Storyville
BBC Four Running
30 Seasons · 642 Episodes · Premiered November 15, 1997
Series showcasing the best of international documentary filmmakers works.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1997
5 episodes
E01
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Sat, Nov 15 1997 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E02
Nobody's Business
Sat, Nov 22 1997 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E03
Wednesday
Sat, Nov 29 1997 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E04
Naughty Boy
Sat, Dec 6 1997 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E05
Paradise Lost
Sat, Dec 13 1997 12:00 PM GMT+0000
Season 1998
9 episodes
E01
When We Were Kings
Sun, May 24 1998 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E02
East Side Story
Sat, Jan 3 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E03
Kurt and Courtney
Sat, Oct 31 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E04
Don't Look Back
Sat, Oct 31 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E05
444 Days
Sat, Nov 14 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E06
Year of the Dogs
Sat, Nov 21 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E07
Waco: the Rules of Engagement
Sat, Nov 28 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E08
Gigi, Monica and Bianca
Sat, Dec 5 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E09
Moon over Broadway
Mon, Dec 21 1998 12:00 PM GMT+0000
Season 1999
16 episodes
E01
A Small Town in Poland
Sun, Mar 21 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E02
Resurrection
Sun, Apr 4 1999 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E03
Fragments: Jerusalem
Sun, Apr 4 1999 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E04
Photographer
Sat, Sep 4 1999 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E05
I Was a Slave Labourer.
Sat, Oct 16 1999 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E06
An American Love Story - Welcome to America
Sat, Oct 30 1999 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E07
An American Love Story - I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up.
Sun, Oct 31 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E08
An American Love Story - It's Another New Year and I Ain't 't Gone.
Mon, Nov 1 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E09
An American Love Story - Chaney and the Boy
Tue, Nov 2 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E10
An American Love Story - True Love
Wed, Nov 3 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E11
An American Love Story - It's My Job
Thu, Nov 4 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E12
An American Love Story - We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet
Fri, Nov 5 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E13
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
Sat, Nov 6 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E14
A Cry from the Grave
Sat, Nov 27 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E15
Grey Gardens
Sat, Dec 11 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E16
Out of Phoenix Bridge
Tue, Dec 21 1999 12:00 PM GMT+0000
Season 2000
7 episodes
E01
Kick the Habit - The Last Cigarette
Sat, Feb 26 2000 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E02
My Best Fiend - Herzog - Madman or Genius
Sat, Mar 18 2000 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E03
Genocide, the Judgement
Sun, Jul 2 2000 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E04
One Day in September
Tue, Sep 5 2000 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E05
Norman Mailer - Oh My America (part 1)
Wed, Oct 11 2000 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E06
Norman Mailer - Oh My America (part 2)
Thu, Oct 12 2000 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E07
Donald and Luba
Fri, Dec 22 2000 12:00 PM GMT+0000
Season 2001
21 episodes
E01
I Loved You
Tue, Jan 2 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E02
Black and White in Colour
Thu, Jan 4 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E03
The Sweetest Sound
Sun, Jan 14 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E04
RUEU?
Thu, Mar 15 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E05
Joseph Desire Mobutu.
Thu, Mar 22 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E06
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
Thu, Mar 29 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E07
Romancing the Throne
Mon, Apr 30 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E08
Vision Man
Mon, May 7 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E09
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Mon, May 14 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E10
Cod Wars
Mon, May 28 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E11
The 50 Years War (Part 1)
Wed, Jun 6 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E12
The 50 Years War (Part 2)
Fri, Jun 8 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E13
Jazz Man from the Gulag
Mon, Aug 27 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E14
Fashion Victim - the Killing of Gianni Versace
Thu, Aug 30 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E15
Rats in the Ranks
Mon, Sep 3 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E16
Picasso Days
Wed, Sep 12 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E17
The Gleaners and I
Mon, Oct 15 2001 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E18
An Unquiet Peace
Mon, Oct 29 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E19
Life and Death in Soweto
Mon, Nov 5 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E20
Christ Comes to the Papuans
Wed, Dec 19 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E21
Marlene
Thu, Dec 27 2001 12:00 PM GMT+0000
Season 2002
27 episodes
E01
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Thu, May 16 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Nico Icon
Sat, May 25 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Who is Bernard Tapie?
Tue, May 28 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Meeting My Daughter
Mon, Jun 24 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Robots Are Us
Thu, Jul 11 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Dark Days
Thu, Aug 8 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Chain Camera
Thu, Aug 8 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Out of Phoenix Bridge
Sat, Aug 10 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
More Than a Life
Mon, Sep 2 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Louis Malle's India
Tue, Sep 3 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
See What Happens
Mon, Sep 16 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Town Bloody Hall
Mon, Sep 16 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
The War Room
Mon, Sep 23 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Cry for Argentina
Tue, Sep 24 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Greedy in Thailand
Tue, Sep 24 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Kabul Emergency Room
Mon, Oct 7 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
Tue, Oct 15 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Fashion Victim
Thu, Oct 17 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
The Cuban Game
Wed, Oct 23 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Ghosts of Attica
Tue, Oct 29 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Last Party 2000
Sat, Nov 2 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Crumb
Tue, Nov 26 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Aids 2002: Simon & I
Tue, Dec 3 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Aids 2002: Sincerely Yours
Tue, Dec 3 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Milosevic: How to Be a Dictator
Tue, Dec 10 2002 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Domestic Violence
Thu, Jul 18 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
Life and Debt in Jamaica
Sun, Aug 4 2002 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2003
29 episodes
E01
More Sex Please, We're Scandinavians!
Mon, Jan 6 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
I Was a Slave Labourer
Sun, Jan 26 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
The Somme
Sat, Feb 15 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Domestic Violence: Hitting Home
Tue, Feb 18 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
The Smith Family
Tue, Mar 18 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Thu, Apr 17 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Three Salons at the Seaside
Tue, May 6 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Clusterbomb Footprints
Tue, May 13 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Wednesday
Wed, May 28 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Star Wars Dreams
Mon, Jun 9 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Relative Strangers: Remember the Family
Mon, Jul 14 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Relative Strangers: Nine Good Teeth
Tue, Jul 15 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Relative Strangers: Nobody's Business
Wed, Jul 16 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Relative Strangers: For One More Hour with You
Thu, Jul 17 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Relative Strangers: Where is My Family?
Fri, Jul 18 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
War & Peace
Wed, Aug 13 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
In Search of a Lost Novelist: The Stone Reader
Mon, Aug 18 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
The Passions of Louis Malle
Wed, Aug 20 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Buddhism: Wheel of Time
Mon, Aug 25 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Go Tigers!
Wed, Sep 3 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Rocks with Wings
Thu, Sep 4 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Gods of Brazil
Mon, Sep 22 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Seabiscuit
Fri, Sep 26 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Ajax
Mon, Sep 29 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Traveller
Mon, Oct 13 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Life and Debt (in Jamaica)
Wed, Oct 15 2003 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
Chavez: Inside the Coup
Tue, Nov 18 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E28
Stevie
Thu, Dec 11 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
The Rock Star & the Mullahs
Mon, Dec 15 2003 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2004
55 episodes
E01
The Cockettes
Mon, Jan 26 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
My Flesh and Blood
Tue, Feb 17 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men
Thu, Feb 19 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Xiao's Long March
Tue, Feb 24 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
The Secret of My Success
Wed, Feb 25 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
This Happy Life
Thu, Feb 26 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
My Sperm Donor Dad
Thu, Mar 11 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
The Weather Underground
Mon, Mar 15 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
A Texas Murder in Black & White
Wed, Mar 17 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
War Feels Like War
Wed, Mar 17 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Wed, Mar 17 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
The Great Communist Bank Robbery
Mon, May 10 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Nelson Mandela: Accused #1
Mon, May 10 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
The Guguletu Seven
Thu, May 13 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Comandante
Sun, May 16 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Condor: Axis of Evil
Mon, May 17 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
Justice in the Time of War
Tue, May 18 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Germany: Behind the Wall
Sun, May 23 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Hoover Street Revival
Thu, Jun 3 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Army of One
Tue, Jun 8 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Israel's Generals: Episode 1
Mon, Jun 14 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Israel's Generals: Episode 2
Wed, Jun 16 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Israel's Generals: Episode 3
Thu, Jun 17 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Trembling Before G-d
Tue, Jun 22 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Gay Dads: Paternal Instinct
Tue, Jun 22 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Love and Diane
Tue, Jun 29 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
Russia from My Window
Mon, Jul 5 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E28
Power Trip
Tue, Jul 6 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
The Sorrow & the Pity: Part 1
Sat, Jul 10 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E30
The Sorrow & the Pity: Interview with Marcel Ophuls
Sat, Jul 10 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E31
The Sorrow & the Pity: Part 2
Sat, Jul 10 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E32
The Man with an Opera House in His Living Room
Sun, Jul 11 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E33
Who Am I Now?
Sun, Aug 1 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E34
Shadowplay
Thu, Aug 19 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E35
The House of Saud
Thu, Sep 2 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E36
Parallel Lines
Mon, Sep 13 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E37
This is Palestine
Tue, Sep 14 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E38
The Settlers
Wed, Sep 15 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E39
Southern Comfort
Tue, Sep 21 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E40
Lost in Transit
Wed, Sep 22 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E41
Russian Newspaper Murders
Mon, Sep 27 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E42
The Deported
Wed, Sep 29 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E43
The New Americans: Episode 1
Tue, Oct 26 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E44
The New Americans: Episode 2
Wed, Oct 27 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E45
The New Americans: Episode 3
Thu, Oct 28 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E46
The New Americans: Episode 4
Thu, Oct 28 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E47
The New Americans: Episode 5
Fri, Oct 29 2004 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E48
Journeys with George
Mon, Nov 1 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E49
Jesus Christ & George Bush
Tue, Nov 2 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E50
To Live is Better Than to Die
Wed, Dec 1 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E51
My Land Zion
Thu, Dec 2 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E52
My Terrorist
Thu, Dec 2 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E53
See You in the Future
Mon, Dec 6 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E54
Cool & Crazy
Sun, Dec 19 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E55
Down from the Mountain
Fri, Dec 31 2004 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2005
18 episodes
E01
Citizen King: Martin Luther King
Mon, Jan 17 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Prisoner of Paradise
Mon, Jan 24 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
The House of Chanel: Anticipation
Tue, Jan 25 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
The House of Chanel: Doubts
Tue, Feb 1 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
The House of Chanel: Rituals
Tue, Feb 8 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
The House of Chanel: The All-Night Vigil
Tue, Feb 15 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
The House of Chanel: The Collection
Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Made in China
Tue, Mar 8 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
The Fifty Years War
Fri, Mar 11 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
India: Final Solution
Sun, Mar 20 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Why We Fight
Wed, Mar 23 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
The Liberace of Baghdad
Sun, Apr 10 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Life on Tracks
Tue, Apr 12 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Dr. Goebbels Speaks
Thu, May 5 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Stalin's Skyscraper
Fri, May 20 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
McLibel
Sun, Jun 5 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E35
Small Pain for Glory
Tue, Jul 12 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E40
Live Forever
Sun, Nov 13 2005 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2006
9 episodes
E01
Prostitution Behind the Veil
Thu, Oct 26 2006 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
Wed, Jul 18 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Hollywood and the Holocaust
Sun, Mar 26 2006 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Before the Flood: Tuvalu
Tue, Feb 21 2006 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Al Franken: God Spoke
Wed, Sep 13 2006 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Thu, Mar 15 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder
Mon, Jan 22 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Shakespeare Behind Bars
Thu, Nov 2 2006 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
The Russian Newspaper Murders
Mon, Oct 30 2006 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2007
30 episodes
E01
Black Sun
Tue, May 22 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Children of the Chinese Circus
Tue, May 29 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
How Vietnam Was Lost
Mon, Jun 4 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
RFK
Tue, Jun 5 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Oswald's Ghost
Tue, Jun 5 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Heir to an Execution
Wed, Jun 6 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Journeys with George
Thu, Jun 7 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Why We Fight
Fri, Jun 8 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Laughing with Hitler
Sat, Jun 9 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Winged Migration
Tue, Jun 19 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Paris Brothel
Tue, Jun 26 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Office Tigers Part 1
Wed, Jun 27 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Kike Like Me
Wed, Jun 27 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Office Tigers Part 2
Wed, Jul 4 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Office Tigers Part 3
Wed, Jul 11 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Once in a Lifetime
Sun, Jul 15 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
TV Junkie
Sun, Aug 5 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Children and Cancer: A Lion in the House
Thu, Aug 16 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Wed, Aug 29 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Barça! The Inside Story
Tue, Oct 30 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
My Life as a Spy
Mon, Dec 10 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Cuba! Africa! Revolution! Part 1
Tue, Apr 24 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Cuba! Africa! Revolution! Part 2
Tue, May 1 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Thu, Mar 22 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Please Vote for Me
Sun, Oct 7 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Mon, Sep 17 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
Gods of Brazil
Wed, Oct 31 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E28
The Natural History of the Chicken
Sat, Jun 16 2007 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
Mohammed Ali, The Greatest
Sun, Jan 28 2001 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E31
The Team
Wed, Mar 21 2007 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2008
29 episodes
E01
Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide
Sun, Jan 27 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
Sun, Jul 27 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
1968
Tue, Sep 23 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Kidult: My Kid Could Paint That
Wed, Jul 30 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Hitler's Secretary
Wed, Jan 30 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Cannibals in the Andes: Stranded!
