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 | 28 |
| Season 6 | October 2004 | June 2005 | 27 |
| Season 7 | October 2005 | June 2006 | 29 |
| Season 8 | October 2006 | June 2007 | 27 |
| 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 | 31 |
| Season 16 | October 2014 | June 2015 | 20 |
| Season 17 | November 2015 | August 2016 | 22 |
| Season 18 | October 2016 | June 2017 | 21 |
| Season 19 | November 2017 | May 2018 | 20 |
| Season 20 | October 2018 | August 2020 | 20 |
| Season 21 | October 2019 | June 2020 | 19 |
| Season 22 | September 2020 | June 2021 | 16 |
| 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 28 | September 2026 | October 2026 | 3 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 0 | ||
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Season 19 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 575 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 575 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li Lu | 3 | 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023 | |
| Marco Williams | 2 | 02/19/2008 - 04/29/2013 | |
| Steven Bognar | 2 | 06/21/2006 - 06/22/2006 | |
| Matthew Buzzell | 2 | 02/24/2004 - 04/01/2008 | |
| Johnny Symons | 2 | 06/03/2003 - 06/06/2009 | |
| 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 | |
| Lisa Gildehaus | 1 | 02/21/2006 | |
| María Teresa Rodríguez | 1 | 11/15/2005 | |
| Adrian Belic | 1 | 01/23/2007 | |
| Gonzalo Arijon | 1 | 05/19/2009 | |
| Nicole Cattell | 1 | 12/19/2006 | |
| Joel P. Engardio | 1 | 05/22/2007 | |
| Jihan El-Tahri | 1 | 02/23/2010 | |
| Jonathan Robinson | 1 | 04/06/2004 | |
| Rachel Grady | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| 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 | |
| Brigitte Brault | 1 | 11/16/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| David Cutler | 1 | 05/31/2005 | |
| 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 G. Berger | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| Charles Burnett | 1 | 02/10/2004 | |
| Daniel Junge | 1 | 03/18/2008 | |
| Joanne Caputo | 1 | 02/15/2005 | |
| Yael Klopmann | 1 | 10/30/2007 | |
| 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 | |
| Kate Hirson | 1 | 04/12/2005 | |
| David Fisher | 1 | 04/13/2004 | |
| Daresha Kyi | 1 | 06/20/2023 | |
| Jon Shenk | 1 | 04/22/2013 | |
| Leslie Sullivan | 1 | 01/11/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Anayansi Prado | 1 | 11/29/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Barbara Ettinger | 1 | 11/28/2006 | |
| Sedika Mojadidi | 1 | 02/13/2007 | |
| Scott Dalton | 1 | 04/18/2006 | |
| Heidi Ewing | 1 | 05/27/2013 | |
| Debbie Lum | 1 | 05/06/2013 | |
| Aaron Matthews | 1 | 12/11/2007 | |
| Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky | 1 | 04/28/2009 | |
| Spencer Nakasako | 1 | 05/11/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Meema Spadola | 1 | 05/24/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Kayo Hatta | 1 | 05/09/2006 | |
| Rodrigo Reyes | 1 | 09/19/2023 | |
| Margaret Brown | 1 | 02/24/2009 | |
| Kim Longinotto | 1 | 11/27/2007 | |
| Ferne Pearlstein | 1 | 06/08/2004 | |
| Frank Popper | 1 | 02/27/2007 | |
| Lizzie Gottlieb | 1 | 01/08/2008 | |
| Julianna Brannum | 1 | 11/20/2007 | |
| Ramin Bahrani | 1 | 06/01/2010 | |
| Yvonne Smith | 1 | 10/11/2005 | |
| Jan Louter | 1 | 12/12/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Diane Zander | 1 | 12/14/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Jørgen Flindt Pedersen | 1 | 11/08/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| François Verster | 1 | 04/05/2005 | |
| Lisa Merton | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Tom Putnam | 1 | 11/06/2007 | |
| Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund | 1 | 05/05/2009 | |
| Mickey Lemle | 1 | 04/20/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Sandy Northrop | 1 | 05/17/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| Bann Roy | 1 | 03/28/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Roy Westler | 1 | 01/16/2007 | |
| Billy Luther | 1 | 11/13/2007 | |
| Elizabeth Massie | 1 | 04/01/2008 | |
| Maria Finitzo | 1 | 01/15/2008 | |
| Kief Davidson | 1 | 05/23/2006 | |
| 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 | |
| Phillip Rodriguez | 1 | 11/23/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Simone Duarte | 1 | 10/18/2005 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Rachel Lyon | 1 | 03/02/2007 | |
| Alan Dater | 1 | 04/14/2009 | |
| Lexi Leban | 1 | 01/17/2006 | |
| Ela Troyano | 1 | 06/05/2007 | |
| Cal Skaggs | 1 | 11/21/2006 | |
| Liz Oakley | 1 | 03/02/2004 | |
| 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 | |
| Suzanne Wasserman | 1 | 02/22/2005 | |
| 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 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lois Vossen | 1 | 11/10/2009 | |
| Dick Rude | 1 | 04/26/2005 | |
| Eric Martin | 1 | 11/10/2009 | |
| Lisa Ko | 1 | 12/12/2006 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrence Howard | 1 | 03/02/2007 |
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