Episode list

Independent Lens

Bully
Sun, Oct 12, 2014
  • S16.E1
  • Bully
8.8 /10
Twin Sisters

Sun, Oct 19, 2014
The poignant story of two girls from China adopted as infants by two separate sets of parents - one from California, the other from a remote fishing village in Norway - who grow up knowing they have a twin living on the other side of the world. Despite being on different paths, the magical bond between them grows deeper.
8.5 /10
Brakeless

Sun, Oct 26, 2014
Brakeless asks what led the driver of a Japanese commuter train to accelerate perilously, causing a deadly crash?
6.2 /10
Powerless

Sun, Nov 02, 2014
Electricity Theft in India. Powerless captures the cat-and-mouse game of an outlaw electrician and the electric utility over illegal power hookups in Kanpur, India.
0 /10
Happiness

Sun, Nov 16, 2014
A nine-year-old monk has never before left his Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas, where the nearest road is a three-day walk. When connected to electricity for the first time, he treks to the nearest city in search of a television, in a story of the bittersweet seduction of technology and progress.
8 /10
The Kill Team

Sun, Jan 18, 2015
A young man with integrity and honor enlists in the army, but is horrified by what he actually signed up for.
7.6 /10
American Denial
Follow the story of foreign researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal whose study, An American Dilemma (1944), provided a provocative inquiry into the dissonance between stated beliefs as a society and what is perpetuated and allowed in the name of those beliefs. His inquiry into the United States racial psyche becomes a lens for modern inquiry into how denial, cognitive dissonance, and unrecognized, unconscious attitudes continue to dominate racial dynamics in American life. The films unusual narrative sheds a unique light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans. Archival footage, newsreels, nightly news reports, and rare southern home movies from the 30s and 40s thread through the story, as well as psychological testing into racial attitudes from research footage, websites, and YouTube films.

Hear from experts historians, psychologists, sociologists and Myrdals daughters all filmed directly to camera. Witnesses work to exhume unconscious feelings Americans have about themselves and others. Fascinated by the Myrdal question, the films experts reflect on it with emotion and intellectual rigor. At the core of their inquiry: How to reconcile individual feelings and thoughts with the bedrock values of our democracy?
8.5 /10
Limited Partnership
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP is the love story between Filipino-American Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan, who, in 1975, became one of the first same-sex couples in the world to be legally married. After applying for a green card for Tony based on their marriage, the couple received a denial letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Outraged at this letter, and to prevent Tony's impending deportation, the couple sued the U.S. government, filing the first federal lawsuit seeking equal treatment for a same-sex marriage in U.S. history. This tenacious story of love, marriage and immigration equality is as precedent setting as it is little known - until now.
8.1 /10

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