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Independent Lens Episodes on PBS

1999, TV Show

Seasons:

1
- I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian (Original Airdate Oct 11, 1999)
- Secret People (Original Airdate Oct 4, 1999)
- Sing Faster: The Stagehand's Ring Cycle (Original Airdate Sep 27, 1999)
- And Baby Makes Two (Original Airdate Sep 20, 1999)
- Holy Tortilla; Lock and Key (Original Airdate Sep 13, 1999)
- The Jew in the Lotus (Original Airdate Sep 6, 1999)
- The Man Who Drove with Mandela (Original Airdate Aug 30, 1999)
- Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung (Original Airdate Aug 23, 1999)
- Nothing but the Truth (Original Airdate Aug 16, 1999)
- Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang (Original Airdate Aug 9, 1999)
2
- A Wok in Progress (Original Airdate Dec 4, 2000)
- In Harm's Way; Carved from the Heart (Original Airdate Nov 27, 2000)
- Music in Their Bones (Original Airdate Nov 20, 2000)
- The Return of Navajo Boy (Original Airdate Nov 13, 2000)
- Passing Through; Graham's Diner (Original Airdate Nov 6, 2000)
- Girl Gone Bad (Original Airdate Oct 30, 2000)
- Born in the USA (Original Airdate Oct 23, 2000)
- Short Stories (Original Airdate Oct 16, 2000)
- No Hair Day (Original Airdate Oct 9, 2000)
- Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors (Original Airdate Oct 2, 2000)
3
- Romancing the Throne (Original Airdate Nov 9, 2001)
- Undetectable (Original Airdate Oct 19, 2001)
- The Split Horn (Original Airdate Oct 12, 2001)
- Open Outcry (Original Airdate Oct 6, 2001)
- Who Owns the Past? (Original Airdate Oct 5, 2001)
- Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (Original Airdate Sep 28, 2001)
- Gibtown (Original Airdate Sep 21, 2001)
- Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants (Original Airdate Sep 21, 2001)
- Secrets of Silicon Valley (Original Airdate Sep 14, 2001)
- Confederacy Theory (Original Airdate Sep 7, 2001)
4
- Daddy & Papa (Original Airdate Jun 3, 2003)
- Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer (Original Airdate May 27, 2003)
- Razing Appalachia (Original Airdate May 20, 2003)
- Guns and Mothers (Original Airdate May 13, 2003)
- Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai (Original Airdate May 6, 2003)
- Sisters in Resistance (Original Airdate Apr 29, 2003)
- Bird by Bird with Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott (Original Airdate Apr 22, 2003)
- Strange Fruit (Original Airdate Apr 8, 2003)
- Chiefs (Original Airdate Apr 1, 2003)
- Los Trabajadores/The Workers (Original Airdate Mar 25, 2003)
- Downside Up (Original Airdate Feb 25, 2003)
- On This Island (Original Airdate Feb 18, 2003)
- Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Original Airdate Feb 11, 2003)
- Maggie Growls (Original Airdate Feb 4, 2003)
5
- The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out (Original Airdate Jun 15, 2004)
- Sumo East and West (Original Airdate Jun 8, 2004)
- Cosmopolitan (Original Airdate Jun 1, 2004)
- Death of a Shaman (Original Airdate May 27, 2004)
- Refugee (Original Airdate May 11, 2004)
- One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure (Original Airdate May 4, 2004)
- The Weather Underground (Original Airdate Apr 27, 2004)
- Ram Dass: Fierce Grace (Original Airdate Apr 20, 2004)
- Love Inventory (Original Airdate Apr 13, 2004)
- Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas (Original Airdate Apr 6, 2004)
- T-Shirt Travels (Original Airdate Mar 23, 2004)
- Sentencing the Victim (Original Airdate Mar 2, 2004)
- Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (Original Airdate Feb 24, 2004)
- A Place of Our Own (Original Airdate Feb 17, 2004)
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Original Airdate Feb 10, 2004)
- Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing (Original Airdate Jan 27, 2004)
- Life Matters (Original Airdate Jan 20, 2004)
- Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story (Original Airdate Jan 13, 2004)
- Man Bites Shorts (Original Airdate Dec 30, 2003)
- Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad (Original Airdate Dec 23, 2003)
- Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson (Original Airdate Dec 16, 2003)
- Eroica! (Original Airdate Dec 9, 2003)
- Livermore (Original Airdate Nov 25, 2003)
- Be Good, Smile Pretty (Original Airdate Nov 11, 2003)
- A Wedding in Ramallah (Original Airdate Nov 4, 2003)
- Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America (Original Airdate Oct 28, 2003)
- Foto-Novelas 2: 'Junkyard Saints' and 'Broken Sky' (Original Airdate Oct 21, 2003)
- Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz (Original Airdate Oct 14, 2003)
6
- Brother to Brother (Original Airdate Jun 14, 2005)
- Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story (Original Airdate Jun 7, 2005)
- Double Dare; Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare! (Original Airdate May 31, 2005)
- Red Hook Justice (Original Airdate May 24, 2005)
- Vietnam: The Next Generation (Original Airdate May 17, 2005)
- Imelda (Original Airdate May 10, 2005)
- The Last Letter; Zyklon Portrait; The Walnut Tree (Original Airdate May 3, 2005)
- End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again (Original Airdate Apr 26, 2005)
- Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton (Original Airdate Apr 12, 2005)
- A Lion's Trail (Original Airdate Apr 5, 2005)
- Let the Church Say Amen (Original Airdate Mar 29, 2005)
- Sunset Story (Original Airdate Mar 22, 2005)
- Sisters of '77 (Original Airdate Mar 1, 2005)
- Thunder in Guyana/Unites States of Poetry (Original Airdate Feb 22, 2005)
- On a Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream (Original Airdate Feb 15, 2005)
- February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four (Original Airdate Feb 1, 2005)
- Power Trip (Original Airdate Jan 25, 2005)
- A Touch of Greatness (Original Airdate Jan 11, 2005)
- A Hard Straight (Original Airdate Jan 4, 2005)
- Short, Not Sweet (Original Airdate Dec 28, 2004)
- Fine; Doki-Doki (Original Airdate Dec 21, 2004)
- Girl Wrestler (Original Airdate Dec 14, 2004)
- The Day My God Died (Original Airdate Nov 30, 2004)
- Los Angeles Now (Original Airdate Nov 23, 2004)
- Afghanistan Unveiled (Original Airdate Nov 16, 2004)
- Polka Time (Original Airdate Nov 9, 2004)
- The Political Dr. Seuss (Original Airdate Oct 26, 2004)
7
- A Lion in the House (Original Airdate Jun 22, 2006)
- A Lion in the House (Original Airdate Jun 21, 2006)
- The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Original Airdate Jun 13, 2006)
- The Great Pink Scare (Original Airdate Jun 6, 2006)
- The Devil's Miner (Original Airdate May 23, 2006)
- Frozen Angels (Original Airdate May 16, 2006)
- Fishbowl; American Made (Original Airdate May 9, 2006)
- Music from the Inside Out (Original Airdate May 2, 2006)
- A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (Original Airdate Apr 25, 2006)
- La Sierra (Original Airdate Apr 18, 2006)
- Trudell (Original Airdate Apr 11, 2006)
- Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City (Original Airdate Mar 28, 2006)
- Troop 1500 (Original Airdate Mar 21, 2006)
- The Loss of Nameless Things (Original Airdate Feb 28, 2006)
- Almost Home (Original Airdate Feb 20, 2006)
- July '64 (Original Airdate Feb 14, 2006)
- Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (Original Airdate Feb 7, 2006)
- Girl Trouble (Original Airdate Jan 17, 2006)
- Sheriff (Original Airdate Jan 3, 2006)
- Short Stack: Lost & Found (Original Airdate Dec 27, 2005)
- Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community (Original Airdate Dec 20, 2005)
