Storyville Season 24 Episodes

Episode 1

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle - Pt 1

80 mins

Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform 'revolutionary suicide' in northern Guyana?

Episode 2

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle - Pt 2

81 mins

The Jonestown project quickly begins to implode. Jones's excessive drug use, irrational behavior and the isolation of his followers raises the alarm back home.

Episode 3

The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature

87 mins

The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. What will CRISPR mean for human evolution?

Episode 4

Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders

Jewish lawyer Lea Tsemel is a controversial figure in Israel. For the last 50 years, she has defended Palestinians prosecuted in Israeli courts for resisting the occupation.

Episode 5

Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride

A documentary that reveals the complex and surprising truth behind the relationships of four Thai-Danish married couples in a small fishing community in Denmark.

Episode 6

The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar

A documentary, filmed over seven years, that follows porn star Jonathan Agassi and explores the impact that both the industry and his upbringing have had on his life.

Episode 7

The Accused: Damned or Devoted?

How the divide in Pakistan over its blasphemy law, which if broken can lead to a death sentence for those accused, was exploited for political purposes.

Episode 8

College Behind Bars - Part 1

Tells the inspiring story of a group of men and women in the USA struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.

Episode 9

College Behind Bars - Part 2

Incarcerated men and women at Eastern and Taconic Correctional facilities are admitted to the Bard Prison Initiative. When classes begin, they discover they must meet the same high standards as students on Bard College main campus.

Episode 10

Scandalous! The Tabloid That Changed America

How the National Enquirer became the most infamous tabloid in America by pumping out salacious stories and blurring the lines between truth and fiction.

Episode 11

Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge

100 mins

A film that lays bare Chechnya's deadly war against its gay citizens and reveals the bravery of those running rescue missions to protect the republic's LGBTQ community.

Episode 12

The Underdog and the Battle for Kenya

93 mins

The tough reality of running for politics in a country riven by corruption and tribal factionalism through the story of Boniface 'Softie' Mwangi.

Episode 13

United Skates

When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands, battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture.

Episode 14

The Two Escobars

How the fates of two Colombians - Andres Escobar, the inspirational captain of Nacional, and Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the Medellin cartel - were permanently linked.

Episode 15

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea - Part 1

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.

Episode 16

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea - Part 2

Seven years undercover, three to go - The Mole and Mr James have made it out of Pyongyang with a signed contract to build a secret underground factory where they can manufacture weapons and drugs.

Episode 17

Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man

87 mins

Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in an online comic. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after being hijacked by the alt-right.

Episode 18

The Night Notre-Dame Burned

The dramatic story of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral on 15 April 2019. Blow by blow, it follows the team of brave firefighters - from the men and women on the frontline to the brigade chief.

Episode 19

The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper

83 mins

A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. The real-life tale of one of America's most extraordinary unsolved crimes. Just who is DB Cooper?

Episode 20

Locked In: Breaking the Silence

Film-maker Xavier Alford has a rare and life-changing illness. Confronting his fears, he finds talking with fellow patients and his family makes all of them stronger.

Episode 21

Red Penguins: Murder, Money and Ice Hockey

A tale of capitalism and opportunism run amok - complete with gangsters, strippers and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink in Moscow.

Episode 22

Price of Gold

Revisiting the 1994 scandal that embroiled competing US Olympic figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding.

Episode 23

The Island And The Whales

The people of the Faroe Islands believe pilot whale hunting is vital to their way of life, but.

Episode 24

Cuban Dreams

In a tiny remote Cuban fishing village, where the shops are empty and basic transportation is non-existent, everyone is utterly dependent on the sea and many have drowned trying to leave.