Independent Lens Season 15 Episodes

Episode 1

The Graduates/Los Graduados - Girls Hour

Mon, Oct 28, 2013

Episode 2

The Graduates/Los Graduados: Boys Hour

Mon, Nov 4, 2013

Episode 3

Indian Relay

Mon, Nov 18, 2013

Episode 4

Young Lakota

Mon, Nov 25, 2013

Episode 5

Playwright: From Page to Stage

Mon, Dec 16, 2013

Episode 6

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Mon, Dec 23, 2013

Episode 7

How to Survive a Plague

Mon, Dec 30, 2013

Episode 8

At Berkeley

Mon, Jan 13, 2014

Episode 9

Blood Brother

Mon, Jan 20, 2014

Episode 10

The State of Arizona

Mon, Jan 27, 2014

In 2010, the Arizona Senate passed controversial immigration law SB1070, also known as the "papers please" law, igniting a national maelstrom. Supporters call it a common sense law-enforcement tool; opponents feel it will inevitably lead to racial profiling. Neighborhoods empty, businesses shutter, and immigrants flee the state. Those who choose to stay organize boycotts, mass demonstrations, daring acts of civil disobedience, and prepare families for the possibility of separation by sudden deportation.

Episode 11

Spies of Mississippi

Mon, Feb 10, 2014

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission's role in the civil rights movement, including the integration of the University of Mississippi and the trial of Medgar Evers.

Episode 12

Las Marthas

Mon, Feb 17, 2014

Episode 13

All of Me

Mon, Mar 24, 2014

Morbidly obese women endure weight-loss surgery.

Episode 14

Medora

Mon, Mar 31, 2014

Episode 15

Brother's Hypnotic

Mon, Apr 7, 2014

Episode 16

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

Mon, Apr 14, 2014

Episode 17

Muscle Shoals

Mon, Apr 21, 2014

Story of the 2 legendary recording studios in the Muscle Shoals area, on the banks of the Tennessee River. Producer Rick Hall overcame poverty and tragedy to create FAME Studios, where blacks and whites in segregated 1960s Alabama produced some of the most soulful music ever. The best music of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and many others was recorded there, backed by the mostly-white Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, aka The Swampers. When psychedelia turned white audiences away from soul music in 1969, The Swampers moved nearby, starting Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, at 3614 Jackson Highway, where Southern rock sprang after studio guitarist Duane Allman convinced Pickett to record "Hey Jude." Pilgrims to the banks of the "singing river," such as the Rolling Stones and Alicia Keys, help tell the inspirational story of Hall and the Swampers.

Episode 18

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times

Mon, May 5, 2014

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times.

Episode 19

Let the Fire Burn

Mon, May 12, 2014

Episode 20

God Loves Uganda

Mon, May 19, 2014

Episode 21

The New Black

Mon, Jun 16, 2014