Storyville

Season 1999

1999 · 16 episodes

Episodes

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   1. A Small Town in Poland

   21 Mar 1999

   The small town of Bransk used to boast a large Jewish population before the Holocaust. As Bransk prepares to celebrate its 500th anniversary, the authorities debate whether to acknowledge the town's Jewish past.

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   2. Resurrection

   4 Apr 1999

   Cuba's cemeteries are too small to hold all of the country's dead. This film chronicles the emotional scenes at the exhumation of bodies after they have been buried for three years, and the subsequent storing of their bones in a crypt - a process that is watched by the dead's relatives.

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   3. Fragments: Jerusalem

   4 Apr 1999

   Director Ron Havilio intertwines a highly personal view of Jerusalem - where he has lived for nearly 50 years - with an overview of the Holy City's fascinating and litigious history. He also looks at life in the city as it approaches the new millennium.

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   4. Photographer

   4 Sept 1999

   In 1987, 600 colour slides depicting scenes in a wartime Jewish ghetto in Poland, were found in a Vienna bookshop. Director Dariusz Jablonski 's uses these photos to provide a chilling testimonial to one of World War Two's darkest chapters

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   5. I Was a Slave Labourer

   16 Oct 1999

   German gov't and industry have resisted demands to compensate the millions who worked as slave labourers under the Third Reich. Rudy Kennedy tries to force German firms to acknowledge their links with Nazi atrocities

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   6. An American Love Story: Welcome to America

   30 Oct 1999

   A seven-part documentary from director Jennifer Fox sheds light on the state of race relations by following two years in the lives of a mixed-race married couple and their two children in New York.

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   7. An American Love Story: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up

   31 Oct 1999

   Part 2: Daughter Cicily travels to Nigeria to spend a term with a group of students.

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   8. An American Love Story: It's Another New Year and I Ain't 't Gone

   1 Nov 1999

   Part 3: The family celebrate Christmas, but Cicily contracts malaria.

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   9. An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy

   2 Nov 1999

   Part 4: Chaney introduces her first boyfriend to Bill and Karen. Is she too young for romantic matters?

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    10. An American Love Story: True Love

    3 Nov 1999

    Part 5: Continuing the documentary about a mixed-race couple. The family faces a crisis when Karen is admitted into hospital for a hysterectomy.

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    11. An American Love Story: It's My Job

    4 Nov 1999

    Part 6: Bill struggles to overcome his drink problem, while daughter Cicily - now a graduate - begins her search for a job.

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    12. An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet

    5 Nov 1999

    Part 7: Concluding the documentary portrait of a mixed-race couple. Bill and Karen reflect on their courtship period during the sixties.

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    13. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

    6 Nov 1999

    Director Paul Jay's acclaimed film follows Hart for a year and explores the reality behind the theatre of wrestling.

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    14. A Cry from the Grave

    27 Nov 1999

    Leslie Woodhead 's film is the result of a year-long investigation into the killing and the aftermath of Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War.

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    15. Grey Gardens

    11 Dec 1999

    Despite their aristocratic background and the fact that they were aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis , Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter Edie lived in anonymity in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.

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    16. Out of Phoenix Bridge

    21 Dec 1999

    For Ah Feng, Jialing, Xiazi and Ziao, their years working as maids while sharing a room in a Beijing slum may be freest of their lives.