Skip to main content

Up Next

Independent Lens Season 14

Soul Food Junkies

Season 14 Episode 5
54:08
The Graduates - The Girls

The Graduates - The Girls

Season 15 Episode 22
55:32
Los Graduados - Las Jóvenes

Los Graduados - Las Jóvenes

Season 15 Episode 23
51:01
The Graduates - The Boys

The Graduates - The Boys

Season 15 Episode 24
55:02
AAPI Voices

Meet the Patels

Season 18 Episode 2
1:24:48
Dolores

Dolores

Season 19 Episode 12
1:35:39
Two Gods

Two Gods

Season 22 Episode 23
55:50
The People vs. Agent Orange

The People vs. Agent Orange

Season 22 Episode 24
1:25:10
Cured

Cured

Season 23 Episode 1
54:25
Storm Lake

Storm Lake

Season 23 Episode 3
1:25:48
Missing in Brooks County

Missing in Brooks County

Season 23 Episode 7
1:25:19
Hazing

Hazing

Season 24 Episode 1
1:43:28
Back to Show
Independent Lens

Butte, America

Season 11 Episode 2

As Thomas Edison prepared to throw the switch that would signal the dawn of the electric age, an epic story was unfolding in the copper-rich mountains of Montana. Butte, America chronicles the rise and fall of a small mining town with a larger-than-life spirit - where fortunes were made and lost, and where community was precious, but life was cheap.

Sign up now for inspiring and thought-provoking media delivered straight to your inbox.
Season
TikTok, Boom.
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:24:57
Gen Z influencers and experts help dissect influential social media platform TikTok.
Hazing
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:43:28
Hazing reveals the tradition of underground rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly.
Missing in Brooks County
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:25:19
An activist detective searches for missing migrants in rural South Texas.
Storm Lake
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:25:48
Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.
Cured
54:25
When homosexuality was considered an illness to be “cured," LGBTQ activists fought back.
The People vs. Agent Orange
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:25:10
Two activists fight to hold the chemical industry accountable for a devastating legacy.
Two Gods
Unlock with PBS Passport
55:50
A Muslim mortician uses the rituals of death to teach two troubled teenagers how to live better lives.
Part 3 | Philly D.A. | Episode 3
55:45
The murder of a police sergeant tests the D.A.’s resolve to never seek the death penalty.
Dolores
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:35:39
Meet the indomitable Dolores Huerta, who led the fight for racial and labor justice.
AAPI Voices
1:24:48
Meet the Patels premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, December 26, 2016.
The Graduates - The Boys
Unlock with PBS Passport
55:02
Part Two of The Graduates
Los Graduados - Las Jóvenes
Unlock with PBS Passport
51:01
Primera parte de Los Graduados
Active loading indicator