Independent Lens
Season 10 Episode 21 - Wings of Defeat
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she wondered the same thing. Through rare interviews with surviving Kamikaze pilots, Morimoto retraces their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots and reveals a complex history of brutal training and ambivalent sacrifice.
Episodes in Season 10
Chicago 10
60 min
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
60 min
Knee Deep
60 min
Lioness
60 min
March Point
60 min
The Atom Smashers
60 min
Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"
60 min
Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
60 min
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
60 min
Helvetica
60 min
Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
60 min
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
60 min
The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
60 min
The Order of Myths
60 min
Lakshmi and Me
60 min
Recycle
60 min
Milking the Rhino
60 min
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
60 min
Steal a Pencil for Me
60 min
At Home in Utopia
60 min
Wings of Defeat
60 min
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
60 min
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
60 min
Steal a Pencil for Me
60 min
Ask Not
60 min