Thanks to a partnership with UMass Amherst Libraries, we now have The Independent magazine archives digitized and available in PDF form by year, for its entire print run from 1976-2006.
The next phase of our Archive Preservation Project aims to make the archive even more user-friendly by repackaging these print issues by article, and in the context of our newly designed website, integrating access to the past with cross-media, cross-discipline, cross-decade conversation about today’s independent film.
To make it a bit easier to find articles in the archives, we have created a series of PDFs of just the magazine covers and table of contents of The Independent. See: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
If you would like to help support this project, click here to learn how to donate to The Independent.
1976 | 1978 | 1980-81 | 1981-82 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2005 – Part 2 | 2006

Volume 1: 1976
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Volume 2: 1978
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Volume 3: 1980-81
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Volume 4: 1981-82
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Volume 5: 1982
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Volume 6: 1983
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Volume 7: 1984
Link to PDF (44.8)
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Volume 8: 1985
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Volume 9: 1986
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Volume 10: 1987
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Volume 11: 1988
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Volume 12: 1989
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Volume 13: 1990
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Volume 14: 1991
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Volume 15: 1992
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Volume 16: 1993
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Volume 17: 1994
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Volume 18: 1995
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Volume 19: 1996
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Volume 20: 1997
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Volume 21: 1998
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Volume 22: 1999
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Volume 23: 2000
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Volume 24: 2001
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Volume 25: 2002
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Volume 26: 2003
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Volume 27: 2004
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Volume 28: 2005
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Volume 29: 2005
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Volume 29: 2006
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