Independent Lens
At Home In Utopia (#1021)
"The Coops," a cooperative apartment complex built in the Bronx by garment workers is recalled.
Education Record Rights: 1 year from each broadcast.
This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.
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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Film Clip #4 ... (#1021)
While the Coops were racially integrated, residents confronted racism in other parts of New York. 02:43
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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Film Clip #3 ... (#1021)
Former residents of the Coops recall celebrating May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, and marching in parades.... 02:06
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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Film Clip #2 ... (#1021)
Jewish immigrants buy land in the Bronx to realize their dream: the largest cooperative apartment complex built to date ... 02:00
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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Trailer | PBS... (#1021)
A home of your own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? ... 02:43
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Independent Lens | DIRT! The Movie Preview | PBS (#1121)
Airs Tuesday, April 20, 10PM ET, check local listings. 02:15
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Helvetica (#1012)
Historians and designers discuss this popular font, used on corporate logos and government forms.
- Sun, March 14, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
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Between The Folds (#1108)
Theoretical scientists and fine artists abandon their careers and forge new lives creating origami.
- Sun, March 14, 12:00 PM on IPTV World
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Butte, America (#1102)
Gabriel Byrne narrates stories of five generation mining families in working class Butte, Montana.
- Wed, March 17, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 17, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 17, 7:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, March 18, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, March 21, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
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The Creek Runs Red (#906)
A town facing serious health risks and age-old racial tensions between Indian and white society.
- Wed, March 17, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 17, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 17, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, March 18, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, March 21, 12:00 PM on IPTV World
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Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) (#1117)
The story of US servicemen deported from the US to Mexico, a place they no longer considered home.
- Wed, March 24, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 24, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, March 25, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, March 28, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 4, 11:00 PM on IPTV
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The Eyes of Me (#1116)
Four blind teenagers struggle to fit in, prepare for college and live independently.
- Sun, March 28, 11:00 PM on IPTV
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Whatever It Takes (#1118)
A look at an innovative public high school in New York's South Bronx and its visionary principal.
- Wed, March 31, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, March 31, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, April 1, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 4, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 11:00 PM on IPTV
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Milking The Rhino (#1018)
A revolution in rural Africa is turning poachers into preservationists and local people into the stewards of natural resources.
- Mon, April 5, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Mon, April 5, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, April 5, 7:00 PM on IPTV World
- Tue, April 6, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Fri, April 9, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Fri, April 9, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 10:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, April 12, 2:00 AM on IPTV World
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Steal A Pencil for Me (#1020)
Jack, his wife and the woman of his dreams struggle to survive in the same Nazi concentration camp.
- Tue, April 6, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, April 6, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Tue, April 6, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
- Tue, April 6, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 7, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 11, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
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Unmistaken Child (#1119)
A shy disciple is unexpectedly appointed to search for the reincarnation of his late Tibetan Master.
- Mon, April 12, 7:30 AM on IPTV World
- Mon, April 12, 1:30 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, April 12, 6:30 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 18, 10:30 PM on IPTV
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Blessed Is The Match (#1120)
Poet Hannah Senesh became a paratrooper and helped rescue Jews in Hungary during World War II.
- Wed, April 14, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 14, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 14, 7:12 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, April 15, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 18, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
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Dirt! The Movie (#1121)
- Wed, April 21, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 21, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 21, 7:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, April 22, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, April 25, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
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Garbage Dreams (#1122)
- Wed, April 28, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 28, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
- Wed, April 28, 7:00 PM on IPTV World
- Thu, April 29, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
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Iron Ladies of Liberia (#917)
Go behind the scenes with Africa's first freely-elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
- Fri, April 30, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Fri, April 30, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
- Fri, April 30, 6:30 PM on IPTV World
Past Episodes
These episodes of Independent Lens aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Between The Folds (#1108)
- Helvetica (#1012)
- New Year Baby (#923)
- The Eyes of Me (#1116)
- Herb and Dorothy (#1101)
- Behind The Rainbow (#1115)
- Mine/Home (#1114)
- P-Star Rising (#1112)
- Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (#1113)
- Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors (#1024)
- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (#816)
- Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (#1013)
- Copyright Criminals (#1111)
- Young @ Heart/George and Rosemary (#1110)
- Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (#1019)
- Iron Ladies of Liberia (#917)
- Knocking (#825)
- Scenes from a Parish (#1109)
- Butte, America (#1102)
- Objectified (#1107)
- Miss Navajo (#905)
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (#1106)
- D Tour (#1105)
- Power Paths (#1104)
- March Point (#1005)
- Journals of a Wily School (#1103)
