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Trailer | Independent Lens Winter 2022 Season

Independent Lens is America’s home for documentaries, airing Mondays on PBS. Watch live or stream anytime on the PBS Video app.

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1:16:37
Unravel the complexities of the Electoral College through four 2020 presidential electors.
If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
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25:43
With rural hospitals closing, meet the people trying to get help in healthcare deserts.
Local Story
Disability Visibility
The central mystery of this unconventional documentary is the nature of sound itself.
Women's Stories
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1:24:52
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a Mars mission.
Climate and Environment
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1:18:04
For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die.
Health and Wellness
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54:41
Three people navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.
Latinx Voices
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55:37
A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.
Greener Pastures
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1:24:54
Midwestern families deal with unseen mental health issues affecting farmers in America.
Celebrate Queer Voices
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1:24:13
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
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55:23
A nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn’t have to be the end.
Razing Liberty Square
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1:23:30
A public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
African American and Proud
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1:23:49
In Palm Springs, a Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.
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