Tue, Jan 22 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Dance with a Serial Killer
Sun, Feb 24 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Dolce Vita Africana
Tue, Mar 4 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Documentary about celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose iconic images of his country from the late 1950s through to the 1970s captured the carefree spirit of his generation asserting their freedom after independence, up until an Islamic coup ushered in years of military dictatorship. The filmmakers travel to Malick Sidibe's studio in Bamako to witness him at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali.
E16
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Sun, Mar 9 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Tue, Mar 11 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
All White in Barking
Fri, Mar 14 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
The English Surgeon
Sun, Mar 30 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
My Secret Agent Auntie
Wed, May 7 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
The Battle for Jerusalem
Wed, May 14 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
My Israel
Wed, May 14 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Flipping Out: Israel's Drug Generation
Thu, May 15 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday
Wed, May 21 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Death of a WAG
Wed, May 28 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Prodigal Sons
Mon, Nov 10 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
Blue Blood
Sun, Feb 17 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E30
Andrew & Jeremy Get Married
Sun, Feb 10 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E39
When Borat Came to Town
Mon, Oct 27 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E40
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Enterprise (1)
Mon, Jul 7 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E41
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: A Good Match (2)
Mon, Jul 7 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E42
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Family Duties (3)
Mon, Jul 7 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E43
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Bright Future (4)
Mon, Jul 7 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E44
The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper
Mon, Jun 16 2008 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E45
The Polish Ambulance Murders
Tue, Feb 5 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E46
Tito's Ghost
Wed, Feb 27 2008 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2009
28 episodes
E01
Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators
Mon, Feb 2 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Heavy Load
Mon, Feb 9 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
Mon, Feb 16 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Barca: The Inside Story (2004)
Sun, Jun 12 2005 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods
Mon, Feb 23 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Bulletproof Salesman
Mon, Mar 2 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
The Children's Ward
Mon, Mar 9 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Hammer and Tickle
Mon, Mar 16 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
The Time of Their Lives
Mon, Jul 20 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Sun, Sep 6 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Blindsight
Sun, Jun 7 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Angels of Rio
Mon, Jun 8 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Napoli: City of the Damned
Mon, Sep 14 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Tue, Oct 13 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Men of the City
Sat, Oct 24 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
War Heroes: Section 60 Arlington Cemetery
Mon, Nov 9 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Hi Society: The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
Tue, Nov 17 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
The Horse Boy
Tue, Nov 24 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach
Tue, Dec 1 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
The Trials of Oppenheimer
Wed, Jul 15 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular success.As the years progressed he also grew into a scientific statesman, leading a government agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, which was trying to develop ways to avoid a nuclear arms race. His attempts at politics, though, were a lot less successful than his scientific endeavours. As he grew more powerful, he started to make serious enemies amongst the establishment, particularly a friend of President Truman's - Lewis Strauss.This film tells the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Robert Oppenheimer.
E22
The Age of Stupid
Mon, Dec 14 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
The Genius and the Boys
Mon, Jun 1 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis: Killing Kasztner
Mon, May 25 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
The Baby and the Buddha
Mon, May 18 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Up for Debate: Team Qatar
Mon, May 11 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
The Jazz Baroness
Fri, Apr 17 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E28
Man on Wire
Sun, Aug 2 2009 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
Prostitution Behind the Veil
Sat, Feb 14 2009 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2010
23 episodes
E01
Cage Fighting Women
Thu, Jan 14 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Last White Man Standing
Tue, Feb 2 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Kim Jong-Il's Comedy Club
Mon, Feb 8 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Mon, Feb 15 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Your Father's Murderer: A Letter to Zachary
Mon, Feb 22 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Rise Up Reggae Star
Mon, Mar 1 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Race Horses
Thu, Mar 11 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Kings of Pastry
Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Cod Wars
Sun, May 9 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Killer Image: Shooting Robert King
Mon, May 24 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
The New Kings of Nigeria
Mon, May 31 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Mon, Jun 7 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
When China Met Africa
Mon, Jun 21 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Sync or Swim
Mon, Jun 14 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Mon, Jun 28 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Leaving the Cult
Mon, Jul 5 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Documentary which tells the story of three teenage boys who manage to escape a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah. As they struggle to come to terms with life in the real world, we learn about the extraordinary lives they used to live - in houses with many mothers, where their sisters may be married off at 14 and, surprisingly, where no-one can wear red in case it offends the Second Coming. Powerfully emotional and compelling, Leaving the Cult is a fascinating insight to a community it's hard to believe exists.
E17
Shanghai Tales: All About My Friends
Thu, Jul 8 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Shanghai Tales: First Period: The War of Growing Up
Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Youtube Hero: The Winnebago Man
Tue, Aug 31 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Marriage Chinese Style: When My Child is Born
Mon, Sep 6 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Trouble with Pirates
Mon, Sep 13 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
The Photographer
Mon, Sep 20 2010 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Mandelson: The Real PM?
Tue, Nov 23 2010 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2011
35 episodes
E01
Secrets of the Tribe
Mon, Jan 10 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Pablo's Hippos
Mon, Jan 17 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Sex, Death and the Gods
Mon, Jan 24 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Meet the Climate Sceptics
Mon, Jan 31 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
American Idol: Reagan
Sun, Feb 6 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Afghan Cricket Club: Out of the Ashes
Mon, Feb 7 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
The Man Who Fooled the Nazis
Tue, Feb 22 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Kidult: Marathon Boy
Wed, Mar 16 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Kidult: P-Star Rising
Wed, Mar 23 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Kidult: Cuban Punch-Up: The Boys Who Fought for Castro
Wed, Mar 30 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
China's Bleak House
Tue, Apr 5 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Innocent! Paco & the Struggle for Justice
Wed, Apr 6 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Knocking on Heaven's Door
Sun, Apr 10 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Last Days of the Arctic: Capturing the Faces of the North
Mon, May 9 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Pol Pot's Executioner: Welcome to Hell
Mon, May 30 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Amnesty! When They Are All Free
Tue, May 31 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
Fight to Save the World: Sergio
Wed, Jun 1 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Prosecutor
Thu, Jun 2 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Law of the Dragon: Husband and Wife (1)
Wed, Sep 7 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Law of the Dragon: Love Thy Neighbour (2)
Wed, Sep 14 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Law of the Dragon: Death of an Only Child (3)
Wed, Sep 21 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Law of the Dragon: Mother and Son (4)
Wed, Sep 28 2011 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Sun, Nov 6 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
The Thin Blue Line
Wed, Nov 9 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
The Billion Dollar Art Heist
Mon, Nov 14 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Client 9: The Call Girl and the Governor
Tue, Nov 15 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E27
Deadline: The New York Times
Tue, Nov 22 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E28
Riding Giants
Sun, Nov 27 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E29
Bobby Fischer: Genius and Madman
Wed, Nov 30 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E30
The Interrupters: How to Stop a Riot
Sun, Dec 4 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E31
Inside Job
Wed, Dec 7 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E32
Barbados at the Races: Bajan Born and Bred (1)
Fri, Jan 7 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E33
Barbados at the Races: The Jockey's Prayer (2)
Fri, Jan 14 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E34
Barbados at the Races: Run Cat Run! (3)
Fri, Jan 21 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E35
Barbados at the Races: The Favourite (4)
Thu, Jan 27 2011 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2012
24 episodes
E01
Survivors: Despicable Dick
Mon, Jan 9 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Survivors: My Friend Sam - Living for the Moment
Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Survivors: Lust for Life
Mon, Jan 23 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Mon, Feb 13 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story
Mon, Feb 20 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Fire in Babylon
Mon, Feb 27 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Knuckle: Bare Fist Fighting
Mon, Mar 5 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
Murderball
Tue, Mar 6 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Who is Gorky? An Abstract Life
Mon, Mar 12 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Mon, Mar 19 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Tabloid: Sex in Chains
Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Hijack Hell: Bus 174
Wed, Apr 18 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
The Real Great Escape
Thu, Apr 19 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
Girl Model
Mon, Jun 25 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Documentary which exposes the shocking supply of ever younger girl models to the Japanese modelling industry. The film follows 13-year-old Nadya from poverty in Siberia to the city of Tokyo and a life as a model. American scout Ashley promises her a lucrative career, but all is not as it seems as Nadya's optimism quickly fades when confronted with the dehumanising culture of life in Japanese casting sessions.
