Independent Lens - Season 13
Season 13
Episodes
Wham! Bam! Islam!
Donor Unknown
Lives Worth Living
Deaf Jam
We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
The Woodmans
These Amazing Shadows
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation
After the murder of resistance leader Steven Biko, young people in the West join a movement to isolate South Africa.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto
African Americans lead a grassroots movement to force the United States to reverse its policies toward South Africa.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line
A grassroots boycott and divestment campaign targets Western corporations doing business with the South African regime.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last
The apartheid regime in Pretoria crumbles under pressure, and the freed Nelson Mandela is elected president of a democratic South Africa.
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. Learn why this unconventional revolutionary paid dearly for her instant fame.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
More Than A Month
Find out why an African-American filmmaker wants to end Black History Month.
You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
Experience a total immersion into the fragmented day-to-day experience of a man with Alzheimer's.
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Every day, millions tune in to SESAME STREET to see one of the world's most adored and recognizable characters - a furry red monster named Elmo. Yet, with all of Elmo's fame, the man behind the icon is able to walk down the street without being recognized.
When the Drum Is Beating
Explore Haiti's complex past and present through the music of the country's oldest and best-known band.
Revenge of the Electric Car
Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
Review the rich history of human sustenance, exploitation, conservation and spiritual relations with the ultimate icon of wild America: bison.
Circo
Accompany the Ponce family circus as it struggles to make a living in Mexico's collapsing rural economy.
Summer Pasture
Get a rare view of an insular community seldom seen by outsiders: nomads living in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet.
Precious Knowledge
Watch as student leaders in Tucson High School's Mexican American Studies Program fight to save their classes.
Left by the Ship
With four Amerasian children, delve into the consequences of the U.S. military presence in the Philippines.
Hell and Back Again
Witness the overlapping stories of a Marine at war and the same Marine in recovery at home.
We Were Here
When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving ways to support and care for one another and to fight for dignity and a cure.
Strong!
Follow a champion weightlifter who struggles to defend her status as her career inches towards its end.
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