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Independent Lens is broadcast on most PBS stations on Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m.
Please check the broadcast schedule. Dates and times may vary.
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ALMOST HOME
by Lisa Gildehaus and Brad Lichtenstein
Co-presentation with Wisconsin Public Television
February 21, 2006
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Shot on location in a nursing home, ALMOST HOME tells real stories of
aging: couples bonded and divided by disability, children torn between
caring for their aging parents and their own families, attendants doing
unsavory work for poverty wages and a visionary nursing home director
committed to changes that could shuck the nursing home stigma.
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The EPA calls the mining town of Picher, Oklahoma the most toxic place in America, but a dwindling population still call it home. Today the town is divided by fears of serious health risks, environmental politics, civic pride and old racial tensions between Indian and white society. THE CREEK RUNS RED explores the human response to an environmental disaster and the complex connection between people and place. Co-production of KERA/Dallas in association with ITVS and NAPT.
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D TOUR
by Jim Granato
November 20, 2007
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Pat Spurgeon has big dreams to make it as an indie rock musician. Just as his career is about to take off, he suffers an incredible setback when one of his kidneys begins to fail. Follow Pat on his emotional search for a living organ donor. But can he balance his health with a rock 'n’ roll lifestyle?
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FROZEN ANGELS presents the future of human reproduction available today in Los Angeles. With dreamlike cinematography, the film takes a roller-coaster ride through the business of DNA from different perspectives: wealthy sperm bank presidents, expectant surrogate mothers, gene designers, hate radio talk show hosts, infertile suburban couples, now-adult designer babies, blonde and blue-eyed egg donors and feminist lawyers.
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HEART OF THE SEA
by Charlotte Lagarde & Lisa Denker
A Pacific Islanders in Communications and KHET/Hawaii co-presentation
May 6, 2003
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On a surfboard, she carved the way for women in a sport dominated by men. But at the age of 32, Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn was diagnosed with breast cancer. HEART OF THE SEA is a portrait of "Auntie Rell," who inspired those who knew her as an athlete, survivor and activist.
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KING CORN
by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney
April 15, 2008
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Two recent college graduates embark on a mission to see where America's food comes from—by growing it. In the rural town of Greene, Iowa, the two friends plant a single acre of the nation's most powerful crop—corn—and then set out to follow it from a seed to the dinner plate.
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This inspiring film follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families, nurses and doctors. This harrowing and intimate series spans six years to chronicle how families respond to crises, how courage is found in unlikely places and how the humor and energy of youth can be powerful medicine.
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In 1978, Oakley Hall was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall violently transformed his life. THE LOSS OF NAMELESS THINGS is the haunting story of a young man's decline, the vibrant artists who surrounded him and what happens when—decades later—a theater company discovers the very play he was writing the night he fell.
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Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita brings the stem cell debate to the forefront and examines the constantly evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries, the controversy of modern science and the courage of people living with devastating disease and injury.
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MARCH POINT
by Tracy Rector and Annie Silverstein
November 18, 2008
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In the late 1950s, two oil refineries were built on March Point, an area that was once part of the Swinomish Reservation by treaty. MARCH POINT tells the story of three boys from the Swinomish Indian Tribe who make a movie about the destruction the refineries have wrought in their community.
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Nearly one in seven Afghan women die in childbirth. MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN introduces the women behind these devastating statistics. Afghan American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi examines her father's works as an OB/GYN as he struggles to make a difference, first at Kabul's recently renamed Laura Bush Maternity Ward and then in an isolated provincial hospital, where patients often travel for several days to get treatment.
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Greg Smith and his family bare all in this unflinching portrait of a 65-pound man striving for the American Dream. In 1992, fueled by discrimination, Smith created On a Roll Talk Radio from his wheelchair. The father of three travels the globe but finds his own nation’s capital inaccessible—a minor challenge compared with living independently and having safe intimate relationships.
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When Harvard expelled faculty members Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary in 1963 for LSD experimentation, Alpert traveled to India and returned transformed into the beloved guru Ram Dass. Now in his 70s, the author of the best-seller Be Here Now continues to inspire people all over the world as he deals with the effects of a massive stroke.
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TODAY'S MAN tells the story of Nicky Gottlieb—a former child genius who, at age 21, is diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome—a high functioning form of Autism. The film follows Nicky as he struggles to leave the safety of his family's home and find his place in the world.
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TWISTED
by Laurel Chiten
January 30, 2007
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TWISTED tells the stories of people who live with dystonia, a neurological disorder that forces muscles to twist into abnormal, often painful, movements or postures. Pat Brogan, a basketball coach and triathlete who developed dystonia after a bike accident; Shari Tritt, whose dystonia affects her whole body, and Remy Campbell, an artist who gambled on a radical form of brain surgery—and won. Together, these individuals try to answer the question, when you are trapped inside your body, what will set you free?
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the National Endowment for the Arts