- Seoul Train (Original Airdate Dec 13, 2005)
- Maid in America (Original Airdate Nov 29, 2005)
- Race Is the Place (Original Airdate Nov 22, 2005)
- Mirror Dance (Original Airdate Nov 15, 2005)
- A Family at War (Original Airdate Nov 8, 2005)
- The Last Cowboy (Original Airdate Oct 25, 2005)
- En Route to Baghdad (Original Airdate Oct 18, 2005)
- Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (Original Airdate Oct 11, 2005)
8
- La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul (Original Airdate Jun 5, 2007)
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Original Airdate May 29, 2007)
- Knocking (Original Airdate May 22, 2007)
- Sentenced Home (Original Airdate May 15, 2007)
- The Cats of Mirikitani (Original Airdate May 8, 2007)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Original Airdate Apr 24, 2007)
- Black Gold (Original Airdate Apr 10, 2007)
- China Blue (Original Airdate Apr 3, 2007)
- Race to Execution (Original Airdate Mar 27, 2007)
- Stolen (Original Airdate Mar 20, 2007)
- Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (Original Airdate Feb 27, 2007)
- Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (Original Airdate Feb 20, 2007)
- Motherland Afghanistan (Original Airdate Feb 13, 2007)
- Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (Original Airdate Feb 6, 2007)
- Twisted (Original Airdate Jan 30, 2007)
- Beyond the Call (Original Airdate Jan 23, 2007)
- Shadya (Original Airdate Jan 16, 2007)
- A Fish Story (Original Airdate Jan 2, 2007)
- Short Stack 2006 (Original Airdate Dec 26, 2006)
- Revolucion: Five Visions (Original Airdate Dec 19, 2006)
- A Sad Flower in the Sand (Original Airdate Dec 12, 2006)
- Two Square Miles (Original Airdate Nov 28, 2006)
- Democracy on Deadline (Original Airdate Nov 21, 2006)
- Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire (Original Airdate Nov 7, 2006)
- Muskrat Lovely (Original Airdate Oct 31, 2006)
- Still Life With Animated Dogs (Original Airdate Oct 24, 2006)
- The World According to Sesame Street (Original Airdate Oct 24, 2006)
9
- Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (Original Airdate Jun 19, 2008)
- Deep Water (Original Airdate Jun 15, 2008)
- The Cool School (Original Airdate Jun 10, 2008)
- Writ Writer (Original Airdate Jun 3, 2008)
- New Year Baby (Original Airdate May 27, 2008)
- A Dream in Doubt (Original Airdate May 20, 2008)
- Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula (Original Airdate May 6, 2008)
- King Corn (Original Airdate Apr 15, 2008)
- Water Flowing Together (Original Airdate Apr 8, 2008)
- Compañeras (Original Airdate Apr 1, 2008)
- Iron Ladies of Liberia (Original Airdate Mar 18, 2008)
- Hard Road Home (Original Airdate Feb 26, 2008)
- Banished (Original Airdate Feb 19, 2008)
- How Is Your Fish Today? (Original Airdate Jan 29, 2008)
- American Made (Original Airdate Jan 22, 2008)
- A Son's Sacrifice (Original Airdate Jan 22, 2008)
- Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita (Original Airdate Jan 15, 2008)
- Today's Man (Original Airdate Jan 8, 2008)
- An Unreasonable Man (Original Airdate Dec 18, 2007)
- The Paper (Original Airdate Dec 11, 2007)
- Sisters in Law (Original Airdate Nov 27, 2007)
- The Creek Runs Red (Original Airdate Nov 20, 2007)
- Miss Navajo (Original Airdate Nov 13, 2007)
- Red White Black & Blue (Original Airdate Nov 6, 2007)
- Storm of Emotions (Original Airdate Oct 30, 2007)
- Please Vote for Me (Original Airdate Oct 23, 2007)
- Wordplay (Original Airdate Oct 16, 2007)
10
- Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos (Original Airdate Sep 21, 2009)
- Ask Not (Original Airdate Jun 16, 2009)
- Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors (Original Airdate May 19, 2009)
- Crips and Bloods: Made in America (Original Airdate May 12, 2009)
