Independent Lens

Season 10 - Independent Lens

• Season 10 Episode 1: Chicago 10 (2008) Next on: Wednesday 22nd October 6:00pm PDT - WNET (PBS) Filmmaker Brett Morgen mixes animation with archival footage to tell the story of the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Seven.

Season 9 - Independent Lens

• Season 9 Episode 27: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2008) Parents of a 13-year-old Japanese kidnapped by North Korean spies battle for 30 years to bring her home; host Terrence Howard.
• Season 9 Episode 26: Deep Water (2008) Amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst entered the very first solo, non-stop, around- the-world boat race; host Terrence Howard.
• Season 9 Episode 25: The Cool School (2008) The Ferus Gallery's art scene from 1956 to 1966; Terrence Howard hosts.
• Season 9 Episode 24: Writ Writer (2008) A Mexican-American sent to prison in 1960 wages a legal battle against the violence and abuse of inmates' rights in the Texas penal system; host Terrence Howard.
• Season 9 Episode 23: New Year Baby (2008) Filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the U.S., never knowing her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
• Season 9 Episode 22: A Dream in Doubt (2008) A Sikh man from Mesa, Ariz., is murdered, a victim of a hate crime in the wake of Sept. 11; host Terrence Howard.
• Season 9 Episode 21: Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula (2008) Male roles in the hula tradition with Robert Cazimero, a teacher at the only all-male hula school in Hawaii.
• Season 9 Episode 20: King Corn (2008) Two college graduates plant a single acre of corn and follow it on its journey to the dinner table.
• Season 9 Episode 19: Water Flowing Together (2008) An openly gay man of Navajo and Puerto Rican descent, Jock Soto retired from the New York City Ballet at age 40 after a 24-year career.
• Season 9 Episode 18: Companeras (2008) Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, America's first all-female mariachi band, was founded in 1994 and is comprised of 12 members.
• Season 9 Episode 17: Iron Ladies of Liberia (2008) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, is Africa's first freely elected female head of State.
• Season 9 Episode 16: Hard Road Home (2008) Three former felons in New York are in different stages of life after doing time.
• Season 9 Episode 15: Banished (2008) From the 1860s to the 1920s, towns and counties across America violently expelled black communities, forcing thousands from their homes.
• Season 9 Episode 14: American Made (2008) A Sikh-American family makes its way to the Grand Canyon but gets trapped in the desert.
• Season 9 Episode 13: How Is Your Fish Today? (2008) While writing a screenplay, Hui Rao begins to live the life of the character he is creating.
• Season 9 Episode 12: A Son's Sacrifice (2008) A young Muslim-American strives for acceptance from his father's conservative community as he takes over the family business.
• Season 9 Episode 11: Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita (2008) Next on: Today at 8:00pm PDT - WTTW (PBS) The evolving interplay between new discoveries in stem cell research and the courage of people living with disease and injury.
• Season 9 Episode 10: Today's Man (2008) Filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb tries to understand her brother's world after he is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of 21.
• Season 9 Episode 9: An Unreasonable Man (2007) Ralph Nader has worked as a consumer advocate for more than 40 years and has run for president four times.
• Season 9 Episode 8: The Paper (2007) The staff of Pennsylvania State University's campus newspaper face challenges such as declining circulation and barriers to investigative reporting.
• Season 9 Episode 7: Sisters in Law (2007) One small courthouse in the African nation of Cameroon is run by state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and court president Beatrice Ntuba.
• Season 9 Episode 6: The Creek Runs Red (2007) The mining town of Picher, Okla., is divided by fears of health risks, environmental politics and racial tensions between American Indians and white society.
• Season 9 Episode 5: Miss Navajo (2007) A 21-year-old competes in the Miss Navajo Nation pageant which showcases a contestant's skills in dance, music and sheep slaughtering.
• Season 9 Episode 4: Red White Black & Blue (2007) Two U.S. soldiers revisit the Aleutian Island of Attu in Alaska, the site where 3,000 Japanese troops invaded in 1942.
• Season 9 Episode 3: Storm of Emotions (2007) The Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and efforts to achieve democracy.
• Season 9 Episode 2: Please Vote for Me (2007) Eight-year-old children in China compete for the position of Class Monitor.
• Season 9 Episode 1: Wordplay (2007) The editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle, Will Shortz, and the puzzle constructors with whom he collaborates.

