Overview

INDEPENDENT LENS is an Emmy® Award-winning PBS documentary series. With founding executive producer Lois Vossen, the series has been honored with 10 Academy Award nominations and features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Stream anytime on the PBS app. For more visit pbs.org/independentlens.

Upcoming Episodes

Assembly Vogue, AI, and identity collide as an artist creates an exhibition honoring Black and queer culture.
  • Airdate Monday, June 22, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original6/22/2026
  • INLE2714
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power How 1960s Montreal helped shape the global movement for Black liberation.
  • Airdate Monday, July 6, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
  • Original7/6/2026
  • INLE2715
Flood A filmmaker revisits her evangelical roots to find connection with her estranged father.
  • Airdate Monday, July 13, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original7/13/2026
  • INLE2704

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Wilhemina’s War

Witness a Southern grandmother’s struggles to help her family through the scourge of HIV.

  • Original2/29/2016
  • INLE1711
Winnie

Explore the complex life of Winnie Mandela and her decades-long struggle to bring down Apartheid.

  • Original2/5/2018
  • INLE
One Person, One Vote? Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.
  • Original9/30/2024
  • INLE2601
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen A Marine Corps veteran's mission is to help Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing himself.
  • Original11/11/2024
  • INLE2602
Part 1 (Episodes 1 and 2) Dallas, 2019 captures the pulse of a city and the people who work and live there, all trying to build a better future.
  • Original1/3/2025
  • INLE
Part 2 (Episodes 3, 4, 5) Interwoven stories cover five weeks in a city's life the year before the pandemic hit.
  • Original1/4/2025
  • INLE
Minted Explore the rise and fall of the NFT phenomenon that transformed the art world.
  • Original1/6/2025
  • INLE2608
Without Arrows Thirteen years after leaving South Dakota, a Lakota dancer returns to the reservation to carry on the family legacy.
  • Original1/13/2025
  • INLE2608
The Strike How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.
  • Original2/3/2025
  • INLE2610
The In Between Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns home to Texas to reflect on fronterizo life.
  • Original2/10/2025
  • INLE2611
Skin of Glass A filmmaker learns her architect father’s iconic building in São Paulo is occupied by the unhoused.
  • Original2/17/2025
  • INLE

Press Contacts

Aisha Almada

Publicity Manager, ITVS/Independent Lens