Life After
Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death.
Episodes
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Life After
S27 E3 - 1h 23m
Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death.
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Ratified
S27 E2 - 1h 23m
Ratified brings the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to life through Virginia’s pivotal ratification battle. Led by Black women and with the support of a multi-racial, multi-generational coalition, this documentary traces the legal, political, and deeply personal fight to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution nearly a century after the ERA was first proposed.
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Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
S27 E1 - 1h 24m
A groundbreaking look at Phil Sharp’s rise from being a rural Kentucky farm boy who battled dyslexia to Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Narrated by Mark Ruffalo with insights from Walter Isaacson, Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution reveals how Sharp’s RNA discovery transformed biology and launched the biotechnology revolution leading to life-saving treatments for millions.
Extras + Features
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Vivien's Wild Ride | Trailer
S27 E5 - 30s
Film editor Vivien Hillgrove built a legendary career working with many of cinema’s greats. As her eyesight fades, she faces old wounds alongside her partner and discovers new ways to create as an artist with a disability. Vivien’s Wild Ride is a portrait of resilience, reinvention, and the power of art to transform.
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Trailer | Life After
S27 E3 - 30s
Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death.
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Trailer | Ratified
S27 E2 - 30s
Ratified captures the high-stakes push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia—the final state needed to ratify the amendment. Bipartisan activists reignite a powerful movement challenging political systems and fighting for constitutional gender equality.
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Trailer | Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
S27 E1 - 30s
Dive into Phil Sharp’s breakthrough RNA discovery, a finding that reshaped molecular biology and ignited a global biotech revolution. Narrated by Mark Ruffalo and featuring interviews with Nobel laureates and insights from Walter Isaacson, Cracking the Code reveals how one scientist helped turn lab work into life-saving therapies.
Schedule
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Independent Lens
Three Chaplains
Thursday
Dec 4
1 Hour
How Muslim chaplains in the armed forces vow to protect the right of every service member to practice their faith freely. -
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Independent Lens
WE WANT THE FUNK!
Thursday
Dec 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond. -
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Independent Lens
Three Chaplains
Friday
Dec 5
1 Hour
How Muslim chaplains in the armed forces vow to protect the right of every service member to practice their faith freely. -
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Independent Lens
WE WANT THE FUNK!
Friday
Dec 5
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond. -
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Independent Lens
Three Chaplains
Friday
Dec 5
1 Hour
How Muslim chaplains in the armed forces vow to protect the right of every service member to practice their faith freely. -
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Independent Lens
WE WANT THE FUNK!
Sunday
Dec 7
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond. -
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Independent Lens
Three Chaplains
Sunday
Dec 7
1 Hour
How Muslim chaplains in the armed forces vow to protect the right of every service member to practice their faith freely. -
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Independent Lens
Three Chaplains
Monday
Dec 8
1 Hour
How Muslim chaplains in the armed forces vow to protect the right of every service member to practice their faith freely. -
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Independent Lens
Mama Bears
Monday
Dec 8
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Although conservative, Christian beliefs have defined their lives, mothers fight for the rights of their LGBTQ+ children. -
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Independent Lens
Mama Bears
Tuesday
Dec 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Although conservative, Christian beliefs have defined their lives, mothers fight for the rights of their LGBTQ+ children. -
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Independent Lens
Mama Bears
Tuesday
Dec 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Although conservative, Christian beliefs have defined their lives, mothers fight for the rights of their LGBTQ+ children. -
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Independent Lens
Mama Bears
Sunday
Dec 14
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Although conservative, Christian beliefs have defined their lives, mothers fight for the rights of their LGBTQ+ children. -
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Sister Una Lived a Good Death
Monday
Dec 15
1 Hour
A Catholic nun chooses to live as she has lived despite a cancer diagnosis, and plans her own funeral during the last nine months of her life.
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