![]() | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greeneby Loren Mendell The unlikely story of America's original shock-jock — Petey Greene — who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in the nation's capital. Independent Lens |
![]() | Art & Copyby Doug Pray Meet the real Mad Men (and women!) in Art & Copy, an intimate look at the people behind the curtain of modern consumer culture. Independent Lens |
![]() | The Blinking Madonna & Other Miraclesby Beth Harrington Filmmaker Beth Harrington is sucked into a media vortex when she accidentally captures "the miracle of the Blinking Madonna" on video during an Italian American religious feast, leading her to explore myth and faith in the lives of American Catholic women, including herself. |
![]() | By Invitation Onlyby Rebecca Snedeker New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker gives an unprecedented look at the secrets and inner workings of the old-line Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras. |
![]() | Chicago 10by Brett Morgen Mixing animation and archival footage, Director Brett Morgen’s Chicago 10 explores the buildup to and unraveling of the protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the 1969 conspiracy trial that followed. Independent Lens |
![]() | Copyright Criminalsby Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod Can you own a sound? Copyright Criminals examines the history and influence of musical sampling, provoking debates about copyright, compensation, and creativity in the age of intellectual property. Independent Lens |
![]() | Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Pressby Calvin Skaggs Democracy on Deadline shadows courageous journalists and champions of independent media as they work to make, and keep, their societies free. Independent Lens |
![]() | The Desert of Forbidden Artby Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev The Desert of Forbidden Art is an incredible story about a group of visionary Soviet-era artists and one man who risked his life to rescue their work. Independent Lens |
![]() | Digital Divideby David Bolt This series examines the role technology plays in deepening societal divisions based on race, gender and class, and how the lack of access to computers threatens to widen these gaps. |
![]() | Dottie Gets Spankedby Todd Haynes In one of his early short films — and the only one made for TV — writer/director Todd Haynes tells the post-war suburban tale of a boy whose obsession with an I Love Lucy-esque television comedienne exacerbates his social status as a “feminino,” and his father’s disgust at his “sissified” ways. |
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