E15
Albino Witchcraft Murders
Mon, Jul 2 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Hitler, Stalin, and Mr. Jones
Thu, Jul 5 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story
Mon, Jul 23 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Racing Dreams
Mon, Aug 13 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
The $750 Million Thief
Wed, Sep 5 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Olympic Massacre: One Day in September
Wed, Sep 12 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
JFK's Road to the White House: Primary 1960
Sun, Nov 4 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
The Chef Who Conquered New York: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
Mon, Nov 12 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film
Sun, Nov 18 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
The Other Irish Travellers
Sun, Dec 16 2012 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2013
25 episodes
E01
The House I Live In
Mon, Jan 14 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song
Mon, Jan 21 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Queen of Versailles
Mon, Jan 28 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance
Mon, Feb 4 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Expedition to the End of the World
Mon, Feb 11 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Google and the World Brain
Mon, Feb 18 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
The Pirate Bay
Tue, Feb 19 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion
Wed, Feb 20 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
I Will Be Murdered
Mon, Feb 25 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Surviving the Tsunami: My Atomic Aunt
Mon, Mar 18 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
The Road, a Story of Life and Death
Sun, Mar 31 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer
Mon, Jun 3 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa
Mon, Jun 10 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
The Law in These Parts
Mon, Jun 17 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Power, Money, Greed & Oil
Mon, Jun 24 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Sun, Aug 25 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
The Great Hip-Hop Hoax
Fri, Oct 11 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Mon, Oct 21 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Tue, Oct 22 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
The Disappeared
Mon, Nov 4 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Hotel Folly: Folie a Deux
Sun, Nov 10 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
The Spy Who Went Into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
Mon, Nov 18 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Blackfish: The Whale That Killed
Thu, Nov 21 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
Fame in China
Tue, Dec 3 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Mon, Dec 16 2013 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2014
26 episodes
E01
Mandela, The Myth, and Me
Mon, Jan 13 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
Mon, Jan 20 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
The Big Melt: How Steel Made Us Hard
Sun, Jan 26 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E04
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
Mon, Feb 3 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
K2: The Killer Summit
Wed, Feb 5 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
Cutie and the Boxer
Mon, Feb 17 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Soccer Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
Thu, Feb 27 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
The Village That Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
Mon, Mar 3 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
Fri, Mar 7 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
Wed, Mar 19 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E11
Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
Mon, Mar 24 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Mon, Mar 31 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Searching for Sugar Man
Fri, May 30 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E14
The Legend of Billie-Jean King: Battle of the Sexes
Sun, Jun 22 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
The Lance Armstrong Story: Stop at Nothing
Sun, Jul 6 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Velorama
Sun, Jul 6 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
A Sunday in Hell
Thu, Jul 10 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
Mon, Sep 15 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
Mon, Sep 22 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
Mon, Sep 29 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
The Gatekeepers
Sat, Oct 11 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Wed, Oct 15 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
Sun, Oct 19 2014 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
112 Weddings
Sun, Oct 26 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Documentary which explores timeless themes of love and marital commitment. For the past two decades, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Block has helped support himself by shooting weddings. Hired for his intimate documentary style, he found himself emotionally bonding with his wedding couples on their big day, only to send off their videos and never see them again. Many years and 112 weddings later, having long wondered what has become of their marriages, Block begins to track down some of the more memorable couples. Is married life what they thought it would be? Are they still together? How have they navigated the inevitable ups and downs of marriage over the long haul? Juxtaposing rapturous wedding day flashbacks with remarkably candid present-day interviews, this is a funny, insightful and deeply moving insight into the long-term challenges of marriage.
E25
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
Sun, Nov 2 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E26
Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
Mon, Dec 22 2014 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2015
25 episodes
E01
The Arabian Motorcycle Adventures
Mon, Jan 26 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E02
The Internet's Own Boy
Mon, Feb 2 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E03
Mugabe and the Democrats
Mon, Feb 9 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Two top politicians, MP Paul Mangwana and MP Douglas Mwonzora, from the governing party and the opposition respectively, have been appointed to lead Zimbabwe through the process of writing a new constitution. It is the ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Robert Mugabe's dictatorship, or towards renewed repression. The film follows the two adversaries as they undertake their gargantuan task, travelling together throughout the country to ask Zimbabweans about their opinions on matters including the judicial system and the president's authority. Overcoming their initial suspicion, a kind of understanding grows between the two men, as they endure intrigue during the negotiations that follow. In a country impeded by economic sanctions from the international community and hyperinflation, failure is not an option.
E04
Bulldozers, Paving Stones and Power: The Chinese Mayor
Tue, Feb 10 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E05
Love Hotel
Mon, Feb 16 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E06
The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog
Wed, Feb 18 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E07
Love is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship
Sun, Feb 22 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
The Great European Disaster Movie
Sun, Mar 1 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure
Mon, Mar 2 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E10
India's Daughter
Wed, Mar 4 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
India's Daughter is a documentary film directed by Leslee Udwin and is part of the BBC's ongoing Storyville series. The film is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of 23-year-old "Nirbhaya" who was a physiotherapy student.
E11
Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva
Mon, Mar 9 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E12
The Lost Gold of the Highlands
Tue, Mar 17 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E13
Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake
Mon, Mar 23 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
He said he was doing God's work on earth, but betrayed his colleagues to the KGB. Sentenced to 42 years in jail, George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled to the Soviet Union. George Carey's film follows the strange life of this enigmatic traitor, tracking down people who knew him, and ending with an unexpected encounter in the woods outside Moscow.
E14
My Mother the Secret Baby
Mon, Mar 30 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E15
Himmler: The Decent One
Mon, Apr 27 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E16
Last Days in Vietnam
Mon, Jul 13 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E17
Circus Elephant Rampage
Wed, Jul 22 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E18
Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise
Sun, Aug 9 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E19
A Syrian Love Story
Tue, Sep 29 2015 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E20
Lockerbie: My Brother's Bomber
Mon, Nov 2 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E21
Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets
Mon, Nov 9 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E22
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
Mon, Nov 16 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E23
Cartel Land
Mon, Nov 23 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E24
FBI Undercover
Mon, Nov 30 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
With remarkable access, this documentary follows an unfolding active FBI counterterrorism sting operation, telling the story of Saeed 'Shariff' Torres, a 63-year-old former Black Panther turned informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Shariff is an ex-convict who claims to have at one point made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year sidling up to Muslims accused of pro-terrorism leanings. From a rented Pittsburgh home he receives instructions by text from his FBI handler. He's told to befriend a white Muslim convert who has publicly made pro-terrorist statements.As the documentary observes Shariff closing in on the suspect, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government's counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, the film illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.
E25
The Six-Day War: Censored Voices
Mon, Dec 7 2015 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A look at long-withheld piece of history, audio recordings conducted with returning Israeli soldiers after the land gains in the six-day war of 1967.
Season 2016
20 episodes
E01
The Golden Age of Circus: The Show of Shows
Sun, Jan 17 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
The story of how the circus came to be a tradition with footage of classic fairgrounds, freak shows, vaudeville and variety performances.
E02
The Great Gangster Film Fraud
Sun, Jan 24 2016 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
The story of the Jordanian entrepreneur and Irish actress who attempted to scam the UK taxman by creating a fake film production starring Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Andrea McLean. When the filmmakers are taken to court the producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long custodial sentences.
E03
A Death Row Tale: The Fear of 13
Sun, Jan 31 2016 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A stylistic and daring experimental film that tells the story of Nick, a convicted murdered that petitions the court asking to be executed, but not everything is as it seems.
E04
The Toughest Horse Race in the World: Palio
Sun, Feb 7 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
The story of the oldest Italian horse race, the Palio.
E05
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
Sun, Feb 14 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
The story of the party thrown in 1971, which celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy, at which the cost didn't matter. This show explores the lavish five-day celebration.
E06
The Black Panthers
Sun, Feb 21 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
105 min
A film which follows the Black Panther party, their culture and political awakening.
E07
Bolshoi's Babylon
Sun, Feb 28 2016 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E08
My Nazi Legacy
Wed, Mar 30 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers. For the third, the eminent human rights lawyer and author Philippe Sands, it means visiting the place where much of his own Jewish family was destroyed by the fathers of the two men he has come to know. An emotional, psychological exploration of three men wrestling with their past, the present of Europe, and conflicting versions of the truth.
E09
Being Evel Knievel
Thu, Apr 7 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Documentary about the first globally-famous stunt performer, exploring the charisma and showmanship at the heart of Evel Knievel's improbable success. Knievel made a career out of ridiculous stunts and rose to fame with multiple television appearances of his daredevil stunts that captured the public's imagination throughout the late 1960s and 70s. Using archive material, the film takes the audience on a rollercoaster ride from his early motorcycle stunts, through to his attempt to be fired across Snake River Canyon, to his time in jail for brutally assaulting his business partner. The darker side of Knievel's larger-than-life persona also emerges, especially among those who knew him best. Friends, family and business colleagues paint a complex portrait of a man who preferred to be seen as a self-styled myth. His love of alcohol, womanising, and temper were all eclipsed by an obsession with insane stunts bordering on a death wish.
E10
Unlocking the Cage
Wed, Jun 22 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary following animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. It is an intimate look at a lawsuit that could forever transform our legal system, and one man's lifelong quest to protect 'nonhuman' animals. Supported by affidavits from primatologists around the world, Steve maintains that, based on scientific evidence, cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights. Filing lawsuits used to free humans from unlawful imprisonment, Wise argues on behalf of four captive chimpanzees in New York State. The film captures a monumental shift in our culture, as the public and judicial system show increasing receptiveness to Steve's impassioned arguments.
E11
Moazzam Begg: Living the War on Terror
Sun, Oct 16 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Gripping first-hand account by a former Guantanamo detainee that chronicles the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the reaction of the west. Mozzam Begg, a Birmingham-raised British Pakistani, has experienced a generation of conflict. He has been a witness to the escalation of global radicalization for the past two decades, from the Bosnian conflict to wars in Afghanistan and Syria.The documentary captures his perspective on the escalation in tensions between the west and Islam - from his forced confession and testimony as a free man to his experience as a British Muslim and living the 'War on Terror'. Begg's story, intercut with news archive, raises important questions about how democracies respond to terrorism and how that response has impacted communities and individuals.
E12
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon - Part 1
Tue, Oct 25 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Paolo Macchiarini is one of world's most famous surgeons. He hopes to revolutionize medicine by creating a new type of synthetic organ - a vision that could save many lives. But the Italian surgeon has also been accused of using terminally ill patients as human guinea pigs as well as falsifying his science. Is he a genius - or is he behind one of medicine's biggest scandals?This gripping investigative series gains access to Macchiarini's closed world of organ transplants, animal experiments and stem-cell research. From his base at one of the world's most prestigious medical institutions - the Karolinska Institute, home of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden - the series explores the fallout from his work across the world, from London to Russia. It poses a fundamental ethical question - how far can you risk a human life in the name of cutting-edge science?
E13
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon - Part 2
Wed, Oct 26 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The second episode of this gripping investigative series starts in the summer of 2012, with supersurgeon Macchiarini under pressure when problems start to arise. His pioneering transplant work seems at risk when he discovers faults with the new synthetic organs. Macchiarini still has faith in the procedure and plans new operations. This time it will no longer be fatally ill patients on whom he tries out his new methods, but patients whose condition is not life-threatening. Will Macchiarini succeed with his pioneering work?
E14
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon - Part 3
Thu, Oct 27 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
By 2014, four Karolinska doctors started to question Macchiarini's transplantation of plastic tracheas and raised the alarm at Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute. They suspected that Macchiarini had been lying in his scientific papers and that patients' lives were being put at risk by a technique which had not been properly tested or investigated beforehand. But still his employer, the Karolinska Institute, defended him and claimed nothing was amiss.Investigative journalist Bosse Lindquist confronts Macchiarini and the vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institute, to uncover why Macchiarini was able to continue.
