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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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Credited with inspiring the Black Power Movement, Robert Williams led his North Carolina hometown to defend itself against the Ku Klux Klan and challenge repressive Jim Crow laws. NEGROES WITH GUNS follows Williams's journey from southern community leader to his exile in Cuba and China—a journey that brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.
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George Clinton: mastermind behind the band Parliament Funkadelic. Find out how he expressed the cultural alienation of young African Americans, creating an alternate universe of “aliens” who brought the redemptive power of funk to a world sorely in need of a new point of view.
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SUMO EAST AND WEST
by Ferne Pearlstein and Robert Edwards
Co-presented by the Center for Asian American Media
and Pacific Islanders in Communications
June 8, 2004
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In recent years, the ancient art of sumo has witnessed the rise of an increasing number of foreigners to the top of its professional ranks. From Hawaii to Atlantic City, the experiences of American wrestlers provide an entertaining glimpse at the past, present and future of sumo, revealing how this former bastion of Japanese tradition is grappling with globalizing Western forces.
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IMELDA
by Ramona Diaz
Co-presented with the Center for Asian American Media
May 10, 2005
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How has the former first lady of the Philippines managed to court, coddle, use and abuse power—for nearly four decades? Watch news clips, propaganda films, home movies, vérité footage and revealing interviews with Marcos herself as well as with her friends and her enemies.
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Trapped in the middle of the desert on their way to the Grand Canyon, a Sikh American family has only one hope: the remote highway and the occasional car that drives by. AMERICAN MADE confronts issues of tradition, faith, conformity and sacrifice after the family's youngest son accuses his turban-clad orthodox father of looking like a terrorist while stranded on a remote desert road.
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HEART OF THE SEA
by Charlotte Lagarde & Lisa Denker
A Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) 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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THE NEW AMERICANS
by Gita Saedi, Gordon Quinn and Steve James
Co-presented by Latino Public Broadcasting and the
Center for Asian American Media
March 29, 2004
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What does the “American dream” look like through the eyes of today’s immigrants and refugees? From Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, they come with different dreams: to achieve athletic glory or high-tech riches, to escape poverty and persecution, to provide for their families. This seven-hour three-part series follows these newcomers from each of their homelands through their first tumultuous years in America.
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Filmed by the first team of women video journalists ever to be trained in Afghanistan, this uncompromising film reveals the effects of the Taliban’s repressive rule and the U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghani women. Leaving Kabul for the first time and traveling to rural regions of the country, the filmmakers present footage of women whose lives have been decimated by recent events.
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Living in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother, Bernardino, brave deadly conditions while working long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines to earn enough money to attend school. THE DEVIL'S MINER follows the brothers into the underground mining tunnels where they tempt fate to gain a better life.
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CHAVEZ RAVINE
by Jordan Mechner, Don Normark, Andrew Andersen and Mark Moran
June 7, 2005
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Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder, CHAVEZ RAVINE captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark’s haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village—razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium—in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
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TRUDELL
by Heather Rae
Co-presentation with Native American Telecommunications Association
April 11, 2006
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Native American activist and poet John Trudell fuses his radical politics with music, writing and art. Combining images and archival footage with interviews and performances, this biography reveals the philosophy and motivations behind Trudell's work and his relationship to contemporary Indian history.
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FISHBOWL
by Kayo Hatta, Linda Barry and Eleanor Nakama-Mitsunaga
Co-presentation with PBS Hawaii and the Center for Asian American Media
May 9, 2006
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In the sleepy plantation town of Hilo, Hawaii, an 11-year-old named Lovey is trying to be anything but herself. In this dramatic short adapted from Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Lovey's comical—and often painful—quest culminates in one fateful Halloween night.
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THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano and Bill Siegel
Co-presented by KQED/San Francisco
April 27, 2004
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, several hundred young women and men tried to spark a socialist revolution. The Weathermen waged a low-level war against the U.S. government: bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Watch and listen as former members look back on this notorious movement, speaking candidly about their experiences. Narrated by Lili Taylor.
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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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SHORT STACK: Lost & Found
by Christopher Newberry, Shira Avni, Dong Hyeuk Hwang, Keith Bearden and
Angelique Midthunder
December 27, 2005
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They don’t make “buddy movies” like this in Hollywood. Independent Lens presents five short films that focus on a pivotal moment in a friendship: “Agora,” by Christopher Newberry; “John and Michael,” by Shira Avni; “Miracle Mile,” by Dong Hyeuk Hwang; “The Raftsman’s Razor,” by Keith Bearden; and “Reservation Warparties,” by Angelique Midthunder.
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Young girls whose lives were shattered by the child sex trade describe the day they were abducted from their villages as “the day my god died.” By weaving footage from the brothels of Bombay with these girls’ stories, Levine offers an unforgettable examination of the growing plague of child sex slavery.
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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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TROOP 1500
by Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein
March 21, 2006
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At the Gatesville Prison in Texas, a unique Girl Scout troop unites daughters with mothers who have been convicted of serious crimes. Facing steep sentences from the courts and tough questions from their children, the mothers struggle to rebuild relationships with the daughters who endure a childhood without them.
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