Latino dropout crisis is examined through the eyes of six st...
2. The Graduates/Los Graduados: Boys Hour
Aired: Nov 4, 2013Conclusion. The Latino dropout crisis is seen through the eyes of three young...
Aired: Nov 18, 2013 Episode Synopsis: "Indian Relay" chronicles a season of Indian relay-horse ra...
Aired: Nov 25, 2013 Three young people living in the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better...
5. Playwright: From Page to Stage
Aired: Dec 16, 2013The lives of two outstanding young playwrights — an African American from Mia...
Aired: Dec 23, 2013 Eighty-five-year-old Jiro Ono, considered the world’s greatest sushi chef, is...
Aired: Dec 30, 2013 This acclaimed film tells the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group...
Aired: Jan 13, 2014 Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman goes back to school for this intima...
Aired: Jan 20, 2014 An intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, who travels to India as a disillusioned ...
Aired: Jan 27, 2014 In 2010, the Arizona Senate passed controversial immigration law SB1070, also...
Aired: Feb 10, 2014 The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission's role in the civil rights movem...
Aired: Feb 17, 2014 Dating from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the annual debutante b...
Aired: Mar 24, 2014 Morbidly obese women endure weight-loss surgery.
Aired: May 31, 2014 The story of a high school basketball team suffering from a long losing strea...
Aired: Mar 17, 2014 Eight brothers who were forged into a band as children by their father, Chica...
16. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Aired: Mar 24, 2014The story of the explosive crossroads of Muhammad Ali’s life, after the famed...
Aired: Mar 31, 2014 Story of the 2 legendary recording studios in the Muscle Shoals area, on the ...
18. A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
Aired: Apr 7, 2014A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times.
Aired: Apr 14, 2014 This documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between go...
Aired: May 5, 2014 Inspired by his own African American Baptist roots, director Roger Ross Willi...
Aired: Jun 16, 2014 How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights m...