E15
Chasing Asylum - Inside Australia's Detention Camps
Tue, Nov 1 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Documentary which exposes the impact of Australia's offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of people seeking asylum and whistleblowers who tried to work within the system. Australia has successfully stopped hopeful asylum seekers and refugees from reaching its shores. Anyone picked up making the treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean is sent to Australian off-shore detention camps on the remote tropical islands of Manus and Nauru. Once there, men, women and children are held in indefinite detention, away from media scrutiny. Featuring never-before-seen footage of the appalling living conditions and shocking testimonies from both detainees and camp workers, Chasing Asylum exposes the impact of this policy on those seeking a safer home.
E16
Weiner - Sexts, Scandals and Politics
Sun, Nov 6 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Documentary about American politician Anthony Weiner, renowned for scandals relating to sexting. Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 after his sexting exploits were made public. He attempted a political comeback by running for mayor of New York City, but his ambitions were thwarted once more as he was foreced to admit to fresh allegations. The programme also traces the personal cost to Weiner, his family and campaign team and the unrelenting media scrutiny on him.
E17
Executed by ISIS - The James Foley Story
Sun, Nov 20 2016 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary telling the story of how a young journalist came to be the first American to be executed by ISIS.On 22 November 2012, photojournalist James 'Jim' Foley was kidnapped in Syria. Two years later, the infamous video of his public execution introduced much of the world to ISIS.The film documents Jim's life through intimate interviews with his family, friends and fellow journalists - while former hostages reveal never-before-heard details of his captivity with a chilling intimacy that reveals their untold story of perseverance.Made with unparalleled access, including footage Foley shot himself, childhood friend and director Brian Oakes reveals Jim's enormous courage during his captivity in this powerful chronicle of bravery, compassion and pain.
E18
Brides for Sale - Sonita
Sun, Nov 27 2016 10:30 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Documentary which tells the inspirational story of a teenage girl pursuing her dreams against the odds. Sonita dreams of being a rap star performing for adoring fans, but as an 18-year-old illegal Afghan immigrant living in the poor suburbs of Tehran, opportunities are hard to come by. Undeterred, Sonita pursues her dream, and with her friend Ahmad finds a recording company prepared to risk an unauthorised rap song that includes an illegal female solo, only to have their plans thwarted by Sonita's family. One of her brothers wants to get married, so Sonita must return to Afghanistan and be sold into marriage herself. The bride price she fetches will pay for her brother's wife. Feisty, defiant and spirited Sonita continues the fight to live life her own way and overcome the many obstacles in her path, experiences which are powerfully and unflinchingly captured in her music.
E19
The Cult That Stole Children - Inside the Family
Tue, Nov 29 2016 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
An incendiary investigation into one of Australia's most notorious cults and the scars its survivors still bear today. Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic, delusional and damaged. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was a living god, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect dubbed The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne through the 60s and 70s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children - some through adoption scams, some born to cult members - and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identically dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in the mid 80s, but their trauma had only just begun.
E20
Forever Pure - Football and Racism in Jerusalem
Sun, Dec 4 2016 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary which follows events at Israel's most notorious football club. Beitar Jerusalem FC is the most popular team in Israel and the only club in the Premier League never to sign an Arab player. Midway through a season the club's owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought in two Muslim players from Chechnya in a secretive transfer deal that triggered the most racist campaign in Israeli sport and sent the club spiralling out of control. The film follows the famous football club through the tumultuous season, as power, money and politics fuel a crisis and shows how racism is destroying both the team and society from within.
Season 2017
24 episodes
E01
Zero Day: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
Mon, Jan 16 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary: Thriller about warfare in a world without rules - the world of cyberwar. It tells the story of Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware, known as a 'worm' for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own. In a covert operation, the American and Israeli intelligence agencies allegedly unleashed Stuxnet to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility. Ultimately the 'worm' spread beyond its intended target. The most comprehensive account to date of how a clandestine mission opened forever the Pandora's box of cyber warfare. A cautionary tale of technology, politics, unintended consequences, morality, and the dangers of secrecy.(New, Stereo, Widescreen, High Definition, Subtitles)
E02
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
Wed, Feb 1 2017 11:00 PM GMT+0000
105 min
An inside account of a scandal that duped celebrities and the literary world. Former homeless youth JT LeRoy become an 'it boy' beloved by stars like Madonna and Courtney Love. His tough prose about his sordid childhood captivated icons and luminaries internationally. But in 2005 an article in a New York magazine sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked JT LeRoy. It turned out LeRoy didn't actually exist.
E03
Notes On Blindness
Thu, Feb 16 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull, a professor at the University of Birmingham, became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. Over three years he recorded over 16 hours of material.
E04
Life, Animated
Mon, Feb 20 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Nominated for an Academy Award, this film tells the uplifting story of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man and his family. After unremarkable early years, at the age of three Owen withdrew and suddenly stopped speaking. Diagnosed with autism, Owen slowly emerged from his isolation by immersing himself in Disney animated films, using them as an emotional road map to reconnect with the wider world.
E05
Killing for Love
Tue, Mar 7 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Documentary about a compelling murder mystery, fuelled by a passionate young love affair. It all looked clear-cut when German student Jens Soering confessed to the brutal murder of his girlfriend's parents. But all was not as it seemed - by the time it came to trial, Jens was claiming he confessed to the murders to protect his beloved girlfriend, the beautiful Elizabeth Haysom - and that she had actually been the killer. Through access to the dramatic trials, love letters and new evidence, Killing for Love attempts to get to the truth of what happened on that fateful night.The 20-year-old Elizabeth Haysom was widely admired at the University of Virginia for her wild past. Jens Soering, the son of a German diplomat, was a first-year Jefferson Scholar and had just turned 18 when he met her. He was instantly entranced and they embarked on an intense, obsessive relationship. Three months into their affair, on 30 March 1985, Elizabeth's parents were brutally murdered in their Virginia home and the couple fled. Crisscrossing Asia and Europe they were eventually arrested in London, where Jens confessed to the murder in what he later claimed was an act of love.
E06
Murder in Italy
Mon, Mar 13 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
On Friday, 26th November 2010, in the close-knit town of Bergamo, Letizia Ruggeri received a telephone call. It was Maura Gambirasio, a mother whose 13-year-old daughter Yara hadn't come home from the gym. Letizia, who spent years investigating mafia murders in Sicily, thought of her own daughter and promised she would find Yara.Three months later, Yara's body was tragically discovered - she had been attacked. With just one piece of DNA evidence to go on, Letizia started a hunt for a perpetrator that would take four years, 20,000 DNA samples, ingenuity and tenacity to find the identity of 'Unknown Male no 1'. It was a revelation that would unlock deep family secrets that still reverberated when the suspect was finally brought to trial.
E07
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
Mon, Mar 20 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
The bizarre and sensational story of the despot who stole a film star. In 1978, North Korea's movie-loving dictator Kim Jong-il arranged for the Hong Kong kidnap of South Korea's leading lady, Choi Eun-hee. Choi had left South Korea in search of a new start. Her marriage to Shin Sang-ok, her long-term collaborator and one of the country's most successful filmmakers, had collapsed when Choi found out about his affair and second family with a younger actress.After her disappearance Shin, retracing her last known steps, also fell into the hands of Kim's kidnappers. Kim Jong-il had his prize. The golden couple of Korean cinema made movies at his command for seven years until, on a trip to Vienna, they eluded their minders and made a break for the American Embassy.
E08
Last Days of Solitary
Mon, Mar 27 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Aan extraordinary and harrowing portrait of life in solitary confinement - and a unique document of a radical and risky experiment to reform a prison.
E09
Tokyo Girls
Tue, Jun 27 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Girl bands and pop music permeate Japanese life. This film gets to the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity.Meet Rio - a bona fide Tokyo idol who takes us on her journey toward fame. Now meet her 'brothers' - a group of adult male superfans who devote their lives to following her, in the virtual world and in real life. Once considered to be on the fringes of society, the brothers who gave up salaried jobs to pursue an interest in female idol culture have since become mainstream via the internet, illuminating the growing disconnect between men and women in hypermodern societies.Tokyo Girls explores the Japanese pop music industry and its focus on traditional beauty ideals, confronting the nature of gender power dynamics at work. As the female idols become younger and younger, the film looks at the veil of internet fame and the new terms of engagement that are playing out in real life around the globe.
E10
Oink: Man Loves Pig
Sun, Jul 2 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Oink explores man's relationship to pigs, diving headfirst into a beguiling mix of sentimentality and violence - from keeping pigs in your bed to factory farming.The documentary veers wildly from the birth of Dorothy, our saddleback narrator, to zeno-transplantation of organs, from Ralph Steadman cartoons for Animal Farm to wild hogs being machine-gunned from a helicopter.Oink is a mad, bad journey from China to Wiltshire via Brooklyn, which reflects on who we are and how we deal with the world around us.
E11
This Was My Dad - The Rise & Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
Mon, Jul 10 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
A profoundly intimate documentary filmed by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews over a period of more than ten years in the life of Morgan's father Geoff and his wonderfully eccentric partner Anna.In an attempt to reconnect with his dad after becoming estranged, Morgan uses the camera as both a facilitator and a filter that enables him to stay close during challenging times. The film follows Geoff and Anna through a financial crisis that sees them losing their home, it captures the challenges of their relationship, and documents the decline in Geoff's health as a result of emphysema and cancer.With the warmth, love and humour that is so often mixed up in family dramas, this is a documentary made from the inside by a film-maker who is used to turning his camera towards other people's families - but never his own. The result is deeply personal, but the themes of a challenging paternal dynamic, a relationship under pressure, and death in the family, are widespread and universal.
E17
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
Mon, Jul 17 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The former EU commissioner of health, Mr John Dalli, recently left his post having been accused of being in the pocket of 'big tobacco'. Two Danish journalists, Mads Brugger and Mikael Bertelsen, travel toMalta expecting to uncover proof of a vast conspiracy against Mr Dalli, when a secret source steps forward, claiming to possess documents and recordings. Mr Dalli attempts to strike a deal with the source, taking them on a disturbing, thrilling and darkly humorous odyssey from the hallways of Brussels to an island in the Caribbean Sea.
E18
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
Sun, Jul 23 2017 8:50 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Carne Ross was a career diplomat who believed western democracy could save us all. But after the Iraq war he became disillusioned and resigned. This film traces Carne's worldwide quest to find a better way ofdoing things - from a farming collective in Spain, to Occupy Wall Street to Rojava in war-torn Syria - as he makes the epic journey from government insider to anarchist.
E19
Queerama
Mon, Jul 31 2017 9:40 PM GMT+0000
70 min
Created from a treasure trove of archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexualliberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century- a century of incredible change.
E20
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
Mon, Aug 14 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
In 1974 two men vanished several months apart. Iceland, with a population of just over 200,000, was a close, tight-knit community where everyone knew everyone, but the police got nowhere: there were no bodies, no witnesses and no forensic evidence. Then six suspects were arrested and confessed to the murders, many facing long, harsh sentences. It seemed like justice had been done, but nothing could be further from the truth.Forty years later, this notorious murder case was reopened when new evidence brought into question everything that had gone before. It became clear that the suspects had very quickly lost trust in their memories and were confused about their involvement in the crimes they had confessed to. The extreme police interrogation techniques were brought under intense scrutiny.This tense, psychological thriller tells the true story of the biggest-ever criminal investigation in Iceland's history, exploring one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice Europe has ever witnessed.
