Storyville
Series showcasing the best in international documentaries
Storyville - 1968
Documentary, using archive footage from around the world, which explores what really happened in the seminal year of 1968 - a time of music, revolution and crushed hopes.
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Storyville - 444 Days
Leslie Woodhead tells the story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. Featuring exclusive interviews with the captors and victims.
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Storyville - Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
Director Don Boyd's portrayal of the extraordinary love story between a retired bus driver from Croydon and a retired teacher from Chelsea.
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Storyville - Barbados at the Races
Series looking at Barbados through the lives of the island's horse racing community
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Storyville - Barca - The Inside Story
Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis. With poor performances and spiralling debts, reform of the club is urgently needed.
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Storyville - Belgrade Radio Warriors - Turn On, Tune In, Slob Out
Documentary about the Belgrade youth radio station, B-92, which became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed.
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Storyville - Black Sun
Documentary about Hugues de Montalembert, blinded in a random street mugging in 1978, but who defied expectation and continued to travel the world, alone.
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Storyville - Blast!
Documentary which follows the story of a team of scientists as they try to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.
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Storyville - Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday
Documentary focusing on Shillong, North India, where each year the village comes together to celebrate the birthday of their musical hero - Bob Dylan.
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Storyville - Children and Cancer - A Lion in the House
Involving and life-affirming documentary which follows five families as they deal day-to-day with the challenges of living with children suffering from cancer.
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Storyville - Children of the Chinese Circus
Documentary about the Shanghai Circus school, where gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world.
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Storyville - Cod Wars
Series showcasing the best in international documentaries. This Icelandic film follows the disputes between Iceland and the UK over ownership of fishing zones.
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Storyville - Death of a WAG
Documentary about the murder of Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani's wife, the confession to the crime by his mistress Shahla and her fight to escape the death sentence.
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Storyville - Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected
Documentary telling the story of Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise to become chairman of the GOP positioned him as kingmaker and political rock star.
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Storyville - Dolce Vita Africana
Documentary about Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose images from the 50s through to the 70s captured the spirit of his generation asserting their freedom after independence.
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Storyville - Etre et avoir
Nicolas Philibert's documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in the remote hills of France's Auvergne.
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Storyville - Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
Director Simon Chambers follows the lives of young Bengali sisters as they travel from London to Bangladesh to undertake their arranged marriages.
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Storyville - Fashion Victim
Documentary telling the strange story of fashion designer Gianni Versace, a household name and designer to the stars, who was murdered on the steps of his Miami mansion in 1997.
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Storyville - Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation
Documentary looking at why so many young Israelis use their National Service discharge bonus to go backpacking in India, with a high proportion experimenting with drugs.
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Storyville - Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman
Filmed over five years, with stories from 17 countries across four continents, a documentary investigating personal and universal aspects of the lives of women today.
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Storyville - Gimme Shelter
Documentary by Albert and David Maysles recalling the tragic events surrounding a free concert by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway outside San Francisco in 1969.
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Storyville - Glow of White Women
Documentary which examines the impact that the discriminatory laws of the state in Apartheid-era South Africa had on Muslim filmmaker Yunus Vally's life.
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Storyville - Gods of Brazil
Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pele and Garrincha, whose emergence heralded the dawn of a golden age of football for their country.
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Storyville - Hammer and Tickle
Ben Lewis's documentary tells the real history of Communism through the jokes told by ordinary people about the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites.
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Storyville - Heirs to an Execution
Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for `conspiracy to commit espionage'.
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Storyville - Hitler's Secretary
Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's private secretary from Autumn 1942, talks about her unique life and her role in the final days of the Third Reich.
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Storyville - Hollywood Overnight
Documentary about the rise and fall of film maker Troy Duffy.
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Storyville - How Vietnam Was Lost
Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
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Storyville - I'm Not Dead Yet
Documentary concerning the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past, as two daughters become involved in a battle for the ownership of their mother's estate.
