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Trailer | Independent Lens Fall 2021 Season

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Don't Stop Believin': How a Fan Video Led to a Real Life Roc

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45365: A Campaign Message

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India's Daughter - These Men are Ours India's Reckoning

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India's Daughter - The Brutal Rape that Galvanized India

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Little White Lie Lacie Schwartz

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A Path Appears: A Girl Named Flevian

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Sen. Tim Kaine Introduces the Created Equal Project

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The Kill Team: ĺäĄ_I Just FrozeĺäĄĺ

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The Calling: Shmuly Yanklowitz

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Playwright: From Page to Stage: "On Being a Playwright"

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Cured

When doctors classified homosexuality as a mental illness to be “cured,” they employed cruel treatments like electroshock and lobotomies. LGBTQ+ activists and their allies fought back — and won a momentous victory when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders in 1973.

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