E21
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Mon, Aug 21 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectualoperating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.
E22
The Boy Who Changed America
Wed, Sep 6 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
On 25 November 1999, a six-year-old Cuban boy was found floating alone off the Florida coast after his mother drowned during an attempt to escape Cuba for the United States. Set against the tense and acrimonious relationship between the two countries, The Boy Who Changed America tells the story of Elian Gonzalez and the bitter custody battle that played out in the aftermath of his rescue between his Cuban father and American relatives. Eighteen years later and in the wake of Fidel Castro's death, the now 23-year-old Elian and his family tell their story for the first time.
E23
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
Thu, Oct 26 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
I'd participated in this sort of peer-to-peer/group therapy work with my family since I was 16 years old and have come to understand how it's been effective for me to use in my life before in different settings long before I accepted my father's invitation to go inside Folsom . But I had my reservations about what it might be like inside a maximum-security prison and I didn't know how safe it would be or what would be required of me. I didn't know if there was enough strength or experience inside of me, or if there might be some deficit on my part in what I could offer the convicts.Although I didn't even know I was doing it I had pulled out a measuring stick and began judging the distance between where I thought I was and where I believed they stood in relationship to myself. I imagined pain and hardship that was somehow bigger, that outweighed my own if you were to put it on a scale.What did I know about gang-banging or violence? My father grew up on the Southside of Chicago with those experiences, but I didn't know anything about those things beyond his stories and what I saw in the media. It took me some time to realize that my lack of experience was a vacuum that I was filling with fiction. I felt an obligation to myself to fill in my ignorance with actual facts. The only way to do that was to see for myself.Angela Sostre, one of the early producers, told me "Ask yourself why you might be the only person able to tell this story. And without you, why it might not be told at all." That did it. I realized I needed to make this film and tell this story.
E24
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs The United States
Mon, Oct 30 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E25
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
Mon, Nov 13 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
It was a scandal that shook the British establishment to its roots. In June 1951, the government was forced to admit that two Foreign Office diplomats had disappeared. One of them, Donald Maclean, had slipped through their fingers three days before he was due to be questioned for passing secrets to the Russians. The other, Guy Burgess, was a total surprise. He was a charming, clever Etonian, with powerful friends everywhere. And lovers too - at a time when homosexuality was illegal, Burgess made no secret of his sexual tastes. He turned out to be the most flamboyant of a ring of privileged Cambridge students who had secretly joined the Communists in the 1930s, disgusted by their own government's policy of appeasing Hitler. With the help of newly declassified documents, George Carey's film shows how the most celebrated spy ring of the 20th century grew out of the class system, sexual hypocrisy and the sheer incompetence of some people who then ran Britain.
E26
My Mother's Lost Children
Mon, Nov 20 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
An eccentric Jewish family is thrown into turmoil when two stolen children reappear after 40 years.
E27
Last Men in Aleppo
Mon, Nov 27 2017 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
After five years of war in Syria the remaining 350,000 citizens of Aleppo are constantly under siege. Through the eyes of the volunteers of the White Helmets, in this film we experience daily life and death in the streets of Aleppo.Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud are founding members of the White Helmets and are the first to enter destroyed buildings, scouring through the rubble in search of bodies and signs of life. They have chosen to stay in Aleppo to help save their people during the never-ending siege.Many lives including those of countless children and infants are lost during the bombings. But each day is a dilemma and a conflict for the men - should they stay and risk death themselves, or should they try to get out and save their own families, as other have?The film is a collaboration with the Aleppo Media Centre, and tells the extraordinary story of real heroes in an epic human tragedy.
E28
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
Thu, Nov 30 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
Twelve billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our solar system and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. The story of Voyager is an epic of human achievement, personal drama and almost miraculous success. Launched 16 days apart in 1977, the twin Voyager space probes have defied all the odds, survived countless near misses and almost 40 years later continue to beam revolutionary information across unimaginable distances. With less computing power than a modern hearing aid, they have unlocked the stunning secrets of our solar system.This film tells the story of these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped.
E29
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
Thu, Dec 7 2017 11:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
To the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian now Slovenian cult band Laibach became the first rock group ever invited to perform in the dictatorially repressed state of North Korea. Under the firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, Laibach must deal with strict ideology, cultural differences and many technological difficulties in order just to perform. Struggling to get their songs through rigorous censorship, they race against the clock so they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock'n'roll.
Season 2018
13 episodes
E01
Trophy: The Big Game Hunting Controversy
Mon, Jan 29 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos and lions come closer to extinction each year; since 1970 the world has lost 60 per cent of all wild animals. Their devastating decline is fuelled in part by a global desire to hunt and kill these majestic animals. This film investigates the industry of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation.Through the eyes of impassioned individuals who drive this business - from a Texas trophy hunter on a mission to kill 'the big five', to the world's largest private rhino breeder in South Africa, who believes he is saving these extraordinary beasts from becoming extinct - the film grapples with the consequences of imposing economic value on animals. What are the implications of treating animals as commodities? Does breeding, farming and hunting offer the option of conserving endangered animals? Trophy raises provocative debate about the rights and wrongs of killing animals for sport and for profit, and questions the value of these pursuits in saving the planet's great species from extinction.
E02
City of Ghosts
Mon, Jun 11 2018 9:30 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Bafta-nominated documentary telling the story of website Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), where a group of young men band together and risk their lives to document and release videos, photos and written testimony of Islamic State atrocities in their home city of Raqqa.From acclaimed Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman, City of Ghosts follows the visceral and at times distressing journey of a network of brave young activists who band together to report the stories of atrocities inflicted on the Syrian citizens of Raqqa by ISIS, who invaded their city in 2014. The film reveals the very real dangers for this tight-knit group of citizen journalists, working undercover both inside and outside their homeland. They risk their lives daily to report stories of terror and destruction in the besieged city of Raqqa. The stories are posted on an online site -'Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently' - in the hope that they will reach the mainstream media and governments globally. A dramatic and heartbreaking story unfolds, as we witness the huge personal sacrifices the young journalists make to bring the plight of their people to the world.
E03
Eagle Huntress
Sun, Jun 17 2018 6:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Aisholpan is a 13-year-old girl from a remote Mongolian tribe, who dreams of becoming an eagle hunter - just like her father and her grandfather before him. The ancient tradition stretches back over 1,000 years, but Aisholpan's plans are almost dashed at the outset by the male-dominated eagle hunting community, who strongly disapprove of girls taking part, arguing they should stay at home to milk the cows and make the tea. Meanwhile, Aisholpan and her determined father - who passionately believes girls can do anything that boys can - set out to prove she can become Mongolia's first eagle huntress.Eagle Huntress premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for best documentary at the 2017 Baftas.
E04
This is Congo
Wed, Jun 27 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A Storyville documentary. A raw and unfiltered insight into the bloodiest conflict since the Second World War. Over the last two decades, the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed over five million conflict-related deaths, multiple regime changes and the impoverishment of its people.Following the lives of four diverse characters - a government whistleblower, a patriotic military commander, a mineral dealer and a displaced tailor - this programme offers a visceral, yet intimate insight into a nation caught between the foreign-backed M23 rebels and the government ruled by president Joseph Kabila, who cancels elections and refuses to relinquish power. As the conflict resonates through their lives, the film reveals the insidious legacy of colonialism, resource exploitation and the genocidal wars that has created a never-ending cycle of violence.
E05
Olympic Dreams of Russian Gold - Over the Limit
Sun, Jul 1 2018 8:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
'You're not a human being, you're an athlete,' 20-year-old Rita is told by one of her two merciless coaches as she prepares to represent Russia in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. It is the most crucial year of her career and her last chance to achieve her ultimate dream, a gold medal. However gracefully Rita catches rings or rolls a ball across her shoulders, her coaches expect more from her, time and again. Described as the 'Black Swan' of sports documentaries, Over the Limit offers unprecedented access to the hidden world of elite gymnasts and the unrelentingly brutal training demanded by the Russian system.
E06
John Curry: The Ice King
Mon, Jul 9 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form and made history by becoming the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not fully legal. Directed by James Erskine, this is a documentary about a lost cultural icon - a story of art, sport, sexuality and rebellion. Featuring unseen footage of some of his most remarkable performances and with access to Curry's letters, archive interviews, and interviews with his family, friends and collaborators, this is a portrait of the man who turned ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form.
E07
Insha'Allah Democracy
Mon, Jul 23 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
As Pakistan prepare for their 2018 elections, Insha'Allah Democracy follows film-maker Mo Naqvi during the country's last election, when he was a first-time voter and wanted to back a candidate who would prevent Pakistan from becoming a terrorist state. But Mo faced a tough choice - either vote for religious hardliners or a secular liberal leader who happened to be a former military dictator.Insha'Allah Democracy chronicles one voter's journey to discover if democracy is possible in an unstable Muslim country, whilst providing a fly-on-the-wall exploration into a controversial leader, Pervez Musharraf.
E08
Jailed in America
Mon, Oct 8 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Roger Ross Williams, the first black director to win an Academy Award, embarks on a deeply personal journey into the heart of the American prison system to try and understand how come so many of his childhood friends have ended up behind bars. He starts in his own hometown but soon finds himself navigating a maze of powerful institutions: police precincts, courtrooms, local jails, maximum security prisons and corporate empires. As he explores a massive and dysfunctional system, he encounters complicit politicians and prison profiteers, each with their own self-serving motivations to maintain the status quo, as well as prison administrators who recognise that most of their inmates should be free, yet are helpless to release them. His pursuit of an answer propels the film to examine the American society - from the free market ideals that America is founded upon to the savage ways in which the country has manifested those ideals.
E09
A Woman Captured
Mon, Oct 22 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
A Woman Captured is a raw and intimate portrayal of the psychology behind enslavement. Director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter offers an evocative study of a woman so debased and disregarded that even she has lost sight of her own life.
E10
Selling Children
Mon, Oct 29 2018 10:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Director Pankaj Johar sets out to understand how, in the world's largest democracy, it is possible for millions of children to be bought and sold.
E11
Quest: Surviving in America
Mon, Nov 12 2018 10:30 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following the African-American Rainey family as they navigate life in their north Philadelphia neighbourhood gripped by poverty, drugs and gun violence.
E12
Poisoning America: The Devil We Know
Mon, Nov 19 2018 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following a group of citizens in West Virginia who take on a corporation after they discover it has been dumping a toxic chemical into the water supply.
E13
Hurt Locker Hero
Mon, Nov 26 2018 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary about Fakhir Berwari, a bomb disposal expert who disarmed thousands of landmines in Iraq with just a pocket knife and a pair of wire clippers.