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Storyville - Iraq in Fragments
Documentary which illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity.
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Storyville - Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide
International documentary series. In 1978, 900 members of the Jonestown cult died in what appears to be history's biggest mass suicide.
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Storyville - Journeys with George
Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over a year as she followed the then president-to-be as part of the press corps accompanying him on planes and buses.
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Storyville - Kike Like Me
Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world, meeting both friends and foes along the way.
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Storyville - Laughing with Hitler
Documentary which examines the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told by and about the Nazis and the fate that befell some of the joke tellers.
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Storyville - Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Documentaries from around the world. Werner Herzog's film recreates the torture ordeal and escape of fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, shot down in Laos.
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Storyville - Martin Luther King: Citizen King 1963-1968
Documentary about the final five years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, beginning at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 and ending with murder in Memphis.
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Storyville - Mr Vig and the Nun
Documentary about 82-year-old bachelor Vig, who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun who by chance or destiny becomes part of his life.
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Storyville - My Israel
Documentary about an Israeli who survived a terrorist attack and now questions the myths of the state she grew up in, as she attempts to reconcile with her ultra-orthodox brother.
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Storyville - My Life as a Spy
Director Leslie Woodhead recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the late 1950s, when he became a sleuth on the front line of the Cold War in Berlin.
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Storyville - My Secret Agent Auntie
Documentary about Baroness Moura Budberg - caught up in a plot to topple the Bolsheviks and lover of men like HG Wells and Maxim Gorky, but possibly also a callous Soviet agent.
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Storyville - New York Doll
Documentary which details the turbulent history of controversial American proto-punk rockers The New York Dolls through the eyes of bassist Arthur Kane.
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Storyville - Office Tigers
Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing
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Storyville - Once in a Lifetime
Players, coaches and journalists recall the New York Cosmos, the soccer club whose all-star team were equally famed for their antics at Studio 54 as for their footballing skills.
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Storyville - Oona and Me
Documentary about ex-Labour MP Oona King, whose support for the Iraq War alienated her from her Muslim constituency and led to her defeat by George Galloway in the 2005 election.
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Storyville - Orthodox Stance
Documentary about the life of Russian immigrant Dmitriy Salita, as he grows up among and is nurtured by the seemingly incompatible communities of boxing and Orthodox Judaism.
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Storyville - Oswald's Ghost
Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies and controversy surrounding the JFK assassination, probing the deep psychic wounds it made on American politics and culture.
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Storyville - Paris Brothel
Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which remained a central part of French life until their closure in 1946.
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Storyville - Power Trip
Documentary telling the story of the chaotic post-Soviet transition in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.
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Storyville - Prodigal Sons
Documentary in which transsexual filmmaker Kimberly Reed and her brother Marc meet up at their 20th anniversary school reunion and try to rekindle a difficult relationship.
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Storyville - Prostitution Behind the Veil
Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women who have had to resort to prostitution to support their young children and their heroin habits.
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Storyville - RFK
Biography reassessing the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy. After JFK's assassination, he discovered his own identity in the forefront of American politics.
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Storyville - Riot On!
Award-winning documentary about the spectacular failure of a Finnish media company.
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Storyville - Robert Capa - In Love and War
Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40.
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Storyville - Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired
Documentary which reopens the controversial and complex case of director Roman Polanski's public conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor some 30 years ago.
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Storyville - Shot in Bombay
Documentary exposing the dark underbelly of Bollywood. It follows superstar Sanjay Dutt as he completes his final film before being sentenced for firearms offences.
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Storyville - Sitting for Parliament
Director John T Davis follows fellow Belfast native artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Storyville - Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Documentary about renowned author Ariel Dorfman, who was a prominent member of Chilean leader Allende's circle, many of whom were killed or disappeared in the bloody 1973 coup.
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Storyville - Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind the sound that defined a generation.
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Storyville - Startup.com
Prize-winning documentary following two high-school friends over the course of a year as they begin an internet startup, a gripping tale of big money, suspense and intrigue.
