Independent Lens: Season 14
Season 14 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 13.
- 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 14 Progress Shield
As Goes Janesville
Oct 8, 2012 · 60 min
Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
Oct 2, 2012 · 60 min
Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey
Soul Food Junkies
Jan 14, 2013 · 60 min
Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul food diet in
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Jan 21, 2013 · 60 min
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which s
The Revisionaries
Jan 28, 2013 · 60 min
The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Feb 25, 2013 · 60 min
Profiling Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and later criticized the Games as party propaganda. His opposition to hi
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Apr 15, 2013 · 60 min
Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and contradictions of heroines within the genre.
The Undocumented
Apr 29, 2013 · 60 min
Thousands of migrants have perished in recent years while trying to cross the unforgiving Sonora desert in search of a better life in the United States. The film gives a face to so
Seeking Asian Female
May 6, 2013 · 60 min
Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for when she moves to America to be his
The Invisible War
May 13, 2013 · 60 min
The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to
Detropia
May 27, 2013 · 60 min
Can the Motor City rise from its ashes? A dynamic cluster of local innovators, entrepreneurs, and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers” are poised to resurrect Detroit. The result coul
The Revolutionary Optimists
Jun 17, 2013 · 60 min
Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sown hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders in improving health, health, tra