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This is a list of films from the Independent Lens series on PBS. All airdates are relative to this series as many of these films screened, either in theaters or on television, prior to becoming a part of the Independent Lens series. After the third season, PBS expanded and relaunched the series in 2003 declaring what is technically the fourth season as the new first season. As a result, any reference made by PBS or ITVS to a season number will be three less than the number represented in this list. For example, PBS declares the 2007-2008 season as season 6, but this complete list shows it as season 9.
[edit] Episode listing
[edit] Season 1 (1999)
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 101 |
"Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang" |
John Whitehead |
August 9, 1999 |
| 102 |
"Nothing But the Truth" |
Mark Steven Shepherd |
August 16, 1999 |
| 103 |
"Visas and Virtue" |
Chris Tashima |
August 23, 1999 |
| "I Am Viet Hung" |
Diep N. Bui |
| 104 |
"The Man Who Drove with Mandela" |
Greta Schiller |
August 30, 1999 |
| 105 |
"The Jew in the Lotus" |
Laurel Chiten |
September 6, 1999 |
| 106 |
"Holy Tortilla" |
Lauren Ivy Chiong |
September 13, 1999 |
| "Lock and Key" |
Kisha Cameron |
| 107 |
"And Baby Makes Two" |
Oren Rudavsky and Judy Katz |
September 20, 1999 |
| 108 |
"Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle" |
Jon Else |
September 27, 1999 |
| 109 |
"Secret People" |
John Anderson and Laura Harrison |
October 4, 1999 |
| 110 |
"I Can't Believe I Married A Lesbian" |
Stuart Perkin |
October 11, 1999 |
[edit] Season 2 (2000)
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 201 |
"Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors" |
Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine |
October 2, 2000 |
| 202 |
"No Hair Day" |
Bob Burns |
October 9, 2000 |
| 203 |
"Short Stories" |
Robert Byrd |
October 16, 2000 |
| 204 |
"Born in the USA" |
Marcia Jarmel |
October 23, 2000 |
| 205 |
"Girl Gone Bad" |
Louis Yansen |
October 30, 2000 |
| 206 |
"Passing Through" |
Nathan Adolfson |
November 6, 2000 |
| "Graham's Diner" |
Courtney Byrd |
| 207 |
"The Return of Navajo Boy" |
Jeff Spitz |
November 13, 2000 |
| 208 |
"Music in Their Bones" |
Norton Dill |
November 20, 2000 |
| 209 |
"In Harm's Way" |
Jan Krawitz |
November 27, 2000 |
| "Carved From the Heart" |
Ellen Frankenstein |
| 210 |
"A Wok in Progress" |
Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger |
December 4, 2000 |
[edit] Season 3 (2001)
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 301 |
"Confederacy Theory" |
Ryan Deussing |
September 7, 2001 |
| 302 |
"Secrets of Silicon Valley" |
Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman |
September 14, 2001 |
| 303 |
"Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants" |
David Belle and Nicholas Wrathall |
September 21, 2001 |
| 304 |
"Good Kurds, Bad Kurds" |
Kevin McKiernan |
September 28, 2001 |
| 305 |
"Who Owns the Past?" |
Jed Riffe |
October 5, 2001 |
| 306 |
"The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America" |
Taggart Siegel |
October 12, 2001 |
| 307 |
"Undetectable" |
Jay Corcoran |
October 19, 2001 |
| 308 |
"Gibtown" |
Melissa Shachat |
October 26, 2001 |
| 309 |
"Open Outcry" |
Jon Else |
November 2, 2001 |
| 310 |
"Romancing the Throne" |
Dominic Ozanne |
November 9, 2001 |
[edit] Season 4 (2003)
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 401 |
"Maggie Growls" |
Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater |
February 4, 2003 |
| 402 |
"Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story" |
Jamie Meltzer |
February 11, 2003 |
| 403 |
"On This Island" |
Stephanie Slewka |
February 18, 2003 |
| 404 |
"Downside Up" |
Nancy Kelly |
February 25, 2003 |
| 405 |
"Los Trabajadores/The Workers" |
Heather Courtney |
March 25, 2003 |
| 406 |
"Chiefs" |
Daniel Junge |
April 1, 2003 |
| 407 |
"Strange Fruit" |
Joel Katz |
April 8, 2003 |
| 408 |
"Bird by Bird with Annie" |
Freida Lee Mock |
April 22, 2003 |
| 409 |
"Sisters in Resistance" |
Maia Wechsler |
April 29, 2003 |
| 410 |
"Heart of the Sea" |
Charlotte Lagarde and Lisa Denker |
May 6, 2003 |
| 411 |
"Guns & Mothers" |
Thom Powers |
May 13, 2003 |
| 412 |
"Razing Appalachia" |
Sasha Waters |
May 20, 2003 |
| 413 |
"Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer" |
Nancy Schiesari |
May 27, 2003 |
| 414 |
"Daddy & Papa" |
Johnny Symons |
June 3, 2003 |
[edit] Season 5 (2003-2004)
Episode 510 is a short film block titled "Man Bites Shorts".
