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 of their independent producers. INDEPENDENT LENS features unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history. The series is supported by interactive companion Web sites and national publicity and community engagement campaigns. Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Stanley Tucci hosts the series.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | March 2004 | June 2021 | 17 |
| Season 1 | August 1999 | October 1999 | 10 |
| Season 2 | October 2000 | December 2000 | 10 |
| Season 3 | September 2001 | November 2001 | 10 |
| Season 4 | February 2003 | June 2003 | 14 |
| Season 5 | October 2003 | June 2004 | 27 |
| Season 6 | October 2004 | June 2005 | 26 |
| Season 7 | October 2005 | June 2006 | 28 |
| Season 8 | October 2006 | June 2007 | 26 |
| Season 9 | October 2007 | June 2008 | 26 |
| Season 10 | October 2008 | September 2009 | 26 |
| Season 11 | October 2009 | June 2010 | 27 |
| Season 12 | October 2010 | June 2011 | 25 |
| Season 13 | October 2011 | July 2012 | 27 |
| Season 14 | October 2012 | June 2013 | 18 |
| Season 15 | October 2012 | June 2014 | 24 |
| Season 16 | October 2014 | June 2015 | 20 |
| Season 17 | November 2015 | August 2016 | 22 |
| Season 18 | October 2016 | June 2017 | 20 |
| Season 19 | November 2017 | May 2018 | 20 |
| Season 20 | October 2018 | August 2020 | 20 |
| Season 21 | October 2019 | June 2020 | 19 |
| Season 22 | October 2020 | June 2021 | 14 |
| Season 23 | October 2021 | May 2022 | 15 |
| Season 24 | September 2022 | June 2023 | 16 |
| Season 25 | September 2023 | May 2024 | 17 |
| Season 26 | September 2024 | May 2025 | 19 |
| Season 27 | October 2025 | July 2026 | 15 |
| Season 2027 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 14 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 0 | ||
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Season 19 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 572 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 572 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li Lu | 3 | 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023 | |
| Maro Chermayeff | 2 | 10/01/2012 - 10/02/2012 | |
| Gary Hustwit | 2 | 01/06/2009 - 11/24/2009 | |
| Nicole Newnham | 2 | 05/15/2007 - 06/17/2013 | |
| Steve James | 2 | 03/30/2004 - 03/31/2004 | |
| Marco Williams | 2 | 02/19/2008 - 04/29/2013 | |
| Steven Bognar | 2 | 06/21/2006 - 06/22/2006 | |
| Johnny Symons | 2 | 06/03/2003 - 06/06/2009 | |
| Matthew Buzzell | 2 | 02/24/2004 - 04/01/2008 | |
| Sandra Dickson | 1 | 02/07/2006 | |
| Tim Gallagher | 1 | 01/02/2007 | |
| Alexander Wiaplah | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| Rodney Evans | 1 | 06/14/2005 | |
| Robert Levi | 1 | 02/06/2007 | |
| Leslie Sullivan | 1 | 01/11/2005 | |
| Margarita Martinez | 1 | 04/18/2006 | |
| Siatta Scott Johnson | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Paul Fierlinger | 1 | 10/24/2006 | |
| Loren Mendell | 1 | 02/03/2009 | |
| Anayansi Prado | 1 | 11/29/2005 | |
| Sedika Mojadidi | 1 | 02/13/2007 | |
| Scott Dalton | 1 | 04/18/2006 | |
| Heidi Ewing | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| Barbara Ettinger | 1 | 11/28/2006 | |
| Aaron Matthews | 1 | 12/11/2007 | |
| Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky | 1 | 04/28/2009 | |
