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Independent Lens (1999)

English TV series on PBS

Series facts

Seasons
2816 episodes in all
Channel
PBS
Premiered
9 August 1999
Status
Running
Next episode
S28E04 on 23 November 2026in 17 days
Episode length
69 min on average
TVmaze rating
7.5 / 10
Language
English
Country
United States

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Independent Lens is an English TV series on PBS. 28 seasons, 16 episodes. Premiered 9 Aug 1999. Cast: Stanley Tucci, America Ferrera, Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Seasons and episodes

Season 19 Aug 1999 to 11 Oct 1999
  1. E1Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang9 Aug 1999
  2. E2Nothing But the Truth16 Aug 1999
  3. E3Visas and Virtue / I Am Viet Hung23 Aug 1999
  4. E4The Man Who Drove with Mandela30 Aug 1999
  5. E5The Jew in the Lotus6 Sep 1999
  6. E6Holy Tortilla / Lock and Key13 Sep 1999
  7. E7And Baby Makes Two20 Sep 1999
  8. E8Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle27 Sep 1999
  9. E9Secret People4 Oct 1999
  10. E10I Can't Believe I Married A Lietendent11 Oct 1999
Season 22 Oct 2000 to 4 Dec 2000
  1. E1Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors2 Oct 2000
  2. E2No Hair Day9 Oct 2000
  3. E3Short Stories16 Oct 2000
  4. E4Born in the USA23 Oct 2000
  5. E5Girl Gone Bad30 Oct 2000
  6. E6Passing Through / Graham's Diner6 Nov 2000
  7. E7The Return of Navajo Boy13 Nov 2000
  8. E8Music in Their Bones20 Nov 2000
  9. E9In Harm's Way / Carved From the Heart27 Nov 2000
  10. E10A Wok in Progress4 Dec 2000
Season 37 Sep 2001 to 9 Nov 2001
  1. E1Confederacy Theory7 Sep 2001
  2. E2Secrets of Silicon Valley14 Sep 2001
  3. E3Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants21 Sep 2001
  4. E4Good Kurds, Bad Kurds28 Sep 2001
  5. E5Who Owns the Past?5 Oct 2001
  6. E6The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America12 Oct 2001
  7. E7Undetectable19 Oct 2001
  8. E8Gibtown26 Oct 2001
  9. E9Open Outcry2 Nov 2001
  10. E10Romancing the Throne9 Nov 2001
Season 44 Feb 2003 to 3 Jun 2003
  1. E1Maggie Growls4 Feb 2003
  2. E2Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story11 Feb 2003
  3. E3On This Island18 Feb 2003
  4. E4Downside Up25 Feb 2003
  5. E5Los Trabajadores / The Workers25 Mar 2003
  6. E6Chiefs1 Apr 2003
  7. E7Strange Fruit8 Apr 2003
  8. E8Bird by Bird with Annie22 Apr 2003
  9. E9Sisters in Resistance29 Apr 2003
  10. E10Heart of the Sea6 May 2003
  11. E11Guns & Mothers13 May 2003
  12. E12Razing Appalachia20 May 2003
  13. E13Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer27 May 2003
  14. E14Daddy & Papa3 Jun 2003
Season 514 Oct 2003 to 15 Jun 2004
  1. E1Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz14 Oct 2003
  2. E2Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky21 Oct 2003
  3. E3Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America28 Oct 2003
  4. E4A Wedding in Ramallah4 Nov 2003
  5. E5Be Good, Smile Pretty11 Nov 2003
  6. E6Livermore25 Nov 2003
  7. E7Eroica!9 Dec 2003
  8. E8Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson16 Dec 2003
  9. E9Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad23 Dec 2003
  10. E10Man Bites Shorts30 Dec 2003