Season 2019
20 episodes
E01
Waco: Madman or Messiah Part 1
Wed, Jan 2 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A two-part Storyville documentary telling the story of the the deadliest siege in American history, which took place in 1993 outside Waco, Texas, and following a new group of Branch Davidians which is living on the same property under a new leader. His goal: to repopulate the Branch of Davidian sect before the coming apocalypse. The programme combines interviews with survivors on location at Mt. Carmel Ranch, some of whom have never spoken publicly before, as well as family, friends and key ATF/FBI officers, along with dramatic reconstructions of past events.
E02
Waco: Madman or Messiah Part 2
Thu, Jan 3 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
This episode begins with the fateful ATF raid. The two-and-a-half-hour gun battle rapidly develops into a stand-off with the FBI, watched by the world's media. Tanks are sent in and sniper positions set up. Inside, the Branch Davidians, believing that prophecy is being fulfilled, sit tight, while the FBI dismiss Koresh and his followers' words as just ‘Bible babble'. Finally, Koresh announces he will write his version of the Seven Seals and that they will all come out when it is complete. But it is too late. On April 19, a frustrated FBI starts inserting teargas into the compound with tanks. A fire develops and, fanned by high winds, devours Mount Carmel along with David Koresh and his followers. Now we finally answer the controversy that has been disputed ever since that fateful day - who lit the fire?
E03
Under the Wire
Mon, Feb 11 2019 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin's fateful mission to tell the story of the civilians trapped by the Syrian conflict in the besieged city of Homs.
E04
Defying the Cutting Season
Tue, Feb 26 2019 10:30 PM GMT+0000
60 min
How Rhobi Samwelly has set up a safe house for girls in fear of suffering female genital mutilation, confronting a tradition that, although illegal, goes back thousands of years.
E05
The Internet's Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners
Tue, Mar 19 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary about the secret team of content moderators who clean the internet. Who are they, what criteria do they use, and where does content moderation end and censorship begin?
E06
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Mon, Apr 1 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, accused of masterminding the murder of over 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the 90s Bosnian war, the worst crime in Europe since WW2.
E07
Pervert Park
Mon, Apr 8 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
Documentary about a trailer park in Florida housing more than 100 convicted sex offenders, following them as they attempt to reintegrate themselves back into society.
E08
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors - Part 1
Wed, May 8 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The untold story of the Brexit negotiations...from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representative Guy Verhofstadt.
E09
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors - Part 2
Thu, May 9 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The untold story of the Brexit negotiations...from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representative Guy Verhofstadt.
E10
A German Life: Goebbels' Secretary Remembers
Mon, May 13 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
The extraordinary story of Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary and stenographer to the Nazi proganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.
E11
Last Breath
Mon, May 27 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
The true story of commercial diver Chris Lemons, who was stranded on the bottom of the North Sea with five minutes of oxygen, but no chance of rescue for more than 30 minutes.
E12
The Raft
Sun, Jun 2 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
100 min
The account of what happened to a group of men and women who, in 1973, participated in an experiment in human behaviour by drifting across the Atlantic on a raft.
E13
Tiananmen: The People V the Party
Mon, Sep 30 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Eyewitness accounts and leaked secret documents provide a deeper understanding of the final bloody days of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstration.
E14
The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street
Mon, Oct 21 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Storyville documentary about the investigation into the theft from a Malaysian wealth fund of 3.5 billion US dollars, a crime traced to the very top of Malaysia's government.
E15
On the President's Orders
Thu, Oct 24 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Storyville film that tells the story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented access to people on both sides of the war.
E16
Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers
Mon, Oct 28 2019 10:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
A Storyville documentary. How one man's refusal to overlook its financial irregularities led to the exposure of the subprime mortgage scandal that engulfed Lehman Brothers.
E17
Maiden
Mon, Nov 11 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
The inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards became the skipper of the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
E18
One Child Nation
Mon, Nov 18 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary that reveals the continuing impact of China's one-child policy, abandoned in 2015, on the country's people.
E19
Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Mon, Nov 25 2019 9:00 PM GMT+0000
120 min
A Storyville documentary. Mads Brügger and Göran Björkdahl investigate the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations Secretary-General, killed in a plane crash in 1961.
E20
Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others
Mon, Dec 2 2019 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
Season 2020
22 episodes
E01
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (1)
Tue, Jan 7 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary. Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform 'revolutionary suicide' in northern Guyana?
E02
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2)
Wed, Jan 8 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary. The Jonestown project quickly begins to implode. Jones's excessive drug use, irrational behaviour and the isolation of his followers raises the alarm back home.
E03
The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature
Mon, Jan 27 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary. The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. What will CRISPR mean for human evolution?
E04
Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders
Mon, Feb 10 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
Jewish lawyer Lea Tsemel is a controversial figure in Israel. For the last 50 years, she has fearlessly defended Palestinians prosecuted in Israeli courts for resisting the occupation.
E05
Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride
Mon, Feb 17 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that reveals the complex and surprising truth behind the relationships of four Thai-Danish married couples in a small fishing community in Denmark.
E06
The Island and the Whales
Sun, Feb 23 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
50 min
The people of the Faroe Islands believe that pilot whale hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten to change the community and their way of life forever.
E07
The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar
Mon, Feb 24 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary, filmed over seven years, that follows pornstar Jonathan Agassi and explores the impact that both the industry and his upbringing have had on his life.
E08
The Accused: Damned or Devoted?
Mon, Mar 2 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
E09
College Behind Bars - Episode 1
Mon, Jun 15 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
50 min
First of a two-part documentary telling the story of a group of American men and women studying for college degrees while in prison for serious crimes. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security institutions in New York state, Lynn Novick's film tackles the failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for more than two million Americans living behind bars.
E10
College Behind Bars - Episode 2
Mon, Jun 15 2020 9:50 PM GMT+0000
50 min
Concluding part of the documentary about prisoners enrolled in the Bard Prison Initiative, featuring the background stories of participants and their families.
E11
Scandalous! The Tabloid that Changed America
Wed, Jun 24 2020 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E12
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge
Wed, Jul 1 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Documentary laying bare Chechnya's deadly war against its gay citizens, which reveals the bravery of those running rescue missions to protect the republic's LGBTQ community.
E13
The Underdog vs The State: The Battle for Kenya
Wed, Jul 8 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
Documentary that looks at the tough reality of running for politics in a country riven by corruption and tribal factionalism, through the story of Boniface `Softie" Mwangi.
E14
United Skates
Tue, Jul 14 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Documentary exploring the campaign to save the US's last standing roller rinks from closure against a backdrop of growing racial tension. The film reveals the story of underground subculture that has grown up around these venues and given rise to some of the world's greatest musical talent - but has itself remained virtually unknown to the mainstream.
E15
The Two Escobars
Sun, Sep 6 2020 11:00 AM GMT+0000
E18
Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man
Mon, Oct 26 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in an online comic. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after being hijacked by the alt-right.
E19
Undercover in the Alt-Right
Sat, Oct 10 2020 11:00 AM GMT+0000
Patrik Hermansson went deep undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville. He extracted damning information that runs all of the way to the White House. And he caught it all on hidden camera.
E20
An Army of Sons
Sun, Nov 1 2020 12:00 PM GMT+0000
E21
The Night Notre-Dame Burned
Mon, Nov 16 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that reveals the events that immediately followed the discovery of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019.
E22
The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper
Mon, Nov 23 2020 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary. A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. The real-life tale of one of America's most extraordinary unsolved crimes. Just who is DB Cooper?
E23
Locked In: Breaking the Silence
Mon, Nov 30 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
A Storyville documentary. Film-maker Xavier Alford has a rare and life-changing illness. Confronting his fears, he finds talking with fellow patients and his family makes all of them stronger.
E24
Red Penguins: Murder, Money and Ice Hockey
Mon, Dec 7 2020 10:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
A tale of capitalism and opportunism run amok - complete with gangsters, strippers and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink in Moscow.
Season 2021
10 episodes
E01
Whirlybird: Live above LA
Mon, Feb 15 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that revisits how a daring husband-and-wife team became the first journalists to invest in a helicopter, changing the way the news is covered forever.
E02
Into the Storm: Surfing to Survive
Mon, Feb 22 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Sofia Mulanovich, Peru's most successful surf champion, offers a fellow surfer, teenager Johnny Guerrero, the chance of a life away from the barrios.
E03
The Hunt for Gaddafi's Billions
Mon, Mar 1 2021 10:00 PM GMT+0000
91 min
A Storyville documentary that goes inside the dark and mysterious world of spies, special forces and political insiders as they race to find Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's billions.
E04
Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne
Mon, Mar 15 2021 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A Storyville documentary that examines the repercussions of the child abuse scandal that erupted on Jersey in 2007 and the role played by two bloggers in forcing the island to confront its past.
E05
Undercover OAP: The Mole Agent
Mon, Mar 22 2021 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A recently widowed 83-year-old goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home in a warm-hearted and surprising look at age, isolation and loneliness. Sergio is a Chilean spy - sort of. At least, he is offered the role of one after a casting session organised by Detective Romulo, a private investigator who needs a credible mole to infiltrate a retirement home. Romulo's client, the concerned daughter of a resident, suspects her mother is being abused and hires him to find out what is really happening. However, Sergio is 83, not 007, and not an easy trainee when it comes to technology and spying techniques. But he is a keen student, looking for ways to distract himself after recently losing his wife. What could be a better distraction than some undercover spy action? While gathering intelligence, Sergio grows close to several residents and realises that the truth beneath the surface is not what anyone had suspected. The film is a stylish combination of observational documentary and spy movie, resulting in a unique observation of compassion and loneliness.
E06
Collective: Unravelling a Scandal
Mon, Mar 29 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
105 min
The tragic outcome of a nightclub fire in Bucharest in 2015 triggers an investigation into corruption in Romania's healthcare system.
E07
Petite Fille
Wed, Jun 30 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A moving and sensitive Storyville documentary that follows a year in the life of a little French girl, Sasha – assigned male at birth – and her family's fight for her acceptance.
E08
Raising a School Shooter
Wed, Jul 7 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary in which three parents in the US talk about what it is like to have a child who was not the victim of a high school shooting but its perpetrator.
E09
Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight
Wed, Jul 14 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary about the rise and fall of the former superstar CEO of Nissan, from celebrated industry leader to wanted fugitive.
E10
Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral
Wed, Jul 21 2021 9:00 PM GMT+0000
100 min
This Storyville documentary is granted rare access to globally trending megachurch Hillsong, where key church figures and followers shed light on the organisation's current scandals.
Season 2022
22 episodes
E01
Final Account
Wed, Jan 26 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich. Men and women ranging from former SS officers to children who grew up in Hitler's Germany speak for the first time about their memories and perceptions of some of the greatest crimes in human history.
E02
Misha and the Wolves
Wed, Feb 2 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
The dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher – who turned detective – revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth. In the early 1990s, Misha Defonseca began to tell friends in the Jewish community of Massachusetts of her terrible experiences as a young girl during the Holocaust. Stripped of her identity, and ‘hidden' in the house of a Catholic family, she decided to run away, walking east across Europe, eating earthworms and insects, befriending wolves, evading the Nazis and living by her wits in search her deported parents.On hearing this incredible account, local publisher Jane Daniel persuaded Misha to write her story as a memoir. Before the book was even written, the buzz began. The press picked up the story, and film and translation rights were being sold around the world. By the time the book was finished, Oprah's Book Club came calling, and their involvement guaranteed an international bestseller.Then something strange happened. Misha grew uncooperative and refused to go on the live TV show. Thus began a three-year feud between Misha and her publisher that ended in court, accused of stealing the copyright and withholding royalties. The publisher was ordered to pay damages of USD22 million. In an effort to rebuild her reputation, Jane Daniel delved deeper into Misha's story. A cinematic documentary about truth and lies, about history and imagination and how and why we believe the stories we're told.
