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Storyville Season 23 Episodes
Season 23 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Under the Wire
Mon, Feb 11, 2019 50 mins
On 13 February 2012, war-correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy entered war-ravaged Syria to cover the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged city of Homs, under attack by the Syrian army. Only one of them returned. This is their story. Marie Colvin was one the most fearless reporters of her time. She dedicated her life to bearing witness to the lives of ordinary people caught up in the world's most dangerous conflicts.
Episode 2
Defying the Cutting Season
Tue, Feb 26, 2019 50 mins
Every year during the December school holidays the 'cutting season' takes place in Tanzania. Even though Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is illegal, thousands of young girls are forced to undergo an ordeal that could cost them their lives. Defying the Cutting Season follows the brave and courageous girls fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years and reveals the one safe place they can escape to.
Episode 3
The Internet's Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners
Sun, Oct 27, 2019 50 mins
7,000 miles from Silicon Valley in downtown Manila, a secret team of content moderators have a target of 25,000 Facebook, Google and Twitter posts to delete each day. Trawling through the world's most violent, disturbing and highly contentious online material - in the form of terrorist videos, child pornography, self-harm material and political propaganda - 'the cleaners' are individually responsible for deciding what stays online and what gets removed.
Episode 4
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Mon, Apr 1, 2019 50 mins
The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, accused of masterminding the murder of over 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the 90s Bosnian war, the worst crime in Europe since WW2.
Episode 5
Pervert Park
Mon, Apr 8, 2019 50 mins
Pervert Park is a film about the people no-one wants as a neighbour. It follows the everyday lives of sex offenders, living in a trailer-park community and struggling to reintegrate into society. The film-makers deep access allows us to get inside the minds and pasts of some of the residents and to gain a deeper understanding of the devastating ongoing cycle of sex crimes and the lives it destroys.
Episode 6
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors
Wed, May 8, 2019 50 mins
The gripping untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side. For two years, Belgian film-maker, Lode Desmet, has had exclusive access to the Brexit co ordinator of the European parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, and his close knit team. This revelatory fly-on-the-wall film captures the off-the-record conversations and arguments of the European negotiators as they devise their strategy for dealing with the British.
Episode 7
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors : Part 2
Thu, May 9, 2019 50 mins
The gripping untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side. For two years, Belgian film-maker, Lode Desmet, has had exclusive access to the Brexit co ordinator of the European parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, and his close knit team. This revelatory fly-on-the-wall film captures the off-the-record conversations and arguments of the European negotiators as they devise their strategy for dealing with the British.
Episode 8
A German Life: Goebbels' Secretary Remembers
Mon, May 13, 2019 50 mins
The extraordinary story of Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary and stenographer to the Nazi proganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.
Episode 9
The Raft
Sun, Jun 2, 2019 50 mins
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behaviour. Although the project became known in the press as 'The Sex Raft', nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three-month journey.
Episode 10
Tiananmen: The People V the Party
Mon, Sep 30, 2019 50 mins
Eyewitness accounts and leaked secret documents provide a deeper understanding of the final bloody days of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstration.
Episode 11
The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street
Mon, Oct 21, 2019 50 mins
A Malaysian wealth fund is robbed of US$3.5 billion. It is the world's biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, an abuse of power and international money laundering. With little to go on, dogged investigative reporters from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter retrace the dirty money - via real estate deals and movie financing including 'The Wolf of Wall Street' - back to the top echelons of the Malaysian government.
Episode 12
On the President's Orders
Thu, Oct 24, 2019 50 mins
Storyville film that tells the story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented access to people on both sides of the war.
Episode 13
Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers
Mon, Oct 28, 2019 50 mins
How one man's refusal to overlook its financial irregularities led to the exposure of the subprime mortgage scandal that engulfed Lehman Brothers.
Episode 14
Maiden
Mon, Nov 11, 2019 50 mins
The inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards became the skipper of the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Episode 15
One Child Nation
Mon, Nov 18, 2019 50 mins
Documentary that reveals the continuing impact of China's one-child policy, abandoned in 2015, on the country's people.
Episode 16
Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Mon, Nov 25, 2019 50 mins
Mads Brügger and Göran Björkdahl investigate the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations Secretary-General, killed in a plane crash in 1961.
Episode 17
Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others
Mon, Dec 2, 2019 50 mins
A Storyville documentary that reveals the struggle of the victims of Franco's dictatorship in Spain, as they fight a government-sanctioned 'pact of forgetting' the crimes that they suffered.