Overview

INDEPENDENT LENS is an Emmy® Award-winning PBS documentary series. With founding executive producer Lois Vossen, the series has been honored with 10 Academy Award nominations and features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Stream anytime on the PBS app. For more visit pbs.org/independentlens.

Upcoming Episodes

Vivien's Wild Ride When her eyesight begins to fade, a film editor reimagines belonging and what it truly means to see.
  • Airdate Monday, January 26, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original1/26/2026
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Wilhemina’s War

Witness a Southern grandmother’s struggles to help her family through the scourge of HIV.

  • Original2/29/2016
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Winnie

Explore the complex life of Winnie Mandela and her decades-long struggle to bring down Apartheid.

  • Original2/5/2018
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Razing Liberty Square The Liberty City public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
  • Original1/29/2024
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Sister Úna Lived a Good Death A wisecracking nun with stage IV cancer teaches others to live fully until death.
  • Original2/5/2024
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Breaking the News Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
  • Original2/19/2024
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Greener Pastures Follow the people dealing with economic uncertainty and the healthcare crisis in rural America.
  • Original3/25/2024
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If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis Rural hospitals around America are closing at alarming rates, leaving communities without care.
  • Original3/25/2024
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A Thousand Pines A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.
  • Original4/1/2024
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Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's A mother, an optician, and a cartoonist each navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.
  • Original4/8/2024
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One with the Whale An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don’t hunt, you die.
  • Original4/23/2024
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Space: The Longest Goodbye NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a three-year-long mission to Mars.
  • Original5/6/2024
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Press Contacts

Aisha Almada

Publicity Manager, ITVS/Independent Lens