  11. E11Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story13 Jan 2004
  12. E12Life Matters20 Jan 2004
  13. E13Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing27 Jan 2004
  14. E14Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property10 Feb 2004
  15. E15A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream17 Feb 2004
  16. E16Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew24 Feb 2004
  17. E17Sentencing the Victim2 Mar 2004
  18. E18T-Shirt Travels23 Mar 2004
  19. E19Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas6 Apr 2004
  20. E20Love Inventory13 Apr 2004
  21. E21Ram Dass: Fierce Grace20 Apr 2004
  22. E22The Weather Underground27 Apr 2004
  23. E23One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure4 May 2004
  24. E24Refugee11 May 2004
  25. E25Death of a Shaman27 May 2004
  26. E26Cosmopolitan1 Jun 2004
  27. E27Sumo East and West8 Jun 2004
  28. E28The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out15 Jun 2004
Season 626 Oct 2004 to 14 Jun 2005
  1. E1The Political Dr. Seuss26 Oct 2004
  2. E2Polka Time9 Nov 2004
  3. E3Afghanistan Unveiled16 Nov 2004
  4. E4Los Angeles Now23 Nov 2004
  5. E5The Day My God Died30 Nov 2004
  6. E6Girl Wrestler14 Dec 2004
  7. E7Fine. / Doki-Doki21 Dec 2004
  8. E8Short, Not Sweet28 Dec 2004
  9. E9A Hard Straight4 Jan 2005
  10. E10A Touch of Greatness11 Jan 2005
  11. E11Power Trip25 Jan 2005
  12. E12February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four1 Feb 2005
  13. E13On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream15 Feb 2005
  14. E14Thunder in Guyana22 Feb 2005
  15. E15Sisters of '771 Mar 2005
  16. E16Sunset Story22 Mar 2005
  17. E17Let the Church Say Amen29 Mar 2005
  18. E18A Lion's Trail5 Apr 2005
  19. E19Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton12 Apr 2005
  20. E20End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again26 Apr 2005
  21. E21The Last Letter / Zyklon Portrait and the Walnut Tree3 May 2005
  22. E22Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion10 May 2005
  23. E23Vietnam: The Next Generation17 May 2005
  24. E24Red Hook Justice24 May 2005
  25. E25Double Dare / Piki and Poko: Taking The Dare!31 May 2005
  26. E26Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story7 Jun 2005
  27. E27Brother to Brother14 Jun 2005
Season 711 Oct 2005 to 22 Jun 2006
  1. E1Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove11 Oct 2005
  2. E2En Route to Baghdad18 Oct 2005
  3. E3The Last Cowboy25 Oct 2005
  4. E4A Family at War8 Nov 2005
  5. E5Mirror Dance15 Nov 2005
  6. E6Race is the Place22 Nov 2005
  7. E7Maid in America29 Nov 2005
  8. E8Seoul Train13 Dec 2005
  9. E9Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community20 Dec 2005
  10. E10Short Stack: Lost & Found27 Dec 2005
  11. E11Sheriff3 Jan 2006
  12. E12Girl Trouble17 Jan 2006
  13. E13Almost Home31 Jan 2006
  14. E14Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power7 Feb 2006
  15. E15July '6414 Feb 2006
  16. E16The Loss of Nameless Things28 Feb 2006
  17. E17Troop 150021 Mar 2006
  18. E18Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City28 Mar 2006
  19. E19Trudell11 Apr 2006
  20. E20La Sierra18 Apr 2006
