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 | ASK NOT | Film Clip #2 | PBS (#1025)
Protesters gather at a recruiting office in busy Times Square to contest discrimination in the military. 01:44
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INDEPENDENT LENS | ASK NOT | Trailer | PBS (#1025)
As wars rage in the Middle East, the US military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. 02:01
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME | Film Clip #4 | PBS (#1020)
Ina and Jack recall the night they first met, a chance encounter at a friend's birthday party. 02:08
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME | Film Clip #3 | PBS (#1020)
Ina remembers when the Nazis invaded Holland, the scenes of destruction and despair. 01:40
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME | Film Clip #2 | PBS (#1020)
Love letters, penned in secret, reveal Ina and Jack's true feelings for each other. 00:56
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME | Trailer | PBS (#1020)
They say, "Love conquers all." Or at least that's what Jack Polak thought while struggling for survival in a Nazi concentration camp. 02:12
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STRANDED: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | PBS (#1024)
Survivors recount the conditions and the conversations that informed a desperate decision. 03:37
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STRANDED: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | PBS (#1024)
Buried beneath an avalanche as they slept, survivors recall the sensation of dying, and a miraculous rescue. 04:48
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STRANDED: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | PBS (#1024)
From turbulence to a sudden fall from the sky, survivors recall the events leading up to their plane crash. 03:29
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INDEPENDENT LENS | STRANDED: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | PBS
The survivors of the well-known 1972 Andes plane crash recall what it took to live in the mountains for over 60 days with no food, water, or supplies. 02:01
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INDEPENDENT LENS | CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America | #4 (#1023)
It's a civil war that's lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what's at ... 00:57
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INDEPENDENT LENS | CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America | #3 (#1023)
t's a civil war that's lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what's at ... 01:42
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INDEPENDENT LENS | CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America | #2 (#1023)
A bloody civil war is fought on the streets of South Central every day, virtually unnoticed. 01:15
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INDEPENDENT LENS | CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America (#1023)
Stacy Peralta hits the streets of LA to speak with former and current members of the Bloods and the Crips, two of the most notorious and violent street gangs in America. 02:03
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #4 | PBS (#1022)
American WWII veterans recall the mayhem of Kamikaze attacks. 01:15
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #3 | PBS (#1022)
With the help of animation, two Japanese pilots recall a vicious dogfight with American planes. 01:44
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #2 | PBS (#1022)
A surviving Kamikaze shows what was to be his funeral portrait—a photo of a young man, taken before his final flight. 01:41
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Trailer | PBS (#1022)
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? Retrace their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots. 02:33
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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Film Clip #4 | PBS (#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 | PBS (#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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