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Season 14
S14E16 6 mai 2013 60 min

Seeking Asian Female

Independent Lens - Season 14

Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for when she moves to America to be his bride in this quirky, appealing documentary.

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Season 14

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E1 8 octobre 2012 60 min

As Goes Janesville

Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.

E2 2 octobre 2012 60 min

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)

Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.

E4 29 octobre 2012 60 min

Love Free or Die

E5 5 novembre 2012 60 min

Solar Mamas

E6 12 novembre 2012 60 min

Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream

E7 14 janvier 2013 60 min

Soul Food Junkies

Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity.

E8 21 janvier 2013 60 min

Beauty Is Embarrassing

Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.

E9 28 janvier 2013 60 min

The Revisionaries

The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade.

E10 18 février 2013 60 min

The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights

E11 25 février 2013 60 min

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Profiling Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and later criticized the Games as party propaganda. His opposition to his country's autocratic rule, which he voices in his art and on social media, has caused him many difficulties, as filmmaker Alison Klayman witnesses during the making of this documentary: Government authorities shut down Ai's blog, beat him up, demolish his studio and hold him in secret detention for 81 days.

E12 8 avril 2013 60 min

The House I Live In; As I Am

E13 15 avril 2013 60 min

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and contradictions of heroines within the genre. The film goes behind the scenes with Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna, comic writers and artists, and others who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.

E14 22 avril 2013 60 min

The Island President

E15 29 avril 2013 60 min

The Undocumented

Thousands of migrants have perished in recent years while trying to cross the unforgiving Sonora desert in search of a better life in the United States. The film gives a face to some of the dead, and follows them on their long journey home.

E16 6 mai 2013 60 min

Seeking Asian Female

Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for when she moves to America to be his bride in this quirky, appealing documentary.

E17 13 mai 2013 60 min

The Invisible War

The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

E18 27 mai 2013 60 min

Detropia

Can the Motor City rise from its ashes? A dynamic cluster of local innovators, entrepreneurs, and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers” are poised to resurrect Detroit. The result could be a radically new city for the postindustrial age.

E19 17 juin 2013 60 min

The Revolutionary Optimists

Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sown hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders in improving health, health, transforming their communities for the better.

E20 30 septembre 2013 60 min 6,0

Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey

E21 21 octobre 2013 60 min

The Waiting Room

E22 60 min

The Graduates

E24 60 min

Young Lakota

E25 60 min

Playwright: From Page to Stage

E26 60 min

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

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