| Debbie Lum | 1 | 05/06/2013 | |
| Cynthia Salzman Mondell | 1 | 03/01/2005 | |
| Richard Hall | 1 | 05/27/2004 | |
| Aaron Lubarsky | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| Jay Rosenstein | 1 | 06/15/2004 | |
| Andrew Levine | 1 | 11/30/2004 | |
| Spencer Nakasako | 1 | 05/11/2004 | |
| Kit-Yin Snyder | 1 | 05/04/2004 | |
| Maren Grainger-Monsen | 1 | 06/17/2013 | |
| Heather Rae | 1 | 04/11/2006 | |
| Tami Yeager | 1 | 05/20/2008 | |
| Meema Spadola | 1 | 05/24/2005 | |
| Rodrigo Reyes | 1 | 09/19/2023 | |
| Margaret Brown | 1 | 02/24/2009 | |
| Kim Longinotto | 1 | 11/27/2007 | |
| Ferne Pearlstein | 1 | 06/08/2004 | |
| Kayo Hatta | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| Lizzie Gottlieb | 1 | 01/08/2008 | |
| Julianna Brannum | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| Ramin Bahrani | 1 | 06/01/2010 | |
| Yvonne Smith | 1 | 10/11/2005 | |
| Frank Popper | 1 | 02/27/2007 | |
| Tug Yourgrau | 1 | 06/06/2006 | |
| Jim Butterworth | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| Doug Hawes-Davis | 1 | 04/26/2012 | |
| Joel Katz | 1 | 04/08/2003 | |
| Jan Louter | 1 | 12/12/2006 | |
| Rick Tejada-Flores | 1 | 11/22/2005 | |
| Sam Green | 1 | 04/27/2004 | |
| Gregg Mitman | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| Laura Gabbert | 1 | 03/22/2005 | |
| Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Linda Hawkins Costigan | 1 | 10/24/2006 | |
| Diane Zander | 1 | 12/14/2004 | |
| Chris Eska | 1 | 12/21/2004 | |
| Bradley Beesley | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| David Washburn | 1 | 11/06/2023 | |
| Amy Nicholson | 1 | 10/31/2006 | |
| Jim Granato | 1 | 11/10/2009 | |
| Jørgen Flindt Pedersen | 1 | 11/08/2005 | |
| Laurel Chiten | 1 | 01/30/2007 | |
| Natasha Uppal | 1 | 05/04/2004 | |
| Aaron Woolf | 1 | 04/15/2008 | |
| Lisa Blackstone | 1 | 11/09/2004 | |
| Bill Rose | 1 | 02/28/2006 | |
| Lisa Merton | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Tom Putnam | 1 | 11/06/2007 | |
| Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund | 1 | 05/05/2009 | |
| François Verster | 1 | 04/05/2005 | |
| Allen Mondell | 1 | 03/01/2005 | |
| Alex Gibney | 1 | 04/24/2007 | |
| Marc Francis | 1 | 04/10/2007 | |
| Jordan Mechner | 1 | 06/07/2005 | |
| Goro Toshima | 1 | 01/04/2005 | |
| Mickey Lemle | 1 | 04/20/2004 | |
| Florence Ayisi | 1 | 11/27/2007 | |
| Patrick Creadon | 1 | 10/16/2007 | |
| Brad Lichtenstein | 1 | 02/21/2006 | |
| Daniel Kraus | 1 | 01/03/2006 | |
| Lisette Marie Flanary | 1 | 05/06/2008 | |
| Sandy Northrop | 1 | 05/17/2005 | |
| Frances McElroy | 1 | 11/15/2005 | |
| Frederick Wiseman | 1 | 05/03/2005 | |
| Richard Ladkani | 1 | 05/23/2006 | |
| Stanley Nelson Jr. | 1 | 02/17/2004 | |
| Bann Roy | 1 | 03/28/2006 | |
| Billy Luther | 1 | 11/13/2007 | |
| Elizabeth Massie | 1 | 04/01/2008 | |
| Maria Finitzo | 1 | 01/15/2008 | |
| Kief Davidson | 1 | 05/23/2006 | |
| Roy Westler | 1 | 01/16/2007 | |
| Michael Gramaglia | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| John Scheinfeld | 1 | 11/06/2017 | |
| Frauke Sandig | 1 | 05/16/2006 | |
| Ellen Spiro | 1 | 03/21/2006 | |
| Nishtha Jain, Smriti Nevatia | 1 | 03/24/2009 | |
| Churchill Roberts | 1 | 02/07/2006 | |
| Bernardo Ruiz | 1 | 10/09/2023 | |
| Sarita Siegel | 1 | 06/22/2015 | |
