Independent Lens

Back to: Independent Lens

A graduating high school student, superintendent, and county sheriff all strive for a better future.

A D.A. tries to reform a broken system; a judge upholds laws adversely affecting her own community.

The final episode of Dallas, 2019 poses the question: What does it mean to be alive?

Catchy, musical short chronicles the 175-year-long arbitrary system of race in America.

Iranian American comic Sohrab Forouzesh gets his big break: headlining Chicago's legendary Zanies.

L.A.'s Christina Catherine Martinez is a bewitching hybrid of standup, clown and performance artist.

Legendary Atlanta comic Ian Aber takes the stage with jokes about growing up queer in the South.

Called "too much" her whole life, Austin's Lea’h Sampson now embraces her true self in her standup.

Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based comic Tanael Joachim mines comedy from being a fish out of water.

A veteran uses hand-carved battlefield crosses to reconnect with families of fallen, fellow Marines.

The powerful story of an enslaved woman who sued and won her family’s freedom in 1832.

How America's first Chinese woman was exhibited and exploited as a circus oddity in 1830s New York.