Storyville Season 8 Episodes

Episode 1

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Chicago rock band Wilco were on the brink of greatness as they recorded fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2000, but a year later they were without a record deal and two of their original line-up. Sam Jones 's film tells the story.

Episode 2

The Cockettes

Nudity, drugs and strong language abound in a Storyville tribute to the flamboyant, gender-bending hippies who staged exuberant musicals in late 60s/ early 70s San Francisco.

Episode 3

Power Trip

US power giant AES Corp tries to introduce the citizens of Georgia to a billed power supply, where previously it was gratis - but the Georgians devise new ways to get free electricity.

Episode 4

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years.

Episode 5

My Louis Armstrong Years

Director Mohamed Kounda 's touching documentary, filmed over three years, captures the love-hate relationship between singer/trumpeter Chantz Powell.

Episode 6

The Weather Underground

Oscar-nominated film tells the story of the radical 1960s American political activists who believed that in order to protest against the Vietnam War, it was necessary to take violent action to avoid marginalisation by the government.

Episode 7

War Feels Like War

How independent journalists risked their lives to report the true impact of war on the citizens of Baghdad.

Episode 8

The New Americans

Following a diverse group of immigrants and refugees struggling to settle in the United States. Subjects include a family who fled Nigeria's Ogoni delta, two Dominicans with dreams of sporting stardom and a young Palestinian woman.

Episode 9

Nelson Mandela Accused #1

Storyville examines the arrests and trial - over an eleven-month period from July 1963 to June 1964 - which saw Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants condemned to life imprisonment on Robben Island.

Episode 10

Sophiatown

During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown in Johannesburg was an enclave of creativity amid the insanity of apartheid. Storyville pays tribute to a bygone era.

Episode 11

Comandante

An Oliver Stone documentary. In 2002, the film-maker traveled to Havana to meet with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Episode 12

Condor: The First War On Terror

For Storyville, Argentinian director Rodrigo Vazquez tells the story of Operation Condor, a 1970s bid to repress Latin America's left-wing groups in a collusion between military dictators, Interpol and the CIA.

Episode 13

Justice In Time Of War

In 1995, Italian student Giacomo Turra died while in Colombian police custody. Officials claim his injuries were self-inflicted, but his family dismiss this. Storyville follows their quest for the truth.

Episode 14

Germany: Behind The Wall

A Storyville account of repression and dissent during the 40 years of the German Democratic Republic.

Episode 15

The House Of Saud - Part 1

Members of the al-Saud royal family recount the history of Saudi Arabia for Storyville.

Episode 16

The House Of Saud - Part 2

Episode 17

Army Of One

Sarah Goodman 's documentary follows three young people who, in the wake of 9/11, join the US Army to give direction to their lives. With strong language.

Episode 18

Death At The Crossroads

As the second intifada began in 2000, three young men died on the Gaza Strip. Why did they have to die? Contains strong language and images.

Episode 19

Israel'S Generals: Dayan

A critical look at the life of legendary one-eyed General Moshe Dayan, who took charge of his nation's occupation of the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza following the 1967 Israeli-Arab war.

Episode 20

Israel'S Generals: Rabin

A critical appraisal of the life and actions of Itzhak Rabin. A former general and statesman, he was assassinated in 1995 while attempting to implement the doomed Oslo peace accords.

Episode 21

Israel'S Generals: Sharon

A critical look at the life of Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who was re-elected for the second time in January, 2003.

Episode 22

Trembling Before God

Personal stories of a group of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews struggling to reconcile their faith with their strictly forbidden homosexuality.

Episode 23

Gay Dads Paternal

Two gay New Yorkers seek help from a surrogate mother in a Storyville documentary.

Episode 24

Love And Diane

Recovering crack addict Diane tries to reunite her family after her HIV-positive daughter Love gives birth to a baby boy.

Episode 25

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown

Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind more number one hits that the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined.

Episode 26

Marcel Ophüls: The Memory Hunter

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

Episode 27

Who Am I Now?

Sheena McDonald examines her life and memory, four years after a car accident put her in a coma for 72 hours.

Episode 28

Episode #8.28

Battling through dirt and dustclouds - and finally across cobbled streets - cycling greats such as Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Martens and Moser took part in the 1976 Paris to Roubaix single-day race. Jorgen Leth caught the action.

Episode 29

Games In Athens

Storyville documentary in which Athenian director Amalia Zepos investigates the impact of the Olympic Games on her city. Will Greek politicians and businessmen exploit the event for their own ends?

Episode 30

The Importance Of Being Elegant

69 mins

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult

Episode 31

Game Over: Kasparov And The Machine

Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue.

Episode 32

Control Room

Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera is notorious for relaying the pronouncements of Osama Bin Laden to the world. But is it really an anti-American mouthpiece for Islamic terrorists?

Episode 33

The Fight

New York, 22 June 1938: in one of the most compelling boxing rematches of all time, black American Joe Louis.

Episode 34

The Beauty Academy Of Kabul

Modern-day Afghanistan: a beauty academy opens its doors in Kabul and is so overwhelmed by applicants that a lottery system has to be instituted to award places.

Episode 35

The Curse Of Oil: 1/3 Rich And Poor

Storyville' s journey through oil-producing regions begins in Ecuador and Angola - where oil has been more a curse than a blessing.

Episode 36

Parallel Lines

Storyville presents an American road trip with a twist: in the wake of 9/11, film-maker Nina Davenport drives from California to New York and hears stories of loss.

Episode 37

The Curse Of Oil: 2/3 The Pipeline

Storyville' s journey through oil-producing regions follows a new pipeline through some of the most politically dangerous and geographically challenging places on Earth.

Episode 38

Lost In Transit

Roland and Jonas, two of the 500,000 would-be immigrants entering Europe illegally every year, try to find gainful employment to support their families in this Storyville travelogue.

Episode 39

The Curse Of Oil: 3/3 The Wilderness

Storyville examines the wilderness areas being opened up to oil exploration. How far will we go to get it?

Episode 40

The Russian Newspaper Murders

Following the recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya Storyville follows investigations by human rights lawyer Karen Nersisyan into the murders of six other Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003.

Episode 41

See You In The Future

Being frozen offers a second life - or so claim proponents of cryonics. Storyville takes a look at the, ultimate science-fiction fantasy.

Episode 42

Conrad Black: The Last Press Baron

Episode 43

Rfk

An assassin robbed Bobby Kennedy of his brother John and a role that gave meaning to his life.

Episode 44

Jesus Christ And George Bush

Storyville asks, what do we know about George W Bush 's faith? Do his spiritual beliefs affect his political decision-making? And do Bush's views mirror those of the politically influential evangelical movement?

Episode 45

India: Final Solution

A look at the politics of hate. This award-winning Storyville film documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the killing in 2002 of Muslims in Gujarat after an attack on a train left 58 Hindus dead.

Episode 46

My Land Zion

Storyville film by Yulie Cohen Gerstel who left New York to give birth to and raise her children in Israel.

Episode 47

Stones In The Park

Hyde Park in July 1969, Mick Jagger pays tribute to Brian Jones with a reading from Shelley before leading the Stones throug

Episode 48

Songs From The Producers

Storyville takes a look at the recording of the soundtrack to the satirical stage show, which includes Springtime for Hitler.