Storyville is a documentary strand presented by the BBC showcasing the best in international documentaries.[1]
List of Documentaries
Date first broadcast | Title | Description | Source |
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Template:Date sortable | I Will Be Murdered | A murdered Guatemalan lawyer foretells his death and names the culprits. | |
Template:Date sortable | How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion | Documentary about the radical online 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Pirate Bay | How the founders of a file sharing site were taken to court by the entertainment industry. | |
Template:Date sortable | Google and the World Brain | Documentary about a campaign by authors to stop the Google Books website. | |
Template:Date sortable | Expedition to the End of the World | A group of scientists and artists venture by ship into uncharted territory. | |
Template:Date sortable | Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance | Documentary which follows the hearing of a murder case which split a family. | |
Template:Date sortable | Queen of Versailles | The story of a couple whose plans of building a mansion are hit by the economic crisis. | |
Template:Date sortable | Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song | Documentary surveying the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. | |
Template:Date sortable | The House I Live In | Film looking at America's War on Drugs, painting a portrait of individuals at all levels. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Other Irish Travellers | Documentary looking at the history of Ireland's vanished Anglo-Irish classes. | |
Template:Date sortable | From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film | A meditation on Britain's unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Chef Who Conquered New York: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt | A look at the driven and talented British celebrity chef, Paul Liebrandt. | |
Template:Date sortable | JFK's Road to White House: Primary 1960 | Film following John F Kennedy during his 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary run. | |
Template:Date sortable | Olympic Massacre: One Day In September | Recounting the tragic events of the 1972 'Munich Massacre'. | |
Template:Date sortable | The $750 Million Thief | Film about a Manhattan attorney who orchestrated a fraud that netted over $750 million. | |
Template:Date sortable | Racing Dreams | Film about three children competing in the World Karting Association's national series. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story | Film about the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. | |
Template:Date sortable | Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones | Was a Welsh journalist killed in 1935 for revealing Stalin's policies in the Ukraine? | |
Template:Date sortable | Albino Witchcraft Murders | Two people with albinism try to follow their dreams in the face of prejudice in Tanzania. | |
Template:Date sortable | Girl Model | Documentary exposing the supply of ever younger girls to the Japanese modelling industry. | |
Template:Date sortable | Surviving Progress | Documentary about the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Real Great Escape | The story of the mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape, Roger Bushell. | |
Template:Date sortable | Murderball | Documentary exploring the sport of wheelchair rugby, unofficially known as murderball. | |
Template:Date sortable | Guerilla - The Taking Of Patty Hearst | The story of the 1974 kidnap of teenage newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. | |
Template:Date sortable | Cod Wars | Film about the disputes between Iceland and the UK over ownership of fishing zones. | |
Template:Date sortable | Barbados at the Races: Bajan Born and Bred | An exploration of what it is to be Bajan (Barbadian). | |
Template:Date sortable | Barbados at the Races: The Jockey's Prayer | A look at the lives of three Bajan jockeys. | |
Template:Date sortable | Barbados at the Races: Run Cat Run! | How a new breed of small trainer is determined to break into the exclusive Turf Club. | |
Template:Date sortable | Barbados at the Races: The Favourite | The build up to the Derby seen through the eyes of those responsible for the favourite. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Jazz Baroness | Documentary about the British baroness who fell in love with jazz genius Thelonious Monk. | |
Template:Date sortable | Robert Capa - In Love and War | A look at the life, loves and career of iconic war photographer Robert Capa. | |
Template:Date sortable | Prostitution Behind the Veil | Documentary following the lives of two Iranian women who have resorted to prostitution. | |
Template:Date sortable | Fashion Victim | How fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his Miami mansion. | |
Template:Date sortable | Blast! | Scientists launch a revolutionary telescope to try and explain the formation of galaxies. | |
Template:Date sortable | I'm Not Dead Yet | Documentary about the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past. | |
