Independent Lens

Independent Lens is America’s home for independent documentary film.

If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis

With rural hospitals closing, meet the people trying to get help in healthcare deserts.

25:43
Space: The Longest Goodbye

NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a Mars mission.

1:24:52
One With the Whale

For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die.

1:18:04
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s

Three people navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.

54:41
A Thousand Pines

A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.

55:37
Greener Pastures

Midwestern families deal with unseen mental health issues affecting farmers in America.

1:24:54
Breaking The News

Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.

1:24:13
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

A nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn’t have to be the end.

55:23
Razing Liberty Square

A public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.

1:23:30
Racist Trees

In Palm Springs, a Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.

1:23:49