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Below is a list of films previously featured on Independent Lens. Films that aired on Independent Lens prior to 2003 are not featured on the current Independent Lens site, but may have their own Web sites. Find information about these films and/or links to their Web sites below.
For more information about archive films contact PBS Viewer Services at viewer@pbs.org
ABANDONED: THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA'S IMMIGRANTS
by David Belle and Nicholas Wrathall
An exposé of the horrifying results of the 1996 immigration law.
Video distribution information at www.bullfrogfilms.com
AND BABY MAKES TWO
by Judy Katz and Oren Rudavsky
Single motherhood is no longer the exclusive province of teenagers; white middle class women in their 30s and 40s are now joining its ranks, forcing us to look anew at the nuclear family.
Video distribution information at http://www.firstrunfeatures.com
BORN IN THE U.S.A.
by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider
A critical look at the birthing industry in America, and an exploration of shifting beliefs about women, technology and the perceived ability to control natural events.
Video distribution information at www.fanlight.com
CONFEDERACY THEORY
by Ryan Deussing
An unflinching portrait of the cultural war that has erupted around the Confederate flag.
Video distribution information at www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media
GIBTOWN
by Melissa Schachat
A portrait of the remarkable people who have built their homes and lives in Gibston, Florida, including a human pincushion and an octogenarian couple that has produced monkey acts for more than 40 years.
Video distribution information at www.gibtown.com/
GIRL GONE BAD
by Louis Yansen
Dusty, a native-born Apache, ex-felon, ex-go-go dancer and single mother of three is your guide on a wild ride into the raunchy and uncensored world of biker women.
Video distribution information at www.yfilms.com/feedback.htm
GOOD KURDS, BAD KURDS
by Kevin McKiernan
Through the Kurdish struggle in both Turkey and Iraq and the experience of a Kurdish family resettled in the United States, this investigative documentary reveals that the value of the Kurds to the American government depends on which side of the border they live on.
Video distribution information at www.viewingrace.org
HOLY TORTILLA/LOCK AND KEY
In HOLY TORTILLA, by Lauren Ivy Chiong, a tortilla combined with a dash of magic realism, sprinkled with hope and baked in faith provides one woman with a sign. LOCK AND KEY, by Kisha Imani Cameron, reveals the tentative beginnings of a friendship between a blind reclusive jazz critic and a locksmith.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I MARRIED A LESBIAN
by Gordon Stuart
Perkin
Stuart Perkin thought he knew everything about his wife Sue, but after 10 years of friendship, intimacy and life experiences and two years of marriage the couple divorced when Sue announced she was a lesbian.
IN HARM'S WAY/CARVED FROM THE HEART
First, a memoir that explores how the experiences of adulthood both defy and reinforce the lessons of childhood, then the story of a carver who turns his grief into a community project.
THE JEW IN THE LOTUS
by Laurel Chiten
The story of eight Jewish delegates invited to India by the Dalai Lama to share the secret of the Jewish people's spiritual survival in exile.
Video distribution information at www.newday.com
THE MAN WHO DROVE WITH MANDELA
by Greta Schiller
The life of Cecil Williams - freedom fighter, theater benefactor, gay rights advocate and homosexual.
Video distribution information at www.wolfevideo.com/Catalog/444-29.html
MUSIC IN THEIR BONES
A musical journey into the lives of a handful of unique mountain people of Sand Mountain, Alabama.
NO HAIR DAY
by Bob Burns
Three women who had met in a breast cancer support group go to the studio of photographer Elsa Dorfman for a portrait session. They approach their fight and survival with humor, gravity, poignancy and friendship.
Video distribution information at www.teachbase.com/nohairday/buy.html
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
by Mark Steven Shepherd
A look at the fanatical circus atmosphere at the Santa Monica County Courthouse during the O.J. Simpson civil trial.
NOW & THEN: FROM FROSH TO SENIORS
by Dan Geller and Danya Goldfine
This film tracks the lives of 10 students at Stanford University, first following them during their freshman year and then returning three years later in their senior year.
OPEN OUTCRY
by Jon Else
Shot in real time to capture the hyper-charged sense of danger, intensity and controlled chaos in the trading pits, OPEN OUTCRY follows commodities traders whose work may soon vanish into the vapor of internet finance.
Video distribution information at www.directcinema.com
PASSING THROUGH/GRAHAM'S DINER
PASSING THROUGH follows Nathan Adolfson - a.k.a. Chai Chee Man, his Korean birth name - as he searches for his identity between two worlds. In the comic drama GRAHAM'S DINER, a workaholic photographer contemplates selling the diner where her family is employed.
THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY
by Jeff Spitz
A mysterious 1950s ethnographic film reunites a modern Navajo family with their traditional past - and a long-lost son.
ROMANCING THE THRONE
Documentary that looks at the King of Lesotho, who was unexpectedly thrust upon the throne when his father was killed in a car crash in 1996.
SECRET PEOPLE
by John Anderson and Laura Harrison
A damning story of outrageous discrimination and stigma in our public health system, interwoven with a haunting and bittersweet chronicle of human courage and perseverance.
SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY
by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
A shocking exposé of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution and a funny and moving meditation on America's love affair with technology.
Video distribution information at www.bullfrogfilms.com
SHORT STORIES
by Barbara Duncan
An intimate portrait of three U.S. families whose members include dwarves or people of short stature.
SING FASTER: THE STAGEHANDS' RING CYCLE
by Jon Else
An innovative documentary of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" opera from the point of view of the union stagehands at the San Francisco Opera.
Video distribution information at www.directcinema.com
THE SPLIT HORN: LIFE OF A HMONG SHAMAN IN AMERICA
by Taggart Siegel and Jim McSilver
An intimate account of a Hmong shaman struggling to maintain his ancient traditions in the United States while his sons and daughters succumb to the allure of American lifestyles.
Video distribution information at www.newday.com/tmc (home) or www.filmakers.com (educational)
UNDETECTABLE
by Jay Corcoran
An examination of the realities of life for people surviving on AIDS drug "cocktails," challenging the widespread assumption that the worst of the HIV epidemic is over.
Video distribution information at www.shop.pbs.org
VISAS AND VIRTUE/I AM VIET HUNG
VISAS AND VIRTUE by Chris Tashima and Chris Donahue explores the moral and professional dilemmas that Japanese Consul General Chiune Sugihara faced in making a life-or-death decision. I AM VIET HUNG directed by Diep N. Bui, is a graceful portrait of Viet Hung, a once-prominent Vietnamese opera singer who, in his old age, must now witness his art's demise as well as his own fall from fame.
Video distribution information at www.naatanet.org
WANNABE: LIFE AND DEATH IN A SMALL TOWN GANG
by
John Whitehead
The gang-related murder/suicide of four teenagers rocks a quiet Wisconsin community.
Video distribution information at www.itvs.org
WHO OWNS THE PAST?
by Jed Riffe
The American Indian struggle for control of their ancestral remains.
A WOK-IN-PROGRESS
by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger
A video journal of the intertwined stories of a disabled Chinese/Vietnamese artist living in America and his sister, a recent immigrant and struggling entrepreneur.
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