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  • PBS
  • Jun 19, 2017
  • PBS
  • Jun 19, 2017

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: Shaleece Haas

  • PBS
  • Jun 19, 2017
  • PBS
  • Jun 19, 2017
Independent Lens
S18 • Episode 20
Real Boy
Air Date: Jun 19, 2017
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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.

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Episode 1 • Oct 3, 2016 • 1 h 27 m
Best of Enemies
A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.
Episode 2 • Dec 16, 2016
Meet the Patels
Actor Ravi Patel, whose traditional Hindu parents are eager for him to find a mate, enters the semi-arranged marriage system in America.
Episode 3 • Jan 2, 2017
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Episode 4 • Jan 9, 2017
Containment
Episode 5 • Jan 16, 2017
What Was Ours
Episode 6 • Jan 23, 2017
The Witness
Episode 7 • Feb 6, 2017 • 1 h
Birth of a Movement
The story of William Monroe Trotter, the nearly forgotten editor of a Boston black newspaper who tried to ban the controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Episode 20 • Jun 19, 2017
Real Boy
A transgender teen works to repair a strained relationship with his family and forges a friendship with folk singer Joe Stevens.
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