Independent Lens Movies
A collection of movies produced by Independent Lens where we put together films that have two or even more than three parts, this could almost be called a series, but since it is an all night film and each film has a complete story, it is definitely not a series. When a film hits theaters, they usually don't know exactly what kind of story it will receive. Viewer opinions are often unpredictable, but they have tremendous power. Some stories are designed to continue, while others get new chapters as people respond positively. With a successful film, we can almost guarantee that we will get more scenes to please the audience. On the other hand, a lot of new things hit theaters in a year. How do you know a newer part of one of your favorites is available? This collection was created by including films produced by Independent Lens. All the important movies here, whether it's two or twenty, if you liked the first part of a story, it's time to check out the newest one too!
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
8.001 / 10
Documentary
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...
Watch movieI Am Not Your Negro (2017)
7.716 / 10
Documentary
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...
Watch movieFeels Good Man (2020)
7.065 / 10
Documentary
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the...
Watch movieDetropia (2012)
6.7 / 10
Documentary
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim...
Watch movieUnrest (2017)
7.1 / 10
Documentary
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...
Watch movieCoded Bias (2020)
7.2 / 10
Documentary
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
Watch movieTower (2016)
7.607 / 10
Animation, Crime, Documentary
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...
Watch movieStorm Lake (2021)
6.5 / 10
Documentary
A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.
Watch movieMr. SOUL! (2018)
7.5 / 10
Documentary, Comedy, Music
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...
Watch movieThe Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
7 / 10
Documentary
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...
Watch movieNational Bird (2016)
6.7 / 10
Documentary
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...
Watch movieCured (2020)
4.2 / 10
Documentary
Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...
Watch movieThe People vs. Agent Orange (2020)
8.8 / 10
Documentary
Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....
Watch movieThe Donut King (2020)
6.9 / 10
Documentary
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
Watch movieBulletproof (2020)
8 / 10
Documentary
"Bulletproof" observes the age-old rituals that take place daily in American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements,...
Watch movieBelly of the Beast (2020)
7.5 / 10
Documentary, Drama
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison...
Watch movie9to5: The Story of a Movement (2020)
7.3 / 10
Documentary
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...
Watch movieThe Force (2017)
6.8 / 10
Documentary
The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for...
Watch movieDolores (2017)
6 / 10
Documentary
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out...
Watch movie1971 (2014)
6.7 / 10
Documentary, History
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...
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