Season 8 - Independent Lens

• Season 8 Episode 27: La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul (2007) 1960s' New York's Latin music scene dubs singer Lupe Victoria Yoli 'the queen of Latin soul.'
• Season 8 Episode 26: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2007) Former street musician Mark Bittner's relationship with a flock of wild red and green parrots.
• Season 8 Episode 25: Knocking (2007) Two families are practicing members of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• Season 8 Episode 24: Sentenced Home (2007) Three Cambodian refugees raised as Americans in inner-city projects near Seattle, face deportation.
• Season 8 Episode 23: The Cats of Mirikitani (2007) An 80-year-old survivor of internment camps, Hiroshima and homelessness confronts his past in the midst of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
• Season 8 Episode 22: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2007) The Enron corporate disaster resulted in top executives walking away with more than $1 billion, leaving investors and employees with nothing.
• Season 8 Episode 21: Black Gold (2007) Ethiopian coffee growers fight for fair trade among multinational companies.
• Season 8 Episode 20: China Blue (2007) Jasmine and her teenage friends endure a brutal work environment at a blue jeans factory.
• Season 8 Episode 19: Race to Execution (2007) The fates of Death Row inmates Robert Tarver and Madison Hobley and the factors that influence who lives and who dies.
• Season 8 Episode 18: Stolen (2007) Two thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 works from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
• Season 8 Episode 17: Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (2007) Teacher Jeff Smith starts a youth-oriented insurgent campaign during the 2004 Missouri Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Dick Gephardt.
• Season 8 Episode 16: HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2007) Machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture.
• Season 8 Episode 15: Motherland Afghanistan (2007) Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi examines her father's efforts as an OB/GYN trying to help prevent women from dying in childbirth.
• Season 8 Episode 14: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (2007) Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's co-composer and arranger, leads a discreet life as a gay man in the 1940s and 1950s.
• Season 8 Episode 13: Twisted (2007) A basketball coach and an artist living with dystonia, a neurological disorder forcing muscles to twist into abnormal movements or postures, seek treatment while battling the disease.
• Season 8 Episode 12: Beyond the Call (2007) Three middle-aged men deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to civilians and doctors around the world.
• Season 8 Episode 11: Shadya (2007) A 17-year-old Israeli-Arab woman with feminist ideas strives to succeed within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel.
• Season 8 Episode 10: A Fish Story (2007) Two women lead their communities in battles against national environmental groups for control of the ocean.
• Season 8 Episode 9: Short Stack 2006 With My Life Disoriented (2006) A selection of short films focuses on teenagers: 'My Life ... Disoriented,' 'The Zit' and 'Someday Flowers Bloom.'
• Season 8 Episode 8: Revolucion: Five Visions (2006) Five Cuban photographers have very different perspectives on their art and the Cuban Revolution.
• Season 8 Episode 7: A Sad Flower in the Sand (2006) John Fante struggles as a writer in Los Angeles during the 1930s.
• Season 8 Episode 6: Two Square Miles (2006) Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fired cement plant.
• Season 8 Episode 5: Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press (2006) Journalists and others in Afghanistan, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone and the U.S. work to make and keep societies free.
• Season 8 Episode 4: Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire (2006) Political cartoonist Paul Conrad's 50-year career spans 11 U.S. presidents, from Harry S. Truman through George W. Bush.
• Season 8 Episode 3: Still Life With Animated Dogs (2006) Animator Paul Fierliger presents an artist's view of people and dogs.
• Season 8 Episode 2: Muskrat Lovely (2006) A Chesapeake Bay community prepares for the 50th crowning of Miss Outdoors during the National Outdoor Show.
• Season 8 Episode 1: The World According to Sesame Street (2006) The drama and complexities of producing international versions of 'Sesame Street' in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.