  21. E21A League of Ordinary Gentlemen25 Apr 2006
  22. E22Music from the Inside Out2 May 2006
  23. E23Fishbowl / American Made9 May 2006
  24. E24Frozen Angels16 May 2006
  25. E25The Devil's Miner23 May 2006
  26. E26The Great Pink Scare6 Jun 2006
  27. E27The Real Dirt on Farmer John13 Jun 2006
  28. E28A Lion in the House: Part 121 Jun 2006
  29. E29A Lion in the House: Part 222 Jun 2006
Season 824 Oct 2006 to 5 Jun 2007
  1. E1Still Life with Animated Dogs24 Oct 2006
  2. E2The World According to Sesame Street24 Oct 2006
  3. E3Muskrat Lovely31 Oct 2006
  4. E4Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire7 Nov 2006
  5. E5Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press21 Nov 2006
  6. E6Two Square Miles28 Nov 2006
  7. E7A Sad Flower in the Sand12 Dec 2006
  8. E8Revolucion: Five Visions19 Dec 2006
  9. E9Short Stack 200626 Dec 2006
  10. E10A Fish Story2 Jan 2007
  11. E11Shadya16 Jan 2007
  12. E12Beyond the Call23 Jan 2007
  13. E13Twisted30 Jan 2007
  14. E14Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life6 Feb 2007
  15. E15Motherland Afghanistan13 Feb 2007
  16. E16Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes20 Feb 2007
  17. E17Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?27 Feb 2007
  18. E18Stolen20 Mar 2007
  19. E19Race to Execution27 Mar 2007
  20. E20China Blue3 Apr 2007
  21. E21Black Gold10 Apr 2007
  22. E22Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room24 Apr 2007
  23. E23The Cats of Mirikitani8 May 2007
  24. E24Sentenced Home15 May 2007
  25. E25Knocking22 May 2007
  26. E26The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill29 May 2007
  27. E27La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul5 Jun 2007
Season 916 Oct 2007 to 19 Jun 2008
  1. E1Wordplay16 Oct 2007
  2. E2Please Vote for Me23 Oct 2007
  3. E3Storm of Emotions30 Oct 2007
  4. E4Red White Black & Blue6 Nov 2007
  5. E5Miss Navajo13 Nov 2007
  6. E6The Creek Runs Red20 Nov 2007
  7. E7Sisters in Law27 Nov 2007
  8. E8The Paper11 Dec 2007
  9. E9An Unreasonable Man18 Dec 2007
  10. E10Today's Man8 Jan 2008
  11. E11Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita15 Jan 2008
  12. E12A Son's Sacrifice22 Jan 2008
  13. E13How Is Your Fish Today?29 Jan 2008
  14. E15Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America19 Feb 2008
  15. E16Hard Road Home26 Feb 2008
  16. E17Iron Ladies of Liberia18 Mar 2008
  17. E18Compañeras1 Apr 2008
  18. E19Water Flowing Together8 Apr 2008
  19. E20King Corn15 Apr 2008
  20. E21Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula6 May 2008
  21. E22A Dream in Doubt20 May 2008
  22. E23New Year Baby27 May 2008
  23. E24Writ Writer3 Jun 2008
  24. E25The Cool School10 Jun 2008
  25. E26Deep Water15 Jun 2008
  26. E27Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story19 Jun 2008
Season 1022 Oct 2008 to 6 Jun 2009
  1. E1Chicago 1022 Oct 2008
  2. E2Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey28 Oct 2008
  3. E3Knee Deep6 Nov 2008
  4. E4Lioness13 Nov 2008
  5. E5March Point18 Nov 2008
  6. E6The Atom Smashers25 Nov 2008
  7. E7Doc9 Dec 2008
  8. E8Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'16 Dec 2008
