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  1. THE NEW AMERICANS now Available on iTunes

    June 19, 2009

    With another season of Independent Lens ending do you feel lost? Don’t worry––we have something to fill that void. Check out THE NEW AMERICANS, now available for download in the United States on iTunes.THE NEW AMERICANS will air this summer, beginning July 5, at 10:00 PM on Global Voices on PBS WORLD (check local listings). This seven-part series looks at…

  2. Watch STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME Tonight on Independent Lens

    May 26, 2009

    They say, "Love conquers all." Or at least that's what Jack Polak thought while struggling for survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Jack, his wife Manja and his new love, Ina, all end up living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the relationship, in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which…

  3. Watch WINGS OF DEFEAT Tonight on Independent Lens

    May 5, 2009

    What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she wondered the same thing. Through rare interviews with surviving Kamikaze pilots, Morimoto retraces their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots and reveals a complex…

  4. Watch THE DEVIL'S MINER on Global Voices on PBS WORLD

    May 1, 2009

    Living in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother, Bernardino, brave deadly conditions while working long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines to earn enough money to attend school. THE DEVIL'S MINER follows the brothers into the underground mining tunnels where they tempt fate to gain a…

  5. Global Voices Channel on Hulu

    April 29, 2009

    ITVS and PBS partner Hulu recently launched the Global Voices Channel, featuring 18 full-length episodes from the first season. Global Voices offers an international perspective through intimate and uncommon stories by and about everyday people, made by independent filmmakers from around the globe. A great success in the online video world, Hulu…

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