Episode 518 "T-Shirt Travels" was first broadcast on PBS on June 1, 2002, but not as part of the Independent Lens series.[1]
* The New Americans is a seven-hour, three-part special, and therefore does not have an episode number.
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 501 |
"Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz" |
Anne-Marie Russell |
October 14, 2003 |
| 502 |
"Foto-Novelas 2: Broken Sky" |
Carlos Avila |
October 21, 2003 |
| "Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints" |
Carlos Avila |
| 503 |
"Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America" |
Martha Burr and Mei-Juin Chen |
October 28, 2003 |
| 504 |
"A Wedding in Ramallah" |
Sherine Salama |
November 4, 2003 |
| 505 |
"Be Good, Smile Pretty" |
Tracy Droz Tragos |
November 11, 2003 |
| 506 |
"Livermore" |
Rachel Raney and David Murray |
November 25, 2003 |
| 507 |
"Eroica!" |
Alan Miller |
December 9, 2003 |
| 508 |
"Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson" |
Jim Wolpaw |
December 16, 2003 |
| 509 |
"Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad" |
Nancy du Plessis |
December 23, 2003 |
| 510 |
"Compulsory Breathing" |
David Munro |
December 30, 2003 |
| "Don't Nobody Love the Game More Than Me" |
Martha Pinson |
| "Sergi" |
Paul Sullivan |
| "Dilly Dally" |
Mark Pellington |
| "Tom Hits His Head" |
Tom Putnam |
| "Bike Ride" |
Tom Schroeder |
| 511 |
"Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story" |
John Whitehead |
January 13, 2004 |
| 512 |
"Life Matters" |
Kyle Boyd |
January 20, 2004 |
| 513 |
"Why Can't We Be a Family Again?" |
Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel |
January 27, 2004 |
| "Downpour Resurfacing" |
Frances Nkara |
| 514 |
"Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property" |
Charles Burnett |
February 10, 2004 |
| 515 |
"A Place of Our Own" |
Stanley Nelson Jr. |
February 17, 2004 |
| 516 |
"Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew" |
Matthew Buzzell |
February 24, 2004 |
| 517 |
"Sentencing the Victim" |
Liz Oakley |
March 2, 2004 |
| 518 |
"T-Shirt Travels" |
Shantha Bloemen |
March 23, 2004 |
| * |
"The New Americans" Episode One |
|
March 29, 2004 |
| * |
"The New Americans" Episode Two |
|
March 30, 2004 |
| * |
"The New Americans" Episode Three |
|
March 31, 2004 |
| 519 |
"Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas" |
Jonathan Robinson |
April 6, 2004 |
| 520 |
"Love Inventory" |
David Fisher |
April 13, 2004 |
| 521 |
"Ram Dass: Fierce Grace" |
Mickey Lemle |
April 20, 2004 |
| 522 |
"The Weather Underground" |
Sam Green |
April 27, 2004 |
| 523 |
"One Night at the Grand Star" |
Natasha Uppal |
May 4, 2004 |
| "Double Exposure" |
Kit-Yin Snyder |
| 524 |
"Refugee" |
Spencer Nakasako |
May 11, 2004 |
| 525 |
"Death of a Shaman" |
Richard Hall |
May 27, 2004 |
| 526 |
"Cosmopolitan" |
Nisha Ganatra |
June 1, 2004 |
| 527 |
"Sumo East and West" |
Ferne Pearlstein |
June 8, 2004 |
| 528 |
"The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out" |
Jay Rosenstein |
June 15, 2004 |
[edit] Season 6 (2004-2005)
Episode 608 is a short film block titled "Short, Not Sweet".