  9. E9Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway23 Dec 2008
  10. E10Operation Filmmaker30 Dec 2008
  11. E11Helvetica6 Jan 2009
  12. E12Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene3 Feb 2009
  13. E13Tulia, Texas10 Feb 2009
  14. E14The Order of Myths24 Feb 2009
  15. E15Arusi Persian Wedding17 Mar 2009
  16. E16Lakshmi and Me24 Mar 2009
  17. E17Recycle31 Mar 2009
  18. E18Milking the Rhino7 Apr 2009
  19. E19Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai14 Apr 2009
  20. E20At Home in Utopia28 Apr 2009
  21. E21Wings of Defeat5 May 2009
  22. E22Crips and Bloods: Made in America12 May 2009
  23. E23Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors19 May 2009
  24. E24Steal a Pencil for Me26 May 2009
  25. E25Ask Not6 Jun 2009
Season 1121 Sep 2009 to 1 Jun 2010
  1. E1Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos21 Sep 2009
  2. E2Herb and Dorothy13 Oct 2009
  3. E3Butte, America20 Oct 2009
  4. E4Journals of a Wily School27 Oct 2009
  5. E5Power Paths3 Nov 2009
  6. E6D Tour10 Nov 2009
  7. E7No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos17 Nov 2009
  8. E8Objectified24 Nov 2009
  9. E9Between the Folds8 Dec 2009
  10. E10Scenes from a Parish29 Dec 2009
  11. E11Young@Heart12 Jan 2010
  12. E12Copyright Criminals19 Jan 2010
  13. E13Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness2 Feb 2010
  14. E14P-Star Rising9 Feb 2010
  15. E15Mine / Home16 Feb 2010
  16. E16Behind the Rainbow23 Feb 2010
  17. E17The Eyes of Me2 Mar 2010
  18. E18Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)23 Mar 2010
  19. E19Whatever It Takes30 Mar 2010
  20. E20Unmistaken Child7 Apr 2010
  21. E21Blessed Is the Match13 Apr 2010
  22. E22Dirt! The Movie20 Apr 2010
  23. E23Garbage Dreams27 Apr 2010
  24. E24Sunshine4 May 2010
  25. E25The Horse Boy11 May 2010
  26. E26Project Kashmir18 May 2010
  27. E27A Village Called Versailles25 May 2010
  28. E28Goodbye Solo1 Jun 2010
Season 1219 Oct 2010 to 14 Jun 2011
  1. E1The Parking Lot Movie19 Oct 2010
  2. E2Art & Copy26 Oct 2010
  3. E3Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian2 Nov 2010
  4. E4The Longoria Affair9 Nov 2010
  5. E5Lost Sparrow16 Nov 2010
  6. E6Deep Down23 Nov 2010
  7. E74536514 Dec 2010
  8. E8The Calling, Part 120 Dec 2010
  9. E9The Calling, Part 221 Dec 2010
  10. E10Men Who Swim4 Jan 2011
  11. E11Children of Haiti11 Jan 2011
  12. E12For Once in My Life1 Feb 2011
  13. E13When I Rise8 Feb 2011
  14. E14William S. Burroughs: A Man Within22 Feb 2011
  15. E15Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story1 Mar 2011
  16. E16Pushing the Elephant29 Mar 2011
  17. E17The Desert of Forbidden Art5 Apr 2011
  18. E18Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child12 Apr 2011
  19. E19Waste Land19 Apr 2011
  20. E20Marwencol26 Apr 2011
  21. E21A Film Unfinished3 May 2011
  22. E22Bhutto10 May 2011
  23. E23Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo17 May 2011
  24. E24Welcome to Shelbyville24 May 2011
  25. E25Two Spirits14 Jun 2011
Season 1313 Oct 2011 to 26 Jul 2012
  1. E1Wham! Bam! Islam!13 Oct 2011
  2. E2Donor Unknown20 Oct 2011
  3. E3Lives Worth Living27 Oct 2011
  4. E4Deaf Jam3 Nov 2011
  5. E5We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean17 Nov 2011
