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Independent Lens | God Loves Uganda
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Watch Monday, May 19, 2014 at midnight | Explore a place where religion and African culture intersect.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | Let the Fire Burn
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Watch Monday, May 12, 2014 at midnight | Review the feud between Philadelphia police and radical group MOVE that ended tragically in 1985.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | A Fragile Trust
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Watch Monday, May 5, 2014 at midnight | Hear the shocking story of a promising young reporter caught plagiarizing and supplementing his own reporting with fabricated details.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | Brothers Hypnotic
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Watch Monday, April 7, 2014 at midnight | See how the eight band members test their father’s ideals against their own brotherly vision.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | All Of Me: A Story of Love, Loss and Last Resorts
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Watch Monday, March 24, 2014 at midnight | Witness the issues and consequences of weight-loss surgery for the morbidly obese “Girls.”
Read MoreIndependent Lens | Las Marthas
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Watch Monday, February 17, 2014 at midnight | Follow the Mexican-American girls who help preserve the Martha Washington debutante ball in Laredo.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | Spies of Mississippi
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Watch Monday, February 10, 2014 at midnight | Learn about a spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi in the 50s-60s to preserve segregation.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | The State of Arizona
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Watch Monday, January 27, 2014 at midnight | Witness the tense emotions and complex realities behind Arizona’s struggle with illegal immigration.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | Blood Brother
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Watch Monday, January 20, 2014 at midnight | Trace Rocky Braat’s journey from America to India, where he devotes his life to HIV-infected orphans.
Read MoreIndependent Lens | At Berkeley
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Watch Monday, January 13, 2014 at midnight | Go back to school in Frederick Wiseman’s intimate and sprawling documentary about UC Berkeley.
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