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 | GREY GARDENS | Film Clip 4 | PBS (#1009)
Documentarian Albert Maysles believes the only way Big Edie and Little Edie could truly be themselves was to become recluses. 00:58
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INDEPENDENT LENS | GREY GARDENS | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1009)
The filmmakers and composer talk about how they weren't sure how they'd turn the Grey Gardens documentary into a musical, but they knew it could be done. 01:21
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INDEPENDENT LENS | GREY GARDENS | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1009)
The musical’s playwright talks about the Beales’s “beautiful damage” and how the Grey Gardens estate’s haunted house feel makes the story universally appealing. 01:10
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INDEPENDENT LENS | GREY GARDENS | Trailer | PBS (#1009)
The 1975 Maysles brothers cult classic Grey Gardens told the story of the eccentric and often humorous mother-daughter relationship between Edith Beale and her daughter Edie—aunt and cousin to Jacqueline ... 02:11
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 4 (#1008)
An atomic bomb set piece moves through the streets of San Francisco, arriving at the Opera House. 01:37
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 3 (#1008)
Evoking the excitement of impending disaster, Director Peter Sellars coaxes the chorus to sing as if their lives depended on it. 00:54
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 2 (#1008)
Testing of the first-ever nuclear explosion, as planned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, is translated into song. 01:18
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Trailer (#1008)
WONDERS ARE MANY: The Making of Doctor Atomic tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. 02:43
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Doc | Film Clip 4 (#1007)
Novelist Paul Auster recalls "hipster visionary neo-prophet" Doc Humes and his plan to bring down the U.S. government. 02:56
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Doc | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1007)
Harold Louis "Doc" Humes' mental state is not helped when he discovers that one of his compatriots used to be in the CIA. 01:41
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Doc | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1007)
In this clip, Norman Mailer talks about how the counterculture of the '50s was anti-Cold War, anti-complacency and aimed at "disturbing society." 02:38
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Doc | Preview (#1007)
A biography of literary figure Harold Louis "Doc" Humes by his daughter, DOC tells the story of a life crammed full of ideas about politics, literature and protest. 03:17
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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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