Independent Lens
Season 25 Episode 17 - The Tuba Thieves
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
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.
Episodes in Season 25
1
Sansón and Me
86 min
2
El Equipo
86 min
3
Three Chaplains
56 min
4
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1
55 min
5
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2
54 min
6
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3
55 min
7
Beyond Utopia
112 min
8
Racist Trees
84 min
9
Razing Liberty Square
84 min
10
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
55 min
11
Breaking the News
84 min
12
Greener Pastures
85 min
13
A Thousand Pines
56 min
14
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
55 min
15
One With the Whale
78 min
16
Space: The Longest Goodbye
85 min
17
The Tuba Thieves
85 min
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