E03
President
Wed, Feb 9 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
When Robert Mugabe was ousted by his own party, Zimbabwe's new leaders promised a democratic presidential election – the first since the start of Mugabe's rule almost 40 years earlier. Against a backdrop of economic crisis, food shortages and political violence, the stakes could not be higher.Working to defeat the ruling party, which has controlled Zimbabwe since independence, is the young and charismatic Nelson Chamisa, who has been compared to a young Nelson Mandela. The campaign will set the course for the future of the country. After decades of corrupt elites using any means necessary to retain power, can a free, fair and transparent election truly be possible?With this sequel to her widely acclaimed 2014 documentary Democrats, which followed the political battle to establish Zimbabwe's first democratic constitution, Camilla Nielsson brings viewers into the heart of an epic struggle for power.
E04
Try Harder!
Wed, Feb 16 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
The American college application process can be stressful at the best of times. For the super-smart, mostly Asian-American students at San Francisco's Lowell High School, it's emotionally draining. At Lowell, it's cool to be a nerd – everyone is talented.This Storyville documentary follows a group of students as they make their university applications, all of them under pressure to get a prized spot at one of the country's most elite institutions. Try Harder! is a portrait of young adults in the most diverse American generation ever, navigating their way through a quintessential rite of passage.
E05
Price of Gold
Thu, Feb 17 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
The world could not keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games – Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. Just weeks before the Olympics in 1994, at the US Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was injured by an unknown assailant. Harding's ex-husband had plotted the attack with his misfit friends to eliminate Kerrigan from the competition.The Price of Gold takes a fresh look at the scandal that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating, with Harding still facing questions over what she knew and when she knew it.
E06
Tango with Putin
Wed, Mar 2 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary. A Russian radio producer sets up a TV station and finds herself in the vanguard of the struggle to protect independent journalism in her country.
E07
Writing with Fire
Wed, Mar 9 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a group of women as they set up India's only newpaper run by women. They are expected to fail, but instead they stir a revolution.
E08
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Wed, Mar 23 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Ten-year-old Oleg lives with his grandma in eastern Ukraine, close to the front line of the war between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. His village, Hnutove, is just a mile from the war zone. Whilst friends and family have been able to flee, Oleg has no other place to go.This Storyville documentary follows him over the course of a year, from 2016 to 2017, examining what it is like to grow up in the midst of armed conflict.
E09
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Wed, Mar 30 2022 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
Single mother Anna and her four children are living under siege in Ukraine in 2019. Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a film-maker and so, as bombs descend on neighbouring homes, she and her siblings construct, act in, and edit a film about their lives in the war zone.The Earth Is Blue as an Orange observes the family as they cope with war by using their cameras to create meaning out of a meaningless conflict.
E10
The Truffle Hunters
Wed, Apr 6 2022 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of elderly men hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle. This award-winning film follows these truffle hunters, who live and work alongside their cherished dogs in an eccentric world, guided by a secret culture and a training passed down through the generations.
E11
Into My Name
Tue, Jun 21 2022 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A compelling coming-of-age story of four friends, sharing important turning points in their lives as they transition to a new gender.Nic, Leo, Raff and Andrea meet in Bologna, where each of them is going through their gender transition. Their discussions gently revolve around their personal experiences, providing a unique insider's look at hormones, surgery, the longing for facial hair and the legal hurdles faced by transgender people.
E12
Citizen Ashe
Tue, Jun 28 2022 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court. Known to most on account of his stellar sports career – he became the first black man to win Wimbledon in 1975 – the film uncovers Ashe's work as a social activist, a role that embraced not only the civil rights movement in the US and African Americans but all oppressed peoples throughout the world.
E13
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
Tue, Jul 5 2022 9:00 PM GMT+0000
35 min
On 13 January 2018, Hawaiians were suddenly confronted by an urgent nuclear threat. This was the text message they received from their country's emergency management agency:Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.This documentary captures the voices of the people who experienced the events of that day, viscerally recreating what happened during the 38 minutes they had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of a possible nuclear catastrophe.
E14
Gorbachev. Heaven
Tue, Sep 13 2022 8:30 PM GMT+0000
100 min
Mikhail Gorbachev helped to shape the 20th century. As the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, his actions brought down the Berlin Wall, giving countries of the former Soviet Union a chance to break away and be free. But while to many in the west he remains a hero, in his own country Gorbachev is condemned for destroying the Soviet Empire.This film is an intimate portrait of the man, now 91 years old and living alone in an empty house outside Moscow, carrying the burdens of his past.
E15
One Day in Ukraine
Tue, Sep 20 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A snapshot of one day in a country under siege. Filmed on 14 March 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war, by a collective of Ukrainian film-makers who wanted to document life in Kyiv for ordinary civilians, citizens-turned-activists and groups of territorial defence soldiers. Written and directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy and the Babylon 13 Collective.
E16
And Still I Sing
Tue, Sep 27 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country's hit TV show Afghan Star. With two young women on the verge of being named the show's first ever female winners, the Taliban take over and their lifelong dreams of becoming pop stars are suddenly under threat.
E17
Midwives
Tue, Oct 4 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Rohingya and an apprentice midwife who acts as assistant and translator at the clinic.Despite living in the area for generations, Nyo Nyo and her family are still considered intruders. Risking her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients, she is determined to become a steady healthcare provider and resource for the families who desperately need her.Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing's remarkable feature debut won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Made over the course of five turbulent years in Myanmar, it shines a spotlight on these courageous women, who unite to bring forth life, despite the risks and challenges of their own, and offers a rare insight into the complex reality of Myanmar and its people.
E18
Beneath the Surface
Tue, Oct 11 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse and suffering, supported by a mass of evidence and previously unseen archival footage.As the case goes to court, the community remains defiant against a judicial system whose attitudes highlight fissures in the purported equal treatment of all citizens. The community's battle aims to break a vicious cycle of racism and to achieve meaningful, lasting change for future generations.
E19
The Fire Within
Mon, Oct 17 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path.It instantly killed Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and film-makers from the Alsace region in France. They were too close. They were almost always too close. On the day before they died, Maurice said in an interview, 'I am never afraid, because I've seen so many eruptions in 25 years that, even if I die tomorrow, I don't care.'The Fire Within pays homage to the Kraffts, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage of their final journey, unprecedented in its spectacular and hypnotic beauty.
E20
A Story of Bones
Tue, Nov 1 2022 9:30 PM GMT+0000
90 min
In her role as environmental officer, Annina Van Neel learns that Saint Helena's planned airport sits on top of a mass burial site for 325 African slaves. As part of the development, their remains were exhumed and moved into storage, with no clear plan or timeline as to what would happen to them next.Haunted by this and her memories of growing up in Namibia under apartheid, and in spite of the opposition of local people who consider her an outsider, Annina fights for a proper memorial for these forgotten victims.
E21
A House Made of Splinters
Tue, Nov 8 2022 9:30 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia's invasion in February 2022.In a large ramshackle house near the front line in war-torn eastern Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian women run an orphanage. Children whose homes have been shattered by poverty, violence and alcohol can safely stay there for up to nine months until a decision is made on whether to return them home, foster them or move them to another orphanage.When one child checks out of the orphanage, a new one always checks in, missing their parents. Children like Kolya, who smokes cigarettes on the sly, steals, and draws tattoos on his arms, but who also looks after his younger siblings before collapsing, crying, into his drunk mother's arms.
E22
A Bunch of Amateurs
Tue, Dec 13 2022 10:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
A bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.As its members grow old amid flickering memories and hardships, a handful of die hard members desperately cling to their dreams, and to each other, in this warm and funny look at shared artistic folly that speaks to the delusional dreamer in us all.
Season 2023
22 episodes
E01
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Tue, Jan 24 2023 10:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
Three minutes of footage is all that remains of the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, filmed in 1938 by photographer David Kurtz. This Storyville documentary unravels the tales hidden within the celluloid, including insights from the film-maker's grandson and a boy who appears in the faded footage – one of the few survivors of the decimated village.Kurtz's footage was made available courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
E02
Casa Susanna
Tue, Jan 31 2023 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
In the 1950s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskill mountains, there was a small wooden house with a barn behind it called Casa Susanna, a holiday home for one of the first clandestine networks of cross-dressers in the US.Back then, Diane and Kate used to enjoy weekend visits to the house with their wives and friends. Now in their 80s, Diane and Kate tell a forgotten chapter of some of the early days of trans identity.
E03
The Spy in Your Mobile
Tue, Feb 14 2023 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that investigates a powerful and terrifying spyware called Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by Israeli company NSO Group and used on journalists, activists and others, including both the wife and fiancée of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
E04
Inside Russia: Traitors and Heroes
Mon, Feb 20 2023 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Despite the huge risks, two Russian film-makers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country. Many thousands have fled. Those that have stayed have had to make a choice – oppose the war, support it, or stay silent.
E05
Sex on Screen
Tue, Feb 28 2023 10:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A Storyville documentary that explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll on those involved in filming them, and the impact such images have on women and girls in the real world.The film features candid interviews with actors and creators, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade and David Simon, and highlights the voices of women who have spoken out against abusive behaviour on set and were punished for it.
E06
Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Own Words
Mon, Apr 17 2023 8:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
From living with incurable bowel cancer, to receiving a damehood, to her untimely death, this archive-based feature documentary details the extraordinary last five years of cancer campaigner Deborah James's life.Known by many as her online persona Bowelbabe, the former deputy head teacher amassed a huge social media following. Filmed with Deborah in the last months of her life, with access to her personal and family archive, she talks frankly about her diagnosis and treatment, and shares many personal moments. The film is told by Deborah herself whilst she dances and records what living with bowel cancer was really like for her and those closest to her.
E07
Nelly and Nadine: Ravensbrück, 1944
Tue, Apr 25 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary about two women who fall in love in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
E08
Attica: America's Bloodiest Prison Uprising
Tue, May 2 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
110 min
A Storyville documentary about the violent five-day standoff between inmates and law enforcement which gripped America in 1971.
E09
Blue Bag Life
Tue, May 9 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Storyville documentary in which UK artist and film-maker Lisa Selby turns the camera on herself as she tries to understand relationships with her late mother and her partner, both heroin addicts.The film won the audience award at the 2022 London International Film Festival.
