Independent Lens
Season 5 Episode 16 - Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
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.
Episodes in Season 5
1
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
60 min
2
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
60 min
3
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
60 min
4
A Wedding in Ramallah
60 min
5
Be Good, Smile Pretty
60 min
6
Livermore
60 min
7
Eroica!
60 min
8
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
60 min
9
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
60 min
10
Man Bites Shorts
60 min
11
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
60 min
12
Life Matters
60 min
13
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
60 min
14
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
60 min
15
A Place of Our Oen
60 min
16
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
60 min
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Sentencing the Victim
60 min
18
T-Shirt Travels
60 min
19
Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
60 min
20
Love Inventory
60 min
21
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
60 min
22
The Weather Underground
60 min
23
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
60 min
24
Refugee
60 min
25
Death of a Shaman
60 min
26
Cosmopolitan
60 min
27
Sumo East and West
60 min
28
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
60 min
