Independent Lens Each episode of the Emmy award-winning series Independent Lens introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers finding untold stories in unexpected places.
Independent Lens: "The Atom Smashers" Check local listings for broadcast times in your area.
"The Atom Smashers" examines 15 months at Fermilab as it scours the subatomic world for the Higgs boson particle. Will it be found? Will the United States continue to lead the world in science? Or will it slip behind and watch as the greatest minds in physics drift across the Atlantic, closing a great chapter in American scientific progress? (CC, Stereo)
