Independent Lens

The life story of an incarcerated young man, told through dramatic reenactments.

An unlikely collaboration changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.

Muslim chaplains work for change inside the U.S. military, fighting for equality and religious freedom.

When arson strikes the local mosque, a Texas town must reckon with its troubled past.

When arson strikes the local mosque, a Texas town must reckon with its troubled past.

In Palm Springs, a historically Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.

Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood's higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators' market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.

There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change, the pandemic, and the domination of megafarms have contributed to increasing economic uncertainty and isolation. Following four family farms in the Midwest over several years, the documentary Greener Pastures is a story of perseverance and survival within the farming industry in the heartland.

A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America's forests.

Three individuals navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson's disease.

An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don't hunt, you die.