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 601 |
"The Political Dr. Seuss" |
Ron Lamothe |
October 26, 2004 |
| 602 |
"Polka Time" |
Lisa Blackstone |
November 9, 2004 |
| 603 |
"Afghanistan Unveiled" |
Brigitte Brault |
November 16, 2004 |
| 604 |
"Los Angeles Now" |
Phillip Rodriguez |
November 23, 2004 |
| 605 |
"The Day My God Died" |
Andrew Levine |
November 30, 2004 |
| 606 |
"Girl Wrestler" |
Diane Zander |
December 14, 2004 |
| 607 |
"Fine." |
Michael Downing |
December 21, 2004 |
| "Doki-Doki" |
Chris Eska |
| 608 |
"The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy" |
Robert D. Slane |
December 28, 2004 |
| "La Puppé" |
Timothy Greenberg |
| "A Monster's Calling" |
Louise Johnson |
| "The School" |
Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller |
| "Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner" |
Jamie Travis |
| 609 |
"A Hard Straight" |
Goro Toshima |
January 4, 2005 |
| 610 |
"A Touch of Greatness" |
Leslie Sullivan |
January 11, 2005 |
| 611 |
"Power Trip" |
Paul Devlin |
January 25, 2005 |
| 612 |
"February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four" |
|
February 1, 2005 |
| 613 |
"On a Roll" |
Joanne Caputo |
February 15, 2005 |
| 614 |
"Thunder in Guyana" |
Suzanne Wasserman |
February 22, 2005 |
| 615 |
"Sisters of '77" |
Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell |
March 1, 2005 |
| 616 |
"Sunset Story" |
Laura Gabbert |
March 22, 2005 |
| 617 |
"Let the Church Say Amen" |
David Petersen |
March 29, 2005 |
| 620 |
"A Lion's Trail" |
François Verster |
April 5, 2005 |
| 619 |
"Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton" |
David G. Berger, Holly Maxson and Kate Hirson |
April 12, 2005 |
| 621 |
"End of the Century: The Ramones" |
Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields |
April 26, 2005 |
| "Joe Strummer Rocks Again" |
Dick Rude |
| 622 |
"The Last Letter" |
Frederick Wiseman |
May 3, 2005 |
| "Zyklon Portrait" |
Elida Schogt |
| "The Walnut Tree" |
| 623 |
"Imelda" |
Ramona Diaz |
May 10, 2005 |
| 624 |
"Vietnam: The Next Generation" |
Sandy Northrop |
May 17, 2005 |
| 625 |
"Red Hook Justice" |
Meema Spadola |
May 24, 2005 |
| 626 |
"Double Dare" |
Amanda Micheli |
May 31, 2005 |
| "Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!" |
|
| 627 |
"Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story" |
Jordan Mechner |
June 7, 2005 |
| 628 |
"Brother to Brother" |
Rodney Evans |
June 14, 2005 |
[edit] Season 7 (2005-2006)
Episode 710 is a short film block titled "Short Stack: Lost & Found".
