Storyville Season 23 Episodes

Episode 1

Waco: Madman or Messiah Part 1

In 1993, Mt. Carmel Ranch outside Waco, Texas, was the site of the deadliest siege in American history. A 51-day standoff with federal agents ended in tragedy, all at the hands of charismatic cult leader David Koresh.

Episode 2

Waco: Madman or Messiah Part 2

Beginning with the fateful ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) raid. The two-and-a-half-hour gun battle rapidly develops into a stand-off with the FBI, watched by the world's media.

Episode 3

Under the Wire

Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin's fateful mission to tell the story of the civilians trapped by the Syrian conflict in the besieged city of Homs.

Episode 4

Defying the Cutting Season

How Rhobi Samwelly has set up a safe house for girls in fear of suffering female genital mutilation, confronting a tradition that, although illegal, goes back thousands of years.

Episode 5

The Internet's Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners

Documentary about the secret team of content moderators who clean the internet. Who are they, what criteria do they use, and where does content moderation end and censorship begin?

Episode 6

The Trial of Ratko Mladic

The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, accused of masterminding the murder of over 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the 90's Bosnian war, the worst crime in Europe since WWII.

Episode 7

Pervert Park

74 mins

A documentary following the everyday lives of sex offenders, living in a trailer-park community and struggling to reintegrate into society.

Episode 8

Avicii: True Stories

Tim Bergling's own story. Made from extensive personal and family archive and behind the scenes footage, the film is an unparalleled insight into his life.

Episode 9

Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Pt 1

The gripping untold story of the Brexit negotiations - from the inside. For two years, Belgian film maker, Lode Desmet, has had exclusive access to the Brexit coordinator 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 10

Brexit: Behind Closed Doors - Pt 2

Part two follows the rollercoaster events from December 2017 to the present day. Europe watches on incredulously as divisions in the British parliament and cabinet become more bitter and leave the talks paralysed.

Episode 11

A German Life: Goebbels's Secretary Remembers

In A German Life, the extraordinary story of an ordinary human being living through traumatic times raises profound questions about the moral choices and personal sacrifices that one is faced with when confronted by evil.

Episode 12

The Raft

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.

Episode 13

Tiananmen: The People V the Party

Eyewitness accounts and leaked secret documents provide a deeper understanding of the final bloody days of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstration.

Episode 14

The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street

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.

Episode 15

On the President's Orders

The story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to those on both sides of the war - the police, and an ordinary family from the Calocan slums

Episode 16

Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers

Documentary predominantly focusing on alleged mortgage fraud at Lehman Brothers' BNC Mortgage subsidiary.

Episode 17

Maiden: War on the Waves

The inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

Episode 18

One Child Nation

35 years of relentless propaganda and harsh punishments left the Chinese people living in fear of their country's 1 child policy. That rule, abandoned in 2015, has left the country with an ageing population and millions more men than women

Episode 19

Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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 20

Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others

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.