Home Court

1h 24m

Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

Episodes

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    Home Court

    S26 E14 - 1h 24m

    Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

  • Bike Vessel: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Bike Vessel

    S26 E13 - 1h 24m

    Knowing his dad miraculously recovered from three open-heart surgeries after discovering a passion for cycling, filmmaker Eric D. Seals proposes an ambitious idea: Bike together from St. Louis to Chicago. 350 miles. 4 days. On their journey, the two push each other as they find a deeper connection and a renewed appreciation of their quests for their own health and to reimagine Black health.

  • Skin of Glass: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Skin of Glass

    S26 E12 - 1h 25m

    A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

  • The In Between: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The In Between

    S26 E11 - 1h 23m

    Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas bordertown where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family. She finds a treasure trove of his own footage that brings him back to life, sparking a reflection on growing up Mexican American along the U.S.-Mexico border. She rediscovers the beautiful mysteries of their complex hometown.

  • The Strike: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Strike

    S26 E10 - 1h 24m

    The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike that spread into a feat of unity across California prisons. The Strike follows these solitary survivors who fought to abolish indefinite isolation.

  • Without Arrows: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Without Arrows

    S26 E9 - 1h 25m

    After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Leaving his big city life behind, Delwin aims to protect his centuries-old Lakota heritage and heal from family tragedy, through his passion for dance.

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    Minted

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    An insider’s look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon and how technology transformed the traditional art world, for better and worse. Featuring verité footage and candid interviews with groundbreaking artists—like Beeple, Latasha Alcindor, and Loish— at the center of this phenomenon, Minted delves into the complex world of the $40 billion NFT digital art market.

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    Dallas, 2019 | Episode 5

    S26 E7 - 48m 3s

    Featuring intimate stories of workers and young people—the chief medical examiner, a hospital worker, an auto body shop owner, and a high school senior—who all in their own ways make Dallas what it is, the final episode of Dallas, 2019 poses the question: What does it mean to be alive?

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    Dallas, 2019 | Episode 4

    S26 E6 - 54m 56s

    Meet a criminal district attorney bringing reform to a complex and disparate justice system; a judge who is dedicated to breaking cycles of incarceration and knows what it's like to have a loved one in the system; the unapologetic owner of the largest bail bonds company in Dallas; and a community organizer with a mighty voice and warrior spirit.

  • Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3

    S26 E5 - 50m 23s

    Three spirits with longstanding Texas roots struggle with their place in the world: a transgender woman working at an LGBTQ organization lives her full truth; a Dallas County Court commissioner has given 40 years of his life to his work but questions his role and identity; and the director of Health and Human Services wrestles with his new role while reflecting on his Asian American roots.

  • Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2

    S26 E4 - 51m 41s

    Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student prepares to navigate the real world; Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa reflects on sacrifices he's made in his career for a failing system; and Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown looks for respect while questioning the future of law enforcement amidst a seemingly endless cycle of incarceration.

  • Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1

    S26 E3 - 52m 3s

    Tornados. Drive-by shootings. Environmental racism, The stark North-South Dallas economic divide. Dallas residents and city workers like City Manager T.C. Broadnax respond to the causal effects of natural and human-caused disasters while navigating a city in crisis.

Extras + Features

  • Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's

    S26 E17 - 30s

    Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s is an intimate portrayal of three families confronting the unique challenges of Alzheimer’s and how this progressive neurodegenerative disease transforms roles and relationships. Whether it's a partner caring for a loved one or an adult child shifting into being their parent's caregiver, these stories show how families evolve when a loved one is diagnosed.

  • Trailer | And So It Begins: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | And So It Begins

    S26 E18 - 30s

    And So It Begins follows the Philippines’ turbulent 2022 presidential race, with the son of ousted former dictator Ferdinand Marcos waging a combative social media campaign against his more progressive opponent, incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo. Following it all is independent journalist and Nobel-winner Maria Ressa, with an eye toward the specter of increasing autocracy.

  • Trailer | Free For All: The Public Library: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Free For All: The Public Library

    S26 E16 - 30s

    Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen. From pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures. Free for All shows how libraries have always been a sanctuary for generations of Americans.

  • Trailer | WE WANT THE FUNK!: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | WE WANT THE FUNK!

    S26 E15 - 30s

    We Want the Funk is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on both new wave and hip-hop.

  • Home Court Advantage Ep 1: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Home Court Advantage Ep 1

    S26 E14 - 6m 7s

    Southern Californian basketball player-turned-expert crossfit trainer Jamie Hagiya puts our hosts through the wringer with five increasingly challenging, sweat-inducing exercises while telling the story of her journey to become a formidable force in fitness.

  • Trailer | Home Court: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Home Court

    S26 E14 - 30s

    Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California. As her high school career crescendos, her life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph as her natural talent inspires the support of those around her.

  • Spring 2025 Sneak Peak: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Spring 2025 Sneak Peak

    S26 E20 - 1m

    Get ready for our upcoming documentaries: WE WANT THE FUNK!, Who is Michael Jang?, Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's, and Free for All: The Public Library.
    INDEPENDENT LENS returns with a season of powerful stories that celebrate resilience and connection. Watch the new films on the PBS app this Spring!

  • Trailer | Bike Vessel: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Bike Vessel

    S26 E13 - 30s

    Knowing his dad miraculously recovered from three open-heart surgeries after discovering a passion for cycling, filmmaker Eric D. Seals proposes an ambitious idea: Bike together from St. Louis to Chicago. 350 miles. 4 days. On their journey, the two push each other as they find a deeper connection and a renewed appreciation of their quests for their own health and to reimagine Black health.

  • Trailer | Skin of Glass: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Skin of Glass

    S26 E12 - 30s

    A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

  • Trailer | The In Between: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | The In Between

    S26 E11 - 30s

    Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas bordertown where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family. She finds a treasure trove of his own footage that brings him back to life, sparking a reflection on growing up Mexican American along the U.S.-Mexico border. She rediscovers the beautiful mysteries of their complex hometown.

  • Trailer | The Strike: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | The Strike

    S26 E10 - 30s

    The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike that spread into a feat of unity across California prisons. The Strike follows these solitary survivors who fought to abolish indefinite isolation.

  • Trailer | Without Arrows: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Without Arrows

    S26 E9 - 30s

    After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Leaving his big city life behind, Delwin aims to protect his centuries-old Lakota heritage and heal from family tragedy, through his passion for dance.

Schedule

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    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Friday
    Apr 4

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
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    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Saturday
    Apr 5

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Saturday
    Apr 5

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Saturday
    Apr 5

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Tuesday
    Apr 8

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Tuesday
    Apr 8

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Wednesday
    Apr 9

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Wednesday
    Apr 9

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Wednesday
    Apr 9

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Wednesday
    Apr 9

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Thursday
    Apr 10

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Thursday
    Apr 10

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Thursday
    Apr 10

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    A Thousand Pines

    Thursday
    Apr 10

    1 Hour

    Over eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America, showing how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to family back home.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Saturday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Saturday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Saturday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Sunday
    Apr 13

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
  • Image
    Independent Lens: WE WANT THE FUNK!: TVSS: Banner-L1

    Independent Lens

    WE WANT THE FUNK!

    Monday
    Apr 14

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

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