Storyville Season 11 Episodes

Episode 1

Blog Wars

Storyville looks at the role played by anti-war bloggers in the Connecticut Democratic Senatorial primary race of the 2006 mid-term elections.

Episode 2

My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder

For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko

Episode 3

Diameter Of The Bomb

Filmed 16 months later, 29 people who are connected by the attack trace the memories and the outcomes of the catastrophe to give an alarming snapshot of our times.

Episode 4

Heir To An Execution

Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells the story of how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for 'conspiracy to commit espionage'

Episode 5

Godless In America

Storyville documentary about atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists, who was brutally murdered back in 1995.

Episode 6

Milosevic On Trial: Part One

Documentary which follows the war crimes trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic from its beginnings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to its final stages in The Hague.

Episode 7

Milosevic On Trial: Part Two

Documentary which follows the war crimes trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic from its beginnings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to its final stages in The Hague.

Episode 8

So Much So Fast

Storyville documentary. A portrait of one family's response over five years to the debilitating neurological condition ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig 's Disease.

Episode 9

New York Doll

Documentary which details the turbulent history of controversial American proto-punk rockers The New York Dolls through the eyes of bassist Arthur Kane, telling the story of the band from its formation.

Episode 10

Al Franken: God Spoke

In Al Franken: God Spoke, the makers of The War Room capture the emergence of Al Franken as a political commentator.

Episode 11

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

The remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean agents while on her way home from school. For twenty years, her parents remained unaware of her fate.

Episode 12

Screamers

As Rock band System of a Down visit locations of genocide, the lead singer's grandfather talks about surviving the Armenian massacres of 1915-17.

Episode 13

A Story Of People In War And Peace

Documentary about the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1989-1994), one of the first signs of Soviet collapse.

Episode 14

Cuba! Africa! Revolution! Part 1

First of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response.

Episode 15

Cuba! Africa! Revolution! Part 2

Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response.

Episode 16

Oswald's Ghost

Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies and controversy surrounding the JFK assassination.

Episode 17

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Storyville examines the work of attorneys as they take on cases of wrongful death.

Episode 18

Black Sun

Documentary about Hugues DE Montalembert, blinded in a random street mugging in 1978, but who defied expectation and continued to travel the world, alone.

Episode 19

Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Classic rock film documenting David Bowie's last public appearance as his androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. This memorable final concert at the Hammersmith Odeon includes Changes, Time and Suffragette City.

Episode 20

You Must Be Number One: Shanghai Circus School

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the grueling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world

Episode 21

Laughing With Hitler

Documentary which examines the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told by and about the Nazis and the fate that befell some of the joke tellers

Episode 22

Office Tigers Part 1

First of a four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai.

Episode 23

Kike Like Me

Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world

Episode 24

Office Tigers Part 2

Episode 25

Office Tigers Part 3

Episode 26

Once In A Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos

The seventies in America were a time of growth and experimentation. Clothes became different, hairstyles exotic, and music was heading in strange new directions.

Episode 27

Office Tigers Part 4

Episode 28

Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears

Director Simon Chambers follows the lives of young Bengali sisters - and close personal friends of his - as they travel from London to Bangladesh to undertake the arranged marriages that have long been planned for them.

Episode 29

Tv Junkie

Documentary about drug addiction. When he got a camera at the age of 14, Rick Kirkham began recording his life on tape.

Episode 30

Children And Cancer: A Lion In The House

Documentary which follows five families as they deal day-to-day with the challenges of living with children suffering from cancer, a film in which a possibly daunting and depressing subject is made involving and life-enhancing.

Episode 31

Andrew and Jeremy Get Married

59 mins

Director Don Boyd's portrayal of the extraordinary love story between a retired bus driver from Croydon and a retired teacher from Chelsea.

Episode 32

The Glow Of White Women

Storyville presents Yunis Vally 's quirky examination of life at the height of the Apartheid era in 1960

Episode 33

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture

Episode 34

The Undertaking

Storyville presents a profile of Irish-American poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch.

Episode 35

Iraq In Fragments

Documentary which illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity.

Episode 36

Belgrade Radio Warriors

In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed.

Episode 37

Why Democracy? Part 3: Iron Ladies Of Liberia

When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first ever elected female head of state, filmmakers Siatta Scott-Johnson and Daniel Junge were there to follow her.

Episode 38

Why Democracy? Part 1: Please Vote For Me

Weijun Chen's film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor

Episode 39

Why Democracy? Part 2: Egypt: We Are Watching You

Documentary in which three Egyptian women, unable to sit by while their country is on the brink of drastic change, start a grass roots movement to educate and empower the public by raising awareness of the meaning of democracy.

Episode 40

Why Democracy? Part 4: Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate

Humorous and insightful documentary in which Japanese/American filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda follows his friend Yamauchi on the campaign trail.

Episode 41

Why Democracy? Part 5: Russia's Village Of Fools

Documentary about Russian patriot and businessman Mikhail Morozov, who owns Durakovo - the 'Village of Fools' 100km southwest of Moscow.

Episode 42

Why Democracy? Part 6: Taxi To The Dark Side

Documentary. Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney investigates the story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver arrested and questioned by the US forces at Bagram airbase, who died just days after his arrest.

Episode 43

Why Democracy? Part 7: Looking For The Revolution

Documentary which looks at how, after winning the Bolivian election, ex-coca leaf farmer Evo Morales nationalised the oil industry.

Episode 44

Why Democracy? Part 8: Dinner With The President

Documentary in which President Musharraf explores the different worlds and influences on political life in Pakistan at a dinner in his official residence, the Army House.

Episode 45

Why Democracy? Part 9: In Search Of Gandhi

Documentary in which Indian filmmaker Lalit Vachani retreads the route taken in the 1920s by Mahatma Gandhi as he led a march that was to change India's destiny.

Episode 46

The Ministry Of Truth

Filmmaker Richard Symons asks members of the British government to support his campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament, and attempts to get a pledge from MPs that they will never tell a lie.

Episode 47

Oona And Me

Documentary about ex-Labour MP Oona King. Only the second black female MP and one of the most media friendly of the 'Blair Babes'.

Episode 48

Why Democracy? Part 10: Bloody Cartoons

Life and livelihood were threatened when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Episode 49

Gimme Shelter

Storyville documentary account of the Rolling Stones' turbulent free concert at the Altamount Speedway.

Episode 50

Why Democracy? Part 11: Sitting For Parliament

Showing as part of the Why Democracy? season. Following Belfast artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Episode 51

The Madrid Connection

Storyville documentary about the two men behind Europe's worst act of terrorism, in the Spanish capital.

Episode 52

Mr Vig And The Nun

Storyville documentary about Jorgen Vig an elderly Danish man who bought a castle 50 years ago with the intention of turning it into a monastery.