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Storyville Season 9 Episodes

55 Episodes 2005 - 2005

Episode 1

Death on the Staircase: Crime or Accident?

Was the death Michael Peterson's wife Kathleen an accident or a crime? Oscar-winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade follows the dramatic story of a notorious murder case for Storyville.

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Episode 2

Death On The Staircase: 2/8 Secrets And Lies

Did Michael Peterson's wife uncover details of his bisexuality shortly before she died, and how will this affect the ongoing murder investigation into her death?

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Episode 3

Death On The Staircase: 3/8 A Striking Coincidence

The prosecution unearth the story of another death from 1985 that only reinforces their convictions.

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Episode 4

Death On The Staircase: 4/8 A Prosecution Trickery

The defence faces a blow as a new autopsy concludes that Elizabeth Ratliff was unlawfully killed. The prosecution also presents an iron poker - supposedly a replica of the murder weapon. What now for Michael Peterson?

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Episode 5

Death On The Staircase: 5/8 A Weak Case

The prosecution witnesses falter during defence lawyer David Rudolf's cross-examination.

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Episode 6

Death On The Staircase: 6/8 The Prosecution's Revenge

As the trial continues, the prosecutor attempts to portray Michael Peterson as a deviant.

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Episode 7

Death On The Staircase: 7/8 The Blow Poke Returns

The defence witnesses take their turn, but there's a worry that the experts' account will not be enough to convince the jury.

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Episode 8

Death On The Staircase: 8/8 The Verdict

The jury in the Michael Peterson case deliberates for five days before reaching a verdict.

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Episode 9

Martin Luther King: Citizen King 1963-1968

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King.

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Episode 10

Prisoner Of Paradise

The tragic story of Kurt Gerron a Jewish director and Weimar star, ordered to make Nazi propaganda films.

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Episode 11

The Liberace Of Baghdad

Storyville depicts eight months with an Iraqi pianist, now playing in a hotel bar and wondering about the future of his country.

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Episode 12

Made In China

Global companies wish to be well-thought of and very successful. Being Finnish, and therefore Scandinavian, Nokia is in the lead when it comes to feeling good about capitalism.

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Episode 13

Barca: The Inside Story

Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis.

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Episode 14

The Natural History Of The Chicken

How was this seemingly simple creature actually revealed to be complex? Mark Lewis investigates for Storyville.

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Episode 15

Before The Flood: Tuvalu

By selling the internet domain name .tv for$50 million, the previously impoverished Pacific island nation of Tuvalu landed a massive dot-com windfall.

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Episode 16

Why We Fight

Is American policy dominated by the idea of supremacy? Has the military become too important in life? Jarecki's shrewd and polemic would seem to give an answer to each of these questions.

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Episode 17

Another Road Home

Storyville documentary in which Jerusalem-born director Danae Elon tracks down the children of her Palestinian babysitter. who were sent to the US in the 1970s to avoid the conflict at home.

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Episode 18

Life On The Tracks

Storyville paints a portrait of a couple who live in Manila's railtrack slums. The film draws us into the heart of the urban poor world: the worries, prayers, squabbles and songs of life on the railtracks.

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Episode 19

Mclibel

McLibel is a British documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach for Spanner Films about the McLibel case.

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Episode 20

Dr. Goebbels Speaks

Archive footage and extracts from Goebbels' voluminous diaries combine to provide a vivid insight into the mind of Hitler's propaganda minister.

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Episode 21

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

Storyville documentary featuring an interview with Traudl Junge who worked as one of Hitler's secretaries from 1942 until the dictator's suicide in 1945.

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Episode 22

The Fog Of War: Eleven Lessons From The Life Of Robert S Mcnamara

Errol Morris's revealing Oscar-winning documentary. Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara outlines what he learned about conflict from the many years he spent helping to direct.

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Episode 23

Stalin's Skyscraper

This Storyville documentary explores how Stalin's interest in American skyscrapers led to the building of seven Soviet versions in Moscow.

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Episode 24

Lost In La Mancha

Candid documentary about maverick director Terry Gilliam 's attempt to make the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

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Episode 25

A Company Of Soldiers

In November 2004, Tom Roberts spent 30 days with the US Army in south Baghdad. Filming started just after the Fallujah campaign was launched, heralding reprisal ambushes.

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Episode 26

Chairman George: To Beijing Via Athens

Why did a Greek-Canadian statistician from Ottawa decide to learn Mandarin, strap on a guitar and reinvent himself as a Chinese folk star?

