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  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 1 h 34 m
  • PBS
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 1 h 34 m

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: Katja Esson

  • PBS
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 1 h 34 m
  • PBS
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 1 h 34 m
Independent Lens
S25 • Episode 9
Razing Liberty Square
Air Date: Jan 29, 2024
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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 • Sep 19, 2023
Sansón and Me
The life of a young Mexican immigrant convicted of murder is defined by borders -- between the U.S. and Mexico, personal choice and systemic force.
Episode 2 • Oct 9, 2023
El Equipo
Legendary U.S. anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow sets out to train a new group of Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology. Their goal: to investigate disappearances in Argentina during the "dirty war."
Episode 3 • Nov 6, 2023
Three Chaplains
Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military support and defend the religious rights of all service members. Resisting calls to blend in, the chaplains fight to maintain a balanced devotion to Islam, the Constitution and the military.
Episode 4 • Nov 13, 2023
A Town Called Victoria: Part 1
A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history with racism.
Episode 5 • Nov 14, 2023
A Town Called Victoria: Part 2
With the arson trial near, the suspect's family argues his innocence. Meanwhile, facets of Victoria reveal the ingredients that might have turned him to hate and support for the town's Muslim community begins to wane.
Episode 6 • Nov 15, 2023
A Town Called Victoria: Part 3
The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria seek a way to build a more inclusive community.
Episode 7 • Jan 9, 2024 • 1 h 55 m
Beyond Utopia
The risky journey undertaken by a group of desperate families to defect from North Korea, the country with the world's most brutal regime, led by dictator Kim Jong-un.
Episode 8 • Jan 22, 2024 • 1 h 24 m
Racist Trees
A historically black Palm Springs suburb struggles to remove a towering wall of tamarisk trees that form a barrier and that some say segregates the community. The frustrated residents see them as an enduring symbol of racism.
Episode 9 • Jan 29, 2024 • 1 h 34 m
Razing Liberty Square
Residents of Liberty City are fighting to save their neighborhood from climate gentrification. With sea levels rising, one of America's oldest segregated public housing projects sits on higher ground that has turned to real estate gold.
Episode 10 • Feb 5, 2024
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
A Catholic nun chooses to live as she has lived despite a cancer diagnosis, and plans her own funeral during the last nine months of her life.
Episode 11 • Feb 19, 2024
Breaking the News
A group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists who launch "The 19th*," a new news startup that challenges the white male-dominated status quo and asks who has been omitted from mainstream coverage, and how to include them.
Episode 12 • Mar 25, 2024
Greener Pastures
Captures the day-to-day lives of four Midwestern families facing the mental health issues that plague American farmers.
Episode 13 • Apr 1, 2024
A Thousand Pines
During 8 months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America. This intimate portrait shows how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
Episode 14 • Apr 8, 2024
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's
Three individuals navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson's disease.
Episode 15 • Apr 23, 2024
One with the Whale
An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don't hunt, you die.
Episode 16 • May 6, 2024 • 1 h 24 m
Space: The Longest Goodbye
Episode 17 • May 20, 2024
The Tuba Thieves
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O'Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions.
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