Template:Date sortable | Prodigal Sons | Transsexual filmmaker Kim and her brother Marc meet up at their high school reunion. | |
Template:Date sortable | When Borat Came to Town | Romanian villagers attempt to clear their name after being portrayed in the film Borat. | |
Template:Date sortable | Shot in Bombay | Documentary on Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, after conviction for firearms offences. | |
Template:Date sortable | Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired | Re-examining Polanski's conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. | |
Template:Date sortable | Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected | Profile of Lee Atwater, who became chairman of the GOP and mentor to George W Bush. | |
Template:Date sortable | Martin Luther King: Citizen King 1967-1968 | Documentary about the final five years of civil rights activist Martin Luther King's life. | |
Template:Date sortable | 1968 | Documentary exploring what happened throughout the world in the seminal year of 1968. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Day after Peace | Documentary charting filmmaker Jeremy Gilley's attempts to establish a Day of Peace. | |
Template:Date sortable | Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman: Episode 2 | A filmmaker reassesses her life by talking to women around the world about theirs. | |
Template:Date sortable | Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman: Episode 1 | A filmmaker reassesses her life by talking to women around the world about theirs. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Burning Season | One young Australain entrepreneur's attempt to save the rainforests, and make a fortune. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Chuck Show | Documentary exploring the contradictions and passions of painter Chuck Connelly. | |
Template:Date sortable | Wheel of Time | Documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the Buddhist Kalachakra movement for world peace. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper | Documentary about Father Michael Cleary, an Irish priest who had his own TV chat show. | |
Template:Date sortable | Death of a WAG | Documentary about the murder of an Iranian football star's wife by his mistress. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Compilation | Owner Qin Linzi and her staff show how to run a successful restaurant business in China. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Bright Future | There's a banquet for a new baby and an anniversary show to celebrate its third year. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Family Duties | Exploring the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: A Good Match | Examining attitudes towards marriage in contemporary China. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World: Enterprise | What it takes to run a successful restaurant business in China. | |
Template:Date sortable | Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday | The village of Shillong, North India, comes together each year to celebrate Bob Dylan. | |
Template:Date sortable | Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation | Why so many young Israelis have fallen victim to drug culture while backpacking in India. | |
Template:Date sortable | My Israel | How an Israeli woman who survived a terrorist attack has come to deal with the situation. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Battle for Jerusalem | Liran Atzmor's film documents a battle that took place in Jerusalem's Old City in 1948. | |
Template:Date sortable | My Secret Agent Auntie | How apparent heroine Baroness Moura Budberg may have actually been a callous Soviet agent. | |
Template:Date sortable | Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman | Documentary about author Ariel Dorfman, who survived the bloody 1973 coup in Chile. | |
Template:Date sortable | Standing in the Shadows of Motown | Documentary that tells the story of the Funk Brothers, the successful Motown musicians. | |
Template:Date sortable | Dolce Vita Africana | Documentary about celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibe. | |
Template:Date sortable | Tito's Ghost | Documentary revealing how the worship of Marshall Tito continues in the former Yugoslavia. | |
Template:Date sortable | Very Russian Geniuses | How the political changes of the 1980s affected the intellectual elite in Russia. | |
Template:Date sortable | Orthodox Stance | Film about Dmitriy Salita - Russian immigrant, professional boxer and religious Jew. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Polish Ambulance Murders | How a cabal of undertakers bribed paramedics and doctors into murdering their patients. | |
Template:Date sortable | Hitler's Secretary | Hitler's private secretary from Autumn 1942 talks about her role in the Third Reich. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Devil Came on Horseback | A look at how the Arab Sudanese government seems intent on destroying its black citizens. | |
Template:Date sortable | Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide | In 1978, 900 members of the Jonestown cult died in possibly history's biggest mass suicide | |
