Independent Lens

- Season 11

(2014)

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The poignant story of two girls from China adopted as infants by two separate sets of parents - one from California, the other from a remote fishing village in Norway - who grow up knowing they have a twin living on the other side of the world. Despite being on different paths, the magical bond between them grows deeper.

Brakeless asks what led the driver of a Japanese commuter train to accelerate perilously, causing a deadly crash?

Electricity Theft in India. Powerless captures the cat-and-mouse game of an outlaw electrician and the electric utility over illegal power hookups in Kanpur, India.

A nine-year-old monk has never before left his Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas, where the nearest road is a three-day walk. When connected to electricity for the first time, he treks to the nearest city in search of a television, in a story of the bittersweet seduction of technology and progress.

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A young man with integrity and honor enlists in the army, but is horrified by what he actually signed up for.

Black photographers have recorded the lives and aspirations of generations, from slavery to present day.

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A filmmaker unlocks a family secret that leads to the truth about her biological father.

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Choreographer Elizabeth Streb pioneers a movement form that explores physical and emotional human potential.

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LIMITED PARTNERSHIP is the love story between Filipino-American Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan, who, in 1975, became one of the first same-sex couples in the world to be legally married. After applying for a green card for Tony based on their marriage, the couple received a denial letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Outraged at this letter, and to prevent Tony's impending deportation, the couple sued the U.S. government, filing the first federal lawsuit seeking equal treatment for a same-sex marriage in U.S. history. This tenacious ...

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