Storyville Season 22 Episodes

Episode 1

Trophy: The Big Game Hunting Controversy

Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos and lions come closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fuelled in part by a global desire to hunt and kill these majestic animals.

Episode 2

City of Ghosts

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.

Episode 3

Eagle Huntress

Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl from a remote Mongolian tribe, dreams of becoming the first female eagle hunter in her country.

Episode 4

This is Congo

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.

Episode 5

Olympic Dreams of Russian Gold: Over the Limit

A broadcast of Over the Limit (2017) as part of the BBC Storyville documentary series.

Episode 6

The Ice King: John Curry

One of the greatest ice skaters of all time, 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.

Episode 7

Insha'Allah Democracy

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.

Episode 8

Jailed in America

57 mins

Film-maker Roger Ross Williams examines the American prison system to find out why so many of his childhood friends have ended up behind bars.

Episode 9

A Woman Captured

A 52-year-old Hungarian woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for a decade. Marish has been exploited and abused by a woman for whom she toils as a housekeeper - entirely unpaid.

Episode 10

Selling Children

Middle-class Indian director Pankaj Johar sets out to understand how, in the world's largest democracy, it is possible for children to be bought and sold with such ease.

Episode 11

Quest: Surviving in America

An intimate portrait of the African-American Rainey family as they navigate life in their north Philadelphia neighbourhood gripped by poverty, drugs and gun violence. Filmed over the eight years of Obama's presidency.

Episode 12

Poisoning America: The Devil we Know

82 mins

A group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation.

Episode 13

Hurt Locker Hero

82 mins

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.