Storyville Season 26 Episodes

Episode 1

Final Account

A portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich. Men and women from former SS officers to children speak about their memories and perceptions of some of the greatest crimes in human history.

Episode 2

Misha and the Wolves

A woman's Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.

Episode 3

President

A Storyville documentary that follows Nelson Chamisa's campaign to restore democracy to Zimbabwe. Can a free, fair and transparent election truly be possible?

Episode 4

Try Harder!

A Storyville documentary that follows students at San Francisco's Lowell High School as they navigate their way through the highly competitive US university application process.

Episode 5

Tango with Putin

A Storyville documentary. A Russian radio producer sets up a TV station and finds herself in the vanguard of the struggle to protect independent journalism in her country.

Episode 6

Writing with Fire

A Storyville documentary that follows journalists at India's only newspaper run by women. They are expected to fail, but instead they stir a revolution.

Episode 7

The Distant Barking of Dogs

A Storyville documentary that follows a year in the life of a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy during the war in Donbas, Ukraine.

Episode 8

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

69 mins

A Storyville documentary that follows Mia and her three siblings as they create a film to make sense of living under siege in Ukraine.

Episode 9

The Truffle Hunters

A Storyville documentary that follows a handful of elderly men in Italy's Piedmont forests as they hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle.

Episode 10

Navalny

93 mins

In August 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the military-grade nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government.

Episode 11

Into My Name

A compelling coming-of-age story of four friends, sharing important turning points in their lives as they transition to a new gender

Episode 12

Citizen Ashe

Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court.

Episode 13

On The Morning You Wake (To The End Of The World)

On 13 January 2018, Hawaiians were suddenly confronted by an urgent nuclear threat. This was the text message they received from their country's emergency management agency

Episode 14

Gorbachev. Heaven

Mikhail Gorbachev helped to shape the 20th century, being the architect of glasnost and perestroika.

Episode 15

One Day In Ukraine

A snapshot of one day in a country under siege. Filmed on 14 March 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Episode 16

And Still I Sing

Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country's hit TV show Afghan Star.

Episode 17

Midwives

Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights.

Episode 18

Beneath The Surface

In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway.

Episode 19

The Fire Within

On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path.

Episode 20

A House Made Of Splinters

Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia's invasion in February 2022.

Episode 21

A Bunch Of Amateurs

A bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.