Independent Lens

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers. INDEPENDENT LENS features unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history. The series is supported by interactive companion Web sites and national publicity and community engagement campaigns. Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Stanley Tucci hosts the series.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 84082
  • Status Continuing
  • First Aired August 9, 1999
  • Recent January 13, 2025
  • Airs Monday, at 10:00pm
  • Network PBS
  • Average Runtime 61 minutes
  • Genres Documentary Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB Official Website TMS (Zap2It) TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
  • Favorited This series has been favorited by 36 people.
  • Created December 12, 2008 by
    jackhix777
  • Modified January 18, 2025 by
    diesel_weasel
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials March 2004 June 2021 17
Season 27 0
Season 1999 August 1999 October 1999 10
Season 2000 October 2000 December 2000 10
Season 2001 September 2001 November 2001 10
Season 2003 February 2003 December 2003 24
Season 2004 January 2004 December 2004 26
Season 2005 January 2005 December 2005 29
Season 2006 January 2006 December 2006 28
Season 2007 January 2007 December 2007 27
Season 2008 January 2008 December 2008 27
Season 2009 January 2009 December 2009 25
Season 2010 January 2010 December 2010 27
Season 2011 January 2011 December 2011 23
Season 2012 January 2012 November 2012 26
Season 2013 January 2013 December 2013 28
Season 2014 January 2014 November 2014 19
Season 2015 January 2015 December 2015 18
Season 2016 January 2016 December 2016 21
Season 2017 January 2017 December 2017 21
Season 2018 January 2018 December 2018 22
Season 2019 January 2019 December 2019 19
Season 2020 January 2020 November 2020 20
Season 2021 January 2021 November 2021 16
Season 2022 January 2022 November 2022 13
Season 2023 January 2023 November 2023 19
Season 2024 January 2024 November 2024 13
Season 2025 January 2025 January 2025 3
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 0
Season 19 November 2017 1
Unassigned Episodes 540
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 541
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Li Lu 3 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023
Gary Hustwit 2 01/06/2009 - 11/24/2009
Nicole Newnham 2 05/15/2007 - 06/17/2013
Steve James 2 03/30/2004 - 03/31/2004
Marco Williams 2 02/19/2008 - 04/29/2013
Steven Bognar 2 06/21/2006 - 06/22/2006
Johnny Symons 2 06/03/2003 - 06/06/2009
Matthew Buzzell 2 02/24/2004 - 04/01/2008
Maro Chermayeff 2 10/01/2012 - 10/02/2012
Barbara Ettinger 1 11/28/2006
Sedika Mojadidi 1 02/13/2007
Scott Dalton 1 04/18/2006
Heidi Ewing 1 05/27/2013
Debbie Lum 1 05/06/2013
Aaron Matthews 1 12/11/2007
Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky 1 04/28/2009
Andrew Levine 1 11/30/2004
Spencer Nakasako 1 05/11/2004
Cynthia Salzman Mondell 1 03/01/2005
Richard Hall 1 05/27/2004
Aaron Lubarsky 1 12/13/2005
Jay Rosenstein 1 06/15/2004
Tami Yeager 1 05/20/2008
Meema Spadola 1 05/24/2005
Kit-Yin Snyder 1 05/04/2004
Maren Grainger-Monsen 1 06/17/2013
Heather Rae 1 04/11/2006
Ferne Pearlstein 1 06/08/2004
Kayo Hatta 1 05/09/2006
Rodrigo Reyes 1 09/19/2023
Margaret Brown 1 02/24/2009
Kim Longinotto 1 11/27/2007
Frank Popper 1 02/27/2007
Lizzie Gottlieb 1 01/08/2008
Julianna Brannum 1 11/20/2007
Ramin Bahrani 1 06/01/2010
Yvonne Smith 1 10/11/2005
Joel Katz 1 04/08/2003
Jan Louter 1 12/12/2006
Tug Yourgrau 1 06/06/2006
Jim Butterworth 1 12/13/2005
Doug Hawes-Davis 1 04/26/2012
Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Linda Hawkins Costigan 1 10/24/2006
Diane Zander 1 12/14/2004
Rick Tejada-Flores 1 11/22/2005
Sam Green 1 04/27/2004
Gregg Mitman 1 06/22/2015
