After Angola | holding bodies: a justice anthology

18m 5s

"After Angola" follows a small group of men who formed a peer support group after they'd spent significant time inside Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary, once the most violent prison in America.

Episodes

  • Breaking The News: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Breaking The News

    S25 E11 - 1h 24m

    Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.

  • Sister Úna Lived a Good Death: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

    S25 E10 - 55m 23s

    Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” plans her funeral in her last nine months to live.

  • Razing Liberty Square: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Razing Liberty Square

    S25 E9 - 1h 23m

    Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.

  • Racist Trees: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Racist Trees

    S25 E8 - 1h 23m

    Were trees intentionally planted to exclude and segregate a Black neighborhood?
    Racial tensions ignite in this documentary, when a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, California, fights to remove a towering wall of tamarisk trees. The trees form a barrier, believed by some to segregate the community, frustrating residents who regard them as an enduring symbol of racism.

  • If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis

    S25 E18 - 25m 43s

    Rural hospitals around America are closing at alarming rates, leaving communities without care. Oscar and Emmy-nominated director Ramin Bahrani visits Appalachia, where American communities are left with limited or no access to healthcare. Explore the rural healthcare crisis in the South through the eyes of those struggling in it and the dedicated doctors trying to reach them.

  • Beyond Utopia: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Beyond Utopia

    S25 E7 - 1h 51m

    They grew up believing their land was paradise. Now, they risk everything in escaping it. In an unforgettable documentary, follow families on a treacherous journey to defect from their homeland of North Korea, as the threat of severe punishment and possible execution looms over their passage, revealing a world many have never seen.

  • A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3

    S25 E6 - 54m 42s

    The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria seek a way to build a more inclusive community.

  • A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2

    S25 E5 - 54m 12s

    With the arson trial near, the suspect’s family argues his innocence. Meanwhile, facets of Victoria reveal the ingredients that might have turned him to hate and support for the town’s Muslim community begins to wane.

  • A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1

    S25 E4 - 54m 41s

    A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history with racism.

  • Three Chaplains: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Three Chaplains

    S25 E3 - 55m 43s

    Muslim chaplains uphold the First Amendment and vow to protect service members' right to practice their faith freely, despite facing long-held prejudice and disapproval from their own communities. The Muslim chaplains work hard to ensure that all service members have access to religious materials, services, and resources regardless of the religious beliefs they hold.

  • El Equipo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    El Equipo

    S25 E2 - 1h 25m

    Legendary U.S. anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow sets out to train a new group of Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology. Their goal: to investigate disappearances in Argentina during the “dirty war”. The group expands its horizons, traveling to El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico, doggedly working behind the scenes to establish the facts for the families of the victims.

  • Sansón and Me: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sansón and Me

    S25 E1 - 1h 25m

    Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes wants to document Sansón's story, an immigrant serving life in prison. Unable to film Sansón, the documentary creatively shares his narrative through reenactments of his letters, featuring his own family as actors.

Extras + Features

  • Trailer | One With the Whale: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | One With the Whale

    S25 E15 - 30s

    Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the importance of the hunt to his community's well-being.

  • Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s

    S25 E14 - 30s

    In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother raising a pre-teen daughter becomes a boxing coach and an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates how he will continue to draw as his motor control declines.

  • Trailer | A Thousand Pines: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | A Thousand Pines

    S25 E13 - 30s

    Over the course of a grueling eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees throughout the United States. This intimate portrait shows how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to the family back home.

  • Trailer | Greener Pastures: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Greener Pastures

    S25 E12 - 30s

    Following four multigenerational family farms in the Midwest over several years, Greener Pastures is a story of perseverance and survival within the farming industry in the heartland.

  • RIP Local News: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    RIP Local News

    S25 E11 - 9m 3s

    Some of the biggest news stories in our country were revealed by local journalists; from early 20th century lynchings to the Rodney King beating to the murder of Breonna Taylor, local news was there first. But as budgets drop and outlets disappear, this type of coverage is in jeopardy.

  • How Did Opinions Get In Our News?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Did Opinions Get In Our News?

    S25 E11 - 7m 44s

    Even though objectivity is seen as the gold standard for news coverage, OpEds and commentary have been part of the news landscape since the early days of America – and it's not always easy to spot the difference between facts and opinion.

  • Has Journalism Always Been This Stressful?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Has Journalism Always Been This Stressful?

    S25 E11 - 8m 52s

    As news evolved over the last 40 years from a single daily paper or nightly news show to something that's pushed 24/7, a mental health crisis has taken shape in our newsrooms as journalists race to cover traumatic events and get the most views.

  • Trailer | Breaking The News: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Breaking The News

    S25 E11 - 30s

    A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo to launch news startup The 19th*.

  • Trailer | Razing Liberty Square: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Razing Liberty Square

    S25 E9 - 30s

    Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the United States. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.

Schedule

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    Independent Lens

    Storming Caesars Palace

    Saturday
    Mar 23

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of mothers fighting for a universal basic income.
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    Independent Lens

    Mama Bears

    Saturday
    Mar 23

    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

    Storming Caesars Palace

    Sunday
    Mar 24

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of mothers fighting for a universal basic income.
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    Independent Lens

    Storming Caesars Palace

    Monday
    Mar 25

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of mothers fighting for a universal basic income.
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    Independent Lens: Greener Pastures: TVSS: Iconic

    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Monday
    Mar 25

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Tuesday
    Mar 26

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Tuesday
    Mar 26

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Wednesday
    Mar 27

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Thursday
    Mar 28

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Thursday
    Mar 28

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
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    Independent Lens

    Move Me

    Friday
    Mar 29

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    A woman's quest to redefine who she is after a dive into Lake Superior results in a life-altering injury.
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    Independent Lens

    Move Me

    Saturday
    Mar 30

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    A woman's quest to redefine who she is after a dive into Lake Superior results in a life-altering injury.
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    Independent Lens

    Move Me

    Saturday
    Mar 30

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    A woman's quest to redefine who she is after a dive into Lake Superior results in a life-altering injury.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: Greener Pastures: TVSS: Iconic

    Independent Lens

    Greener Pastures

    Saturday
    Mar 30

    2 Hours

    A look at American farming through the stories of Midwestern farmers facing increased economic uncertainty.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: TVSS: Iconic

    Independent Lens

    Move Me

    Saturday
    Mar 30

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    A woman's quest to redefine who she is after a dive into Lake Superior results in a life-altering injury.
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    Independent Lens

    Tuesday
    Apr 2

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    As the title suggests, a series of documentaries resembles an independent film festival in its diversity of subject matter, from hula dancing to crossword mania as captured by a roster of edgy and creative filmmakers.
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    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Wednesday
    Apr 3

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
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    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Thursday
    Apr 4

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Thursday
    Apr 4

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.

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