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 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 |
| 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 | |
| Heidi Ewing | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| Barbara Ettinger | 1 | 11/28/2006 | |
| Sedika Mojadidi | 1 | 02/13/2007 | |
| Scott Dalton | 1 | 04/18/2006 | |
| Aaron Matthews | 1 | 12/11/2007 | |
| Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky | 1 | 04/28/2009 | |
| Debbie Lum | 1 | 05/06/2013 | |
| Aaron Lubarsky | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| Jay Rosenstein | 1 | 06/15/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Maren Grainger-Monsen | 1 | 06/17/2013 | |
| 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 | |
| Margaret Brown | 1 | 02/24/2009 | |
| Kim Longinotto | 1 | 11/27/2007 | |
| Ferne Pearlstein | 1 | 06/08/2004 | |
| Kayo Hatta | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| Rodrigo Reyes | 1 | 09/19/2023 | |
| Ramin Bahrani | 1 | 06/01/2010 | |
| Yvonne Smith | 1 | 10/11/2005 | |
| Frank Popper | 1 | 02/27/2007 | |
| Lizzie Gottlieb | 1 | 01/08/2008 | |
| Julianna Brannum | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| Doug Hawes-Davis | 1 | 04/26/2012 | |
| Joel Katz | 1 | 04/08/2003 | |
| Jan Louter | 1 | 12/12/2006 | |
| Tug Yourgrau | 1 | 06/06/2006 | |
| Jim Butterworth | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| Gregg Mitman | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| 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 | |
| Bradley Beesley | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| David Washburn | 1 | 11/06/2023 | |
| 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 | |
| Aaron Woolf | 1 | 04/15/2008 | |
| Lisa Blackstone | 1 | 11/09/2004 | |
| Bill Rose | 1 | 02/28/2006 | |
| Laurel Chiten | 1 | 01/30/2007 | |
| Natasha Uppal | 1 | 05/04/2004 | |
| Tom Putnam | 1 | 11/06/2007 | |
| Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund | 1 | 05/05/2009 | |
| François Verster | 1 | 04/05/2005 | |
| Lisa Merton | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Marc Francis | 1 | 04/10/2007 | |
| Jordan Mechner | 1 | 06/07/2005 | |
| Goro Toshima | 1 | 01/04/2005 | |
| Mickey Lemle | 1 | 04/20/2004 | |
| Allen Mondell | 1 | 03/01/2005 | |
| Alex Gibney | 1 | 04/24/2007 | |
| Brad Lichtenstein | 1 | 02/21/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Frederick Wiseman | 1 | 05/03/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Maria Finitzo | 1 | 01/15/2008 | |
| Kief Davidson | 1 | 05/23/2006 | |
| Roy Westler | 1 | 01/16/2007 | |
| Billy Luther | 1 | 11/13/2007 | |
| Elizabeth Massie | 1 | 04/01/2008 | |
| Ellen Spiro | 1 | 03/21/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Sarita Siegel | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| Paul Devlin | 1 | 01/25/2005 | |
| Eric Black | 1 | 05/16/2006 | |
| Phillip Rodriguez | 1 | 11/23/2004 | |
| Churchill Roberts | 1 | 02/07/2006 | |
| Bernardo Ruiz | 1 | 10/09/2023 | |
| Nisha Ganatra | 1 | 06/01/2004 | |
| Reed Harkness | 1 | 05/08/2023 | |
| Taggart Siegel | 1 | 06/13/2006 | |
| Nati Baratz | 1 | 04/07/2010 | |
| Simone Duarte | 1 | 10/18/2005 | |
| Chris Christopher | 1 | 02/14/2006 | |
| Byron Hurt | 1 | 02/20/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Ela Troyano | 1 | 06/05/2007 | |
| Cal Skaggs | 1 | 11/21/2006 | |
| Rachel Lyon | 1 | 03/02/2007 | |
| Alan Dater | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Lexi Leban | 1 | 01/17/2006 | |
| Amanda Micheli | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| Yoni Brook | 1 | 01/22/2008 | |
| Shantha Bloemen | 1 | 03/23/2004 | |
| Liz Oakley | 1 | 03/02/2004 | |
| Holly Maxson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Kirby Dick | 1 | 05/13/2013 | |
| Lisa Sleeth | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jihan El-Tahri | 1 | 02/23/2010 | |
| Jonathan Robinson | 1 | 04/06/2004 | |
| Nicole Cattell | 1 | 12/19/2006 | |
| Joel P. Engardio | 1 | 05/22/2007 | |
| Xiaolu Guo | 1 | 01/29/2008 | |
| 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 | |
| Nick Francis | 1 | 04/10/2007 | |
| Ron Lamothe | 1 | 10/26/2004 | |
| Ramona Diaz | 1 | 05/10/2005 | |
| Brigitte Brault | 1 | 11/16/2004 | |
| Courtney Hayes | 1 | 01/02/2007 | |
| Daniel Anker | 1 | 05/02/2006 | |
| Michael Downing | 1 | 12/21/2004 | |
| Mark Ewert | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| Chris Browne | 1 | 04/25/2006 | |
| Michael Peled | 1 | 04/03/2007 | |
| David Cutler | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| Carvin Eison | 1 | 02/14/2006 | |
| Charles Burnett | 1 | 02/10/2004 | |
| Daniel Junge | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Joanne Caputo | 1 | 02/15/2005 | |
| David G. Berger | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Rebecca Dreyfus | 1 | 03/20/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Daresha Kyi | 1 | 06/20/2023 | |
| Jon Shenk | 1 | 04/22/2013 | |
| Kate Hirson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| David Fisher | 1 | 04/13/2004 | |
| Alexander Wiaplah | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| 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 | |
| Siatta Scott Johnson | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Paul Fierlinger | 1 | 10/24/2006 | |
| Loren Mendell | 1 | 02/03/2009 | |
| Anayansi Prado | 1 | 11/29/2005 | |
| Margarita Martinez | 1 | 04/18/2006 |
| 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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