Independent Lens Movies

  • 2018
    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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    For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  • 2017
    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.72017HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

    I Am Not Your Negro
  • 2020
    Feels Good Man

    Feels Good Man

    Feels Good Man

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    When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the...

    Feels Good Man
  • 2016
    Tower

    Tower

    Tower

    7.62016HD

    Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...

    Tower
  • 2015
    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

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    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    7.12020HD

    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

    Coded Bias
  • 2017
    Unrest

    Unrest

    Unrest

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    When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

    Unrest
  • 2014
    1971

    1971

    1971

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    Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...

    1971
  • 2024
    Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

    Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

    Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

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    Riddled with survivor’s guilt after his unit lost 17 men during “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan, Marine veteran Anthony...

    Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
  • 2020
    Belly of the Beast

    Belly of the Beast

    Belly of the Beast

    7.52020HD

    When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s...

    Belly of the Beast
  • 2013
    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team

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    In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in...

    The Kill Team
  • 2012
    Detropia

    Detropia

    Detropia

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    Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...

    Detropia
  • 2016
    National Bird

    National Bird

    National Bird

    6.72016HD

    Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...

    National Bird
  • 2017
    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

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    A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
  • 2017
    The Force

    The Force

    The Force

    6.82017HD

    The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal...

    The Force
  • 2020
    Cured

    Cured

    Cured

    4.22020HD

    Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

    Cured
  • 2020
    9to5: The Story of a Movement

    9to5: The Story of a Movement

    9to5: The Story of a Movement

    7.62020HD

    In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...

    9to5: The Story of a Movement
  • 2018
    Mr. SOUL!

    Mr. SOUL!

    Mr. SOUL!

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    On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

    Mr. SOUL!
  • 2020
    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    7.12020HD

    Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

    The Donut King
  • 2024
    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

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    Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...

    And So It Begins