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Episode 27

French Beauty

Director Pascale Lamche explores the allure of French actresses, which has fascinated generations of moviegoers. Includes interviews with Brigitte Bardot

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Episode 28

Excellent Cadavers

A story of the Sicilian Mafia, American writer Alexander Stille and Palermo photographer Letizia Battaglia investigate the body-strewn and bloody mayhem created by gangsters in Sicily.

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Episode 29

Me & My 51 Brothers & Sisters

A South African man's personal tour of his country and a family he didn't know he had. Director Dumisani Phakathi 's film is showing as part of Storyville.

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Episode 30

Srebrenica: Never Again?

A decade after the massacre that I killed over 7,000, film-maker Leslie Woodhead returns to the town in eastern Bosnia.

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Episode 31

Small Pain For Glory

In the wake of devasting civil war, in Sierra Leone, an inspirational athletics trainer attempts to set up a team to compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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Episode 32

Shake Hands With The Devil

Ten years after he headed the UN's disastrous mission in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire returns to the site of the genocide to confront survivors and his demons.

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Episode 33

The Wild Blue Yonder

Werner Herzog takes the Galileo mission to Jupiter's moons as a starting point for a hypothetical investigation.

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Episode 34

Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst

In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.

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Episode 35

The White Diamond

Werner Herzog 's compelling record of a daring expedition to the rainforests of South America English aeronautical engineer Dr Graham Dorrington plans to assemble a helium-filled airship in the Guyanese jungle.

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Episode 36

A Very English Village 1/5

Storyville film-maker Luke Holland who has lived in Ditchling on the East Sussex Downs for the last ten years, explores aspects of village life past and present.

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Episode 37

Peace One Day

A global ceasefire day was the dream of film-maker Jeremy Gilley. For five years he documented his efforts to persuade the world, via the UN, Nobel Peace Prize laureates, aid agencies, freedom fighters, media moguls and victims of war.

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Episode 38

Sitting For Parliament

Director John T Davis follows fellow Belfast native artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly over a six-month period.

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Episode 39

A Very English Village 2/5

Storyville continues its exploration of South Downs village Ditchling with a profile of the amateur-dramatics society, led by Sonia Stock.

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Episode 40

The Last Waltz

Martin Scorsese 's superb record of the farewell concert given by the Band in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day 1976. Dylan guests alongside Joni Mitchell Neil Diamond Emmylou Harris and Neil Young.

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Episode 41

A Very English Village 3/5

Artist Eric Gill of the Arts and Crafts movement arrived in Ditchling in 1907. His legacy includes the typeface gill sans - but his bohemian lifestyle remains controversial.

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Episode 42

A Very English Village 4/5

At one time. the Sandrock Inn was at the heart of Ditchling, East Sussex - but now the pub is under threat from developers.

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Episode 43

A Very English Village 5/5

Going for the Kill. Farmer Gary Lee who also serves as master of the local hunt, and his brother Mark battle economic forces beyond their control in a desperate bid to keep their family business running.

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Episode 44

The Wonderful World Of Dogs

Dog judges, commentators and owners all contribute to Storyville's hilarious interpretation of the canine worldview.

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Episode 45

Liberia: An Uncivil War

In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal.

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Episode 46

The Standard Of Perfection: Show Cats

Humorous Storyville documentary in which Mark Lewis delves into the world of pampered. pedigree felines.

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Episode 47

Animaliclous

A Storyville collection of true tales revealing the hidden dangers of the animal world, including a mad squirrel that terrorised a whole neighborhood.

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Episode 48

How Vietnam Was Lost

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.

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Episode 49

The Standard Of Perfection: Show Cattle

Competitors polish hooves and buff up bovine beauties for a livestock fair in Maine.

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Episode 50

Sir! No Sir! The Gi Revolt

Storyville on how thousands of active-duty GIs created a huge movement against the war in Vietnam.

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Episode 51

The Fall Of Fujimori

Political oppression, kidnap and corruption: the hallmarks of Alberto Fujimori who, as Storyville reveals, held near-dictatorial power in 1990s Peru.

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Episode 52

Cane Toads

Storyville examines the disastrous decision to introduce toads from Hawaii to Australia as a pest control measure.

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Episode 53

Jungle Magic

Storyville visits a carnival in the Amazon.

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Episode 54

Kinsey

Storyville looks at the life and work of the controversial US biologist.

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Episode 55

Winged Migration

Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on all seven continents. Stunning techniques help contribute to this bird's eye view of the world.

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