  6. E6The Woodmans22 Dec 2011
  7. E7These Amazing Shadows29 Dec 2011
  8. E8Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance12 Jan 2012
  9. E9Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation12 Jan 2012
  10. E10Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto19 Jan 2012
  11. E11Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line19 Jan 2012
  12. E12Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last26 Jan 2012
  13. E13Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock2 Feb 2012
  14. E14The Black Power Mixtape 1967-19759 Feb 2012
  15. E15More Than A Month16 Feb 2012
  16. E16You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't30 Mar 2012
  17. E17Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey5 Apr 2012
  18. E18When the Drum Is Beating12 Apr 2012
  19. E19Revenge of the Electric Car19 Apr 2012
  20. E20Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison26 Apr 2012
  21. E21Circo3 May 2012
  22. E22Summer Pasture10 May 2012
  23. E23Precious Knowledge17 May 2012
  24. E24Left by the Ship24 May 2012
  25. E25Hell and Back Again28 May 2012
  26. E26We Were Here7 Jun 2012
  27. E27Strong!26 Jul 2012
Season 148 Oct 2012 to 17 Jun 2013
  1. E1As Goes Janesville8 Oct 2012
  2. E2Love Free or Die29 Oct 2012
  3. E3Solar Mamas5 Nov 2012
  4. E4Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream12 Nov 2012
  5. E5Soul Food Junkies14 Jan 2013
  6. E6Beauty Is Embarrassing21 Jan 2013
  7. E7The Revisionaries28 Jan 2013
  8. E8The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights18 Feb 2013
  9. E9Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry25 Feb 2013
  10. E10Kind Hearted Woman1 Apr 2013
  11. E11The House I Live In; As I Am8 Apr 2013
  12. E12Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines15 Apr 2013
  13. E13The Island President22 Apr 2013
  14. E14The Undocumented29 Apr 2013
  15. E15Seeking Asian Female6 May 2013
  16. E16The Invisible War13 May 2013
  17. E17Detropia27 May 2013
  18. E18The Revolutionary Optimists17 Jun 2013
Season 1530 Sep 2013 to 15 Jun 2014
  1. E1Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey30 Sep 2013
  2. E2The Waiting Room21 Oct 2013
  3. E3The Graduates/Los Graduados28 Oct 2013
  4. E4Indian Relay18 Nov 2013
  5. E5Young Lakota25 Nov 2013
  6. E6Playwright: From Page to Stage16 Dec 2013
  7. E7Jiro Dreams of Sushi23 Dec 2013
  8. E8How to Survive a Plague30 Dec 2013
  9. E9At Berkeley13 Jan 2014
  10. E10Blood Brother20 Jan 2014
  11. E11The State of Arizona27 Jan 2014
  12. E12Spies of Mississippi10 Feb 2014
  13. E13Las Marthas17 Feb 2014
  14. E14All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts24 Mar 2014
  15. E15Medora31 Mar 2014
  16. E16Brothers Hypnotic7 Apr 2014
  17. E17The Trials of Muhammad Ali14 Apr 2014
  18. E18Muscle Shoals21 Apr 2014
  19. E19A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times5 May 2014
  20. E20Let the Fire Burn12 May 2014
  21. E21God Loves Uganda19 May 2014
  22. E22The New Black15 Jun 2014
Season 1613 Oct 2014 to 15 Jun 2015
  1. E1Bully13 Oct 2014
  2. E2Twin Sisters20 Oct 2014
  3. E3Brakeless27 Oct 2014
  4. E4Powerless3 Nov 2014
  5. E5Happiness17 Nov 2014
