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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

INDEPENDENT LENS

The Inquisitor Barbara Jordan’s voice helped shape U.S. politics while she dealt with private struggles.
  • Airdate Monday, February 23, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original2/23/2026
  • INLE

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Keep Quiet and Forgive A sexual assault survivor confronts Amish silence on abuse and helps others seek justice.
  • Airdate Monday, March 23, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original3/23/2026
  • INLE2707

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The Tallest Dwarf A filmmaker explores dwarfism, identity, and belonging in family and community.
  • Airdate Monday, April 6, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original4/6/2026
  • INLE2709

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Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing Glimpse into the lives of the hidden workers sustaining the elite horse racing industry.
  • Airdate Monday, April 13, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original4/13/2026
  • INLE2710

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Dallas, 2019

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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
  • INLE1711

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Winnie

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

  • Original2/5/2018
  • INLE

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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
  • INLE2511

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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
  • INLE2512

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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
  • INLE2513

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The Tuba Thieves The central mystery of this unconventional documentary is not about theft; it is about the nature of sound itself.
  • Original5/20/2024
  • INLE2515

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One Person, One Vote? Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.
  • Original9/30/2024
  • INLE2601

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Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen A Marine Corps veteran's mission is to help Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing himself.
  • Original11/11/2024
  • INLE2602

INDEPENDENT LENS: Dallas, 2019

Part 1 (Episodes 1 and 2) Dallas, 2019 captures the pulse of a city and the people who work and live there, all trying to build a better future.
  • Original1/3/2025
  • INLE

INDEPENDENT LENS: Dallas, 2019

Part 2 (Episodes 3, 4, 5) Interwoven stories cover five weeks in a city's life the year before the pandemic hit.
  • Original1/4/2025
  • INLE

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Minted Explore the rise and fall of the NFT phenomenon that transformed the art world.
  • Original1/6/2025
  • INLE2608
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Press Contacts

Aisha Almada

Publicity Manager, ITVS/Independent Lens

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