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Independent Lens: Season 5
October 14, 2003
28 Episodes
~60 min per episode
Overview
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Episodes
28
1
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Oct 14, 2003
60 min
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2
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
Oct 21, 2003
60 min
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3
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Oct 28, 2003
60 min
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4
A Wedding in Ramallah
Nov 4, 2003
60 min
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5
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Nov 11, 2003
60 min
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6
Livermore
Nov 25, 2003
60 min
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7
Eroica!
Dec 9, 2003
60 min
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Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Dec 16, 2003
60 min
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9
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
Dec 23, 2003
60 min
Get the Fire: Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad is a United States PBS-sponsored documentary, by the independent filmmaker Nancy du Plessis. It examines the experiences of some Mormon missionaries who questioned their religious beliefs after serving their missions. It premiered in December 2003 and was 60 minutes long. Some Mormon missionaries, including those serving missions in a foreign culture, may begin to question their religious upbringing and belief system. Get the Fire follows three LDS missionaries during their two-year missions in Germany. The documentary opens with the three future missionaries at their respective homes prior to knowing where they will serve. Surrounded by their family, each boy opens a mission call informing them they will serve in the Munich, Germany mission. The documentary follows them along the full two years of their mission from the Missionary Training Center until they leave the mission and return home. The film shows missionaries proselyting in public squares, knocking door to door, struggling with a foreign language, congregating in zone and district meetings, and meeting with the mission president. Topics covered include missionary slang, leaving a girlfriend at home, missionary morale, and relationships with family at home. The three missionaries appear to remain dedicated and faithful to their mission in the film.
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10
Man Bites Shorts
Dec 30, 2003
60 min
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11
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
Jan 13, 2004
60 min
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12
Life Matters
Jan 20, 2004
60 min
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13
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
Jan 27, 2004
60 min
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14
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Feb 10, 2004
60 min
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15
A Place of Our Oen
60 min
"Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream" Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, upper middle-class African American who spent the past 40 summers in Oak Bluffs, an affluent African-American resort community on Martha's Vineyard. Building on personal stories of summers past, this film explores the tightly-knit world of black professionals who created a refuge to call their own.
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Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Feb 24, 2004
60 min
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew is a film portrait of the now famous jazz vocalist who was "rediscovered" decades after he disappeared from the public eye. The documentary blends concert footage, rare photos and candid interviews with Jimmy Scott, his family and his colleagues.
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17
Sentencing the Victim
Mar 2, 2004
60 min
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18
T-Shirt Travels
Mar 23, 2004
60 min
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19
Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
Mar 30, 2004
60 min
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20
Love Inventory
Apr 13, 2004
60 min
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21
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Apr 20, 2004
60 min
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22
The Weather Underground
Apr 27, 2004
60 min
"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." -- Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals called The Weathermen announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. Fueled by outrage over the Vietnam War and racism in America, they went undergound during the 1970s, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized "the real violence" that the U.S. government and capitalist power were wreaking throughout the world.From pitched battles with police on Chicago's city streets, to bombing the U.S. Capitol building, to breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison, this carefully organized clandestine network attempted to incite a national revolution, while successfully evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.One of the top documentaries of the year, this award-winning film interweaves extensive archival material with modern-day interviews to explore the incredible story of "The Weather Underground." As former members reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home," they paint a compelling portrait of troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and often striking connections to the current world situation.
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23
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
May 4, 2004
60 min
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24
Refugee
May 11, 2004
60 min
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25
Death of a Shaman
May 27, 2004
60 min
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26
Cosmopolitan
Jun 1, 2004
60 min
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27
Sumo East and West
Jun 8, 2004
60 min
In recent years, the ancient art of sumo has witnessed the rise of an increasing number of foreigners to the top of its professional ranks. From Hawaii to Atlantic City, the experiences of American wrestlers provide an entertaining glimpse at the past, present and future of sumo, revealing how this former bastion of Japanese tradition is grappling with globalizing Western forces.
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28
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
Jun 15, 2004
60 min
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