  6. E6Rich Hill5 Jan 2015
  7. E7Evolution of a Criminal12 Jan 2015
  8. E8The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand19 Jan 2015
  9. E9A Path Appears26 Jan 2015
  10. E10Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People16 Feb 2015
  11. E11American Denial23 Feb 2015
  12. E12Little White Lie23 Mar 2015
  13. E13Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames6 Apr 2015
  14. E14The Homestretch13 Apr 2015
  15. E15The Great Invisible20 Apr 2015
  16. E16Kumu Hina4 May 2015
  17. E17Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity11 May 2015
  18. E18197118 May 2015
  19. E19Limited Partnership15 Jun 2015
Season 179 Nov 2015 to 2 Aug 2016
  1. E1Stray Dog9 Nov 2015
  2. E2India's Daughter16 Nov 2015
  3. E3Mimi and Dona23 Nov 2015
  4. E4East of Salinas28 Dec 2015
  5. E5Chuck Norris vs. Communism4 Jan 2016
  6. E6Autism in Love11 Jan 2016
  7. E7In Football We Trust25 Jan 2016
  8. E8No Más Bebés (No More Babies)1 Feb 2016
  9. E9A Ballerina's Tale8 Feb 2016
  10. E10The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution16 Feb 2016
  11. E11(T)ERROR22 Feb 2016
  12. E12Wilhemina's War29 Feb 2016
  13. E13An Honest Liar28 Mar 2016
  14. E14Welcome to Leith4 Apr 2016
  15. E15Democrats18 Apr 2016
  16. E16My Nazi Legacy2 May 2016
  17. E17Peace Officer9 May 2016
  18. E18The Armor of Light10 May 2016
  19. E19Dogtown Redemption16 May 2016
  20. E20Trapped20 Jun 2016
  21. E21T-rex Her Fight For Gold2 Aug 2016
Season 183 Oct 2016 to 19 Jun 2017
  1. E1Best of Enemies3 Oct 2016
  2. E2Meet the Patels26 Dec 2016
  3. E3Best And Most Beautiful Things2 Jan 2017
  4. E4Containment; Excerpt From Uranium Drive-in9 Jan 2017
  5. E5What Was Ours16 Jan 2017
  6. E6The Witness23 Jan 2017
  7. E7Birth Of A Movement6 Feb 2017
  8. E8Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America13 Feb 2017
  9. E9Tower14 Feb 2017
  10. E10The Bad Kids20 Mar 2017
  11. E11Ovarian Psycos27 Mar 2017
  12. E12Newtown3 Apr 2017
  13. E13Seed: The Untold Story17 Apr 2017
  14. E14The Last Laugh24 Apr 2017
  15. E15National Bird1 May 2017
  16. E16The Prison In Twelve Landscapes8 May 2017
  17. E17Forever Pure15 May 2017
  18. E18They Call Us Monsters22 May 2017
  19. E19Farmer Veteran29 May 2017
  20. E20Real Boy19 Jun 2017
Season 196 Nov 2017 to 28 May 2018
  1. E1Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary6 Nov 2017
  2. E2Shadow World20 Nov 2017
  3. E3Supergirl18 Dec 2017
  4. E4The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin1 Jan 2018
  5. E5Unrest8 Jan 2018
  6. E6I Am Not Your Negro15 Jan 2018
  7. E7The Force22 Jan 2018
  8. E8I Am Another You29 Jan 2018
  9. E9Winnie5 Feb 2018
  10. E10Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story Of Black Colleges And Universities19 Feb 2018
  11. E11Rat Film26 Feb 2018
  12. E12Dolores27 Mar 2018
  13. E13When God Sleeps2 Apr 2018
  14. E14The Art Of The Shine9 Apr 2018
  15. E15What Lies Upstream16 Apr 2018
  16. E16Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky23 Apr 2018
  17. E17True Conviction30 Apr 2018
  18. E18No Man's Land7 May 2018
  19. E19ACORN and the Firestorm14 May 2018
  20. E20Served Like a Girl28 May 2018
Season 2029 Oct 2018 to 20 May 2019
  1. E1Wildland29 Oct 2018
