April 27, 2016
Downton Abbey Director David Evans Talks About Nazi Legacy Doc
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Award-winning English director David Evans helmed the feature film Fever Pitch (the original, superior British version about soccer, starring Colin Firth, for which Nick Hornby adapted his best-selling book of the…...
April 27, 2016
Blood Guilt: 12 Movies about Healing after Heinous Crimes
Sean Axmaker in Beyond the Films
Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter are the adult children of high-ranking Nazi officers. As we learn in My Nazi Legacy, their fathers sent tens of thousands of people to…...
April 26, 2016
Independent Lens Wins 2016 Peabody Award for India’s Daughter
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Independent Lens is proud to announce that Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter, which premiered on the PBS series in November 2015, is the winner of a 2016 Peabody Award. The Peabody…...
April 15, 2016
Zimbabwe Update: Still In Flux
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
The film Democrats, which aired on Independent Lens, traces the challenges and tensions that arose in Zimbabwe over the attempt to charter a new national constitution. While that African nation…...
April 14, 2016
Camilla Nielsson Gets Unprecedented Access to a Constitution in the Making
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker Camilla Nielsson is based in Denmark but works all over the globe. Her previous films were set in Afghanistan, Mumbai, and Darfur. Then she turned her attention to Zimbabwe to capture an important and tumultuous period in its political…...
April 08, 2016
Independent Lens Nominated for Webby Awards
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Three projects from Independent Lens have been recognized by the Webby Awards, the leading international awards for excellence on the Internet, which were called “the Internet’s highest honor” by The…...
April 01, 2016
Who Is Watching the Hate? Tracking Hate Groups Online and Beyond
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
In Welcome to Leith, the story of what happens when notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb tries to take over a small North Dakota community as a base for himself and his…...
March 31, 2016
“Leith” Filmmakers Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker Capture a Town in a Powderkeg
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker have produced eye-popping, gritty fare before, including an acclaimed film about street dancing, Flex Is Kings, and the HBO film Hard Times: Lost in Long Island…...
March 27, 2016
An Honest Liar: Exposing Peter Popoff
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March 24, 2016
Magic in the Modern Age: Do You (Still) Believe in Magic?
Lisa Ko in Beyond the Films
Legendary stage magician and escapologist James “The Amazing” Randi broke out of 22 jails during his career, going so far as to break Harry Houdini’s record of time spent inside…...
March 23, 2016
Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein Unlock the Mystery of James “The Amazing” Randi
Craig Phillips in Interviews
As famous a skeptic as he is a magician, James "The Amazing" Randi has led a life full of magic and mystery, as much off the stage as on it,…...
March 16, 2016
Independent Lens Film “Tower” Wins 2016 SXSW Grand Jury Prize
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Austin was an extremely appropriate place to premiere the film Tower, which revisits the 1966 sniper shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, considered the first mass shooting on a…...