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Storyville - Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
Documentary in which the survivors of a plane crash in the high Andes, who faced extreme hardship and many life or death situations, relive their experiences 30 years later.
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Storyville - The Battle for Jerusalem
Liran Atzmor's film documents a battle in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948 from the viewpoints of of a US photojournalist, an Israeli film producer and a Palestinian photographer.
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Storyville - The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World
Four part series looking at China's largest restaurant.
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Storyville - The Burning Season
Documentary following the efforts of one young Australian entrepreneur to save the rainforests, and make himself a fortune in the process.
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Storyville - The Chuck Show
Documentary exploring the contradictions and passions of painter Chuck Connelly, a man whose unorthodox behavior led him to sabotage his promising career and squander his talent.
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Storyville - The Day after Peace
Documentary charting the ten-year journey taken by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to establish a Day of Peace on September 21st, making it an official day of ceasefire and non-violence.
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Storyville - The Devil Came on Horseback
Documentary which uses the testimony of an American military observer to examine how the Arab government in Sudan seems intent on destroying its black African citizens.
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Storyville - The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper
Documentary about Father Michael Cleary, an Irish priest who had his own TV chat show. After his death a shocking truth emerged about his private life that would rock the Church.
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Storyville - The Jazz Baroness
Documentary, made by her great niece, about the British Jewish baroness Pannonica Rothschild, whose life was changed when she fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk.
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Storyville - The Madrid Connection
Documentary about the two men who became the leaders of the terrorist cell that committed the Madrid bombings of 2004, Europe's worst ever terrorist atrocity.
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Storyville - The Ministry of Truth
Documentary. Filmmaker Richard Symons asks members of the British government to support his campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament.
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Storyville - The Polish Ambulance Murders
Documentary which tells the story of how a cabal of undertakers in the Polish city of Lodz conspired to bribe paramedics and doctors into murder.
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Storyville - The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
Mike Tucker's documentary tells the story of a freelance cameraman in Baghdad accused of planning to kill Tony Blair and imprisoned without trial for eight months.
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Storyville - The Russian Newspaper Murders
Documentary about the murders of six Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003 and the subsequent police investigation which some have seen as a cover up.
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Storyville - The Undertaking
Documentary which looks at the life and work of American-Irish poet-philosopher, essayist and undertaker, Thomas Lynch.
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Storyville - This Film is not Yet Rated
Documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system, its effect on American culture and why the censoring process it conducts has so many secrets.
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Storyville - Tito's Ghost
Documentary revealing how the cult of Marshall Tito remains alive and well in the former Yugoslavia over 25 years after the Communist dictator's death.
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Storyville - TV Junkie
Documentary about drug addiction. Despite his efforts to be a devoted father andhusband, a TV correspondent is drawn into a cycle of drugs and despair.
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Storyville - Very Russian Geniuses
Filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko sets out to discover how the seismic political changes of the 1980s affected her classmates who joined Russia’s elite natural science school in 1982.
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Storyville - Wednesday
Film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky paints a revealing portrait of a generation growing up in a changing Russia, as he returns to Leningrad to trace contemporaries.
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Storyville - Wheel of Time
Documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the Buddhist Kalachakra movement for world peace. Pilgrims gather at the holy Mount Kailash in Tibet and later in Austria.
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Storyville - When Borat Came to Town
Documentary following the villagers of Glod, Romania as they attempt to clear their name after being unkindly portrayed as incestuous relatives and friends of Borat in his film.
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Storyville - When the Levees Broke
Director Spike Lee's intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, including interviews with many people involved in the disaster
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Storyville - Why Democracy?
Eleven new Storyville documentaries screened as part of the worldwide Why Democracy? event.
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Storyville - Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki's award winning film explores the social and political history of the joint venture between the US government and the arms industry.
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Storyville - Winged Migration
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on seven continents. Stunning techniques help contribute to this bird's eye view of the world.
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