Storyville

Season 2008

2008 · 39 episodes · 48h 10m in all

Episodes

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   1. The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

   15 Jan 2008 · 85 min

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   2. Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

   22 Jan 2008 · 85 min

   In October 1972, a student rugby team boarded a small plane in Montevideo to fly across the Andes for a long weekend of playing rugby and partying in Chile. But they never reached their destination as a storm brought their plane down in the high Andes, leaving the survivors stranded on a remote glacier. Ill-equipped, with no food and little hope of rescue, the survivors faced extreme hardship and many life-or-death situations, including the agonising decision to eat the flesh of those killed in the crash to stay alive. Thirty years later, those that got down from the mountain relive their 72 days 'up there' to give this extraordinarily powerful, vivid and immediate account of human endurance and heroism.

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   3. Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide

   27 Jan 2008 · 85 min

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   4. The Devil Came on Horseback

   29 Jan 2008 · 85 min

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   5. Hitler's Secretary

   30 Jan 2008 · 85 min

   Acclaimed film comprising an extended interview with 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who recalls her role as Adolf Hitler's personal secretary during his final years.

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   6. The Polish Ambulance Murders

   5 Feb 2008 · 85 min

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   7. Orthodox Stance

   12 Feb 2008 · 85 min

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   8. Blue Blood

   17 Feb 2008 · 85 min

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   9. Very Russian Geniuses

   19 Feb 2008 · 85 min

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    10. Dance With a Serial Killer

    24 Feb 2008 · 85 min

    Series showcasing the best in international documentaries. In 1989, a woman was brutally murdered in broad daylight on a beach in Brittany. The detective assigned to the case was a young homicide cop, Jean Francois Abgrall. Abgrall was soon convinced that the murderer was a weird drifter called Francis Heaulmes who, despite an alibi, kept dropping mysterious hints. Abgrall recounts how he trailed Heaulmes through France to bring him to justice.

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    11. Tito's Ghost

    26 Feb 2008 · 85 min

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    12. Dolce Vita Africana

    4 Mar 2008 · 85 min

    Documentary about celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose iconic images of his country from the late 1950s through to the 1970s captured the carefree spirit of his generation asserting their freedom after independence, up until an Islamic coup ushered in years of military dictatorship. The filmmakers travel to Malick Sidibe's studio in Bamako to witness him at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali.

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    13. Standing in the Shadows of Motown

    9 Mar 2008 · 85 min

    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. Drawn together from Detroit's jazz and blues scene, the film recounts their evolution of the Motown sound from its origins to its demise in LA during the 1970s, and reunites the surviving Funk Brothers for the first time in thirty years.

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    14. Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman

    11 Mar 2008 · 85 min

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    15. All White in Barking

    14 Mar 2008 · 85 min

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    16. The English Surgeon

    30 Mar 2008

    Henry Marsh is one of Britain's leading brain surgeons. Ten years ago he befriended Igor Kurilets, a fellow neurosurgeon who works in the Ukraine, and ever since he has travelled to the Ukraine twice a year to operate on patients for free. Geoffrey Smith's moving film follows Henry as he travels to Kiev to help Igor operate on a young man called Marian, who without surgery has just months to live. When Henry arrives he faces a serious challenge - Marian must be awake when his tumour is removed, and Henry must use the most basic tools, including a Black and Decker drill.

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    18. My Secret Agent Auntie

    7 May 2008 · 85 min

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    19. The Battle for Jerusalem

    14 May 2008 · 85 min

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    20. My Israel

    14 May 2008 · 85 min

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    21. Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation

    15 May 2008

    As part of a season marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Yoav Shamir's documentary looks at why so many young Israelis use their National Service discharge bonus to go backpacking in northern India and Goa, with a high proportion experimenting with drugs and consequently suffering mental breakdowns.

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    22. Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday

    21 May 2008 · 85 min

    Documentary focusing on Shillong, North India, where each year the village comes together to celebrate the birthday of their musical hero - Bob Dylan. At the heart of the celebrations is Lou Majaw, a local celebrity who tours India performing Dylan's songs to rapturous crowds. This film takes a behind-the-scenes look at Majaw's life, seeing how the rock and roll lifestyle seems to be tearing him apart.

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    23. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Enterprise

    27 May 2008 · 85 min

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    24. Death of a WAG

    28 May 2008 · 85 min

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    25. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - A Good Match

    3 Jun 2008 · 85 min

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    26. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Family Duties

    10 Jun 2008 · 85 min

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    27. The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper

    16 Jun 2008 · 85 min

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    28. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Bright Future

    17 Jun 2008 · 85 min

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    29. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Compilation

    7 Jul 2008 · 85 min

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    30. The Chuck Show

    23 Jul 2008 · 85 min

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    31. Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

    27 Jul 2008

    Documentary telling the story of Stax, one of the most influential soul record labels ever. Founded in a black neighbourhood of Memphis by a white brother and sister in the 1960s as a studio with an open-door policy, the label went on to sign such iconic acts as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and their house band, Booker T and the MGs. Featuring interviews with Jesse Jackson, Elvis Costello, Chuck D, Justin Timberlake, Bono and Pete Townshend.

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    32. Kidult: My Kid Could Paint That

    30 Jul 2008

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    33. The Burning Season

    6 Aug 2008 · 85 min

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    34. Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman - 1

    13 Aug 2008 · 85 min

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    35. Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman - 2

    20 Aug 2008 · 85 min

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    36. 1968

    22 Sept 2008 · 85 min

    Documentary exploring what really happened throughout the world in the seminal year of 1968, a time of music and of revolution, asking why so many hopes were disappointed and what is the period's true legacy. Drawing on archive footage from the US, Vietnam, Britain, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Mexico, the film dynamically reconstructs the hopes, the fears and the ultimate sense of despair that pervaded the events of 1968.

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    37. Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected

    6 Oct 2008 · 85 min

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    38. Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired

    13 Oct 2008 · 85 min

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    39. Shot in Bombay

    20 Oct 2008 · 85 min

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    40. When Borat Came to Town

    27 Oct 2008