Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Trailer | The Tuba Thieves

Season 25 Episode 17 | 30s

What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.

Extras
The grueling journey to Mars.
The richly obsessive life and work of a renowned autistic artist comes to life.
A filmmaker's brother opens up about his recovery from opioid use disorder.
Two fronteriza women live in two cultures at the same time along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Get early access with PBS Passport.
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a Mars mission.
Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.
An Alaska Native family faces backlash from environmentalists due to whale hunting.
What are the challenges facing local journalists?
Meet the Mexican guest workers who leave their families to plant trees across America.
Latest Episodes
All
  • All
  • Independent Lens Season 25
  • Independent Lens Season 24
The central mystery of this unconventional documentary is the nature of sound itself.
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a Mars mission.
For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die.
Three people navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.
A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.
Midwestern families deal with unseen mental health issues affecting farmers in America.
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
A nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn’t have to be the end.
A public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
In Palm Springs, a Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.