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Independent Lens 2019-2020 Season Promo

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Preview: S21 | 32s | Award-winning films from Independent Lens. Coming to PBS, America’s home for documentaries (32s)

Trailer | Pipe Dreams

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Preview: S21 Ep19 | 30s | Talented young musicians compete in the world's most prestigious pipe organ competition. (30s)

Bring Out Your Inner Craziness | Pipe Dreams

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Clip: S21 Ep19 | 1m 52s | Four young organists prepare minds, bodies and fingers for the "Olympics for organ music." (1m 52s)

TV's Power to Influence | Recorder

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Clip: S21 Ep18 | 1m 49s | Activist and archivist Marion Stokes first realized power of mass media to influence minds (1m 49s)

Trailer | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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Preview: S21 Ep18 | 30s | Reclusive activist Marion Stokes videotaped TV 24/7 for decades in the name of truth. (30s)

Trailer | Rewind

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Preview: S21 Ep16 | 30s | Rewind paints a vivid but hopeful portrait of a family plagued by a cycle of abuse. (30s)

Trailer | Eating Up Easter

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Preview: S21 Ep17 | 30s | The challenge to protect remote Rapa Nui culture and environment from modernization. (30s)

"I Was Just a Little Kid" | Rewind

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Clip: S21 Ep16 | 1m 50s | The terrible moment when everything changed in Sasha Neulinger's childhood. (1m 50s)

Floating International Trash | Eating Up Easter

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Clip: S21 Ep17 | 2m 4s | How does an island 2,500 miles from the mainland get rid of tourist trash? It's a problem. (2m 4s)

The Wondrous T-Cell | Jim Allison: Breakthrough

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Clip: S21 Ep15 | 1m 44s | When young med student Jim Allison met his wife, he also met a new medical discovery. (1m 44s)

Trailer | Jim Allison: Breakthrough

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Preview: S21 Ep15 | 30s | The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer. (30s)

Trailer | The Hottest August

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Preview: S21 Ep14 | 30s | Ordinary New Yorkers share their anxieties about the future while bracing for record heat. (30s)

Survive for the Next Day | The Hottest August

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Clip: S21 Ep14 | 1m 56s | In The Hottest August, two New Yorkers address their future and the planet's with concern. (1m 56s)

Trailer | Bedlam

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Preview: S21 Ep13 | 30s | The stories of people with mental illness are explored with immediacy and urgency. (30s)

Jails for Mental Illness | Bedlam

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Clip: S21 Ep13 | 1m 44s | America's three largest jails are also its three largest psychiatric treatment facilities. (1m 44s)

One Child Nation - Trailer

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Preview: S21 Ep12 | 30s | Filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the devastating impacts of China’s one-child policy. (30s)

The Baby Recruiting Network | One Child Nation

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Clip: S21 Ep12 | 2m 35s | How a network in China worked to find babies for orphanages during the "one-child" era. (2m 35s)

Trailer | Always in Season

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Preview: S21 Ep11 | 30s | Always in Season is a haunting exploration of lynching and racial violence in America. (30s)

"Like a Lynching" | Always in Season

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Clip: S21 Ep11 | 2m 20s | Lennon Lacy's brother voices disbelief at police report declaring his death a suicide. (2m 20s)

"He Had too Much to Live For" | Always in Season

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Clip: S21 Ep11 | 1m 42s | Lennon Lacy's mother recalls the last time she saw her son, seeking closure on his death. (1m 42s)

Trailer | We Believe In Dinosaurs

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Preview: S21 Ep10 | 30s | The Bible and science collide amid the battleground of a Kentucky creationism museum. (30s)

"A Real Ark for a Real Flood" | We Believe in Dinosaurs

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Clip: S21 Ep10 | 1m 22s | A massive Noah's Ark exhibit aims to show how the Biblical flood really happened. (1m 22s)

"You're Fooling Yourself" | Leftover Women

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Clip: S21 Ep9 | 2m 18s | A Chinese woman meets a matchmaker who has blunt advice about her marriage prospects. (2m 18s)

Trailer | Leftover Women

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Preview: S21 Ep9 | 30s | Modern Chinese women juggle love life with careers in a society that frowns on singlehood. (30s)

Trailer | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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Preview: S21 Ep8 | 30s | Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend? (30s)

"Almost Perfect Overlaps" | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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Clip: S21 Ep8 | 1m 29s | A heat death map lays out a painful reality about the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave. (1m 29s)

Unlikely Allies | First Rainbow Coalition

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Clip: S21 Ep7 | 2m 20s | When Black, Latinx and Southern white activists came together to form unlikely coalition. (2m 20s)

Trailer | The First Rainbow Coalition

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Preview: S21 Ep7 | 30s | Across lines of race and ethnicity, alliances formed among Chicago activists in the '60s. (30s)

When the FBI Detained My Son | Accept the Call

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Clip: S21 Ep6 | 1m 7s | A Somali-born father in Minnesota receives a shocking call from the FBI about his son. (1m 7s)

Trailer | Accept the Call

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Preview: S21 Ep6 | 30s | An anguished Minnesota father tries to find out what led his son to attempt to join ISIS. (30s)

"Rich Man's Sport" | ATTLA

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Clip: S21 Ep5 | 2m 54s | Legendary Alaska Native dogsled racer George Attla and his grandnephew reflect on Attla's (2m 54s)

ATTLA | Trailer

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Preview: S21 Ep5 | 30s | The gripping story of legendary Alaska Native dogsled racer George Attla. (30s)

Trailer | Conscience Point

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Preview: S21 Ep4 | 30s | A Native American woman fights to protect her tribe from development in the Hamptons. (30s)

No Mosquitos, No Fish | Conscience Point

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Clip: S21 Ep4 | 1m 25s | Development radically harmed fishing in Long Island's Shinnecock Bay--except in one place. (1m 25s)

"You Will Call Me Phillip Morris" | The Interpreters

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Clip: S21 Ep3 | 2m 38s | How did a gruff American sergeant and an affable Iraqi interpreter become friends? (2m 38s)

Trailer | The Interpreters

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Preview: S21 Ep3 | 30s | Afghan and Iraqi interpreters risked their lives aiding US troops. Were they left behind? (30s)

Trailer | Decade of Fire

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Preview: S21 Ep2 | 30s | Decade of Fire covers the shocking story of when the South Bronx was on fire in the '70s. (30s)

Banana Kelly Community Improvement | Decade of Fire

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Clip: S21 Ep2 | 1m 1s | A community group in the Bronx in the '70s helps rebuild a neighborhood ravaged by fires. (1m 1s)

Trailer | Made in Boise

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Preview: S21 Ep1 | 30s | Made in Boise offers a rare glimpse at surrogates carrying children for intended parents. (30s)

Surrogacy Support Group | Made in Boise

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Clip: S21 Ep1 | 1m 1s | Boise surrogates find strength in numbers in a support group. (1m 1s)

Nicole, a Host of Possibilities | Made in Boise

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Clip: S21 Ep1 | 54s | Meet Nicole, a 4-time surrogate herself, and CEO of the largest surrogacy agency in Boise. (54s)