  2. E2Dawnland5 Nov 2018
  3. E3The Cleaners12 Nov 2018
  4. E4The Judge19 Nov 2018
  5. E5Man on Fire17 Dec 2018
  6. E6My Country No More7 Jan 2019
  7. E7Rodents Of Unusual Size14 Jan 2019
  8. E8Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World21 Jan 2019
  9. E9The King28 Jan 2019
  10. E10Black Memorabilia4 Feb 2019
  11. E11Hale County This Morning, This Evening11 Feb 2019
  12. E12People's Republic Of Desire25 Feb 2019
  13. E13Tre Maison Dasan1 Apr 2019
  14. E14The Providers8 Apr 2019
  15. E15Charm City22 Apr 2019
  16. E16Out Of State6 May 2019
  17. E17Harvest Season13 May 2019
  18. E18Wrestle20 May 2019
Season 2128 Oct 2019 to 22 Jun 2020
  1. E1Made in Boise28 Oct 2019
  2. E2Decade of Fire4 Nov 2019
  3. E3The Interpreters11 Nov 2019
  4. E4Conscience Point18 Nov 2019
  5. E5ATTLA16 Dec 2019
  6. E6American Nomads14 Jan 2020
  7. E7Accept the Call20 Jan 2020
  8. E8The First Rainbow Coalition27 Jan 2020
  9. E9Cooked: Survival by Zip Code3 Feb 2020
  10. E10Leftover Women10 Feb 2020
  11. E11Blind Love14 Feb 2020
  12. E12We Believe In Dinosaurs17 Feb 2020
  13. E13Always in Season24 Feb 2020
  14. E14One Child Nation30 Mar 2020
  15. E15Bedlam13 Apr 2020
  16. E16The Hottest August20 Apr 2020
  17. E17Jim Allison: Breakthrough27 Apr 2020
  18. E18Rewind11 May 2020
  19. E19Eating Up Easter25 May 2020
  20. E20Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project15 Jun 2020
  21. E21Pipe Dreams22 Jun 2020
Season 2219 Oct 2020 to 28 Jun 2021
  1. E1Feels Good Man19 Oct 2020
  2. E2Represent26 Oct 2020
  3. E3Jonathan Scott's Power Trip16 Nov 2020
  4. E4Belly Of The Beast23 Nov 2020
  5. E5A Woman's Work: The Nfl's Cheerleader Problem4 Jan 2021
  6. E6A Day in the Life of America11 Jan 2021
  7. E79to5: The Story Of A Movement1 Feb 2021
  8. E8Women In Blue8 Feb 2021
  9. E9Mr. SOUL!22 Feb 2021
  10. E10Coded Bias22 Mar 2021
  11. E11'til Kingdom Come/the Debate29 Mar 2021
  12. E12Down A Dark Stairwell12 Apr 2021
  13. E13The Donut King24 May 2021
  14. E14Two Gods21 Jun 2021
  15. E15The People Vs. Agent Orange28 Jun 2021
Season 2311 Oct 2021 to 23 May 2022
  1. E1Cured11 Oct 2021
  2. E2Ferguson Rises8 Nov 2021
  3. E3Storm Lake15 Nov 2021
  4. E4Duty Free22 Nov 2021
  5. E5Home From School: The Children of Carlisle23 Nov 2021
  6. E6A Reckoning in Boston17 Jan 2022
  7. E7Missing in Brooks County31 Jan 2022
  8. E8Owned: A Tale of Two Americas7 Feb 2022
  9. E9Bulletproof14 Feb 2022
  10. E10Apart21 Feb 2022
  11. E11Writing With Fire28 Mar 2022
  12. E12AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness25 Apr 2022
  13. E13Try Harder!2 May 2022
  14. E14When Claude Got Shot9 May 2022
  15. E15Scenes From the Glittering World16 May 2022
  16. E16A Once and Future Peace23 May 2022
Season 2416 episodes, 12 Sep 2022 to 20 Jun 2023
  1. E1Hazing12 Sep 2022
  2. E2TikTok, Boom.24 Oct 2022
  3. E3Move Me7 Nov 2022
  4. E4Children of Las Brisas2 Jan 2023
  5. E5The Big Payback16 Jan 2023
  6. E6No Straight Lines23 Jan 2023
  7. E7The Picture Taker30 Jan 2023
  8. E8Outta the Muck6 Feb 2023
  9. E9Love in the Time of Fentanyl13 Feb 2023
  10. E10Storming Caesars Palace20 Mar 2023
  11. E11Hidden Letters27 Mar 2023
  12. E12Free Chol Soo Lee24 Apr 2023
