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The Invisible War Nominated for Academy Award

30s / TV-PG
PBS congratulates the filmmakers of The Invisible War nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Compelling, powerful, and part of the national converation about U.S. military service, The Invisible War is coming to Independent Lens this Memorial Day.
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Seeking Asian Female: When Steven Met Sandy

1m 55s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film, Seeking Asian Female, Steven, the film's protagonist, cleans house in preparation for a visit from Sandy, the Chinese woman he met on the Internet who he hopes will agree to marry him.
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Seeking Asian Female: What About Interracial Marriage?

7m 6s / TV-PG
Looking beyond personal ad profiles and first dates, how do cross-cultural relationships with or without the “tarnish of yellow fever” work in the long term? Interviews with interracial couples, as well as experts and those on the hunt for love reflect on what it takes for initial attraction to evolve into real and lasting commitment.
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Seeking Asian Female: What is "Yellow Fever"?

4m 20s / TV-PG
In this video companion piece to the Independent Lens documentary, Seeking Asian Female, the filmmakers survey people in interracial relationships on the topic of yellow fever: Western white men having an obsession with East Asian women. In this and the other episodes, They’re All so Beautiful opens with a question, provides answers, and then asks some more.
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Seeking Asian Female: Do Asian Women Have "White Fever"?

7m 57s
When it comes to "yellow fever,” many argue it’s a two way street. In this webisode, Asian women confess reasons for preferring white men including that they’re “more confident, better looking.” Academics unpack the reasons why, including “hiergamy,” the sociologists’ term to describe a universal female desire for marrying above one’s own socioeconomic status.
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Coming to Independent Lens: Seeking Asian Female

30s / TV-PG
Two strangers — an elderly American man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered through the internet, but they get more than they bargained for when she moves across the Pacific to start a new life with him in America, in this intimate and quirky, personal documentary about modern love.
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The Undocumented: A Family Endures the Tragic Side of the Im

3m 15s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, The Undocumented by acclaimed filmmaker Marco Williams, a young man describes how his grandmother -- a woman named Blanca -- died while accompanying him during his border crossing. Confronting their grief over this terrible loss, her son says "without a doubt, these are very hard times."
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An Organization Reunites Undocumented Dead with Families

2m 27s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, The Undocumented by acclaimed filmmaker Marco Williams, a staff member of the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos describes how the organization keeps records of missing migrants and their recovered bodies. They try to notify the family members of the deceased so that they may be identified, but each year more and more bodies are found.
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The Undocumented: Forensics Cannot Explain Why Mother and Da

1m 45s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, The Undocumented by acclaimed filmmaker Marco Williams, a forensics expert examines the remains of a mother and her young daughter, explaining that both perished in the desert while migrating to the U.S. However, no one knows why they were left along in the desert, or which of them died first.
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Coming to Independent Lens: The Undocumented

30s / TV-PG
Border Patrol agents, Native Americans, smugglers, ranchers, retirees and Samaritans form a constellation of people engaged with the Arizona/Mexico border on a daily basis—policing it, inhabiting it, crossing it, working it, making it safer or simply feeling its consequences. But at the center of it all is the migrants, who sometimes die while trying to cross an unforgiving desert.
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Coming to Independent Lens: The Island President

2m 27s / TV-PG
See the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced - the literal survival of his country and everyone in it, as the most low-lying country in the world, a minor rise in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives.
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The Island President: Democracy in Maldives

16m 14s
This educational module chronicles the democratic movement in the Maldives and the human rights violations for which its longstanding autocratic regime was responsible. This lesson explores the basic premise of human rights, the history of human rights abuse and its consequences, human rights in the contemporary media, and the application of human rights issues to modern American life.
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The Island President: Climate Politics

2m 54s
The Maldivian fight for its survival in the face of a rising sea level is a profound microcosm of the global situation. This educational module examines the factors behind global climate change, its detrimental ecological and cultural effects, and the means by which it can be mitigated, on both local and international levels.
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The Island President: Underwater Meeting

1m 29s
The Maldivian fight for its survival in the face of a rising sea level is a profound microcosm of the global situation. This educational module portrays President Nasheed's creative media strategy of staging an underwater cabinet meeting to draw attention to the crisis.
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Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines: Me

2m 2s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, we meet working mom, Carmela Lane, and hear why she identifies so strongly with her favorite superheroine...so much so that she has not one, but two Wonder Woman tattoos!
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Gloria Steinem on Wonder Woman

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Iconic activist, Gloria Steinem, is featured in the upcoming Independent Lens film, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, which traces the evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. In this short interview Gloria Steinem reminisces on her own childhood and remembers her favorite Superheroine, Wonder Women.
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Coming Soon to Independent Lens: Wonder Women!

30s / TV-PG
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation.
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