Independent Lens: Season 10
Season 10 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Independent Lens Season 9.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 10 Progress Shield
Chicago 10
Oct 22, 2008 · 60 min
This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
Oct 28, 2008 · 60 min
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society.
Knee Deep
Nov 6, 2008 · 60 min
Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a deal which would have left the family farm to him.
Lioness
Nov 13, 2008 · 60 min
The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Without su
March Point
Nov 18, 2008 · 60 min
Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lead to rehab and drug court, they are offered an alternative: to make a documentar
The Atom Smashers
Nov 25, 2008 · 60 min
THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific projects will be funded and which will be cut, and depicts the contradictions that
Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"
Dec 16, 2008 · 60 min
Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. Doc’s friends and family—including Norman
Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
Dec 16, 2008 · 60 min
This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars o
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
Dec 23, 2008 · 60 min
his 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly mounted Broadway musical. Captured in
Helvetica
Jan 6, 2009 · 80 min
Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a lar
Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Feb 3, 2009 · 60 min
Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a lar
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Feb 3, 2009 · 60 min
America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining everyone from the ghetto to the Whit
The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
Feb 24, 2009 · 60 min
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly all of them African American. It
The Order of Myths
Feb 24, 2009 · 60 min
The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile, Alabama—events remain segregated between w
Lakshmi and Me
Mar 24, 2009 · 60 min
Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a trad
Recycle
Mar 31, 2009 · 60 min
Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been doing just that for her employers—virtually unnoticed. That is, until one of Lakshm
Milking the Rhino
Apr 7, 2009 · 60 min
Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in the Soviet-Afghan war. "Recycle" follows Amar's daily life as he scours the street
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Apr 14, 2009 · 60 min
Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here’s a different story about villagers navigating the dangers and costs of living with
Steal a Pencil for Me
Apr 21, 2009 · 60 min
How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Ask Wangari Maathai of Kenya. In 1977, she suggested rural women plant trees to address problems st
At Home in Utopia
Apr 28, 2009 · 60 min
A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal Goldman traces the history of "The
Wings of Defeat
May 5, 2009 · 60 min
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, sh
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
May 12, 2009 · 60 min
It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
May 19, 2009 · 60 min
This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16 young men (of 45 passengers and crew
Steal a Pencil for Me
May 26, 2009 · 60 min
In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a married couple—a poor accountant named Jack Polak and his vivacious wife, Manja—at a b
Ask Not
Jun 16, 2009 · 60 min
As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. ASK NOT explores the tangled political battles that led to the inf