Season 7 - Independent Lens

• Season 7 Episode 29: A Lion in the House (2006) The emotional and economic impact of experimental treatments; diagnosis disparities; the difference between giving up and letting go.
• Season 7 Episode 28: A Lion in the House (2006) A family must decide when to stop cancer treatment, as another family tries to figure out how to feel 'normal' again when treatment succeeds.
• Season 7 Episode 27: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2006) Maverick farmer John Peterson abandoned traditional farming to move toward building an organic and progressive farm community.
• Season 7 Episode 26: The Great Pink Scare (2006) Three college professors faced felony convictions after a 1960 police raid uncovered homoerotic magazines in their homes.
• Season 7 Episode 25: The Devil's Miner (2006) Two teenage brothers work in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Bolivia to earn money so they can attend school.
• Season 7 Episode 24: Frozen Angels (2006) Filmmakers explore the future of human reproduction through dreamlike cinematography and personal stories.
• Season 7 Episode 23: Fishbowl; American Made (2006) An 11-year-old girl tries to be someone other than herself; a Sikh-American family questions its traditions and trust.
• Season 7 Episode 22: Music From the Inside Out (2006) The core musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
• Season 7 Episode 21: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2006) The history of professional bowling in the United States; four pro bowlers compete in the newly modernized PBA.
• Season 7 Episode 20: La Sierra (2006) Three illegal soldiers experience war, death and love in a small neighborhood ruled by a group affiliated with Colombia's illegal paramilitary armies.
• Season 7 Episode 19: Trudell (2006) The philosophy and motivations behind the work of activist and poet John Trudell and his relationship to contemporary Indian history.
• Season 7 Episode 18: Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City (2006) The history of women firefighters in America includes the story of Lt. Brenda Berkman of the Fire Department of New York.
• Season 7 Episode 17: Troop 1500 (2006) A Girl Scout troop unites daughters with mothers who are serving time at the Gatesville Prison in Texas.
• Season 7 Episode 16: The Loss of Nameless Things (2006) Playwright Oakley Hall was on the verge of national recognition when a fall transformed his life in 1978.
• Season 7 Episode 15: July '64 (2006) A three-night riot in Rochester, N.Y., was the culmination of poverty, joblessness and racial discrimination.
• Season 7 Episode 14: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2006) Robert Williams led his hometown against the Ku Klux Klan and inspired the Black Power movement.
• Season 7 Episode 13: Almost Home (2006) Disability divides couples in a nursing home; elders' sons and daughters must care for their parents and children; healthy seniors fear moving out of their homes.
• Season 7 Episode 12: Girl Trouble (2006) Three girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system.
• Season 7 Episode 11: Sheriff (2006) Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett oversees the rural region of Brunswick County, North Carolina.
• Season 7 Episode 10: Short Stack: Lost & Found (2005) Five short films focus on pivotal moments in friendships.
• Season 7 Episode 9: Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community (2005) The women of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minn., pursue a balanced life based on the Rule of St. Benedict.
• Season 7 Episode 8: Seoul Train (2005) North Korean refugees and activists escape their homeland and China on a secretive underground railroad.
• Season 7 Episode 7: Maid in America (2005) Three Latinas face challenges as they leave their families to pursue their dreams in the United States.
• Season 7 Episode 6: Race Is the Place (2005) Comic Ahmed Ahmed, Mayda del Valle, Hawaiian poet Haunani-Kay Trask and Kate Rigg share their views on race in America.
• Season 7 Episode 5: Mirror Dance (2005) Twin sisters drift apart as one heads to America while the other embraces the Cuban revolution.
• Season 7 Episode 4: A Family at War (2005) A family shares their reactions and changing attitudes on the military and global politics when they lose a son to the Iraq war.
• Season 7 Episode 3: The Last Cowboy (2005) Cowboy Vern Sager and his family live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the Badlands of South Dakota for two decades.
• Season 7 Episode 2: En Route to Baghdad (2005) Sergio Vieira de Mello devoted his life to global efforts while he was U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
• Season 7 Episode 1: Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (2005) George Clinton expressed the cultural alienation of young African Americans with his band Parliament Funkadelic.

