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Coded Bias
March 22, 2021
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within facial recognition algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
TV Schedule
2022 Season
Trailer | This Fall on Independent Lens
September 12, 2022
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Hazing | Preview
June 1, 2022
Hazing reveals the tradition of underground rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly....
Folk Frontera
May 25, 2022
Two fronteriza women live in two cultures at the same time along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Scenes From The Glittering World
May 16, 2022
Indigenous teens going to a remote school on Navajo Nation reservation plan their futures....
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
April 25, 2022
Researchers take a mind-blowing journey to investigate the mysteries of consciousness.
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
February 7, 2022
Exposé on how American housing policy has been manipulated in discriminatory ways.
More Epsiodes
Home From School: The Children Of Carlisle
November 23, 2021
Native Americans recover the remains of children who died at an Indian boarding school.
Ferguson Rises
November 8, 2021
Michael Brown Sr. seeks justice after a white police officer kills his son in Ferguson.
When I'm Her
June 21, 2021
A former ballet prodigy finds refuge in his alter ego, a Russian ballet instructor.
Mr. SOUL!
February 22, 2021
Mr. SOUL! explores the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public TV.
A Day in the Life of America
January 11, 2021
July 4th, 2017: 92 film crews, 24 hours, a snapshot of a nation on the verge of upheaval.
Trailer | Bedlam
April 13, 2020
The stories of people with mental illness are explored with immediacy and urgency.
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