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Bedlam

Season 21 Episode 13 | 1hr 25m 45s

Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those people who are in-and-out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles, while psychiatrist and filmmaker Dr. Ken Rosenberg also searches for answers to his own late sister’s mental illness.

Aired: 09/30/20 | Expires: 10/15/23
Extras
Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns home to reflect on fronterizo life in Texas.
A hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison became a massive feat of unity.
Interwoven stories cover life in the city of Dallas, Texas.
Digital artists gaining global fame after embracing NFTs face a reckoning as it crashes around them.
After 13 years, a Lakota man returns to his reservation to reconnect with his family and culture.
Watch Independent Lens on the PBS app.
Catchy, musical short chronicles the 175-year-long arbitrary system of race in America.
Iranian American comic Sohrab Forouzesh gets his big break: headlining Chicago's legendary Zanies.
L.A.'s Christina Catherine Martinez is a bewitching hybrid of standup, clown and performance artist.
Legendary Atlanta comic Ian Aber takes the stage with jokes about growing up queer in the South.