Video: Independent Lens
Airing weekly on PBS, the Emmy award-winning series Independent Lens is like an independent film festival in your living room. Each episode introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers: filmmakers who are taking creative risks, calling their own shots and finding untold stories in unexpected places.
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom Smashers | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1006)
When the Tevitron breaks down, it's described by the head of accelerator operations as a "10-alarm fire." 04:03
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1006)
The staff at Fermilab absorbs the news that funding has been cut for the Tevitron particle accelerator. 03:23
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom Smashers | Trailer | PBS (#1006)
THE ATOM SMASHERS chronicles three years in a decades-long international race to find one of the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized: the Higgs boson. 02:58
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INDEPENDENT LENS | March Point | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1005)
Three Swinomish teen filmmakers travel to Washington, DC to interview their state senator and learn about land rights. 04:30
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INDEPENDENT LENS | March Point | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1005)
Swinomish tribe leader Brian Cladoosby worries that a nearby oil refinery is polluting tribal lands and impacting the community's health. 01:23
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INDEPENDENT LENS | March Point | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1005)
Three Native American teens explore their tribal land on the Swinomish Reservation. 01:16
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INDEPENDENT LENS | March Point | Trailer (#1005)
In the late 1950s, two oil refineries were built on March Point, an area that was once part of the Swinomish Reservation by treaty. MARCH POINT tells the story of three boys from the Swinomish Indian ... 02:06
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Lioness | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1004)
After returning home from duty in Iraq, Specialist Shannon Morgan and her dad search for the perfect Christmas tree. 03:04
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Lioness | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1004)
Specialist Rebecca Nava gives a tour of her "lovely arms room" and talks about a bad combat experience she endured in Iraq. 02:37
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Lioness | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1004)
At a Team Lioness reunion, the women discover that they are absent from media coverage of a battle in which they fought. They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks and mechanics and returned a year later as part ... 03:30
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Lioness | Trailer | PBS (#1004)
They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks and mechanics and returned a year later as part of America's first generation of female combat veterans. 1 02:06
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Knee Deep | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1003)
Meet Josh Osborne--a hard-working son who will do anything to keep the farm that is his birthright, including murder. 02:41
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Knee Deep | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1003)
A Maine pie-making farming wife wishes she didn't have to spread herself so thin. KNEE DEEP recounts the true story of attempted murder in a small town in Maine. 01:43
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Independent Lens | KNEE DEEP | Film Clip 1 | PBS (#1003)
Why would a 22-year-old Maine dairy farm boy try to kill his mother? 04:21
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Dinner with the President | Clip 4 | PBS (#1002)
Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan sit down with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, before he resigns from office, to address his ideas of a democratized society in their ... 01:35
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Dinner with the President | Clip 3 | PBS (#1002)
The directors engage Musharraf in conversation about his political past and vision for the future and ask the bold question—how does an army general plan to establish democracy in Pakistan? 03:14
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Dinner with the President | Film ... (#1002)
Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan sit down with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, before he resigns from office, to address his ideas of a democratized society in their ... 02:29
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Dinner with the President | Trailer | PBS (#1002)
The directors engage Musharraf in conversation about his political past and vision for the future and ask the bold question—how does an army general plan to establish democracy in Pakistan? 02:06
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Chicago 10 | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1001)
A courtroom explodes as the fearless Bobby Seale confronts the judge and condemns America's most sacred icons. CHICAGO 10 portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the ... 00:55
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Chicago 10 | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1001)
A peaceful march erupts into chaos and violent clashes between police and protesters in the blink of an eye. CHICAGO 10 portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the ... 01:05























