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What Was Ours - Trailer

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Residents of Wyoming's isolated Wind River Indian Reservation, a young Arapaho journalist, and a teenage powwow princess travel with a Shoshone elder to search for missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago's Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost, and build hope for the future.
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Bill's Obsession

1m 35s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film The Witness, Bill Genovese tells the rest of his family over dinner that he wants to reach out to their sister’s murderer, 50 years later. His siblings do not take Bill's expanding obsession well.
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Material That Will Be Here for 100,000 Years

1m 42s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Containment, two former Chairs of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission express concern about the safety of nuclear power and waste. And even for towns like Carlsbad, New Mexico, home of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), that did "want it," the question is asked, what about the people who will live there 100-200 years in the future?
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Scenarios 10,000 Years in the Future

2m 12s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Containment that features graphic novel style animation, scientists and futurists explain different scenarios in which future peoples, and possibly visitors to planet Earth, need to be warned about our radioactive waste buried underground. Whether it's drilling robots or looting humans, no scenario is too gloom-and-doomy to explore.
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Savannah River Site Nuclear Facility: No Fishing

1m 29s
This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Containment takes a tour of the swampy area in Burke County, Georgia, adjacent to Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The distance separating the two is the width of the river itself. "No fishing" signs dot the area, and as one of our guides points out, a lot of people think that's a territory thing rather than a warning about radioactive fish.
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Containment - Trailer

30s
Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge, covering a great amount of land. Governments around the world are imagining society 10,000 years from now to create monuments protecting future generations. Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative but troubled distant future, exploring the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
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Containment - Material That Will Last 100,000 Years - Clip

1m 42s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Containment, two former Chairs of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission express concern about the safety of nuclear power and waste. And even for towns like Carlsbad, New Mexico, home of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), that did "want it," the question is asked, what about the people who will live there 100-200 years in the future?
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Containment - Scenarios 10,000 Years in the Future - Clip

2m 12s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Containment that features graphic novel style animation, scientists and futurists explain different scenarios in which future peoples, and possibly visitors to planet Earth, need to be warned about our radioactive waste buried underground. Whether it's drilling robots or looting humans, no scenario is too gloom-and-doomy to explore.
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Containment - Nuclear Fishing - Clip

1m 29s
This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Containment takes a tour of the swampy area in Burke County, Georgia, adjacent to Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The distance separating the two is the width of the river itself. "No fishing" signs dot the area, and as one of our guides points out, a lot of people think that's a territory thing rather than a warning about radioactive fish.
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Containment - Trailer

30s
Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge, covering a great amount of land. Governments around the world are imagining society 10,000 years from now to create monuments protecting future generations. Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative but troubled distant future, exploring the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
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A Flogger for Christmas

2m 29s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Best and Most Beautiful Things, the legally blind Michelle gets more comfortable with her new boyfriend Michael, who gets her a flogger for Christmas. This is part of their adventurous exploration of BDSM and alternative lifestyles.
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"It's Not You, It's the Autism Speaking"

2m 40s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things, Michelle Smith, a legally blind young woman on autism spectrum, confronts a former teacher who meant well but had low expectations for Michelle's future. From her perspective the teacher saw her as someone with a disability who needed to be "fixed," who treated her as a child rather than a quirky individual.
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Online vs. Offline When You're Blind

1m 58s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things, Michelle Smith, a precocious young woman who is legally blind, shows how communicating in online communities makes her feel more equal, but going out into the real world is a lot more stressful — as she demonstrates when having a panic attack when she briefly can't find her favorite backpack.
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Best and Most Beautiful Things - Autism Speaking - Clips

2m 40s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things, Michelle Smith, a legally blind young woman on autism spectrum, confronts a former teacher who meant well but had low expectations for Michelle's future. From her perspective the teacher saw her as someone with a disability who needed to be "fixed," who treated her as a child rather than a quirky individual.
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Best and Most Beautiful Things - Blind Online vs IRL - Clip

1m 58s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things, Michelle Smith, a precocious young woman who is legally blind, shows how communicating in online communities makes her feel more equal, but going out into the real world is a lot more stressful — as she demonstrates when having a panic attack when she briefly can't find her favorite backpack.
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Best and Most Beautiful Things - Trailer

30s
Michelle, a precocious 20-year-old woman living in rural Maine with her mother, is legally blind and on the autism spectrum. With big dreams and varied passions, she explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative sex-positive community. Best and Most Beautiful Things tells Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery as a celebration of outcasts everywhere.
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Independent Lens: Best and Most Beautiful Things - Trailer

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Michelle, a precocious 20-year-old woman living in rural Maine with her mother, is legally blind and on the autism spectrum. With big dreams and varied passions, she explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative sex-positive community. Best and Most Beautiful Things tells Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery as a celebration of outcasts everywhere.
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The Most Unnecessary Pep Speech

1m 32s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Meet the Patels, Ravi Patel attends a wedding with his parents, who, much to Ravi's embarrassment, try to discretely (but not discretely) set him up with someone's daughter.
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Patels Must Marry Patels

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Meet the Patels, Ravi Patel arrives in India for a trip with his parents, who are very eager for him to marry, and not so eager for him to date a white woman. As Ravi explains, everyone in his huge family have the last name Patel. "Patels must marry Patels," meaning that all come from same region of India, not literally related.
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