Storyville (TV series)

Storyville is a documentary strand presented by the BBC showcasing the best in international documentaries.

List of Documentaries

Date first broadcast	Title	Description	Source
Template:Date sortable	I Will Be Murdered	A murdered Guatemalan lawyer foretells his death and names the culprits.
Template:Date sortable	How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion	Documentary about the radical online 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous.
Template:Date sortable	The Pirate Bay	How the founders of a file sharing site were taken to court by the entertainment industry.
Template:Date sortable	Google and the World Brain	Documentary about a campaign by authors to stop the Google Books website.
Template:Date sortable	Expedition to the End of the World	A group of scientists and artists venture by ship into uncharted territory.
Template:Date sortable	Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance	Documentary which follows the hearing of a murder case which split a family.
Template:Date sortable	Queen of Versailles	The story of a couple whose plans of building a mansion are hit by the economic crisis.
Template:Date sortable	Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song	Documentary surveying the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte.
Template:Date sortable	The House I Live In	Film looking at America's War on Drugs, painting a portrait of individuals at all levels.
Template:Date sortable	The Other Irish Travellers	Documentary looking at the history of Ireland's vanished Anglo-Irish classes.
Template:Date sortable	From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film	A meditation on Britain's unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives.
Template:Date sortable	The Chef Who Conquered New York: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt	A look at the driven and talented British celebrity chef, Paul Liebrandt.
Template:Date sortable	JFK's Road to White House: Primary 1960	Film following John F Kennedy during his 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary run.
Template:Date sortable	Olympic Massacre: One Day In September	Recounting the tragic events of the 1972 'Munich Massacre'.
Template:Date sortable	The $750 Million Thief	Film about a Manhattan attorney who orchestrated a fraud that netted over $750 million.
Template:Date sortable	Racing Dreams	Film about three children competing in the World Karting Association's national series.
Template:Date sortable	The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story	Film about the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba.
Template:Date sortable	Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones	Was a Welsh journalist killed in 1935 for revealing Stalin's policies in the Ukraine?
Template:Date sortable	Albino Witchcraft Murders	Two people with albinism try to follow their dreams in the face of prejudice in Tanzania.
Template:Date sortable	Girl Model	Documentary exposing the supply of ever younger girls to the Japanese modelling industry.
Template:Date sortable	Surviving Progress	Documentary about the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress.
Template:Date sortable	The Real Great Escape	The story of the mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape, Roger Bushell.
Template:Date sortable	Murderball	Documentary exploring the sport of wheelchair rugby, unofficially known as murderball.
Template:Date sortable	Guerilla - The Taking Of Patty Hearst	The story of the 1974 kidnap of teenage newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
Template:Date sortable	Cod Wars	Film about the disputes between Iceland and the UK over ownership of fishing zones.
Template:Date sortable	Barbados at the Races: Bajan Born and Bred	An exploration of what it is to be Bajan (Barbadian).
Template:Date sortable	Barbados at the Races: The Jockey's Prayer	A look at the lives of three Bajan jockeys.
Template:Date sortable	Barbados at the Races: Run Cat Run!	How a new breed of small trainer is determined to break into the exclusive Turf Club.
Template:Date sortable	Barbados at the Races: The Favourite	The build up to the Derby seen through the eyes of those responsible for the favourite.
Template:Date sortable	The Jazz Baroness	Documentary about the British baroness who fell in love with jazz genius Thelonious Monk.
Template:Date sortable	Robert Capa - In Love and War	A look at the life, loves and career of iconic war photographer Robert Capa.
Template:Date sortable	Prostitution Behind the Veil	Documentary following the lives of two Iranian women who have resorted to prostitution.
Template:Date sortable	Fashion Victim	How fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his Miami mansion.
Template:Date sortable	Blast!	Scientists launch a revolutionary telescope to try and explain the formation of galaxies.
Template:Date sortable	I'm Not Dead Yet	Documentary about the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past.
Template:Date sortable	Prodigal Sons	Transsexual filmmaker Kim and her brother Marc meet up at their high school reunion.
Template:Date sortable	When Borat Came to Town	Romanian villagers attempt to clear their name after being portrayed in the film Borat.
Template:Date sortable	Shot in Bombay	Documentary on Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, after conviction for firearms offences.
Template:Date sortable	Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired	Re-examining Polanski's conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
Template:Date sortable	Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected	Profile of Lee Atwater, who became chairman of the GOP and mentor to George W Bush.
Template:Date sortable	Martin Luther King: Citizen King 1967-1968	Documentary about the final five years of civil rights activist Martin Luther King's life.
Template:Date sortable	1968	Documentary exploring what happened throughout the world in the seminal year of 1968.
