Independent Lens

- Season 15

(2018)

Wildland tells the story of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, love and defeat all over the course of a single fire season. What emerges is a story of a small group of working class men, their exterior world, their interior lives and the fire that lies between.

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Five content moderators in Manila, Philippines, monitor and delete offensive, pornographic and subversive posts on social media sites, including Facebook and YouTube.

Kholoud al-Faqih becomes the first woman judge appointed to the Middle East's Sharia's (Islamic Law) courts.

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The rise and fall of the North Dakota oil boom, and a look at the long-term consequences of short-term approaches to land use.

Rodents of Unusual Size is a real-life horror "tail." Louisiana residents south of New Orleans have faced many an environmental threat, from oil spills to devastating hurricanes, but a growing menace now lurks in the bayous and backwaters: hordes of monstrous 20-pound swamp rats known as nutria. The voracious appetite of this invasive species from South America is accelerating erosion of the state's coastal wetlands, already one of the largest disappearing landmasses in the world, but the people who have lived there for generations are not the type of folks to give up...

The Native American influence in popular music, including the Native American roots of early pioneers of the blues and jazz and how Native Americans helped define the evolution of the folk-rock era that took hold in the 1960's and 1970's.

Filmed in 2016, Elvis Presley's Rolls Royce tours the US and celebrities, musicians and regular Americans go for a ride and talk about Elvis's life but there is a twist. From country boy from the poor side of town through his life as the most famous man in the world but then compared to the American dream. A dream that is unrealistic, that The Colonel who manipulated Elvis and all the other con men of the country who have monetized the dream in their favor. A perfect counterpoint to the coming Trump administration.

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How the success of live-streaming entertainment has affected China's youth.

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