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Blessed is the Match Premieres Tonight on Independent Lens on PBS
April 13, 2010"An absorbing story...[filmmaker Roberta] Grossman fashions the narration, interviews, and a wealth of archival footage into a coherent movie..." -Boston Globe Get to know this modern-day Joan of Arc. At age 22, Hannah Senesh parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in an effort to save the Jews of Hungary. As a poet and diarist, she left behind a body of work…
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness Premiering Tonight on Independent Lens on PBS
February 2, 2010"Herskovits 'was one of the most important people you've never heard of... But when it comes to the topic of African-American cultural history, he's at the center of the debate.'" - The Jewish Week Who has the authority to define your identity? Considered one of the most controversial scholars of our time, Melville Herskovits -- a Jewish anthropologist --…
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ITVS Celebrates Black History Month
January 27, 2010ITVS and PBS offers viewers the opportunity to explore the rich and vibrant history and cultural contributions of African Americans throughout the year, but this month offers a special slate of new and encore programs in honor of Black History Month. Independent Lens brings race to the forefront with four new films in February. Herskovits at the Heart of…
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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
October 26, 2009Correspondent Jeffrey Brown interviews Megum Sasaki, the director and producer of HERB & DOROTHY. [TRT: 7 minutes]. Listen now >> "Independent Lens begins its eighth season with Megumi Sasaki’s HERB & DOROTHY, about the unlikely art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel of New York, which Nathan Lee called a 'modest, touching…
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Watch AT HOME IN UTOPIA Tonight on Independent Lens
April 28, 2009A home of your own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal Goldman traces the history of "The Coops," a cooperative apartment complex built in the Bronx by Jewish garment workers. The film tracks the rise and fall of the community from the 1920s into the 1950s, bearing…