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 ORDER OF MYTHS | Film Clip 4 | PBS
The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama—events remain segregated between white and black residents.... 02:05
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INDEPENDENT LENS | THE ORDER OF MYTHS | Film Clip 3 | PBS
www.pbs.org/independentlens/or... The doctrine, "separate but equal" ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America's oldest Mardi Gras -- celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama -- events remain ... 03:27
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INDEPENDENT LENS | THE ORDER OF MYTHS | Film Clip 2
A Mobile resident shares the harrowing tale of the last slave ship to enter the U.S., through Mobile Bay. 01:55
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INDEPENDENT LENS | THE ORDER OF MYTHS | Trailer | PBS
The doctrine, "separate but equal" ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America's oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama -- events remain segregated between white and black residents.... 02:05
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INDEPENDENT LENS | TULIA, TEXAS | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1014)
Two Tulia oldtimers recall their sense from the beginning that the town's drug sting was wrong. 01:21
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INDEPENDENT LENS | TULIA, TEXAS | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1014)
Tulia’s Sheriff Stewart and Narcotics Agent Coleman describe the creation of Coleman’s wild man alias. 01:31
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INDEPENDENT LENS | TULIA, TEXAS | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1014)
A defendant and his father describe the surreal events leading up to the trial. 01:32
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INDEPENDENT LENS | TULIA, TEXAS | Trailer | PBS (#1014)
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine--nearly all of them African American. It was heralded as one ... 02:01
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INDEPENDENT LENS | ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene (Clip 3) (#1013)
Petey Greene spins a tale of domestic violence in order to shock viewers into thinking about the issue. 01:57
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INDEPENDENT LENS | ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene (Clip 2) (#1013)
Petey Greene went on the air and into the streets to stop the riots in Washington D.C. after Martin Luther King's assassination. 01:04
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INDEPENDENT LENS | ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene (Clip 1) (#1013)
Don Cheadle introduces Petey Greene: “an ex-offender, jokester, activist, sometime drinker and user of forbidden words.” 01:25
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INDEPENDENT LENS | ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene (#1013)
He was a drug addict, a convicted felon, a hustler and a shock jock. Petey Greene gave voice to the unheard—speaking truth to power on his raw and uncensored TV and radio programs. 02:27
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INDEPENDENT LENS | HELVETICA | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1012)
Helvetica’s ubiquitous use in the Netherlands has one Dutch designer believing the font is "almost in their blood." 01:27
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INDEPENDENT LENS | HELVETICA | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1012)
A renowned graphic designer talks about how the emotional response to a message is different based on which typeface is used. 02:02
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INDEPENDENT LENS | HELVETICA | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1012)
Observe the pervasiveness of the Helvetica typeface and hear from one typographer about his love of fonts. 02:10
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INDEPENDENT LENS | HELVETICA | Trailer | PBS (#1012)
No doubt, Helvetica is the king of fonts. Meet with historians and designers whose passion for typefaces run high, and discover the secrets behind the fonts we use and read every day. 02:06
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INDEPENDENT LENS | OPERATION FILMMAKER | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1010)
Muthana Mohmed is relieved to get a two-month extension on his visa so he can stay in Prague instead of returning to Iraq. 03:19
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INDEPENDENT LENS | OPERATION FILMMAKER | Film Clip 3 (#1010)
Muthana Mohmed gets a talking-to for going to a party instead of meeting a deadline for the staff of a Hollywood film. 03:34
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INDEPENDENT LENS | OPERATION FILMMAKER | Film Clip 2 (#1010)
Production assistant Muthana Mohmed is frustrated at missing a big filming moment while he prepped snacks for the crew. 03:52
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Operation Filmmaker | Trailer | PBS (#1010)
An Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed—whose school was destroyed by American bombs—lands a dream job working on a Hollywood movie in the West. 02:29
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