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Independent Lens | February 2025

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Independent Lens | February 2025

INDEPENDENT LENS is an Emmy® Award-winning PBS documentary series. With founding executive producer Lois Vossen, the series has been honored with 10 Academy Award nominations and features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Stream anytime on the PBS app. 

For more visit pbs.org/independentlens.

Independent Lens #2610
The Strike
Monday, February 3, 9pm

How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 02/03/2025 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 02/05/2025 @ 2:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 02/05/2025 @ 6:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 02/05/2025 @ 11:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 02/06/2025 @ 7:30 AM
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WTVP SpotsIndependent Lens #2610 | The Strike | Trailer
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How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement spread into a massive statewide protest.

WTVP SpotsIndependent Lens #2611 | The In Between | Trailer
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Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns home to Texas to reflect on fronterizo life.

Independent Lens #2611
The In Between
Monday, February 10, 9pm

A documentary feature film about joy, loss, and coming of age on the Texas/Mexico border. Following her brother’s death, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas border town where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family.

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  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 02/15/2025 @ 11:00 AM

Independent Lens #2612
Skin of Glass
Monday, February 17, 9pm

A filmmaker discovers her architect father's renowned building in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by unhoused people, setting her on a journey to reckon with Brazil's harsh inequality.

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  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 02/19/2025 @ 6:30 PM
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WTVP SpotsIndependent Lens #2612 | Skin of Glass | Trailer
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A filmmaker learns her architect father's iconic building in Sao Paulo is occupied by the unhoused.

WTVP SpotsIndependent Lens #2613 | Bike Vessel | Trailer
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Father and son bond on an ambitious, 350-mile bike ride in this portrait of familial love.

Independent Lens #2613
Bike Vessel
Monday, February 24, 9pm

After multiple heart surgeries, a 70-year-old man transforms his life to become an avid cyclist. When he and his son embark on a long-distance ride from St. Louis to Chicago, they push each other in their quests to reimagine Black health.

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  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 02/27/2025 @ 12:30 AM
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