Storyville Season 19 Episodes

Episode 1

The Arabian Motorcycle Adventures

A Storyville documentary: an American's multi-year, 35,000-mile trip through northern Africa and the Middle East, which saw him fight in the Libyan conflict against Gaddafi.

Episode 2

The Internet's Own Boy

Documentary which explores the life of Aaron Swartz, an activist for social justice and political organising on the internet, and the circumstances that led to his early death.

Episode 3

Mugabe and the Democrats

A Storyville documentary: two politicians from opposing parties join forces on an unlikely mission to lead Zimbabwe through the process of writing a new constitution.

Episode 4

Bulldozers, Paving Stones and Power: The Chinese Mayor

A look at how power works in the Chinese Communist Party, focused through the mission of a mayor who wants to turn his city into a tourism haven showcasing clean energy.

Episode 5

Love Hotel

Life inside a Japanese 'love hotel', where people visit for refuge, privacy and play.

Episode 6

The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog

This episode is actually a rebroadcast of The Dog (2013)

Episode 7

Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship

A Storyville documentary: exploring love and courtship on screen in the 20th century, from the first kisses caught on film to shacking up and fighting for the right to love.

Episode 8

The Great European Disaster Movie

Through case studies of citizens in different countries, this film explores a range of factors that have led to the present crisis facing Europe, economic and identity challenges.

Episode 9

1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure

Documentary about a mystifying corporate scandal, involving the dismissal of a Japanese company's British-born president and CEO for blowing the whistle on a huge historical fraud.

Episode 10

India's Daughter

63 mins

INDIA's DAUGHTER is the story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus, and her death, sparked unprecedented protests and riots throughout India and led to the first glimmers of a change of mindset. Interwoven into the story line are the lives, values and mindsets of the rapists whom the film makers have had exclusive and unprecedented access to interview before they hang. The film examines the society and values which spawn such violent acts, and makes an optimistic and impassioned plea for change.

Episode 11

Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva

Documentary following Julien Poulson and Srey Thy, who together formed the band The Cambodian Space Project, and their struggle to overcome poverty, trauma and obscurity.

Episode 12

The Lost Gold of the Highlands

A Storyville documentary about a man who returns to a mysterious Scottish loch twenty years after almost dying there, searching for treasures once owned by Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Episode 13

George Blake - Masterspy of Moscow

90 mins

Showcase of international documentaries. This episode features George Carey's film about George Blake who was jailed for betraying his colleagues to the KGB but escaped after five years and fled to the Soviet Union.

Episode 14

My Mother the Secret Baby

A Storyville documentary: Daisy Asquith tells the personal story of her mother's conception after a dance in the 1940s in Ireland, in an adventure in social and sexual morality.

Episode 15

Himmler: The Decent One

A Storyville documentary: Through letters, photos and diaries, this film exposes a unique and often uncomfortable access to the life and mind of SS commander Heinrich Himmler.

Episode 16

Last Days in Vietnam

A Storyville documentary which combines footage of the US evacuation of Saigon (aka Operation Frequent Wind) in April 1975 with contemporary reflections from those who were there.

Episode 17

Circus Elephant Rampage

58 mins

Showcase of international documentaries. This episode features Tyke: Elephant Outlaw (2015)

Episode 18

Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise

A Storyville documentary: an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling and Chernobyl - but also the beauty of the atomic world.

Episode 19

A Syrian Love Story

A Storyville documentary: the story of a family torn apart by the Assad regime. Raghda battles between being a mother or a revolutionary following her family's exile from Syria.

Episode 20

Lockerbie: My Brother's Bomber

89 mins

Ken Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, a terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David.

Episode 21

Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets

Documentary which explores the work of former prostitute Brenda Myers-Powell as she helps vulnerable women escape the dangers on the streets of Chicago.

Episode 22

Orion: The Man Who Would Be King

Documentary which tells the story of a singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis back from the grave.

Episode 23

Cartel Land

A Storyville exposé of the Mexican drug war and the cartels that operate around the Mexico/US border, following two vigilante leaders fighting the power of Mexico's drug gangs.

Episode 24

FBI Undercover

Documentary which follows an unfolding active FBI counter-terrorism sting operation, telling the story of Saeed 'Shariff' Torres, a former Black Panther turned informant.

Episode 25

The Six-Day War: Censored Voices

Documentary about a long-withheld piece of oral history - tape-recorded interviews conducted with returning Israeli soldiers after Israel's land gains in the Six-Day War of 1967.