E10
In the Name of the Father
Tue, May 16 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Extraordinary film based in the Breslov Hasidic community in Yavniel, Israel.The community was founded in the 1980s and led by charismatic leader Rabbi Schick, also known as Mohorosh, who was based in Brooklyn, New York. A controversial figure, Mohorosh welcomed 'repentant' Jews who were seeking a sense of community in Yavniel. These could be Jewish people who had lost their faith, committed crimes or simply wanted to live a Breslov Hasidic life with Mohorosh as their spiritual leader.With a school, a kindergarten, a synagogue, a huge kitchen where the community could eat together and houses built by the community themselves, it was funded by selling holy books and fundraising, and led spiritually by Mohorosh, who largely remained in Brooklyn. However, when Mohorosh died, it emerged that he had left two wills – one leaving leadership of the community and a huge fortune to his son Moishi, and the other benefiting a group of self-selected community leaders.As a huge fight over his inheritance rages and the community is left without their spiritual leader, stories begin to emerge of a hidden criminal organisation which was extorting millions of dollars, as well as violence, sexual abuse and underage marriages.Moishi and a number of survivors decided to break the silence, to leave the community and to tell this extraordinary story to director Bat-dor Ojalvo, who spent years earning their trust. Uniquely, she also gained access to some of the community who continue to live according to Mohorosh's teachings.With incredible archive and home movies from Yavniel, the film was shot in both Yavniel and Brooklyn.
E11
Inside Kabul
Tue, May 23 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
30 min
When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the lives and destinies of two young Afghani women, Raha and Marwa, are changed forever.Inside Kabul is an animated film based on the voice notes that Raha and Marwa exchanged in the months that followed.Raha chose to stay in Kabul, where she is confronted with the violence of the regime, the sudden change in what ordinary people, especially women, are allowed to do and the crisis into which the country gradually sinks.Marwa leaves with her husband just in time and finds herself in a refugee camp in Abu Dhabi, waiting and waiting to be welcomed to another country.
E12
8 Bar: The Evolution of Grime
Tue, Aug 22 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary looking at the history of grime as a product of social unrest, urban culture and disenfranchised youth in the UK during the early 2000s.
E13
iHuman
Tue, Aug 29 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary exploring the true impact of artificial intelligence on the world.
E14
Blue Box
Tue, Sep 5 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A Storyville documentary. Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel.
E15
Benjamin, Joshua and The Crown Shyness
Tue, Sep 12 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
A Storyville documentary following two identical twins in their twentieth year together. Benjamin and Joshua confront the limits imposed on them by their learning disability.
E16
Winning Hearts and Minds
Tue, Sep 19 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary that investigates allegations against the Afghan police of abuse in Helmand province in the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan.
E17
Tanja: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
Tue, Sep 26 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
A Storyville documentary telling the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the former teacher who became a member of the Colombian FARC rebel group.
E18
If the Streets Were on Fire
Tue, Oct 3 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
A Storyville documentary that shows London from an exhilarating perspective. A group of young people express themselves through biking as an alternative to gang culture.
E19
Made of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby's Fiercest Rivalry
Tue, Oct 10 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary that follows the fierce sporting rivalry between the two best teams, England and France, and their journeys in the 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.
E20
Keeping It Up: The Story of Viagra
Fri, Dec 8 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Twenty-five years ago, Viagra kick-started the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. From Wales to New York, this is the big story of the little blue pill.
E21
Pianoforte
Sun, Dec 17 2023 9:20 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that goes behind the scenes of the International Chopin Piano Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions in classical music.
E22
Songs of Earth
Mon, Dec 25 2023 7:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary in which the landscapes of Norway provide the backdrop for this immersive story of a family whose lives are linked intrinsically to their environment.
Season 2024
20 episodes
E01
Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer
Tue, Jan 23 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
Storyville documentary. Three Australian brothers investigate whether their father and uncle, both Holocaust survivors, may have been involved in the deaths of former Nazis after the war.
E02
Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea
Tue, Jan 30 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
110 min
A Storyville documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths people go to to gain freedom, following various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea.
E03
Another Body: My AI Porn Nightmare
Tue, Feb 6 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a college student's investigation after she discovers that her face has been digitally altered to appear in online hardcore porn videos.
E04
The Eternal Memory
Tue, Feb 13 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that offers a moving portrait of unconditional love and devotion. A Chilean political journalist is cared for by his wife after his Alzheimer's diagnosis.
E05
Total Trust: Surveillance State
Tue, Feb 20 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
95 min
A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist.
E06
Praying for Armageddon
Tue, May 14 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that explores the power and influence of American Evangelical Christians as they aim to fulfil the Armageddon prophecy.
E07
The Gullspång Miracle: A Nordic Mystery
Tue, May 21 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
110 min
A Storyville documentary that takes the audience on a wild ride of unbelievable twists and turns. What begins as an eerie story of family reunification sees three women's lives spiral out of control.
E08
Dalton's Dream
Tue, May 28 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that takes an intimate look at the life of The X Factor winner Dalton Harris as he tries to build on his success and embrace his identity in the face of prejudice.
E09
Against the Tide
Tue, Jun 4 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows two Indian fishermen, Rakesh and Ganesh, whose friendship is tested as one continues with traditional fishing methods and the other tries modern technology.
E10
Copa '71: The Lost Lionesses
Tue, Jun 11 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary about an extraordinary football tournament, told through the fearless voices of the women who took part and including recently uncovered archive footage.
E11
Flee
Tue, Jun 18 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary, mostly animated, that charts the extraordinary true tale of Ali, a gay Afghan man, and the desperate measures he is forced to take to escape persecution.
E12
Bad Press
Tue, Jun 25 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
100 min
A Storyville documentary that tells the enthralling, edge-of-your-seat story of a defiant journalist's battle for freedom of the press and against state-censored media.
E13
Inheriting the Castle
Tue, Jul 2 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
A Storyville documentary about an indigenous Argentinian mother and daughter and the challenges they face living in an inherited crumbling mansion deep in the Argentine Pampas.
E14
War Game
Tue, Oct 1 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that sweeps viewers into an elaborate simulation which dramatically escalates the threat posed in the USA by the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.
E15
Dogs of War
Tue, Oct 22 2024 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that tells the untold story of a seemingly ordinary Englishman who spent more than 40 years as a mercenary, fighting other people's wars for money.
E16
Eternal You
Tue, Oct 29 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary exploring the digital afterlife business, in which companies are using AI to create avatars of deceased people that the bereaved can interact with.
E17
Hollywoodgate
Tue, Nov 5 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows, with unprecedented access to one of the most secretive cabals in the world, a group of Talib leaders in their first year back in power in Afghanistan.
E18
Queendom
Tue, Nov 12 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following Gina, a queer artist from a small Russian town, who stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism – and put their life in danger.
E19
Agent of Happiness
Tue, Nov 19 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows Amber and Guna, happiness agents for the government of Bhutan, as they travel the mountainous Himalayas, meeting people and measuring how happy they are.
E20
Until I Fly
Tue, Nov 26 2024 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following the exploits of a five-year-old boy growing up in an Indian Himalayan village where he is taunted for being mixed race.
Season 2025
18 episodes
E01
Your Fat Friend
Tue, Jan 28 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following the rise of Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to best-selling author, whose aim is to promote a paradigm shift in the way we view fatness.
E02
Black Box Diaries
Tue, Feb 4 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows director Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.
E03
26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon
Tue, Feb 11 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that tells a story of transformation and second chances as three men sentenced to life for murder undertake running a marathon around a crowded prison yard.
E04
Gaucho Gaucho: Argentina's Last Ranchers
Tue, Feb 18 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
A Storyville documentary that follows the lives of Argentina's gauchos (cowboys and cowgirls), as they try to preserve their traditions in a fast-changing world.
E05
The Battle for Laikipia
Tue, Feb 25 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary, shot over several years in one of Africa's most famous conservation areas, that charts mounting tensions between the Samburu people and fourth-generation European settlers.
E06
The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6
Tue, Mar 4 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
A Storyville documentary that offers a humorous and humane snapshot of life in a Covid-19 vaccine centre, a reminder of a unique moment in time - one shared by people across the globe.
E07
Eternal Spring: The Heist of China's Airwaves
Tue, Mar 11 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary that revisits the spiritual group Falun Gong's audacious attempt to counter the government narrative about them by hacking into state TV stations in China.
E08
White Man Walking
Tue, May 27 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
70 min
A Storyville documentary that follows white film-maker Rob Bliss as he walks 1500 miles through America's southern states wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt.
E09
The Jackal Speaks
Tue, Jun 3 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary in which Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known globally as Carlos the Jackal, tells his story from the confines of a French high-security prison.
E10
Wedding Night
Tue, Jun 10 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
A Storyville documentary in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish couples speak bravely about their wedding and first night together, when the expectation is they will consummate their marriage.
E11
The Contestant
Tue, Jun 17 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that tells the true story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, who spent 15 months in a small room, naked, starving and alone, unaware he was being broadcast to millions of people on TV.
E12
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Tue, Jun 24 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary in which a young Mongolian couple must adapt to a new, urban way of life when they are forced from their land by a devastating storm, which kills their herd.
E13
The Srebrenica Tape
Tue, Jul 1 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following a young woman's quest to find out more about her father, who was one of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
E14
Holding Liat
Tue, Sep 30 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary following the family of Liat Beinin Atzili, kidnapped from Israel on 7 October 2023, as they try to secure her release.
E15
The Librarians
Tue, Oct 7 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
E16
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Tue, Oct 14 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
E17
Sanatorium
Tue, Oct 21 2025 9:00 PM GMT+0000
85 min
Storyville documentary. A bittersweet and surreal summer unfolds inside a crumbling Soviet-era wellness resort in Odesa, where guests seek healing, love and distraction.
E18
Welded Together
Tue, Oct 28 2025 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary about a young welder, forced to confront a traumatic past when she has to care for her half-sister. A powerful story of love, survival and second chances.
Season 2026
10 episodes
E01
The Darkest Web
Tue, Feb 17 2026 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a global team of undercover officers as they penetrate the most hidden corners of the internet to stop those who exploit and harm children.
E02
Rebuilding Bucha
Tue, Feb 24 2026 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary set in Bucha, Ukraine, following five protagonists as they attempt to rebuild their lives and come to terms with the legacy of war.
E03
Red Light to Limelight
Tue, Mar 3 2026 10:20 PM GMT+0000
100 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a group of women working in a red-light district of Kolkata who are reclaiming their voices through the power of video storytelling.
E04
Mistress Dispeller
Tue, Mar 10 2026 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that explores an increasingly popular phenomenon in contemporary China. A woman hires a 'mistress dispeller' to bring her husband's affair to an end.
E05
Portrait of a Confused Father
Tue, Mar 17 2026 10:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary, filmed over more than 20 years, which charts an extraordinary father–son relationship that takes an unexpected and tragic turn.
E06
Khartoum
Tue, Mar 24 2026 10:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary, set against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, that follows five Khartoum residents as they search for freedom amid revolution and war.
E07
Three Dads And A Baby
Tue, Mar 31 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
A Storyville documentary. This intimate and pioneering film explores a three-way relationship and a radically different approach to fatherhood.
E08
André Is an Idiot
Tue, Apr 7 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that follows André, who, despite receiving a terminal diagnosis, is determined to die with humour, curiosity and defiance.
E09
The New Campus Revolution
Tue, Apr 14 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that delves into the heart of the culture wars and freedom of speech conversations that have exploded on US campuses over the last ten years.
E10
The Pendulum Swings
Tue, Apr 21 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
90 min
A Storyville documentary that delves into the heart of the culture wars and freedom of speech conversations that have exploded on US campuses over the last ten years.