NaN/100 votes#1 - Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/2003
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- 7.6/1013 votes
#2 - Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/2003
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#3 - Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/2003
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#4 - A Wedding in Ramallah
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2003
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- 7.8/1063 votes
#5 - Be Good, Smile Pretty
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2003
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#6 - Livermore
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2003
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#7 - Eroica!
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2003
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#8 - Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2003
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#9 - Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/23/2003
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
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2003
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#11 - Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/2004
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#12 - Life Matters
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2004
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#13 - Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2004
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#14 - Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2004
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Director: Charles Burnett
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#15 - A Place of Our Oen
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired Unknown
"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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- 8.2/1042 votes
#16 - Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2004
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
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2004
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- 8.0/106 votes
#18 - T-Shirt Travels
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/2004
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#19 - Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2004
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#20 - Love Inventory
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/2004
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#21 - Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/2004
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- 7.6/106 votes
#22 - The Weather Underground
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/2004
"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
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/2004
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#24 - Refugee
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2004
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- 7.6/1010 votes
#25 - Death of a Shaman
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/27/2004
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The Best Episodes of Independent Lens Season 5
Every episode of Independent Lens Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Independent Lens 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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz" is the best rated episode of "Independent Lens" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/14/2003. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'".