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  • Feb 16, 2015
  • PBS
  • Feb 16, 2015

Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

Directed By: Thomas Allen Harris

Written By: Paul Carter Harrison, Janet Patterson, Don Perry, Lois Vossen, Deborah Willis, Thomas Allen Harris

  • PBS
  • Feb 16, 2015
  • PBS
  • Feb 16, 2015
Independent Lens
S16 • Episode 9
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Air Date: Feb 16, 2015
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Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 13, 2014
Bully
Episode 2 • Oct 20, 2014
Twin Sisters
Episode 3 • Oct 27, 2014
Brakeless
Brakeless asks what led the driver of a Japanese commuter train to accelerate perilously, causing a deadly crash?
Episode 4 • Nov 3, 2014
Powerless
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.
Episode 5 • Nov 17, 2014
Happiness
Episode 6 • Jan 5, 2015
Rich Hill
Episode 7 • Jan 12, 2015
Evolution of a Criminal
Episode 8 • Jan 19, 2015
The Kill Team
A young man with integrity and honor enlists in the army, but is horrified by what he actually signed up for.
Episode 9 • Feb 16, 2015
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Black photographers have recorded the lives and aspirations of generations, from slavery to present day.
Episode 10 • Feb 23, 2015
American Denial
Episode 11 • Mar 23, 2015
Little White Lie
A filmmaker unlocks a family secret that leads to the truth about her biological father.
Episode 12 • Apr 6, 2015
Little Hope Was Arson
Episode 13 • Apr 13, 2015
The Homestretch
Episode 14 • Apr 19, 2015
The Great Invisible
Episode 15 • May 4, 2015
Kumu Hina
Episode 16 • May 11, 2015
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Choreographer Elizabeth Streb pioneers a movement form that explores physical and emotional human potential.
Episode 17 • May 18, 2015
1971
Episode 18 • Jun 15, 2015
Limited Partnership
Episode 19 • 2015
In the Shadow of Ebola
Episode 20 • 2015
Episode #16.20
Episode 21 • 2015
Episode #16.21
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