In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs

"CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America, a documentary feature on the PBS series Independent Lens, begins with the arresting picture … of downtown Los Angeles hanging upside down in the sky. It's a simple but surprisingly potent image … and it captures as well as anything the menace and nonsense of its subject, the self-destructive assertion of territory and tribe." Read full review >>

"It isn't often that people get to explain, on national television, why they ate their companions. Still, that, exactly, is what the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash get to do on STRANDED––an Independent Lens film." Read more >>

Veteran linguists Alex Nicholson and Jarrod Chlapowski and Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire discuss the Independent Lens film ASK NOT. Listen to the interview >>

"Think back to the last time you were so gripped or inspired by something you saw on television that you felt compelled to get involved … Enter Community Cinema. Run by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), producers of the PBS documentary film series Independent Lens, Community Cinema combines screenings of selected Independent Lens films with panel discussions about the important social issues the films explore." Read more >>

"Deborah Dickson’s documentary … looks at the many betrayals and losses endured by Hmong refugees. WITNESSES TO A SECRET WAR [on Global Voices on PBS WORLD] includes interviews with multiple subjects, refugees…" Read full review >>