February 10, 2017
Reformed Racists: Is There Life After Hate for Former White Supremacists?
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
Accidental Courtesy portrays African American musician Daryl Davis's attempt to change white supremacists by gradually shattering their prejudices with his friendship. It's a complicated, risky, and controversial pursuit, but Davis has succeeded in…...
January 19, 2017
History of 911: America’s Emergency Service, Before and After Kitty Genovese
Carolyn Abate in Beyond the Films
On a cold winter night, March 13, 1964, at around 2:40 in the morning, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was attacked with a knife just a block from her apartment and died in…...
January 18, 2017
Philbert McLeod: Never Conquered (and Rest in Peace)
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
In this piece created for Independent Lens by filmmaker Mat Hames, we get to know more about Eastern Shoshone tribal elder Philbert McLeod, one of the stars of Hames' Independent…...
January 12, 2017
Native American Artifacts Tell a Story of Loss, Betrayal and Survival
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
Editor’s note: Author Jordan Dresser is featured in the Independent Lens film What Was Ours. He is a journalist, holds a Master's in Museum Studies, and is passionate about Native American…...
September 27, 2016
Evolution of TV Political Pundits: The Legacy of Buckley and Vidal
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
As depicted in Best of Enemies, bitter intellectual rivals Willam F. Buckley and Gore Vidal eviscerating each other with wit on network TV in 1968 made for riveting, and sometimes jaw-dropping, television. It…...
June 09, 2016
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt: What the Supreme Court Is Deciding in the Most Important Abortion Ruling in Decades (Updated 2022)
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
[caption id="attachment_13448" align="alignnone" width="1920"] The Supreme Court of the United States, including the late Antonin Scalia (there are currently eight justices until a ninth is confirmed).[/caption] By Marcia Coyle @MarciaCoyle Guest…...
May 13, 2016
How Homeless Recyclers Make a Living Redeeming Recyclables
Carolyn Abate in Beyond the Films
It is 7 a.m. on a clear spring morning in San Francisco and the lines at Our Planet Recycling SF are already 25 people deep. The customers, queued up in…...
May 09, 2016
Armed in America: Faith & Guns
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyEk0YiiRwQ Join PBS for a town hall conversation about gun violence and the moral obligation to prevent it. Armed in America: Faith & Guns, a one-hour special event moderated by award-winning journalist Michel…...
May 04, 2016
The Evolution of SWAT Team Equipment: From WWII Rifles to BearCats
826chi in Beyond the Films
When former Davis County Sheriff William "Dub" Lawrence, the subject of the Independent Lens film Peace Officer, established one of Utah's first SWAT teams in 1975 he initially required a four-officer unit, but…...
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 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 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…...