Independent Lens

- Season 16

(2019)

Four surrogates and the parents-to-be navigate pregnancy and the mixed emotions of their families who worry about the potential physical and emotional complications of carrying babies for someone else.

Community leaders unite to save their neighborhoods after an epidemic of fires rage through the South Bronx in the 1970s.

Thousands of local interpreters who helped U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan seek safety in the aftermath of war.

The plight of the Shinnecock Nation and land development in the Hamptons. This episode reveals how the land was stolen from the tribe and how many of their sacred grounds, including grave sites, have been developed with little or no regard of bone displacement for the descendants. The tribe has appealed to the local government for protocols and procedures to no avail. This is an ongoing issue.

Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alaskan interior, to his rise as ten-time world champion and mythical state hero, to a village elder resolutely training his grandnephew to race his team one last time.

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The July 1995 heat wave in Chicago claimed 739 lives in a single week, and became the most traumatic heat wave in U.S. history..

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Was it suicide, as the white police insists, or was it a suppressed lynching, as the black community accuse. A grieving black family and their southern community force the local police to submit to state and federal investigation of how they rushed to a conclusion of suicide instead of truly investigating what is obviously the lynching of 17-year-old Lennon Lacy. Lennon was in a relationship with a 30-something-year old white woman who had prostituted herself for her drug habit. This documentary explores the tradition of lynching to control a black population and how ...

Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang investigates the untold history of China's one-child policy, including its impact on generations of mothers and children.

Psychiatrist Kenneth Rosenberg visits emergency rooms, jails, and homeless camps, to investigate the national health crisis of mental illness.

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Immunologist Jim Allison discovers a new way to use the immune system to help defeat cancer.

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Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

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