Preview: Season 26 Episode 20 | 1m | Video has closed captioning.
Independent Lens is back serving up powerful, acclaimed new docs, starting with One Person, One Vote? and followed by Wild Hogs and Saffron, The History of White People in America, Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen, and United States of Comedy.
Aired: 09/04/24
♪ ♪ - Most Americans have no idea that they are not voting for the candidate.
- The Electoral College counts some people's votes more than other people's votes.
- It’s simply this: one person, one vote.
- In a five month period we had 17 Marines that were killed.
I was trying to figure out, well, what could I do?
- Being a Gold Star father, it's a club that no one wants to belong to.
- This will keep people remembering these guys long after we’re all gone.
- Bubba.
Did you ever think of me as Middle Eastern?
- There's hogs in Iran, right?
- It's such a rich history and a rich culture.
And I just blocked myself off from.
- Now I have some kind of connection to that.
- I couldn't believe how many people paid to see me.
They took me to the Capitol.
They asked me to sing for the president.
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