Sophie Sartain, director of the Independent Lens documentary Mimi and Dona, which explores the trials of parenting and care through the story of her aunt and grandmother, brings us this short film ...

In this piece by filmmaker Mat Hames, we get to know more about Eastern Shoshone tribal elder Philbert McLeod, one of the stars of Hames’ Independent Lens film What Was Ours. Philbert had an ...

In Tallahassee, Florida, Mayor Andrew Gillum, the local sheriff, a student victim of a shooting at Florida State University, and members of the NRA urge new gun safety measures to protect the lives of ...

Pastor Sam Saylor, whose son was shot and killed in Hartford, CT shortly before the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, meets with other faith leaders nationwide to fight gun violence in an ...

50 years after a gunman opened fire from the tower at University of Texas — the first recorded mass shooting in US history and subject of Independent Lens film TOWER — students can now carry ...

Ron "Stray Dog" Hall and his wife go biker patch shopping.

In this video extra, learn more about the story of Clela Rorex, former County Clerk in Boulder, CO, who in 1975 helped change history by becoming the first in the United States to approve a marriage ...

1971 filmmaker Johanna Hamilton joins The Burglary author Betty Medsger and Citizen Four director Laura Poitras to discuss the measures Medsger and the Washington Post took to protect the anonymity of ...

Nada Me Detiene sigue a un adolescente de Detroit, Fernando Parraz, en su lucha por vencer una montaña de obstáculos para ser el primero de su familia en obtener su diploma de bachillerato – el ...

Sharon Montano de Oakland decide regresar a la escuela a los 20 años después de varios años de abuso de sustancias y otras batallas. Cuando descubre la Civicorps Academy (la Academia de Civicorps) ...

¡Avancemos! sigue a un grupo de estudiantes del octavo año en San Antonio terminando su año escolar in el Middle School Partners Program (el Programa de Compañeros de la Escuela Media), un ...

Inmigrantes adolescentes enfrentan la discriminación, barreras del idioma, tradiciones culturales desconocidas – todo mientras experimentando los cambios de la adolescencia. Colegio Inmigrante nos ...

Son las últimas pocas semanas de la preparatoria para Yessenia, una estudiante del cuarto año, de voz suave, con dos hijas pequeñas, y un novio que prefiere que ella se esté en casa que ir a la ...

Can't Hold Me Back follows Detroit teen Fernando Parraz as he overcomes a mountain of roadblocks to become the first in his family to earn a high school diploma — his ticket out of the struggles of ...

Sharon Montano of Oakland decides to go back to school at age 20 after several years of substance abuse and other struggles. When she discovers Civicorps Academy, she finally gets another shot at a ...

Skipping Up follows a group of eighth graders in San Antonio as they finish their year in the Middle School Partners Program, a successful dropout-prevention project that has generated national ...

Immigrant teens face discrimination, language barriers, unfamiliar cultural traditions — all while dealing with the changes all teens struggle with. Many give up on school. Immigrant High takes us ...

It’s the last few weeks of high school for Yessenia, a soft-spoken senior with two small daughters and a boyfriend who’d rather she stay at home than go to school. Yessenia is forced to choose: ...