Independent Lens Scannán Coitianta

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Margaret Whitmer

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...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Matt Furie

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

Seánra: Animation

Caitheadh: Violett Beane

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."...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Jennifer Brea

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...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Samuel L. Jackson

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Joy Buolamwini

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Kathleen Cleaver

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

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Jesselyn Radack

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Chuong Pek Lee

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Kelly Dillon

Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Tran To Nga

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

Seánra: War

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Juan-Carlos Zapata

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...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Jane Fonda

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

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A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Art Cullen

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Ellis Haizlip

Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.

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Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Ursula Liang