Season 6 - Independent Lens

• Season 6 Episode 28: Brother to Brother (2005) An artist rejected by his family because of his homosexuality gains a stronger sense of self from gay writer Bruce Nugent.
• Season 6 Episode 27: Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story (2005) The razing of a Mexican-American village in downtown Los Angeles to make room for Dodger Stadium.
• Season 6 Episode 26: Double Dare; Piki & Poko: Taking the Dare! (2005) Hollywood stuntwomen for 'Wonder Woman' and 'Xena: Warrior Princess' struggle in a male-dominated business.
• Season 6 Episode 25: Red Hook Justice (2005) An experimental court in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which sentences offenders to job training, drug counseling and community service.
• Season 6 Episode 24: Vietnam: The Next Generation (2005) Modern-day Vietnam as seen through the eyes of eight young people who were born either at the end of the war or shortly thereafter.
• Season 6 Episode 23: Imelda (2005) Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, shares her story.
• Season 6 Episode 22: The Last Letter; Zyklon Portrait; The Walnut Tree (2005) A woman's last letter to her son coincides with the German seizure of her Ukrainian city in 1941.
• Season 6 Episode 21: End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again (2005) The history of the Ramones, from the 1970s to their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• Season 6 Episode 20: A Lion's Trail (2005) Africa's famous song 'Mbube' inspired 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.'
• Season 6 Episode 19: Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton (2005) The life and career of jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton.
• Season 6 Episode 17: Let the Church Say Amen (2005) A storefront church in a poor neighborhood of Washington, D.C., provides hope for four parishioners.
• Season 6 Episode 16: Sunset Story (2005) Two elderly women share their political beliefs at a home for senior citizens.
• Season 6 Episode 15: Sisters of '77 (2005) Interviews with activists and participants of the first federally funded National Women's Conference, which took place in November 1977.
• Season 6 Episode 14: Thunder in Guyana; United States of Poetry (2005) American-born Janet Rosenberg Jagan becomes president of Guyana in 1997.
• Season 6 Episode 13: On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream (2005) Greg Smith, founder of On a Roll Talk Radio, discusses life and disabilities.
• Season 6 Episode 12: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four (2005) Four college students stage a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960.
• Season 6 Episode 11: Power Trip (2005) Cultures clash as a U.S. energy company buys an electric company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
• Season 6 Episode 10: A Touch of Greatness (2005) Albert Cullum teaches students to excel.
• Season 6 Episode 9: A Hard Straight (2005) A gang member, a hustler and a drug dealer try to reform while on parole.
• Season 6 Episode 8: Short, Not Sweet (2004) Short films include 'Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy,' 'La Puppe,' 'A Monster's Calling,' 'The School,' 'Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner.'
• Season 6 Episode 7: fine/Doki-Doki (2004) A factory worker questions his life; a Tokyo woman investigates her fellow commuters.
• Season 6 Episode 6: Girl Wrestler (2004) By state regulations, a 13-year-old Texas girl must stop coed wrestling after her next birthday.
• Season 6 Episode 5: The Day My God Died (2004) Young girls are abducted from their villages and turned into sex slaves.
• Season 6 Episode 4: Los Angeles Now (2004) History of Los Angeles and its multicultural diversity.
• Season 6 Episode 3: Afghanistan Unveiled (2004) The Taliban and the U.S. bombing campaign affects the lives of Afghan women.
• Season 6 Episode 2: Polka Time (2004) People enjoy an annual polka festival in Gibbon, Minn.
• Season 6 Episode 1: The Political Dr. Seuss (2004) Writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel rises to prominence as the innovative Dr. Seuss.