- Wings of Defeat (Original Airdate May 5, 2009)
- At Home in Utopia (Original Airdate Apr 28, 2009)
- Steal a Pencil for Me (Original Airdate Apr 21, 2009)
- Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Original Airdate Apr 14, 2009)
- Milking the Rhino (Original Airdate Apr 7, 2009)
- Recycle (Original Airdate Mar 31, 2009)
- Lakshmi and Me (Original Airdate Mar 24, 2009)
- Arusi Persian Wedding (Original Airdate Mar 17, 2009)
- The Order of Myths; Bi-Racial Hair (Original Airdate Feb 24, 2009)
- Tulia, Texas (Original Airdate Feb 10, 2009)
- Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (Original Airdate Feb 3, 2009)
- Helvetica (Original Airdate Jan 6, 2009)
- Operation Filmmaker (Original Airdate Dec 30, 2008)
- Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway (Original Airdate Dec 23, 2008)
- Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic" (Original Airdate Dec 16, 2008)
- Doc (Original Airdate Dec 9, 2008)
- Atom Smashers (Original Airdate Nov 25, 2008)
- March Point (Original Airdate Nov 18, 2008)
- Lioness (Original Airdate Nov 13, 2008)
- Knee Deep (Original Airdate Nov 6, 2008)
- Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (Original Airdate Oct 28, 2008)
- Chicago 10 (Original Airdate Oct 22, 2008)
11
- Goodbye Solo (Original Airdate Jun 1, 2010)
- A Village Called Versailles (Original Airdate May 25, 2010)
- Project Kashmir (Original Airdate May 18, 2010)
- The Horse Boy (Original Airdate May 11, 2010)
- Sunshine (Original Airdate May 4, 2010)
- Garbage Dreams (Original Airdate Apr 27, 2010)
- DIRT! The Movie (Original Airdate Apr 20, 2010)
- Blessed Is the Match (Original Airdate Apr 13, 2010)
- Unmistaken Child (Original Airdate Apr 7, 2010)
- Whatever It Takes (Original Airdate Mar 30, 2010)
- Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) (Original Airdate Mar 23, 2010)
- The Eyes of Me (Original Airdate Mar 2, 2010)
- Behind the Rainbow (Original Airdate Feb 23, 2010)
- Mine; Home (Original Airdate Feb 16, 2010)
- P-Star Rising (Original Airdate Feb 9, 2010)
- Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (Original Airdate Feb 2, 2010)
- Copyright Criminals (Original Airdate Jan 19, 2010)
- Young@Heart (Original Airdate Jan 12, 2010)
- Scenes From a Parish (Original Airdate Dec 29, 2009)
- Between the Folds (Original Airdate Dec 8, 2009)
- Objectified (Original Airdate Nov 24, 2009)
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (Original Airdate Nov 17, 2009)
- D Tour (Original Airdate Nov 10, 2009)
- Power Paths (Original Airdate Nov 3, 2009)
- Journals of a Wily School (Original Airdate Oct 27, 2009)
- Butte, America (Original Airdate Oct 20, 2009)
- Herb and Dorothy (Original Airdate Oct 13, 2009)
12
- Two Spirits (Original Airdate Jun 14, 2011)
- Welcome to Shelbyville (Original Airdate May 24, 2011)
- Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (Original Airdate May 17, 2011)
- Bhutto (Original Airdate May 10, 2011)
- A Film Unfinished (Original Airdate May 3, 2011)
- Marwencol (Original Airdate Apr 26, 2011)
- Waste Land (Original Airdate Apr 19, 2011)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Original Airdate Apr 12, 2011)
- Desert of Forbidden Art (Original Airdate Apr 5, 2011)
- Pushing the Elephant (Original Airdate Mar 29, 2011)
- Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story (Original Airdate Mar 1, 2011)
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Original Airdate Feb 22, 2011)
- When I Rise (Original Airdate Feb 8, 2011)
- For Once in My Life (Original Airdate Feb 1, 2011)
- Children of Haiti (Original Airdate Jan 11, 2011)
- Men Who Swim (Original Airdate Jan 4, 2011)
- The Calling (Original Airdate Dec 21, 2010)
- The Calling (Original Airdate Dec 20, 2010)
- 45365 (Original Airdate Dec 14, 2010)
