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Illinois Congressman Luis Gutiérrez arrested during immigration reform protest.
Announcements
October, 19, 2015

Immigration Battle: The High-Stakes World of Immigration Reform

Independent Lens in Announcements

Premiering on PBS Tuesday October 20 at 10pm [please check local listings] as a co-presentation of Independent Lens and FRONTLINE, the new documentary Immigration Battle plunges straight into the heart of one of the most divisive issues in America. Filmmakers Michael Camerini…
Reverend Rob Schenck prays.
October, 13, 2015

The Armor of Light

Independent Lens

The Armor of Light follows the journey of Evangelical minister Rob Schenck, who is trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America, and Lucy McBath, the mother of an unarmed teenager who…
Immigration protestors in Washington D.C. wave flags of America and Honduras.
October, 12, 2015

Immigration Battle

Independent Lens

Why has it been so hard for Washington to fix our country's broken immigration system? In Immigration Battle, a special two-hour feature film presentation from FRONTLINE and Independent Lens, acclaimed independent filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini take viewers behind closed…
June, 22, 2015

In the Shadow of Ebola

Independent Lens

In the Shadow of Ebola is the gripping story of a Liberian family kept apart by the Ebola outbreak in a nation still reeling from the chaos of civil war. We follow the struggle of Emmanuel Urey and his family,…
Limited Partnership director Tom Miller (left), and producer Kirk Marcolina
Uncategorized
June, 15, 2015

Limited Partnership Filmmakers Commit Years to Telling Marriage Equality Story

Craig Phillips in Uncategorized

Tom Miller committed a long period of his life — 14 years — to his film Limited Partnership, and it became a true labor of love, appropriate for what is at its very heart a love story. The film traces…
Richard Adams and Tony Sullivan at the Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation in Paris during their European exile.
June, 15, 2015

Limited Partnership

Independent Lens

Limited Partnership chronicles the 40-year love story between Filipino American Richard Adams and his Australian husband, Tony Sullivan. In 1975, thanks to a courageous county clerk in Boulder, Colorado, Richard and Tony were one of the first same sex couples…
May, 18, 2015

Johanna Hamilton Goes Back to 1971 to Find Burglars Who Revealed Illegal FBI Spying

Craig Phillips

1971: A year before the Watergate scandal sent shockwaves through the United States, with no end in sight to the Vietnam War, and anti-war protests intensifying. In that same year a group of ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. What…
May, 18, 2015

1971

Independent Lens

In the past several decades, whistleblowers have helped shape the nation’s history, from Deep Throat exposing President Nixon’s Watergate scandal to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance. But long before the dawning of the digital age, one group of…
Re-enactment screenshot of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI planning their Media, PA burglary.
Lists
May, 14, 2015

Nine Movies about American Radicals

Independent Lens in Lists

By Noel Murray There’s something deeply and inherently provocative in movies that tell stories about open rebellion against the United States government, because they force us to think harder about what it really means to be a good citizen. Are…
April, 20, 2015

The Great Invisible

Independent Lens

On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico drilling a well owned in majority by BP.…
April, 6, 2015

Little Hope Was Arson

Independent Lens

East Texas, affectionately referred to by locals as “the Buckle of the Bible Belt,” is home to over 1,400 churches. Life is centered around these congregations, which provide a backbone for communities to gather, worship, and practice fellowship with one…
Lists
January, 19, 2015

Moral Dilemmas in 10 War Films

Craig Phillips in Lists

The central dilemma in Dan Krauss's Independent Lens documentary The Kill Team is grappled with by an American soldier in Afghanistan who found members of his platoon were committing immoral war crimes, and wanted to blow the whistle on them, even if it endangered…