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.
Aired: Oct 2, 2016 A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore...
Aired: Dec 26, 2016 Actor Ravi Patel, whose traditional Hindu parents are eager for him to find a...
3. Best and Most Beautiful Things
Aired: Jan 2, 2017Michelle, a precocious 20-year-old woman living in rural Maine with her mothe...
Aired: Jan 9, 2017 Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive slud...
Aired: Jan 16, 2017 A tribal elder and Vietnam vet, who hasn't left the Wind River Indian Reserva...
Aired: Jan 23, 2017 After Kitty Genovese was repeatedly attacked on a street in Queens, New York ...
Aired: Feb 6, 2017 The story of William Monroe Trotter, the nearly forgotten editor of a Boston ...
Aired: Feb 13, 2017 Renowned musician Daryl Davis has an unusual, controversial hobby: meeting an...
Aired: Feb 14, 2017 Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-befo...
Aired: Mar 20, 2017 Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation H...
Aired: Mar 27, 2017 Ovarian Psycos is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist...
Aired: Apr 3, 2017 Filmed over the course of nearly three years, Newtown uses deeply personal, n...
Aired: Apr 17, 2017 Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind, few things on Earth are...
Aired: Apr 24, 2017 The Holocaust would seem to be an absolutely off-limits topic for comedy — bu...
Aired: May 1, 2017 National Bird follows whistleblowers who, despite possible consequences, are ...
16. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Aired: May 8, 2017More people are imprisoned in the U.S. at this time than any other time or pl...
Aired: May 15, 2017 The story of how Beitar Jerusalem, the most popular and controversial soccer ...
Aired: May 22, 2017 They Call Us Monsters goes behind the walls of the Compound, a high-security ...
Aired: May 29, 2017 Home from three combat tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton forges a new identity as a ...
Aired: Jun 19, 2017 A transgender teen works to repair a strained relationship with his family an...
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