- Deep Down (Original Airdate Nov 23, 2010)
- Lost Sparrow (Original Airdate Nov 16, 2010)
- The Longoria Affair (Original Airdate Nov 9, 2010)
- Reel Injun (Original Airdate Nov 2, 2010)
- Art & Copy (Original Airdate Oct 26, 2010)
- The Parking Lot Movie (Original Airdate Oct 19, 2010)
13
- Strong! (Original Airdate Jul 26, 2012)
- We Were Here (Original Airdate Jun 14, 2012)
- Hell and Back Again (Original Airdate May 28, 2012)
- Left by the Ship (Original Airdate May 24, 2012)
- Precious Knowledge (Original Airdate May 17, 2012)
- Summer Pasture (Original Airdate May 10, 2012)
- Circo (Original Airdate May 3, 2012)
- Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison (Original Airdate Apr 26, 2012)
- Revenge of the Electric Car (Original Airdate Apr 19, 2012)
- When the Drum Is Beating (Original Airdate Apr 12, 2012)
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (Original Airdate Apr 5, 2012)
- You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't (Original Airdate Mar 29, 2012)
- More Than a Month (Original Airdate Feb 16, 2012)
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Original Airdate Feb 9, 2012)
- Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock (Original Airdate Feb 2, 2012)
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg? Free at Last (Original Airdate Jan 26, 2012)
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg? The Bottom Line (Original Airdate Jan 19, 2012)
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg? From Selma to Soweto (Original Airdate Jan 19, 2012)
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg? The New Generation (Original Airdate Jan 12, 2012)
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg? Road to Resistance (Original Airdate Jan 12, 2012)
- These Amazing Shadows (Original Airdate Dec 29, 2011)
- The Woodmans (Original Airdate Dec 22, 2011)
- We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean (Original Airdate Nov 17, 2011)
- Deaf Jam (Original Airdate Nov 3, 2011)
- Lives Worth Living (Original Airdate Oct 27, 2011)
- Donor Unknown (Original Airdate Oct 20, 2011)
- Wham! Bam! Islam (Original Airdate Oct 13, 2011)
14
- Detropia (Original Airdate May 27, 2013)
- The Invisible War (Original Airdate May 13, 2013)
- Seeking Asian Female (Original Airdate May 6, 2013)
- The Undocumented (Original Airdate Apr 29, 2013)
- The Island President (Original Airdate Apr 22, 2013)
- Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Original Airdate Apr 15, 2013)
- The House I Live In (Original Airdate Apr 8, 2013)
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Original Airdate Feb 25, 2013)
- The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights (Original Airdate Feb 18, 2013)
- The Revisionaries (Original Airdate Jan 28, 2013)
- Beauty Is Embarrassing (Original Airdate Jan 21, 2013)
- Soul Food Junkies (Original Airdate Jan 14, 2013)
- Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream (Original Airdate Nov 12, 2012)
- Solar Mamas (Original Airdate Nov 5, 2012)
- Love Free or Die (Original Airdate Oct 29, 2012)
- As Goes Janesville (Original Airdate Oct 8, 2012)

Independent Lens Episode: "On a Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream"

Season 6, Episode 13

Episode Synopsis: “On a Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream” profiles Greg Smith, a relentless campaigner for the rights of the disabled. It's a lively hour: Smith, who has muscular dystrophy, calls himself “a wheelchair dude with attitude,” and while he talks matter of factly about his sex life and failed marriage, he rails against obstacles that those who aren't disabled might never consider. Original Air Date: Feb 15, 2005

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Premiered: August 09, 1999, on PBS

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