Season 5 - Independent Lens

• Season 5 Episode 28: The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out (2004) Kristina Boerger forms a lesbian choir in small-town Illinois.
• Season 5 Episode 27: Sumo East and West (2004) American athletes become sumo wrestlers.
• Season 5 Episode 26: Cosmopolitan (2004) An East Indian immigrant pursues a divorced neighbor after his wife and daughter abandon him.
• Season 5 Episode 25: Death of a Shaman (2004) Reunited with her relatives, a young woman comes to terms with her father's death.
• Season 5 Episode 24: Refugee (2004) Southeast Asian refugees live the American experience.
• Season 5 Episode 23: One Night at the Grand Star/Double Exposure (2004) Diverse people gather at a Los Angeles nightclub; a Chinese woman ponders her identity in America.
• Season 5 Episode 22: The Weather Underground (2004) Hundreds of socialist revolutionaries, calling themselves the Weathermen, bomb the U.S. Capitol, break Timothy Leary out of prison, and evade an FBI manhunt in the 1960s and '70s.
• Season 5 Episode 21: Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2004) Former Harvard professor and LSD experimenter, Richard Alpert, 70, is now Indian guru Ram Dass, a best-selling author who copes with the effects of a massive stroke.
• Season 5 Episode 20: Love Inventory (2004) Israeli filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings search for their long-lost sister.
• Season 5 Episode 19: Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas (2004) Piri Thomas chronicles his life through poetry, stories and performances.
• Season 5 Episode 18: T-Shirt Travels (2004) An exploration of the World Bank's role in directing Zambia's economic policies.
• Season 5 Episode 17: Sentencing the Victim (2004) Rape victim Joanna Katz tells her story of challenging the parole system to heal herself and to give courage to other women of violent crimes.
• Season 5 Episode 16: Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2004) Concert footage and interviews depict the life and career of singer Jimmy Scott.
• Season 5 Episode 15: A Place of Our Own (2004) Social clubs and organizations created by black professionals.
• Season 5 Episode 14: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2004) An exploration shows the impact of Nat Turner, leader of the 1831 slave rebellion, on understanding the racial history of the United States.
• Season 5 Episode 13: Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing (2004) Two brothers continue to hope their mother will recover from a drug addiction; a man transforms childhood abuse into a life of confidence and strength.
• Season 5 Episode 12: Life Matters (2004) Texan Curtis Boyd relinquishes his ministry in the 1960s to become a doctor, with the idea that all women have the right to a safe abortion.
• Season 5 Episode 11: Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story (2004) The exploits of the Hackberry Ramblers' band include a bayou crab boil and an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
• Season 5 Episode 10: Man Bites Shorts (2003) Vignettes on modern manhood include such topics as getting dumped, biking 70 miles to see a girl, arguing about basketball.
• Season 5 Episode 9: Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad (2003) The experiences of three Mormons during two-year missions in Germany.
• Season 5 Episode 8: Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson (2003) A filmmaker turns to a psychologist, a comic, a rock band and actresses for insight into the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
• Season 5 Episode 7: Eroica! (2003) The female chamber ensemble, Eroica Trio, prepare for the debut of their latest work while balancing their personal lives.
• Season 5 Episode 6: Livermore (2003) The legends of a California town.
• Season 5 Episode 5: Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003) The filmmaker chronicles her struggle to grieve for the father she never knew, a soldier who died in Vietnam.
• Season 5 Episode 4: A Wedding in Ramallah (2003) A Palestinian-American man returns to Palestine for an arranged marriage.
• Season 5 Episode 3: Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America (2003) The experiences of Shaolin monks visiting the cities of New York, Houston and Las Vegas.
• Season 5 Episode 2: Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky (2003) The dramas 'Broken Sky' and 'Junkyard Saints' explore the Latino experience of prism dreams, memories and reality.
• Season 5 Episode 1: Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz (2003) Artist Vik Muniz uses his knowledge of the history of photography to demonstrate how images can deceive.

Season 4 - Independent Lens

• Season 4 Episode 14: Daddy & Papa (2003) The challenges gay men face when becoming parents.
• Season 4 Episode 13: Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer (2003) The journey of photographer Hansel Mieth, from Germany to the pages of Life magazine, where she set the standard for concerned artists.
• Season 4 Episode 12: Razing Appalachia (2003) A threat to their homes prompts families in Blair, W.Va., to fight a local coal company.
• Season 4 Episode 11: Guns and Mothers (2003) Two mothers represent both sides of the gun control debate.
• Season 4 Episode 10: Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai (2003) The story of Hawaiian surfer Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn.
• Season 4 Episode 9: Sisters in Resistance (2003) Four friends survive and resist during the Nazi occupation of France.
• Season 4 Episode 8: Bird by Bird With Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott (2003) Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock's depiction of the life and career of author Anne Lamott.
• Season 4 Episode 7: Strange Fruit (2003) Billie Holiday's song 'Strange Fruit' continues to captivate musicians and civil rights advocates.
• Season 4 Episode 6: Chiefs (2003) American Indian Beaver C'Bearing re-evaluates the importance of basketball during his senior year of high school.
• Season 4 Episode 5: Los Trabajadores/The Workers (2003) America's dependence on immigrant labor is evident in Austin, Texas' day-labor program.
• Season 4 Episode 4: Downside Up (2003) The dying blue-collar town of North Adams, Mass., unites locals and art luminaries and transforms itself with MASS MoCA, a hub of contemporary art; Nancy Kelly creates the documentary.
• Season 4 Episode 3: On This Island (2003) John Wulp creates a school musical about his island community to heal a violent clash over arts education; narrator Sigourney Weaver.
• Season 4 Episode 2: Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (2003) A documentary illuminates the odd industry of soliciting people to send in poems to be set to music, with the chance of gaining royalties.
• Season 4 Episode 1: Maggie Growls (2003) Archival footage, interviews and animation depicts Maggie Kuhn's campaign against mandatory retirement.