Laura Gabbert 1 03/22/2005
Jim Granato 1 11/10/2009
Jørgen Flindt Pedersen 1 11/08/2005
Chris Eska 1 12/21/2004
Bradley Beesley 1 11/20/2007
David Washburn 1 11/06/2023
Amy Nicholson 1 10/31/2006
Bill Rose 1 02/28/2006
Laurel Chiten 1 01/30/2007
Natasha Uppal 1 05/04/2004
Aaron Woolf 1 04/15/2008
Lisa Blackstone 1 11/09/2004
François Verster 1 04/05/2005
Lisa Merton 1 04/14/2009
Tom Putnam 1 11/06/2007
Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund 1 05/05/2009
Goro Toshima 1 01/04/2005
Mickey Lemle 1 04/20/2004
Allen Mondell 1 03/01/2005
Alex Gibney 1 04/24/2007
Marc Francis 1 04/10/2007
Jordan Mechner 1 06/07/2005
Lisette Marie Flanary 1 05/06/2008
Sandy Northrop 1 05/17/2005
Florence Ayisi 1 11/27/2007
Patrick Creadon 1 10/16/2007
Brad Lichtenstein 1 02/21/2006
Daniel Kraus 1 01/03/2006
Stanley Nelson Jr. 1 02/17/2004
Bann Roy 1 03/28/2006
Frances McElroy 1 11/15/2005
Frederick Wiseman 1 05/03/2005
Richard Ladkani 1 05/23/2006
Roy Westler 1 01/16/2007
Billy Luther 1 11/13/2007
Elizabeth Massie 1 04/01/2008
Maria Finitzo 1 01/15/2008
Kief Davidson 1 05/23/2006
Michael Gramaglia 1 04/26/2005
John Scheinfeld 1 11/06/2017
Frauke Sandig 1 05/16/2006
Ellen Spiro 1 03/21/2006
Nishtha Jain, Smriti Nevatia 1 03/24/2009
Eric Black 1 05/16/2006
Phillip Rodriguez 1 11/23/2004
Churchill Roberts 1 02/07/2006
Bernardo Ruiz 1 10/09/2023
Sarita Siegel 1 06/22/2015
Paul Devlin 1 01/25/2005
Nati Baratz 1 04/07/2010
Simone Duarte 1 10/18/2005
Chris Christopher 1 02/14/2006
Nisha Ganatra 1 06/01/2004
Reed Harkness 1 05/08/2023
Taggart Siegel 1 06/13/2006
John Hanson 1 12/20/2005
Barbara Multer-Wellin 1 11/07/2006
Elida Schogt 1 05/03/2005
Byron Hurt 1 02/20/2007
Sharat Raju 1 05/09/2006
Rachel Lyon 1 03/02/2007
Alan Dater 1 04/14/2009
Lexi Leban 1 01/17/2006
Ela Troyano 1 06/05/2007
Cal Skaggs 1 11/21/2006
Shantha Bloemen 1 03/23/2004
Liz Oakley 1 03/02/2004
Holly Maxson 1 04/12/2005
Kirby Dick 1 05/13/2013
Amanda Micheli 1 05/31/2005
Yoni Brook 1 01/22/2008
Linda Hattendorf 1 05/08/2007
Suzanne Wasserman 1 02/22/2005
Raymond Telles 1 11/22/2005
David Petersen 1 03/29/2005
Lisa Sleeth 1 12/13/2005
Jon Alpert 1 10/25/2005
Gonzalo Arijon 1 05/19/2009
Lisa Gildehaus 1 02/21/2006
María Teresa Rodríguez 1 11/15/2005
Adrian Belic 1 01/23/2007
Nicole Cattell 1 12/19/2006
Joel P. Engardio 1 05/22/2007
Jihan El-Tahri 1 02/23/2010
Jonathan Robinson 1 04/06/2004
Rachel Grady 1 05/27/2013
Jim Fields 1 04/26/2005
Dan Miller 1 06/06/2006
David Grabias 1 05/15/2007
Xiaolu Guo 1 01/29/2008
David E. Simpson 1 04/07/2009
Ramona Diaz 1 05/10/2005
Brigitte Brault 1 11/16/2004
Courtney Hayes 1 01/02/2007
Daniel Anker 1 05/02/2006
Nick Francis 1 04/10/2007
Ron Lamothe 1 10/26/2004
Michael Peled 1 04/03/2007
David Cutler 1 05/31/2005
Carvin Eison 1 02/14/2006
Michael Downing 1 12/21/2004
Mark Ewert 1 05/31/2005
Chris Browne 1 04/25/2006
Joanne Caputo 1 02/15/2005
David G. Berger 1 04/12/2005
Charles Burnett 1 02/10/2004
Daniel Junge 1 03/18/2008
Yael Klopmann 1 10/30/2007
Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle 1 03/27/2017
Lidia Szajko 1 01/17/2006
Rebecca Dreyfus 1 03/20/2007
Weijun Chen 1 10/23/2007
Kate Hirson 1 04/12/2005
David Fisher 1 04/13/2004
Daresha Kyi 1 06/20/2023
Jon Shenk 1 04/22/2013
Robert Levi 1 02/06/2007
Leslie Sullivan 1 01/11/2005
Sandra Dickson 1 02/07/2006
Tim Gallagher 1 01/02/2007
Alexander Wiaplah 1 06/22/2015
Rodney Evans 1 06/14/2005
Loren Mendell 1 02/03/2009
Anayansi Prado 1 11/29/2005
Margarita Martinez 1 04/18/2006
Siatta Scott Johnson 1 03/18/2008
Paul Fierlinger 1 10/24/2006
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Dick Rude 1 04/26/2005
Eric Martin 1 11/10/2009
Lisa Ko 1 12/12/2006
Lois Vossen 1 11/10/2009
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Terrence Howard 1 03/02/2007

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