{"id":892,"date":"2015-04-23T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2015-04-23T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:20:39","slug":"brakeless-wins-peabody-award","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/brakeless-wins-peabody-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Brakeless Wins Peabody Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static.peabodyawards.com\/user_images\/_big\/peabody-advisory-board.jpg\" alt=\"George Foster Peabody Awards in rows\" width=\"560\" \/>\n<p>The <em>Independent Lens\u00a0<\/em>film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/brakeless\/\"><em>Brakeless<\/em><\/a>, which aired this\u00a0season, was just given the great honor of winning a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peabody Award<\/a>, which\u00a0recognizes distinguished and meritorious public service by American radio and television stations, networks, online media, producing organizations, and individuals.\u00a0The 74th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyawards.com\/stories\/story\/74th-annual-peabody-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\">Peabody Award\u00a0winners were announced<\/a> today online and by the Peabody program at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/brakeless-train-peabody.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/brakeless-train-peabody.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese subway train with people crammed on\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Other winners include\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyawards.com\/award-profile\/united-states-of-secrets\" target=\"_blank\">United States of Secrets<\/a><\/i>, a deeply researched <em>FRONTLINE<\/em> documentary about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/united-states-of-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\">alarming growth of government surveillance<\/a> at home and abroad since 9\/11;\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/americanrevolutionary\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs<\/a><\/i>, a <em>POV<\/em>\u00a0film\u00a0about a\u00a0remarkable Chinese-American human-rights activist;and\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyawards.com\/award-profile\/american-experience-freedom-summer\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Summer<\/a><\/i>, an <em>American Experience<\/em> remembrance of a pivotal Civil Rights campaign: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/introduction\/freedomsummer\/\" target=\"_blank\">life-risking voter-registration expedition to Mississippi in 1964<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brakeless<\/em>, a film by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/brakeless-filmmaker\">Kyoko Miyake<\/a>, aired on PBS in October 2014 and looked at the tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amagasaki_rail_crash\" target=\"_blank\">2005 Amagasaki railway crash<\/a>\u00a0in Japan as a way to ignite a larger discussion on the value of (and obsession with) efficiency in our lives. 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