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 701 |
"Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove" |
Yvonne Smith |
October 11, 2005 |
| 702 |
"En Route to Baghdad" |
Simone Duarte |
October 18, 2005 |
| 703 |
"The Last Cowboy" |
Jon Alpert |
October 25, 2005 |
| 704 |
"A Family at War" |
Jørgen Flindt Pedersen |
November 8, 2005 |
| 705 |
"Mirror Dance" |
Frances McElroy and María Teresa Rodríguez |
November 15, 2005 |
| 706 |
"Race is the Place" |
Raymond Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores |
November 22, 2005 |
| 707 |
"Maid in America" |
Anayansi Prado |
November 29, 2005 |
| 708 |
"Seoul Train" |
Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky |
December 13, 2005 |
| 709 |
"Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community" |
John Hanson |
December 20, 2005 |
| 710 |
"Agora" |
Chris Newberry |
December 27, 2005 |
| "John and Michael" |
Shira Avni |
| "Miracle Mile" |
Dong Hyeuk Hwang |
| "The Raftman's Razor" |
Keith Bearden |
| "Reservation Warparties" |
Angelique Midthunder |
| 711 |
"Sheriff" |
Daniel Kraus |
January 3, 2006 |
| 712 |
"Girl Trouble" |
Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko |
January 17, 2006 |
| 713 |
"Almost Home" |
Brad Lichtenstein and Lisa Gildehaus |
January 31, 2006 |
| 714 |
"Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power" |
Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts |
February 7, 2006 |
| 715 |
"July '64" |
Carvin Eison |
February 14, 2006 |
| 716 |
"The Loss of Nameless Things" |
Bill Rose |
February 28, 2006 |
| 717 |
"Troop 1500" |
Ellen Spiro |
March 21, 2006 |
| 718 |
"Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City" |
Bann Roy |
March 28, 2006 |
| 719 |
"Trudell" |
Heather Rae |
April 11, 2006 |
| 720 |
"La Sierra" |
Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez |
April 18, 2006 |
| 721 |
"A League of Ordinary Gentlemen" |
Chris Browne |
April 25, 2006 |
| 722 |
"Music from the Inside Out" |
Daniel Anker |
May 2, 2006 |
| 723 |
"Fishbowl" |
Kayo Hatta |
May 9, 2006 |
| "American Made" |
Sharat Raju |
| 724 |
"Frozen Angels" |
Eric Black and Frauke Sandig |
May 16, 2006 |
| 725 |
"The Devil's Miner" |
Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani |
May 23, 2006 |
| 726 |
"The Great Pink Scare" |
Tug Yourgrau and Dan Miller |
June 6, 2006 |
| 727 |
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" |
Taggart Siegel |
June 13, 2006 |
| 728 |
"A Lion in the House" (Part 1) |
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert |
June 21, 2006 |
| 729 |
"A Lion in the House" (Part 2) |
June 22, 2006 |
[edit] Season 8 (2006-2007)
Episode 803 "Still Life with Animated Dogs" was first broadcast on PBS on March 29, 2001, but not as part of the Independent Lens series.
Episode 809 is a short film block titled "Short Stack 2006".
