Independent Lens

Season 15 Episode 21: The New Black

25 Seasons Jun 16, 2014 TV-14 1h 8.2

How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights movement.

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Season 15 Episodes:

Episode 3 Indian Relay

3. Indian Relay

Aired: Nov 18, 2013

Episode Synopsis: "Indian Relay" chronicles a season of Indian relay-horse ra...

Episode 4 Young Lakota

4. Young Lakota

Aired: Nov 25, 2013

Three young people living in the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better...

Episode 6 Jiro Dreams of Sushi

6. Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Aired: Dec 23, 2013

Eighty-five-year-old Jiro Ono, considered the world’s greatest sushi chef, is...

Episode 8 At Berkeley

8. At Berkeley

Aired: Jan 13, 2014

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman goes back to school for this intima...

Episode 9 Blood Brother

9. Blood Brother

Aired: Jan 20, 2014

An intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, who travels to India as a disillusioned ...

Episode 10 The State of Arizona

10. The State of Arizona

Aired: Jan 27, 2014

In 2010, the Arizona Senate passed controversial immigration law SB1070, also...

Episode 11 Spies of Mississippi

11. Spies of Mississippi

Aired: Feb 10, 2014

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission's role in the civil rights movem...

Episode 12 Las Marthas

12. Las Marthas

Aired: Feb 17, 2014

Dating from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the annual debutante b...

Episode 13 All of Me

13. All of Me

Aired: Mar 24, 2014

Morbidly obese women endure weight-loss surgery.

Episode 14 Medora

14. Medora

Aired: May 31, 2014

The story of a high school basketball team suffering from a long losing strea...

Episode 15 Brother's Hypnotic

15. Brother's Hypnotic

Aired: Mar 17, 2014

Eight brothers who were forged into a band as children by their father, Chica...

Episode 17 Muscle Shoals

17. Muscle Shoals

Aired: Mar 31, 2014

Story of the 2 legendary recording studios in the Muscle Shoals area, on the ...

Episode 19 Let the Fire Burn

19. Let the Fire Burn

Aired: Apr 14, 2014

This documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between go...

Episode 20 God Loves Uganda

20. God Loves Uganda

Aired: May 5, 2014

Inspired by his own African American Baptist roots, director Roger Ross Willi...

Episode 21 The New Black

21. The New Black

Aired: Jun 16, 2014

How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights m...


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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Documentary