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39 Episodes 2006 - 2015
Episode 1
What drives people to fight the West with the Koran in one hand and a rifle in the other? Warlords, emirs, mullahs, terrorists and common believers of Islam try to give an answer in this Storyville film.
Episode 2
From the sewers of New York, the rat's journey reveals a different side of natural history. Showing as part of Storyville.
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Episode 8
Nathaniel Kahn - one of two illegitimate children that the architect Louis Kahn had with two different women - seeks to find out who his late father really was.
Episode 9
A New York photojournalist teaches the marginalised children of Calcutta's prostitutes how to record the world around them.
Episode 10
Storyville arches an eyebrow at the 31st International Whistling Competition in North Carolina, where competitors, including an investment banker and a turkey hauler, compete with virtuoso renditions of Vivaldi, Mozart and Texan swing.
Episode 11
How the cannibalism of the Nile perch provides a pithy metaphor for the West's ecological destruction. An Oscar-nominated Storyville film.
Episode 12
Campaigner James Carville, who helped Bill Clinton win the US presidency, is in Bolivia. Can he help a very unpromising candidate?
Episode 13
How effectively does Hollywood depict reality? Is it possible to reconcile the demands of popular entertainment with a historical event as sombre as the Holocaust
Episode 14
A chilling Storyville documentary using vivid TV-news footage to recount the hijacking of a bus in Rio DE Janeiro by a lone gunman, whose brutal life story of grinding poverty, drugs and random violence is also explored.
Episode 15
In a witty Storyville expose, Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti reveals how her TV show RAIot was banned by the state-owned broadcaster after just one transmission.
Episode 16
Storyville follows the male inmates of an American prison as they prepare and rehearse a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Episode 17
Marc Isaacs' eye-opening Storyville film explores the life of a Jewish antiques dealer from a small English seaside town who believes it is his Biblical birthright to take as many wives as he chooses.
Episode 18
A war-torn year in a Colombian district is chronicled by Storyville.
Episode 19
Storyville reveals BP's plans to build a pipeline through a stunning spa town in post-Soviet Georgia.
Episode 20
The Storyville tale of Danish pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern and her efforts to help a young Afghan girl who longed to become a pilot too.
Episode 21
This episode is actually a rebroadcast of Gay in Uganda (2015)
Episode 22
How does bipolar disorder - manic depression - impact on relatives of sufferers? Storyville charts the changes in one such family.
Episode 23
Storyville celebrates the work of documentary pioneers Albert and David Maysies.
Episode 24
Tony Montana's 2004 documentary, following a first-time director's attempts to get his film made.
Episode 25
Sex, lies and games abound in a 2004 documentary about a disastrous Finnish business venture.
Episode 26
A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.
Episode 27
Storyville explores the unsettling yet strangely beautiful work of photographer Sally Mann whose subjects range from rotting corpses to, most controversially, her children in semi-naked poses.
Episode 28
Storyville tribute to her father Alan Abel a "professional prankster" whose attempts to fool the media included a campaign for a Sex Olympics.
Episode 29
Prostitution Behind the Veil explores a side of Iran rarely seen or talked about. For over a year, director Nahid Persson filmed the everyday lives of two young female prostitutes in Iran.
Episode 30
A compelling, at times chilling, account of Second World War veteran Kenzo Okuzaki 's crusade to resolve a mystery. Why were some of his comrades executed by their own superiors - and what became of their bodies?
Episode 31
How jokes became the language of truth under the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites.
Episode 32
Storyville sets out the nightmarish experiences of an Iraqi cameraman living in Baghdad who was arrested by US troops, accused of plotting to kill the British premier and imprisoned for eight months.
Episode 33
Storyville meets three lesbians struggling to reconcile their sexual identities with their duties as mothers and wives in Jerusalem's Orthodox communities.
Episode 34
Storyville follows Newark mayoral candidate Cory Booker 's electoral campaign, and the resistance he faces from the established four-term incumbent Sharpe James.
Episode 35
Storyville documentary musical, following Lewis Lapham as he guides two Ivy League graduates through their career possibilities.
Episode 36
James Marsh spends six months with members of the American team for the inaugural Homeless World Cup in Austria.
Episode 37
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Performers from the Kirghiz tribe re-enact their exile to Turkey in British film-maker Ben Hopkins's Storyville special.

Episode 38
A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts I and II. Storyville presents the UK premiere of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they search for new hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 39
A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts III and IV. The final part of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they find new hope in the aftermath of the disaster.