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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.

Directed By: Ferne Pearlstein

Written By: Robert Edwards, Eric Martin, Lois Vossen

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Independent Lens
S5 • Episode 27
Sumo East and West
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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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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
Livermore
Episode 7 • Dec 9, 2003 • 1 h
Eroica!
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
Life Matters
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
Love Inventory
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
Refugee
Episode 25 • May 27, 2003
Death of a Shaman
Episode 26 • Jun 1, 2004
Cosmopolitan
Episode 27
Sumo East and West
Episode 28 • Jun 15, 2004
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
27 Seasons

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