Independent Lens

Airing weekly on PBS, the Emmy Award®-winning series Independent Lens is a film festival in your living room. Each episode introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers: filmmakers who take creative risks, call their own shots and find untold stories in unexpected places. Independent Lens programs include documentaries, shorts, half-hour experimental pieces and everything in between. Presented by ITVS and hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed anthology series features programs united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of independent producers — filmmakers who spend years pursuing diverse stories about people not normally seen on television. Independent Lens is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional funding provided by PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Documentary and Biography