Independent Lens Season 26
Independent Lens is an anthology of independent documentary films.
Independent Lens Season 26 originally premiered on PBS on September 30, 2024. Current US availability is unconfirmed.
Independent Lens Season 26 originally premiered on PBS on September 30, 2024. Current US availability is unconfirmed.
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Episode guide
Episodes
- 1
One Person, One Vote? source at TVmaze
Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.
- 2
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen source at TVmaze
A Marine veteran hand-carves battlefield crosses to reconnect with Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing.
- 3
Dallas, 2019 - Week 1 source at TVmaze
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.
- 4
Dallas, 2019 - Week 2 source at TVmaze
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.
- 5
Dallas, 2019 - Week 3 source at TVmaze
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.
- 6
Dallas, 2019 - Week 4 source at TVmaze
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.
- 7
Dallas, 2019 - Week 5 source at TVmaze
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?
- 8
Minted source at TVmaze
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.
- 9
Without Arrows source at TVmaze
Thirteen years after leaving South Dakota, a Lakota dancer returns to the reservation to carry on the family legacy.
- 10
The Strike source at TVmaze
How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison turned into a massive statewide protest.
- 11
The In Between source at TVmaze
In tribute to the brother she lost, a filmmaker returns home to reflect on life on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- 12
Skin of Glass source at TVmaze
A filmmaker reckons with Brazil's inequality when learning unhoused people occupy her father's architectural jewel.
- 13
Bike Vessel source at TVmaze
After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.
- 14
Home Court source at TVmaze
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.
- 15
We Want The Funk source at TVmaze
"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.
- 16
Free for All: The Public Library source at TVmaze
"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.
- 17
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's source at TVmaze
"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.
- 18
And So It Begins source at TVmaze
"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.
- 19
Who Is Michael Jang? source at TVmaze
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.
Cast and crew
- Produced by
- Misty Copeland
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