Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Read More
January 31, 2012
Filmmaker Discusses Daisy Bates and Black History Month
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Independent Lens is kicking off Black History Month this week with Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock. We caught up with filmmaker Sharon La Cruise to talk about how…...
Two Spirits
Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the nadleeh, or 'two-spirit,' who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits. Read More
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat more than 20 years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist whose brilliant life was cut short. Read More
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. What mystified filmmaker Daniel Birman was just how common violence among youth is. Read More
When I Rise
When I Rise is about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera. Read More
Lost Sparrow
Lost Sparrow is an adoptive brother's journey to bring his two Crow Indian brothers home and confront a painful truth that shattered his family, after their sudden and mysterious deaths decades ago. Read More
The Longoria Affair
In Texas after World War II, a funeral home refuses to care for a dead Mexican American soldier’s body “because the whites wouldn’t like it,” sparking nationwide outrage and helping to launch a civil rights movement. Read More
Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
A young Latina filmmaker chronicles the emotional journey of her uncle, a U.S. military vet deported to Mexico, and uncovers the secrets of her family’s past, when they had to start over and forge new lives in an unfamiliar “homeland.” Read More
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
From a man nearly destroyed by crime, drugs, and poverty to an admired media icon, Petey Greene defied labeling. With his patois of street talk, Bible citations, rhyming rap, and quotes from his grandmother, he was America’s original shock-jock. Read More
Power Paths
Power Paths follows a grassroots coalition of Native Americans and environmental groups determined to transform their reservation’s economy to green energy, preserving their land for future generations. Read More
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. More than 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. Read More