Alex Gibney
Director
Independent Lens (1999)
Season 5
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
Released Aug. 9, 1999
Episode 61 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
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Watch Providers: PBS, PBS, YouTube TV, KQED, WETA+WETA+
Production Companies: ITVS
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
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Oct. 14, 2003, midnight
S5E2 - Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
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Oct. 21, 2003, midnight
S5E3 - Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
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Oct. 28, 2003, midnight
S5E4 - A Wedding in Ramallah
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Nov. 4, 2003, midnight
S5E5 - Be Good, Smile Pretty
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Nov. 11, 2003, midnight
S5E6 - Livermore
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Nov. 25, 2003, midnight
S5E7 - Eroica!
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Dec. 9, 2003, midnight
S5E8 - Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
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Dec. 16, 2003, midnight
S5E9 - Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
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 pub
Dec. 23, 2003, midnight
S5E10 - Man Bites Shorts
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Dec. 30, 2003, midnight
S5E11 - Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
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Jan. 13, 2004, midnight
S5E12 - Life Matters
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Jan. 20, 2004, midnight
S5E13 - Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
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Jan. 27, 2004, midnight
S5E14 - Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
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Feb. 10, 2004, midnight
S5E15 - A Place of Our Oen
"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.
S5E16 - Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
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.
Feb. 24, 2004, midnight
S5E17 - Sentencing the Victim
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March 2, 2004, midnight
S5E18 - T-Shirt Travels
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March 23, 2004, midnight
S5E19 - Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
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March 30, 2004, midnight
S5E20 - Love Inventory
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April 13, 2004, midnight
S5E21 - Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
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April 20, 2004, midnight
S5E22 - The Weather Underground
"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 wit
April 27, 2004, midnight
S5E23 - One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
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May 4, 2004, midnight
S5E24 - Refugee
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May 11, 2004, midnight
S5E25 - Death of a Shaman
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May 27, 2004, midnight
S5E26 - Cosmopolitan
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June 1, 2004, midnight
S5E27 - Sumo East and West
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.
June 8, 2004, midnight
S5E28 - The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
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June 15, 2004, midnight
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