| Paul Devlin | 1 | 01/25/2005 | |
| Eric Black | 1 | 05/16/2006 | |
| Phillip Rodriguez | 1 | 11/23/2004 | |
| Chris Christopher | 1 | 02/14/2006 | |
| Nisha Ganatra | 1 | 06/01/2004 | |
| Reed Harkness | 1 | 05/08/2023 | |
| Taggart Siegel | 1 | 06/13/2006 | |
| Nati Baratz | 1 | 04/07/2010 | |
| Simone Duarte | 1 | 10/18/2005 | |
| Barbara Multer-Wellin | 1 | 11/07/2006 | |
| Elida Schogt | 1 | 05/03/2005 | |
| Byron Hurt | 1 | 02/20/2007 | |
| Sharat Raju | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| John Hanson | 1 | 12/20/2005 | |
| Alan Dater | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Lexi Leban | 1 | 01/17/2006 | |
| Ela Troyano | 1 | 06/05/2007 | |
| Cal Skaggs | 1 | 11/21/2006 | |
| Rachel Lyon | 1 | 03/02/2007 | |
| Holly Maxson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Kirby Dick | 1 | 05/13/2013 | |
| Amanda Micheli | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| Yoni Brook | 1 | 01/22/2008 | |
| Shantha Bloemen | 1 | 03/23/2004 | |
| Liz Oakley | 1 | 03/02/2004 | |
| Raymond Telles | 1 | 11/22/2005 | |
| David Petersen | 1 | 03/29/2005 | |
| Lisa Sleeth | 1 | 12/13/2005 | |
| Jon Alpert | 1 | 10/25/2005 | |
| Linda Hattendorf | 1 | 05/08/2007 | |
| Suzanne Wasserman | 1 | 02/22/2005 | |
| María Teresa Rodríguez | 1 | 11/15/2005 | |
| Adrian Belic | 1 | 01/23/2007 | |
| Gonzalo Arijon | 1 | 05/19/2009 | |
| Lisa Gildehaus | 1 | 02/21/2006 | |
| Joel P. Engardio | 1 | 05/22/2007 | |
| Jihan El-Tahri | 1 | 02/23/2010 | |
| Jonathan Robinson | 1 | 04/06/2004 | |
| Nicole Cattell | 1 | 12/19/2006 | |
| Jim Fields | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| Dan Miller | 1 | 06/06/2006 | |
| David Grabias | 1 | 05/15/2007 | |
| Xiaolu Guo | 1 | 01/29/2008 | |
| David E. Simpson | 1 | 04/07/2009 | |
| Rachel Grady | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| Courtney Hayes | 1 | 01/02/2007 | |
| Daniel Anker | 1 | 05/02/2006 | |
| Nick Francis | 1 | 04/10/2007 | |
| Ron Lamothe | 1 | 10/26/2004 | |
| Ramona Diaz | 1 | 05/10/2005 | |
| Brigitte Brault | 1 | 11/16/2004 | |
| Carvin Eison | 1 | 02/14/2006 | |
| Michael Downing | 1 | 12/21/2004 | |
| Mark Ewert | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| Chris Browne | 1 | 04/25/2006 | |
| Michael Peled | 1 | 04/03/2007 | |
| David Cutler | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| David G. Berger | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Charles Burnett | 1 | 02/10/2004 | |
| Daniel Junge | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Joanne Caputo | 1 | 02/15/2005 | |
| Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle | 1 | 03/27/2017 | |
| Lidia Szajko | 1 | 01/17/2006 | |
| Rebecca Dreyfus | 1 | 03/20/2007 | |
| Weijun Chen | 1 | 10/23/2007 | |
| Yael Klopmann | 1 | 10/30/2007 | |
| Kate Hirson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| David Fisher | 1 | 04/13/2004 | |
| Daresha Kyi | 1 | 06/20/2023 | |
| Jon Shenk | 1 | 04/22/2013 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dick Rude | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| Eric Martin | 1 | 11/10/2009 | |
| Lisa Ko | 1 | 12/12/2006 | |
| Lois Vossen | 1 | 11/10/2009 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrence Howard | 1 | 03/02/2007 |
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