Independent Lens season 21 The Interpreters - Metacritic

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Nov 11, 2019

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Nov 11, 2019

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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Directed By: Andres Caballero, Sofian Khan

PBS
Nov 11, 2019

PBS
Nov 11, 2019

Independent Lens

S21 • Episode 3

The Interpreters

Air Date: Nov 11, 2019

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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 28, 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.

Episode 2 • Nov 4, 2019

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

Episode 3 • Nov 11, 2019

The Interpreters

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

Episode 4 • Nov 18, 2019

Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt

Episode 5 • Dec 16, 2019

Episode 6 • Jan 20, 2020

Accept the Call

Episode 7 • Jan 27, 2020

The First Rainbow Coalition

Episode 8 • Feb 3, 2020

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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..

Episode 9 • Feb 10, 2020

Episode 10 • Feb 17, 2020

We Believe in Dinosaurs

Episode 11 • Feb 24, 2020 • 1 h 26 m

Always in Season

Episode 12 • Mar 30, 2020

One Child Nation

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

Episode 13 • Apr 13, 2020

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

Episode 14 • Apr 20, 2020

The Hottest August

Anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies of New York residents during August 2017, a month intensified by the tension of a new president, rising rent, marching white nationalists, and stories of wildfires and hurricanes.

Episode 15 • Apr 27, 2020

Jim Allison: Breakthrough

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

Episode 16 • May 11, 2020

Episode 17 • May 25, 2020

Eating Up Easter

Episode 18 • Jun 15, 2020

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Episode 19 • Jun 22, 2020

Episode 20 • Aug 31, 2020

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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

Episode 21 • Sep 21, 2020

Driver Radio: Jamaica

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