Template:Date sortable	The Day after Peace	Documentary charting filmmaker Jeremy Gilley's attempts to establish a Day of Peace.
Template:Date sortable	Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman: Episode 2	A filmmaker reassesses her life by talking to women around the world about theirs.
Template:Date sortable	Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman: Episode 1	A filmmaker reassesses her life by talking to women around the world about theirs.
Template:Date sortable	The Burning Season	One young Australain entrepreneur's attempt to save the rainforests, and make a fortune.
Template:Date sortable	The Chuck Show	Documentary exploring the contradictions and passions of painter Chuck Connelly.
Template:Date sortable	Wheel of Time	Documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the Buddhist Kalachakra movement for world peace.
Template:Date sortable	The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper	Documentary about Father Michael Cleary, an Irish priest who had his own TV chat show.
Template:Date sortable	Death of a WAG	Documentary about the murder of an Iranian football star's wife by his mistress.
Template:Date sortable	The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Compilation	Owner Qin Linzi and her staff show how to run a successful restaurant business in China.
Template:Date sortable	The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Bright Future	There's a banquet for a new baby and an anniversary show to celebrate its third year.
Template:Date sortable	The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Family Duties	Exploring the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China.
Template:Date sortable	The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: A Good Match	Examining attitudes towards marriage in contemporary China.
Template:Date sortable	The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Enterprise	What it takes to run a successful restaurant business in China.
Template:Date sortable	Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday	The village of Shillong, North India, comes together each year to celebrate Bob Dylan.
Template:Date sortable	Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation	Why so many young Israelis have fallen victim to drug culture while backpacking in India.
Template:Date sortable	My Israel	How an Israeli woman who survived a terrorist attack has come to deal with the situation.
Template:Date sortable	The Battle for Jerusalem	Liran Atzmor's film documents a battle that took place in Jerusalem's Old City in 1948.
Template:Date sortable	My Secret Agent Auntie	How apparent heroine Baroness Moura Budberg may have actually been a callous Soviet agent.
Template:Date sortable	Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman	Documentary about author Ariel Dorfman, who survived the bloody 1973 coup in Chile.
Template:Date sortable	Standing in the Shadows of Motown	Documentary that tells the story of the Funk Brothers, the successful Motown musicians.
Template:Date sortable	Dolce Vita Africana	Documentary about celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibe.
Template:Date sortable	Tito's Ghost	Documentary revealing how the worship of Marshall Tito continues in the former Yugoslavia.
Template:Date sortable	Very Russian Geniuses	How the political changes of the 1980s affected the intellectual elite in Russia.
Template:Date sortable	Orthodox Stance	Film about Dmitriy Salita - Russian immigrant, professional boxer and religious Jew.
Template:Date sortable	The Polish Ambulance Murders	How a cabal of undertakers bribed paramedics and doctors into murdering their patients.
Template:Date sortable	Hitler's Secretary	Hitler's private secretary from Autumn 1942 talks about her role in the Third Reich.
Template:Date sortable	The Devil Came on Horseback	A look at how the Arab Sudanese government seems intent on destroying its black citizens.
Template:Date sortable	Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide	In 1978, 900 members of the Jonestown cult died in possibly history's biggest mass suicide
Template:Date sortable	Cannibals in the Andes: Stranded!	The survivors of a famous plane crash relive their experiences 30 years later.
Template:Date sortable	The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair	The story of a cameraman imprisoned in Baghdad, accused of plotting to kill Tony Blair.
Template:Date sortable	Mr Vig and the Nun	Documentary about an 82-year-old man who has never known love, and a young Russian nun.
Template:Date sortable	My Life as a Spy	Leslie Woodhead recalls his time as a Russian-speaking sleuth during the Cold War.
Template:Date sortable	444 Days	The story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran.
Template:Date sortable	Hammer and Tickle	Documentary telling the real history of Communism through jokes told by ordinary people.
Template:Date sortable	The Russian Newspaper Murders	Documentary about the murders of six Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003.
Template:Date sortable	Startup.com	Documentary following two high-school friends as they begin an internet startup.
Template:Date sortable	Little Dieter Needs to Fly	Werner Herzog's film recreates the ordeal of US pilot Dieter Dengler, shot down over Laos.
Template:Date sortable	The Madrid Connection	Documentary about the men lead the terrorist cell behind the Madrid bombings of 2004.
Template:Date sortable	Wednesday	A revealing portrait of a generation growing up in a changing Russia.
Template:Date sortable	Power Trip	Documentary telling the story of the chaotic post-Soviet transition in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Template:Date sortable	Gods of Brazil	Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pele and Garrincha.
Template:Date sortable	Barca - The Inside Story	Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis.
Template:Date sortable	Gimme Shelter	Documentary recalling the events surrounding a free concert by the Rolling Stones in 1969.
Template:Date sortable	New York Doll	Documentary which details the turbulent history of The New York Dolls.
