Independent Lens - Sezonul 14
Independent Lens

Independent Lens - Sezonul 14

  • 2012
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  • 24 de episoade, 20 difuzate
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  • 6,0TMDb
24 de episoade

Episoade Independent Lens - Sezonul 14

  1. S14E01

    1. As Goes Janesville

    • 8 octombrie 2012
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    • 60 min

    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.

  2. S14E02

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

    • 2 octombrie 2012
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    • 60 min

    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.

  4. S14E05

    5. Solar Mamas

    • 5 noiembrie 2012
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    • 60 min
  6. S14E07

    7. Soul Food Junkies

    • 14 ianuarie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  7. S14E08

    8. Beauty Is Embarrassing

    • 21 ianuarie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  8. S14E09

    9. The Revisionaries

    • 28 ianuarie 2013
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    • 60 min

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

  10. S14E11

    11. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

    • 25 februarie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  12. S14E13

    13. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

    • 15 aprilie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  14. S14E15

    15. The Undocumented

    • 29 aprilie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  15. S14E16

    16. Seeking Asian Female

    • 6 mai 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  16. S14E17

    17. The Invisible War

    • 13 mai 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  17. S14E18

    18. Detropia

    • 27 mai 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

  18. S14E19

    19. The Revolutionary Optimists

    • 17 iunie 2013
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    • 60 min

    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.

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