Independent Lens Movies
- 2018
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Won't You Be My Neighbor?8.0062018HD
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.72017HD
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...
- 2020
Feels Good Man
Feels Good Man7.0752020HD
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...
- 2016
Tower
Tower7.62016HD
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...
- 2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution72015HD
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...
- 2020
Coded Bias
Coded Bias7.12020HD
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
- 2017
Unrest
Unrest7.12017HD
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."...
- 2014
1971
19716.72014HD
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...
- 2024
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen02024HD
Riddled with survivor’s guilt after his unit lost 17 men during “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan, Marine veteran Anthony...
- 2020
Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast7.52020HD
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s...
- 2013
The Kill Team
The Kill Team6.752013HD
In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in...
- 2012
Detropia
Detropia6.72012HD
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...
- 2016
National Bird
National Bird6.72016HD
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...
- 2017
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities8.12017HD
A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...
- 2017
The Force
The Force6.82017HD
The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal...
- 2020
Cured
Cured4.22020HD
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,...
- 2020
9to5: The Story of a Movement
9to5: The Story of a Movement7.62020HD
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...
- 2018
Mr. SOUL!
Mr. SOUL!72018HD
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...
- 2020
The Donut King
The Donut King7.12020HD
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
- 2024
And So It Begins
And So It Begins02024HD
Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...