Template:Date sortable	Etre et avoir	Documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in France's Auvergne.
Template:Date sortable	The Ministry of Truth	Documentary about Richard Symons' campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament.
Template:Date sortable	Oona and Me	Documentary about ex-Labour MP Oona King.
Template:Date sortable	Sitting for Parliament	Belfast artist Noel Murphy paints all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Template:Date sortable	Bloody Cartoons	Karsten Kjaer looks at the events when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Template:Date sortable	Dinner with the President	President Musharraf explores the different influences on political life in Pakistan.
Template:Date sortable	Looking for the Revolution	Looking at President Evo Morales struggles building socialist policies in Bolivia.
Template:Date sortable	Taxi to the Dark Side	Documentary investigating a young man's death just days after his arrest by US forces.
Template:Date sortable	Russia's Village of Fools	Documentary about Russian patriot and businessman Mikhail Morozov.
Template:Date sortable	Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate	Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda follows his friend Yamauchi on the campaign trail in Japan.
Template:Date sortable	Eqypt We Are Watching You	Three Egyptian women start a movement to educate and empower the public
Template:Date sortable	Please Vote for Me	A group of Chinese schoolchildren learn about democracy for the first time.
Template:Date sortable	Iron Ladies of Liberia	Documentary about Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Template:Date sortable	Belgrade Radio Warriors - Turn On, Tune In, Slob Out	Documentary about the Belgrade youth radio station, B-92.
Template:Date sortable	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary which illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts.
Template:Date sortable	The Undertaking	Documentary about American-Irish poet-philosopher, essayist and undertaker, Thomas Lynch.
Template:Date sortable	This Film is not Yet Rated	Documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system.
Template:Date sortable	Glow of White Women	Examination of the personal impact of discriminatory laws in Apartheid era South Africa.
Template:Date sortable	Hollywood Overnight	Documentary about the rise and fall of film maker Troy Duffy.
Template:Date sortable	Riot On!	Award-winning documentary about the spectacular failure of a Finnish media company.
Template:Date sortable	Andrew and Jeremy Get Married	The extraordinary love story between a retired bus driver and a retired teacher.
Template:Date sortable	Children and Cancer - A Lion in the House	Documentary following the challenges facing five families with children who have cancer.
Template:Date sortable	TV Junkie	Documentary about drug addiction, edited from home videos of a drug addict.
Template:Date sortable	Every good Marriage Begins with Tears	Bengali sisters travel from London to Bangladesh to undertake arranged marriages.
Template:Date sortable	Once in a Lifetime	Players, coaches and journalists recall the all-star New York Cosmos of the seventies.
Template:Date sortable	Kite Like Me	Jamie Kastner finds out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world.
Template:Date sortable	Office Tigers: Part 4	Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing.
Template:Date sortable	Office Tigers: Part 3	Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing.
Template:Date sortable	Office Tigers: Part 2	Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing.
Template:Date sortable	Office Tigers: Part 1	Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing.
Template:Date sortable	Paris Brothel	Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which existed until 1946.
Template:Date sortable	Winged Migration	Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds.
Template:Date sortable	The Natural History of the Chicken	Documentary expanding the frontiers of popular awareness over the chicken's many virtues.
Template:Date sortable	Laughing with Hitler	Examining the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told about the Nazis.
Template:Date sortable	Why We Fight	Film exploring the joint venture between the US government and the arms industry.
Template:Date sortable	Journeys with George	Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over nearly a year.
Template:Date sortable	Heirs to an Execution	Ivy Meeropol tells how her family was torn apart when her grandparents were executed.
Template:Date sortable	RFK	David Grubin's biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy.
Template:Date sortable	How Vietnam Was Lost	The story of two seemingly unconnected events that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
Template:Date sortable	Children of the Chinese Circus	Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school.
Template:Date sortable	Black Sun	Documentary about a blind man who travels the world alone.
Template:Date sortable	How Much is Your Life Worth?	Documentary about the work of attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death.
Template:Date sortable	Oswald's Ghost	Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies surrounding the JFK assassination.
Template:Date sortable	Cuba! Africa! Revolution: Part 2	Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa.
Template:Date sortable	Cuba! Africa! Revolution: Part 1	Two-part documentary about Cuban intervention in Africa from the 1960s onwards.
Template:Date sortable	A Story of People in War and Peace	Documentary about the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1989-1994).
Template:Date sortable	In Search of Ghandi	Indian filmmaker Lalit Vachani retreads the route of Mahatma Gandhi's famous Salt March.
Template:Date sortable	Law of the Dragon	Series following the work of Judge Chen and his travelling court in China

External links

• http://uk.imdb.com/company/co0119621/