6.7/108 votes#1 - As Goes Janesville
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2012
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2012
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.
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- 8.1/1041 votes
#3 - Love Free or Die
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2012
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1025 votes
#4 - Solar Mamas
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2012
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1011 votes
#5 - Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2012
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Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1010 votes
#6 - Soul Food Junkies
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 1/14/2013
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.
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- 7.8/1024 votes
#7 - Beauty Is Embarrassing
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 1/21/2013
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.
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- 6.0/1013 votes
#8 - The Revisionaries
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 1/28/2013
The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade.
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- 4.6/108 votes
#9 - The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 2/18/2013
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Director: N/A
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- 7.0/109 votes
#10 - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 2/25/2013
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - The House I Live In; As I Am
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2013
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Director: N/A
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- 5.2/1014 votes
#12 - Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/2013
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.
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- 7.4/1012 votes
#13 - The Island President
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/2013
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Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Undocumented
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 4/29/2013
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Seeking Asian Female
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 5/6/2013
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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- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Invisible War
Season 14 Episode 17 - Aired 5/13/2013
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.
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- 7.0/101,250 votes
#17 - Detropia
Season 14 Episode 18 - Aired 5/27/2013
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#18 - The Revolutionary Optimists
Season 14 Episode 19 - Aired 6/17/2013
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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- 7.8/108 votes
#19 - Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
Season 14 Episode 20 - Aired 9/30/2013
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Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#20 - The Waiting Room
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 10/21/2013
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - The Graduates
Season 14 Episode 22 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Young Lakota
Season 14 Episode 24 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Playwright: From Page to Stage
Season 14 Episode 25 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Season 14 Episode 26 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Independent Lens Season 14
Every episode of Independent Lens Season 14 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Independent Lens Season 14!
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
Season 14 Ratings Summary
"As Goes Janesville" is the best rated episode of "Independent Lens" season 14. It scored 6.7/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/8/2012. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)".