The PBS documentary series “ Independent Lens ” returns for a new season on Oct. 6 with Bill Haney’s “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution.” About the life and legacy of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Phil Sharp, the doc is narrated by Mark Ruffalo.

In addition to “Cracking the Code,” the fall slate includes two additional doc features that speak directly to today’s most pressing issues.

On Oct. 20, Deborah Riley Draper and Sabaah Folayan’s “Ratified” will debut. The doc, which made its world premiere at the 15th annual Bronze Lens Film Festival in August 2024, is about the Equal Rights Amendment’s path back to life through Virginia’s pivotal ratification battle led by Black women. The doc traces the legal, political, and deeply personal fight to enshrine gender e

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