Season 3 - Independent Lens

• Season 3 Episode 10: Romancing the Throne (2001) Prince Mohato faces responsibility and marriage when he is thrust upon the throne of Lesotho after the sudden death of his father.
• Season 3 Episode 9: Open Outcry (2001) The language and atmosphere at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
• Season 3 Episode 8: Gibtown (2001) The carnival sideshow in Gibsonton, Fla.
• Season 3 Episode 7: Undetectable (2001) HIV drug therapies have physical and psychological effects.
• Season 3 Episode 6: The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America (2001) A Laotian shaman living in the United States struggles to keep his family connected to its culture and traditions.
• Season 3 Episode 5: Who Owns the Past? (2001) American Indians and archaeologists battle over the remains of the former's ancestors; narrator Linda Hunt.
• Season 3 Episode 4: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (2001) The Turkish military wages an ethnic-cleansing campaign against the Kurds.
• Season 3 Episode 3: Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants (2001) Personal stories depict the impact of U.S. immigration laws.
• Season 3 Episode 2: Secrets of Silicon Valley (2001) The Internet revolution; social impact of high technology.
• Season 3 Episode 1: Confederacy Theory (2001) The Confederate flag debate in South Carolina; history of the symbol.

Season 2 - Independent Lens

• Season 2 Episode 10: A Wok in Progress (2000) Immigrant mourns cultural loss and retrieves cultural memory through his passions for food and film.
• Season 2 Episode 9: In Harm's Way; Carved From the Heart (2000) Adulthood experiences defy and reinforce childhood lessons; a carver creates a place for grieving people to heal.
• Season 2 Episode 8: Music in Their Bones (2000) Residents of Alabama's Sand Mountain use music to tell personal stories.
• Season 2 Episode 7: The Return of Navajo Boy (2000) A silent film reel from the 1950s reconnects a Navajo family to its history.
• Season 2 Episode 6: Passing Through; Graham's Diner (2000) An American family adopts a Korean orphan; an overworked photographer wants to sell a diner that employs her family.
• Season 2 Episode 5: Girl Gone Bad Female motorcyclists are profiled.
• Season 2 Episode 4: Born in the USA The birthing industry in the United States changes social and cultural beliefs about women.
• Season 2 Episode 3: Short Stories Dwarf families explain the problems they face every day.
• Season 2 Episode 2: No Hair Day Three women survive breast cancer.
• Season 2 Episode 1: Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors A profile shows 10 Stanford University students in their freshman and senior years.

Season 1 - Independent Lens

• Season 1 Episode 10: I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian A couple divorce after the wife announces she is gay.
• Season 1 Episode 9: Secret People In 1921 a quarantine hospital is established in Louisiana for people with leprosy.
• Season 1 Episode 8: Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle Stagehands outline their part in a production of Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung.'
• Season 1 Episode 7: And Baby Makes Two Single women discuss raising a child.
• Season 1 Episode 6: Holy Tortilla; Lock and Key A woman finds inspiration in an image of Jesus in a burnt tortilla; a blind jazz-critic befriends a locksmith.
• Season 1 Episode 5: The Jew in the Lotus Filmmaker Laurel Chiten chronicles an author's journey from despair to renewed faith in Judaism.
• Season 1 Episode 4: The Man Who Drove With Mandela Freedom-fighter Cecil Williams is an activist for the rights of gays.
• Season 1 Episode 3: Visas and Virtue; I Am Viet Hung A Japanese diplomat and his wife help Jewish refugees in World War II Lithuania; a Vietnamese singer struggles to preserve opera.
• Season 1 Episode 2: Nothing but the Truth Filmmaker Mark Steven Shepherd examines the media and spectator circus assembled at the O.J. Simpson trial.
• Season 1 Episode 1: Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang Gang activity in Appleton, Wis.

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  Independent Lens - A Fish Story

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  Independent Lens - Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire

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