  13. E13Matter of Mind: My ALS1 May 2023
  14. E14Sam Now8 May 2023
  15. E15Silent Beauty15 May 2023
  16. E16Mama Bears20 Jun 2023
Season 2519 Sep 2023 to 20 May 2024
  1. E1Sansón and Me19 Sep 2023
  2. E2El Equipo9 Oct 2023
  3. E3Three Chaplains6 Nov 2023
  4. E4A Town Called Victoria - The Fire13 Nov 2023
  5. E5A Town Called Victoria - The Suspect13 Nov 2023
  6. E6A Town Called Victoria - The Trial14 Nov 2023
  7. E7Beyond Utopia9 Jan 2024
  8. E8Racist Trees22 Jan 2024
  9. E9Razing Liberty Square29 Jan 2024
  10. E10Sister Úna Lived a Good Death5 Feb 2024
  11. E11Breaking The News19 Feb 2024
  12. E12Greener Pastures25 Mar 2024
  13. E13A Thousand Pines1 Apr 2024
  14. E14Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's8 Apr 2024
  15. E15One With the Whale23 Apr 2024
  16. E16Space: The Longest Goodbye6 May 2024
  17. E17The Tuba Thieves20 May 2024
Season 2630 Sep 2024 to 19 May 2025
  1. E1One Person, One Vote?30 Sep 2024
  2. E2Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen11 Nov 2024
  3. E3Dallas, 2019 - Week 13 Jan 2025
  4. E4Dallas, 2019 - Week 23 Jan 2025
  5. E5Dallas, 2019 - Week 34 Jan 2025
  6. E6Dallas, 2019 - Week 44 Jan 2025
  7. E7Dallas, 2019 - Week 54 Jan 2025
  8. E8Minted6 Jan 2025
  9. E9Without Arrows13 Jan 2025
  10. E10The Strike3 Feb 2025
  11. E11The In Between10 Feb 2025
  12. E12Skin of Glass17 Feb 2025
  13. E13Bike Vessel24 Feb 2025
  14. E14Home Court24 Mar 2025
  15. E15We Want The Funk8 Apr 2025
  16. E16Free for All: The Public Library29 Apr 2025
  17. E17Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's5 May 2025
  18. E18And So It Begins12 May 2025
  19. E19Who Is Michael Jang?19 May 2025
Season 276 Oct 2025 to 13 Jul 2026
  1. E1Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution6 Oct 2025
  2. E2Ratified20 Oct 2025
  3. E3Life After3 Nov 2025
  4. E4Vivien's Wild Ride26 Jan 2026
  5. E5The Librarians9 Feb 2026
  6. E6The Inquisitor23 Feb 2026
  7. E7Keep Quiet and Forgive23 Mar 2026
  8. E8The Tallest Dwarf6 Apr 2026
  9. E9Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing13 Apr 2026
  10. E10Natchez11 May 2026
  11. E11Light of the Setting Sun18 May 2026
  12. E12Third Act25 May 2026
  13. E13Assembly22 Jun 2026
  14. E14True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power6 Jul 2026
  15. E15Flood13 Jul 2026
Season 2814 Sep 2026 to 23 Nov 2026
  1. E1Ghost in the Machine14 Sep 2026
  2. E2My Omaha5 Oct 2026
  3. E3Seeds26 Oct 2026
  4. E4Storming: Seasons Of Care23 Nov 2026

Cast and crew

Cast
Stanley Tucci as Host, America Ferrera as Host, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Host, Terrence Howard as Host

Questions people ask

How many seasons does Independent Lens have?

Independent Lens has 28 seasons with 16 episodes so far.

Where can I watch Independent Lens?

Independent Lens airs on PBS.

When is the next episode of Independent Lens?

The next episode of Independent Lens (S28E04) is scheduled for 23 November 2026.

Who is in the cast of Independent Lens?

The cast of Independent Lens includes Stanley Tucci, America Ferrera, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Terrence Howard.

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