Independent Lens: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
Wordplay
Oct 16, 2007 · 60 min
Fifty million Americans do crossword puzzles each week, many in the venerable New York Times , where Will Shortz has been editor for 12 years. "Wordplay" presents an entertaining a
Please Vote for Me
Oct 23, 2007 · 60 min
This film follows eight-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for school monitor. This is the first election for a class leader to be held in a school
Storm of Emotions
Oct 30, 2007 · 60 min
This is a film explores the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and efforts to achieve democracy amidst great social and political turmoil. Told from the perspective of the I
Red White Black & Blue
Nov 6, 2007 · 60 min
U.S. soldiers who fought on the island of Attu in Alaska during WWII journey back to the location.
The Paper
Dec 11, 2007 · 60 min
Chronicles the pressure of a year in the life of Pennsylvania State University's Daily Collegian.
An Unreasonable Man
Dec 18, 2007 · 60 min
This program offers an unsparing look at Ralph Nader, one of the most important and controversial political figures of our time.
A Son's Sacrifice
Jan 22, 2008 · 60 min
Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. The program brings the stem cell d
How Is Your Fish Today?
Jan 29, 2008 · 60 min
While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao experiences writer's block and begins to live the life of the character he is trying to create.
Hard Road Home
Feb 26, 2008 · 60 min
Banished is a documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction America. I
Iron Ladies of Liberia
Mar 18, 2008 · 60 min
Follows two former felons in different stages of life "on the outside." / Examines the challenges faced by ex-convicts as they adjust to life after incarceration. The film focuses
Compañeras
Apr 1, 2008 · 60 min
With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa's first freelyelected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The
Water Flowing Together
Apr 8, 2008 · 60 min
Jock Soto, who is Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican as well as gay, retired in June 2005 from the New York City Ballet after a 24-year career; this story climaxes with his emotional r
Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
May 6, 2008 · 60 min
King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn
The Cool School
Jun 10, 2008 · 60 min
This film follows one woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. Socheata Poeuv's family survived the Killing Fields, escaped across
Writ Writer
Jun 3, 2008 · 60 min
Reveals a little-known battle of the Civil Rights Movement, led by an indigent, under-educated prisoner. Texas-born, Mexican American Fred Cruz came of age and found his life's cal
Deep Water
Jun 15, 2008 · 60 min
The amazing and compelling true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever - the very first solo, non-
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Jun 19, 2008 · 60 min
A Japanese family searches for their daughter who was abducted by North Korean spies in 1977. / Recalls the 1977 kidnapping of schoolgirl Megumi Yokota from her Japanese hometown b