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Independent Lens (1999 – ...)

1999 • 27 seasons • Documentary • TV-PG
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Independent Lens — Season 4

14 episodes · Feb 4, 2003

1. Maggie Growls
Feb 4, 2003 · 60m
2. Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
Feb 11, 2003 · 60m

“Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story,” a wry exploration of the industry in which record producers set amateurs' poems to music and record them (for a fee, of course). Included are interviews with producers, performers, observers and people…

3. On This Island
Feb 18, 2003 · 60m

On an isolated Maine island of 350 people, a clash over arts education spins out of control into vandalism and death threats, tearing apart friends and neighbors. Sigourney Weaver narrates this program following a former Broadway producer a…

4. Downside Up
Feb 25, 2003 · 60m

Since the 1980s, the rural working class town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has struggled to kick-start its economy following the mill closings. This program explores how, with the 1999 opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary A…

5. Los Trabajadores/The Workers
Mar 25, 2003 · 60m
6. Chiefs
Apr 1, 2003 · 60m
7. Strange Fruit
Apr 8, 2003 · 60m
8. Bird by Bird with Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott
Apr 22, 2003 · 60m
9. Sisters in Resistance
Apr 29, 2003 · 60m
10. Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai
May 6, 2003 · 60m

Heart of the Sea is an hour-long documentary about Hawaiian legend Rell “Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn who died in January 1998 of breast cancer at the age of 47. Known worldwide as a pioneer of women’s professional surfing, in the Islands Rell Su…

11. Guns and Mothers
May 13, 2003 · 60m
12. Razing Appalachia
May 20, 2003 · 60m
13. Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
May 27, 2003 · 60m
14. Daddy & Papa
Jun 3, 2003 · 60m

Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary film made by producer/director Johnny Symons in 2002, it explores same-sex parenting as seen in the lives of four families headed by male couples. The film also examines the legal, social, and politica…