Independent Lens: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Still Life With Animated Dogs
Oct 24, 2006 · 60 min
The World According to Sesame Street is a 2005 feature-length documentary created by Participant Productions, looking at the cultural impact of the children's television series Ses
Two Square Miles
Nov 28, 2006 · 60 min
Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fired cement plant.
Revolucion: Five Visions
Dec 19, 2006 · 60 min
This documentary tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades and whose perspectives on photography are as varied as their opinions
A Fish Story
Jan 2, 2007 · 60 min
Meet two women who lead in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing tradition and the health of the oc
Shadya
Jan 16, 2007 · 60 min
Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel. Despite her father's su
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Feb 6, 2007 · 60 min
As Duke Ellington's co-composer, arranger, and right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest American music of the 20th century. But as a gay man in the ’40s and ’50s
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Feb 20, 2007 · 60 min
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Byron Hurt. The documentary explores the issues of masculinity, violence, homophobia
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Feb 27, 2007 · 60 min
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is a 2006 documentary film written by Matt Coen, Mike Kime and Frank Popper and directed by Frank Popper.
Stolen
Mar 20, 2007 · 60 min
In 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, successfully executing the largest art heist in modern history. Am
Race to Execution
Mar 27, 2007 · 60 min
Race discrimination infects America’s capital punishment system. According to a landmark study regarding race and the death penalty, a black defendant who kills a white victim is u
China Blue
Apr 3, 2007 · 60 min
They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and rent are deducted from their wages, which amount to less
Black Gold
Apr 10, 2007 · 60 min
This eye-opening expose of the $80 billion coffee industry traces one man's fight for fair trade.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Apr 24, 2007 · 60 min
Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 people s
The Cats of Mirikitani
May 8, 2007 · 60 min
In 2001, Japanese American painter Jimmy Mirikitani, over 80 years old, is living in the streets of lower Manhattan. Filmmaker Hattendorf takes an interest, and begins to engage wi
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
May 29, 2007 · 60 min
This film tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Former street musician and San Francisco dharma
La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul
May 6, 2007 · 60 min
Legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer Lupe Victoria Yoli, “The Queen of Latin Soul Music,” aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi, rose to fame in the 1960s and died in 1992 virtually unknown. Beautif