Independent Lens - Season 10

Independent Lens - Season 10

Season 10

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DatesOkt. 22, 2008 - Juni 6, 2009
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Episodes

Chicago 10
Season 10Episode 160 min

Chicago 10

This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of revolution, then and now, the film features the vocal talents of Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan Baker, Liev Schreiber, Nick Nolte, Jeffrey Wright and Roy Scheider. A parable of hope, courage and victory, this program is the story of young Americans speaking out.
Okt. 22, 2008
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
Season 10Episode 260 min

Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society.
Okt. 28, 2008
Knee Deep
Season 10Episode 360 min

Knee Deep

Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a deal which would have left the family farm to him.
Nov. 6, 2008
Lioness
Season 10Episode 460 min

Lioness

The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Without sufficient training but with a commitment to serve as needed, these young women ended up fighting in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war. This film makes public, for the first time, this hidden history. / The experiences of "Team Lioness," female soldiers in Iraq who took part in house raids and patrols in order to interact with Iraqi women. In the process, they became involved in direct combat with the enemy, including in 2004 in Ramadi.
Nov. 13, 2008
March Point
Season 10Episode 560 min

March Point

Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lead to rehab and drug court, they are offered an alternative: to make a documentary about the impact of two oil refineries on their community. A collaborative coming of age story, MARCH POINT follows the ambivalent and once-troubled teens as they come to understand themselves and the threat their people face.
Nov. 18, 2008
The Atom Smashers
Season 10Episode 660 min

The Atom Smashers

THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific projects will be funded and which will be cut, and depicts the contradictions that arise when the most educated population in the world begins to doubt the place and value of science. Archival film and vintage footage illustrate the history of Fermilab and cultural attitudes towards science in America, with key scientific ideas brought to life through animation. Despite the setbacks, the physicists at Fermilab continue the search. Until Europe’s atom smasher goes online and starts generating the massive amounts of collisions it takes to find such a minute particle, there’s still a chance that they can win the race. As physicist John Conway says, “This work is too important not to be done somewhere.” But will it be done here in the U.S.? Or will he and the rest of the physicists at Fermilab soon be packing their bags for Europe?
Nov. 25, 2008
Doc
Season 10Episode 760 min

Doc

Dez. 9, 2008
Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
Season 10Episode 860 min

Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'

This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars over the course of a year as they work to forge the tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer into a music drama like no other: the strange and beautiful "Doctor Atomic."
Dez. 16, 2008
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
Season 10Episode 960 min

Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway

his 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly mounted Broadway musical. Captured in the 1975 Maysles film, GREY GARDENS, the indomitable Edith Beale and her daughter Edie, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, were revealed to be a most unique and engaging mother daughter act - inhabiting a folie à deux built upon powerful interdependence, quirky eccentricity, courage, devotion and love. Their essence and their story soon catapulted them to cult icon status, an ironic counterpoint to Mrs. Onassis' own such status, and culminating in the ultimate homage: being portrayed on the Broadway stage. The documentary will feature behind-the-scenes footage of the show's rehearsals, performance and insightful interviews with the creators and cast, as well as a revealing interview with Albert Maysles and relevant insights from Beale authorities, devotees, cultural commentators, audience and fans.
Dez. 23, 2008
Operation Filmmaker
Season 10Episode 1060 min

Operation Filmmaker

Dez. 30, 2008
Helvetica
Season 10Episode 1160 min

Helvetica

Jan. 6, 2009
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Season 10Episode 1260 min

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining everyone from the ghetto to the White House. Narrated by Don Cheadle, "Adjust Your Color" looks at how Greene's explosive language and brash style unsettled the establishment as he battled both the system and his own demons on a journey to becoming a leading activist during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history.
Feb. 3, 2009
Tulia, Texas
Season 10Episode 1360 min

Tulia, Texas

Feb. 10, 2009
The Order of Myths
Season 10Episode 1460 min

The Order of Myths

The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama—events remain segregated between white and black residents. Beneath the surface of pageantry, lies a complex story about race relations and the ever-present racial divide that persists in America today.
Feb. 24, 2009
Arusi Persian Wedding
Season 10Episode 1560 min

Arusi Persian Wedding

März 17, 2009
Lakshmi and Me
Season 10Episode 1660 min

Lakshmi and Me

März 24, 2009
Recycle
Season 10Episode 1760 min

Recycle

März 31, 2009
Milking the Rhino
Season 10Episode 1860 min

Milking the Rhino

Apr. 7, 2009
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Season 10Episode 1960 min

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Apr. 14, 2009
At Home in Utopia
Season 10Episode 2060 min

At Home in Utopia

A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal Goldman traces the history of "The Coops," a cooperative apartment complex built in the Bronx by Jewish garment workers. The film tracks the rise and fall of the community from the 1920s into the 1950s, bearing witness to lives lived across barriers of race, convention and sometimes even common sense.
Apr. 28, 2009
Wings of Defeat
Season 10Episode 2160 min

Wings of Defeat

What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she wondered the same thing. Through rare interviews with surviving Kamikaze pilots, Morimoto retraces their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots and reveals a complex history of brutal training and ambivalent sacrifice.
Mai 5, 2009
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Season 10Episode 2260 min

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what’s at the root of this long-standing battle? Filmmaker Stacy Peralta hits the streets of LA to find out, and speaks with former and current members of the Bloods and the Crips, two of the most notorious and violent street gangs in America.
Mai 12, 2009
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
Season 10Episode 2360 min

Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16 young men (of 45 passengers and crew) of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes recall their ordeal, which found them stranded for 72 days on a snowy peak after the search for the plane's wreckage was called off.
Mai 19, 2009
Steal a Pencil for Me
Season 10Episode 2460 min

Steal a Pencil for Me

In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a married couple—a poor accountant named Jack Polak and his vivacious wife, Manja—at a birthday party for a friend. Six months later, the three of them were sharing a barrack at Kamp Westerbork, a Nazi holding camp in the north of Holland. So begins one of the most complex stories of love, hope and transcendent luck to emerge from the Holocaust.
Mai 26, 2009
Ask Not
Season 10Episode 2560 min

Ask Not

As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. ASK NOT explores the tangled political battles that led to the infamous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and reveals the personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat under a veil of secrecy.
Juni 6, 2009

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