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A flooded Miami street after a hurricane, a man walks through the waters. Photo Credit (photographer): Hector David Rosales
Beyond the Films
January, 26, 2024

“A Rising Tide Lifts Many Boats”: Climate Gentrification and You

Jennie Z. Rose in Beyond the Films

By Jen Rose For the longest time, wealthy retirees migrated to the beaches—of, say, sunny Florida. Now with the reality of rising sea levels, higher ground is a more desirable destination. But what happens to those who have lived for…
Stylized poster with a bulldozer superimposed over a colorful housing project with palm trees. Above the housing project is an image of the shoreline.
September, 7, 2023

Razing Liberty Square

Independent Lens

Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher…
Hand holding megaphone in the air
September, 6, 2023

Breaking the News

Independent Lens

Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in…
Painting of green field with trees in fall colors and farm animals
September, 6, 2023

Greener Pastures

Independent Lens

There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change and the pandemic have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four family farms in the Midwest over several years, the documentary Greener…
An illustration of a red hand holding a pine sapling. A photo of a family is superimposed on the arm above the hand.
September, 6, 2023

A Thousand Pines

Independent Lens

Over the course of a grueling eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees throughout the United States. This intimate portrait shows how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying…
A small red boat powers through still water. A figure at the front of the boat holds a harpoon ready to be thrown. Below the boat, the tail of a whale appears.
September, 6, 2023

One With the Whale

Independent Lens

Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of…
Illustration of a woman standing in front of the Earth, surrounded by waves, clouds, and weather patterns.
Beyond the Films
September, 5, 2023

Got Climate Anxiety? You’re Not Alone, but Here’s How to Cope

Independent Lens in Beyond the Films

By Jennie Rose With climate-related events bombarding us on a seemingly daily basis, there's naturally a corresponding increase in eco-anxiety, a chronic fear of environmental devastation. The Independent Lens short documentary Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go inspired me to…
July, 5, 2022

World Without Oil

Independent Lens

On April 30, 2007, the world entered a global oil shock. Or so it seems at World Without Oil, an online 'alternate reality' that enlisted the world's collective imagination to document the oil crisis with blogs, videos, and images. As the…
July, 16, 2021

Storm Lake

Independent Lens

Does American democracy survive without the backbone of independent local journalism? Go inside The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its share of changes in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to…
Jonathan Scott at a solar company in Nevada, with solar panel
Behind the Films
November, 6, 2020

Jonathan Scott Investigates Who Controls Our Power

Craig Phillips in Behind the Films

In some ways Jonathan Scott should need no introduction—or so you'd think as co-host with his brother Drew of the hugely popular HGTV shows Property Brothers and Brother vs. Brother, which air in more than 160 countries, and as a…
Jonathan Scott sits on a Spanish tiled roof that's covered in solar panels.
August, 31, 2020

Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip

Independent Lens

Property Brothers co-host and home-renovation expert Jonathan Scott journeys all across the U.S. to uncover why clean, renewable energy isn’t available to all. While traveling to learn both the obstacles and opportunities for achieving energy freedom, Jonathan talks with conservatives…
A woman with medium skin tone speaks to the camera while in a recycling facility, with mounds of compressed cans surrounding her.
Test Your Knowledge
May, 21, 2020

How Much Do You Know About Recycling? ♻️ A Biodegradable Quiz

Independent Lens in Test Your Knowledge

How much do you know about where our waste goes? From cigarette butts to banana peels to plastics, test your expertise on recycling and learn some possibly shocking stats. This quiz is in tandem with the PBS documentary Eating Up…