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 801 |
"The World According to Sesame Street" |
Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan |
October 24, 2006 |
| 803 |
"Still Life with Animated Dogs" |
Paul Fierlinger |
| 802 |
"Muskrat Lovely" |
Amy Nicholson |
October 31, 2006 |
| 804 |
"Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire" |
Barbara Multer-Wellin |
November 7, 2006 |
| 805 |
"Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press" |
Cal Skaggs |
November 21, 2006 |
| 806 |
"Two Square Miles" |
Barbara Ettinger |
November 28, 2006 |
| 807 |
"A Sad Flower in the Sand" |
Jan Louter |
December 12, 2006 |
| 808 |
"Revolucion: Five Visions" |
Nicole Cattell |
December 19, 2006 |
| 809 |
"Paris, 1951" |
Jasmin Gordon |
December 26, 2006 |
| "Someday Flowers Bloom" |
Mai Heiselmann |
| "The Zit" |
Mike Blum |
| "My Life Disoriented" |
Eric Byler |
| 810 |
"A Fish Story" |
Courtney Hayes and Tim Gallagher |
January 2, 2007 |
| 811 |
"Shadya" |
Roy Westler |
January 16, 2007 |
| 812 |
"Beyond the Call" |
Adrian Belic |
January 23, 2007 |
| 813 |
"Twisted" |
Laurel Chiten |
January 30, 2007 |
| 814 |
"Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life" |
Robert Levi |
February 6, 2007 |
| 815 |
"Motherland Afghanistan" |
Sedika Mojadidi |
February 13, 2007 |
| 816 |
"Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes" |
Byron Hurt |
February 20, 2007 |
| 817 |
"Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?" |
Frank Popper |
February 27, 2007 |
| 818 |
"Stolen" |
Rebecca Dreyfus |
March 20, 2007 |
| 819 |
"Race to Execution" |
Rachel Lyon |
March 27, 2007 |
| 820 |
"China Blue" |
Micha X. Peled |
April 3, 2007 |
| 821 |
"Black Gold" |
Marc Francis and Nick Francis |
April 10, 2007 |
| 822 |
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
Alex Gibney |
April 24, 2007 |
| 823 |
"The Cats of Mirikitani" |
Linda Hattendorf |
May 8, 2007 |
| 824 |
"Sentenced Home" |
Nicole Newnham and David Grabias |
May 15, 2007 |
| 825 |
"Knocking" |
Joel P. Engardio and Tom Shepard |
May 22, 2007 |
| 826 |
"The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" |
Judy Irving |
May 29, 2007 |
| 827 |
"La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul" |
Ela Troyano |
June 5, 2007 |
[edit] Season 9 (2007-2008)
| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Original airdate |
| 901 |
"Wordplay" |
Patrick Creadon |
October 16, 2007 |
| 902 |
"Please Vote for Me" |
Weijun Chen |
October 23, 2007 |
| 903 |
"Storm of Emotions" |
Yael Klopmann |
October 30, 2007 |
| 904 |
"Red White Black & Blue" |
Tom Putnam |
November 6, 2007 |
| 905 |
"Miss Navajo" |
Billy Luther |
November 13, 2007 |
| 906 |
"The Creek Runs Red" |
Bradley Beesley and Julianna Brannum |
November 20, 2007 |
| 907 |
"Sisters in Law" |
Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi |
November 27, 2007 |
| 908 |
"The Paper" |
Aaron Matthews |
December 11, 2007 |
| 909 |
"An Unreasonable Man" |
Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan |
December 18, 2007 |
| 910 |
"Today's Man" |
Lizzie Gottlieb |
January 8, 2008 |
| 911 |
"Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita" |
Maria Finitzo |
January 15, 2008 |
| 912 |
"A Son's Sacrifice" |
Yoni Brook |
January 22, 2008 |
| 913 |
"How Is Your Fish Today?" |
Xiaolu Guo |
January 29, 2008 |
| 915 |
"Banished" |
Marco Williams |
February 19, 2008 |
| 916 |
"Hard Road Home" |
Macky Alston |
February 26, 2008 |
| 917 |
"Iron Ladies of Liberia"[2] |
Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson |
March 18, 2008 |
| 918 |
"Compañeras"[3] |
Matthew Buzzell and Elizabeth Massie |
April 1, 2008 |
| 919 |
"Water Flowing Together"[4] |
Gwendolen Cates |
April 8, 2008 |
| 920 |
"King Corn"[5] |
Aaron Woolf |
April 15, 2008 |
|
"Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula"[6] |
Lisette Marie Flanary |
May 6, 2008 |
| 922 |
"A Dream in Doubt"[7] |
Tami Yeager |
May 20, 2008 |
|
"New Year Baby"[8] |
Socheata Poeuv |
May 27, 2008 |
|
"Writ Writer"[9] |
Susanne E. Mason |
June 3, 2008 |
|
"The Cool School"[10] |
Morgan Neville |
June 10, 2008 |
|
"Deep Water"[11] |
Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell |
June 15, 2008 |
|
"Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story"[12] |
Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim |
June 19, 2008 |
[edit] References
