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Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

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Directed By: Tracy Droz Tragos

Written By: Eric Martin, Charlie Pearson, Tracy Droz Tragos, Lois Vossen

PBS
52 m

PBS
52 m

Independent Lens

S5 • Episode 5

Be Good, Smile Pretty

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Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 16, 2003 • 1 h

Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz

Episode 2 • Oct 21, 2003 • 27 m

Foto-Novelas 2: Broken Sky/Junkyard Saints

Episode 3 • Oct 28, 2003

Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America

Episode 4 • Nov 4, 2003

A Wedding in Ramallah

Episode 5 • 52 m

Be Good, Smile Pretty

Episode 6 • Nov 25, 2003

Episode 7 • Dec 9, 2003 • 1 h

Episode 8 • Dec 16, 2003

Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson

Episode 9 • Dec 23, 2003

Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad

Three young Mormon men, age 19, embark on a two-year rite of passage in Germany as part of a long-standing worldwide effort by Mormon missionaries to spread their faith at home and abroad.

Episode 10 • Dec 30, 2003

Man Bites Shorts

Episode 11 • Jan 12, 2004

Make'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story

Episode 12 • Jan 20, 2004

Episode 13 • Jan 27, 2004

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

Episode 14 • Feb 10, 2004

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Episode 15 • Feb 17, 2004

A Place of Our Own

Episode 16 • Feb 24, 2004 • 1 h 16 m

Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew

An intimate portrait of 76-year-old jazz vocal legend Jimmy Scott. The film explores Scott's odyssey of loss and redemption through reminiscence, song, and lush Japanese travelogue.

Episode 17 • Mar 2, 2004

Sentencing the Victim

Episode 18 • Mar 23, 2004

T-Shirt Travels

Episode 19 • Apr 6, 2004

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

Episode 20 • Apr 13, 2004

Episode 21 • Apr 20, 2004

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

Episode 22 • Apr 27, 2004

The Weather Underground

Episode 23 • May 4, 2004

One Night at the Grand Star/Double Exposure

Episode 24 • May 11, 2004

Episode 25 • May 27, 2003

Death of a Shaman

Episode 26 • Jun 1, 2004

Sumo East and West

Episode 28 • Jun 15, 2004

The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out

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