Accident, MD
Accident, MD is a survey of attitudes about America’s healthcare crisis, filmed in and around the small town of Accident, Maryland during the summer before the 2016 election. Read More
Beyond the Films
February 20, 2019
Is This Real Life: The Live Streaming Craze Explained
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Siyi Chen When my dad, a small businessman from Southeast China, asked me, his social media-savvy daughter, how to utilize the internet to help sell his agricultural products, the…...
Interviews
February 07, 2019
RaMell Ross Charts “the Visual Story of Blackness” in Oscar-Nominated Doc
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
Just one year after RaMell Ross' Hale County This Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the filmmaker will follow his film's television debut…...
Interviews
January 30, 2019
The Challenge of Making a Film About Racist Relics
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Filmmaker and teacher Chico Colvard's first feature doc, Family Affair, premiered at Sundance and was the first film acquired by Oprah Winfrey for her cable channel, OWN. The searingly personal documentary explored…...
Behind the Films
January 24, 2019
Three Things About “The King,” with Eugene Jarecki and Steven Soderbergh
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's pedigree is impressive. He has twice won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Peabody Award for: The House I Live In, his 2013 film…...
Lists
January 23, 2019
Elvis and the Death of the American Dream, Through Movies
Sean Axmaker in Beyond the Films
Elvis Presley is ostensibly the subject of The King, Eugene Jarecki's expansive road movie of a documentary. The award-winning director drives Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce across the US, from Mississippi and…...
Awards
January 22, 2019
Independent Lens Film “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” Honored with Oscar Nomination
Independent Lens in Announcements
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the nominations for the 91st Oscars and Independent Lens was elated that Hale County This Morning, This Evening received a…...
Interviews
December 21, 2018
Director Duo Show No Easy Answers in Fight Over Land
Craig Phillips in Behind the Films
The team behind the new Independent Lens film My Country No More, Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling, told us they were drawn to Hammerling's native North Dakota to make this film "because his…...
Interviews
December 11, 2018
Filmmaker Explores a Preacher’s Shocking Sacrifice and How It Can Start a Conversation
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Joel Fendelman's Man on Fire, which has its television premiere on Independent Lens, won the David L. Wolper Student documentary award at the 2017 IDA Awards. The story at its heart…...
Harvest Season
Harvest Season probes the lives of the multigenerational Latinos, temporary laborers, and permanent residents intimately connected to the production of premium wines in the Napa and Sonoma regions of Northern California — in the midst of one of the most dramatic grape harvests in recent memory. Read More
Wrestle
Wrestle goes inside the lives of four members of the high school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School–a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan show that needing a win can be about much more… Read More
The Providers
Does your zip code determine your life? The Providers gives a very human face to the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, following three healthcare professionals who are doing everything they can to make a difference in northern New Mexico at El Centro, a… Read More
