Independent Lens - Season 5

Season 5

Episodes

Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz

Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky

Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America

A Wedding in Ramallah

Be Good, Smile Pretty

Livermore

Eroica!

Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson

Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad

Man Bites Shorts

Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story

Life Matters

Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream

Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew

Sentencing the Victim

T-Shirt Travels

Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas

Love Inventory

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

The Weather Underground

One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure

Refugee

Death of a Shaman

Cosmopolitan

Sumo East and West

The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
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