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.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | March 2004 | June 2021 | 17 |
| Season 1 | August 1999 | October 1999 | 10 |
| Season 2 | October 2000 | December 2000 | 10 |
| Season 3 | September 2001 | November 2001 | 10 |
| Season 4 | February 2003 | June 2003 | 14 |
| Season 5 | October 2003 | June 2004 | 28 |
| Season 6 | October 2004 | June 2005 | 27 |
| Season 7 | October 2005 | June 2006 | 29 |
| Season 8 | October 2006 | June 2007 | 27 |
| Season 9 | October 2007 | June 2008 | 26 |
| Season 10 | October 2008 | September 2009 | 26 |
| Season 11 | October 2009 | June 2010 | 27 |
| Season 12 | October 2010 | June 2011 | 25 |
| Season 13 | October 2011 | July 2012 | 27 |
| Season 14 | October 2012 | June 2013 | 18 |
| Season 15 | October 2012 | June 2014 | 31 |
| Season 16 | October 2014 | June 2015 | 20 |
| Season 17 | November 2015 | August 2016 | 22 |
| Season 18 | October 2016 | June 2017 | 21 |
| Season 19 | November 2017 | May 2018 | 20 |
| Season 20 | October 2018 | August 2020 | 20 |
| Season 21 | October 2019 | June 2020 | 19 |
| Season 22 | September 2020 | June 2021 | 16 |
| Season 23 | October 2021 | May 2022 | 15 |
| Season 24 | September 2022 | June 2023 | 16 |
| Season 25 | September 2023 | May 2024 | 17 |
| Season 26 | September 2024 | May 2025 | 19 |
| Season 27 | October 2025 | May 2026 | 12 |
| Season 28 | June 2026 | October 2026 | 6 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 0 | ||
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Season 19 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 575 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 575 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li Lu | 3 | 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Kief Davidson | 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 | |
| Nishtha Jain, Smriti Nevatia | 1 | 03/24/2009 | |
| Michael Gramaglia | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| John Scheinfeld | 1 | 11/06/2017 | |
| Frauke Sandig | 1 | 05/16/2006 | |
| Ellen Spiro | 1 | 03/21/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Taggart Siegel | 1 | 06/13/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Sharat Raju | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Cal Skaggs | 1 | 11/21/2006 | |
| Rachel Lyon | 1 | 03/02/2007 | |
| Alan Dater | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Lexi Leban | 1 | 01/17/2006 | |
| Ela Troyano | 1 | 06/05/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Jon Alpert | 1 | 10/25/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Adrian Belic | 1 | 01/23/2007 | |
| Gonzalo Arijon | 1 | 05/19/2009 | |
| Lisa Gildehaus | 1 | 02/21/2006 | |
| María Teresa Rodríguez | 1 | 11/15/2005 | |
| Jonathan Robinson | 1 | 04/06/2004 | |
| Nicole Cattell | 1 | 12/19/2006 | |
| Joel P. Engardio | 1 | 05/22/2007 | |
| Jihan El-Tahri | 1 | 02/23/2010 | |
| David E. Simpson | 1 | 04/07/2009 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Chris Browne | 1 | 04/25/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Daniel Junge | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Joanne Caputo | 1 | 02/15/2005 | |
| David G. Berger | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Charles Burnett | 1 | 02/10/2004 | |
| Weijun Chen | 1 | 10/23/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Kate Hirson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| David Fisher | 1 | 04/13/2004 | |
| Daresha Kyi | 1 | 06/20/2023 | |
| Jon Shenk | 1 | 04/22/2013 | |
| Rodney Evans | 1 | 06/14/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Paul Fierlinger | 1 | 10/24/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Heidi Ewing | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| Barbara Ettinger | 1 | 11/28/2006 | |
| Sedika Mojadidi | 1 | 02/13/2007 | |
| Scott Dalton | 1 | 04/18/2006 | |
| Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky | 1 | 04/28/2009 | |
| Debbie Lum | 1 | 05/06/2013 | |
| Aaron Matthews | 1 | 12/11/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Heather Rae | 1 | 04/11/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Kim Longinotto | 1 | 11/27/2007 | |
| Ferne Pearlstein | 1 | 06/08/2004 | |
| Kayo Hatta | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| Rodrigo Reyes | 1 | 09/19/2023 | |
| Margaret Brown | 1 | 02/24/2009 | |
| Yvonne Smith | 1 | 10/11/2005 | |
| Frank Popper | 1 | 02/27/2007 | |
| Lizzie Gottlieb | 1 | 01/08/2008 | |
| Julianna Brannum | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| Ramin Bahrani | 1 | 06/01/2010 | |
| 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 | |
| Laura Gabbert | 1 | 03/22/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Amy Nicholson | 1 | 10/31/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Lisa Blackstone | 1 | 11/09/2004 | |
| Bill Rose | 1 | 02/28/2006 | |
| Laurel Chiten | 1 | 01/30/2007 | |
| Natasha Uppal | 1 | 05/04/2004 | |
| Aaron Woolf | 1 | 04/15/2008 | |
| Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund | 1 | 05/05/2009 | |
| François Verster | 1 | 04/05/2005 | |
| Lisa Merton | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Tom Putnam | 1 | 11/06/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Daniel Kraus | 1 | 01/03/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Richard Ladkani | 1 | 05/23/2006 | |
| 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 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa Ko | 1 | 12/12/2006 | |
| Lois Vossen | 1 | 11/10/2009 | |
| Dick Rude | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| Eric Martin | 1 | 11/10/2009 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrence Howard | 1 | 03/02/2007 |
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