Overview of 'Independent Lens' Season 25

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Documentary

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.

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Release Date: 1999-08-09
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

6.8/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 60

Season 25 Episode List

Episode 1 - Sansón and Me
Release Date: 2023-09-19
Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes wants to document Sansón's story, an immigrant serving life in prison. Unable to film Sansón, the documentary creatively shares his narrative through reenactments of his letter...s, featuring his own family as actors. more
Episode 2 - El Equipo
Release Date: 2023-10-09
Legendary U.S. anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow sets out to train a new group of Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology. Their goal: to investigate disappearances in Argentina during... more
Episode 3 - Three Chaplains
Release Date: 2023-11-06
Muslim chaplains uphold the First Amendment and vow to protect service members' right to practice their faith freely, despite facing long-held prejudice and disapproval from their own communities. The... more
Episode 4 - A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1
Release Date: 2024-02-20
A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history... with racism. more
Episode 5 - A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2
Release Date: 2024-02-20
With the arson trial near, the suspect’s family argues his innocence. Meanwhile, facets of Victoria reveal the ingredients that might have turned him to hate and support for the town’s Muslim communit...y begins to wane. more
Episode 6 - A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3
Release Date: 2024-02-20
The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria seek a way to build a more inclusive community.
Episode 7 - Beyond Utopia
Release Date: 2024-01-09
They grew up believing their land was paradise. Now, they risk everything in escaping it. In an unforgettable documentary, follow families on a treacherous journey to defect from their homeland of Nor... more
Episode 8 - Racist Trees
Release Date: 2024-01-22
Were trees intentionally planted to exclude and segregate a Black neighborhood? Racial tensions ignite in this documentary, when a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, California, fights t... more
Episode 9 - Razing Liberty Square
Release Date: 2024-01-29
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gol... more
Episode 10 - Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Release Date: 2024-02-05
Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-procla... more
Episode 11 - Breaking the News
Release Date: 2024-02-19
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to com... more
Episode 12 - Greener Pastures
Release Date: 2024-03-25
There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change and the pandemic have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four ... more
Episode 13 - A Thousand Pines
Release Date: 2024-04-01
Over the course of a grueling eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees throughout the United States. This intimate portrait shows how hard it is to balance the physical demands of ref... more
Episode 14 - Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Release Date: 2024-04-08
In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain s... more
Episode 15 - One With the Whale
Release Date: 2024-04-22
Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsid... more
Episode 16 - Space: The Longest Goodbye
Release Date: 2024-05-06
NASA's goal to send astronauts to Mars would require a three-year absence from Earth, during which communication in real time would be impossible due to the immense distance. Meet the psychologists wh... more
Episode 17 - The Tuba Thieves
Release Date: 2024-05-07
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these qu... more