Independent Lens · SEASON 23
Try Harder!
Episode 13 · 2022-05-02

- Documentary
Episode overview
At Lowell High School, San Francisco's academic pressure cooker, the kids are stressed out. With a majority Asian American student body, high-achieving seniors share their dreams and anxieties about getting into a top university. But is college worth the grind?
83 minutes
Season 23 episodes
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2. Ferguson Rises2021-11-08
3. Storm Lake2021-11-15
4. Duty Free2021-11-22
5. Home From School: The Children of Carlisle2021-11-23
6. A Reckoning in Boston2022-01-17
7. Missing in Brooks County2022-01-31
8. Owned: A Tale of Two Americas2022-02-07
9. Bulletproof2022-02-14
10. Apart2022-02-21
11. Writing With Fire2022-03-28
12. AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness2022-04-04
13. Try Harder!2022-05-02
14. When Claude Got Shot2022-05-09
15. Scenes From The Glittering World2022-05-16