Template:Date sortable | Cannibals in the Andes: Stranded! | The survivors of a famous plane crash relive their experiences 30 years later. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair | The story of a cameraman imprisoned in Baghdad, accused of plotting to kill Tony Blair. | |
Template:Date sortable | Mr Vig and the Nun | Documentary about an 82-year-old man who has never known love, and a young Russian nun. | |
Template:Date sortable | My Life as a Spy | Leslie Woodhead recalls his time as a Russian-speaking sleuth during the Cold War. | |
Template:Date sortable | 444 Days | The story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. | |
Template:Date sortable | Hammer and Tickle | Documentary telling the real history of Communism through jokes told by ordinary people. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Russian Newspaper Murders | Documentary about the murders of six Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003. | |
Template:Date sortable | Startup.com | Documentary following two high-school friends as they begin an internet startup. | |
Template:Date sortable | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog's film recreates the ordeal of US pilot Dieter Dengler, shot down over Laos. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Madrid Connection | Documentary about the men lead the terrorist cell behind the Madrid bombings of 2004. | |
Template:Date sortable | Wednesday | A revealing portrait of a generation growing up in a changing Russia. | |
Template:Date sortable | Power Trip | Documentary telling the story of the chaotic post-Soviet transition in Tbilisi, Georgia. | |
Template:Date sortable | Gods of Brazil | Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pele and Garrincha. | |
Template:Date sortable | Barca - The Inside Story | Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis. | |
Template:Date sortable | Gimme Shelter | Documentary recalling the events surrounding a free concert by the Rolling Stones in 1969. | |
Template:Date sortable | New York Doll | Documentary which details the turbulent history of The New York Dolls. | |
Template:Date sortable | Etre et avoir | Documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in France's Auvergne. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Ministry of Truth | Documentary about Richard Symons' campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament. | |
Template:Date sortable | Oona and Me | Documentary about ex-Labour MP Oona King. | |
Template:Date sortable | Sitting for Parliament | Belfast artist Noel Murphy paints all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. | |
Template:Date sortable | Bloody Cartoons | Karsten Kjaer looks at the events when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. | |
Template:Date sortable | Dinner with the President | President Musharraf explores the different influences on political life in Pakistan. | |
Template:Date sortable | Looking for the Revolution | Looking at President Evo Morales struggles building socialist policies in Bolivia. | |
Template:Date sortable | Taxi to the Dark Side | Documentary investigating a young man's death just days after his arrest by US forces. | |
Template:Date sortable | Russia's Village of Fools | Documentary about Russian patriot and businessman Mikhail Morozov. | |
Template:Date sortable | Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate | Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda follows his friend Yamauchi on the campaign trail in Japan. | |
Template:Date sortable | Eqypt We Are Watching You | Three Egyptian women start a movement to educate and empower the public | |
Template:Date sortable | Please Vote for Me | A group of Chinese schoolchildren learn about democracy for the first time. | |
Template:Date sortable | Iron Ladies of Liberia | Documentary about Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. | |
Template:Date sortable | Belgrade Radio Warriors - Turn On, Tune In, Slob Out | Documentary about the Belgrade youth radio station, B-92. | |
Template:Date sortable | Iraq in Fragments | Documentary which illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Undertaking | Documentary about American-Irish poet-philosopher, essayist and undertaker, Thomas Lynch. | |
Template:Date sortable | This Film is not Yet Rated | Documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system. | |
Template:Date sortable | Glow of White Women | Examination of the personal impact of discriminatory laws in Apartheid era South Africa. | |
Template:Date sortable | Hollywood Overnight | Documentary about the rise and fall of film maker Troy Duffy. | |
Template:Date sortable | Riot On! | Award-winning documentary about the spectacular failure of a Finnish media company. | |
Template:Date sortable | Andrew and Jeremy Get Married | The extraordinary love story between a retired bus driver and a retired teacher. | |
Template:Date sortable | Children and Cancer - A Lion in the House | Documentary following the challenges facing five families with children who have cancer. | |
Template:Date sortable | TV Junkie | Documentary about drug addiction, edited from home videos of a drug addict. | |
Template:Date sortable | Every good Marriage Begins with Tears | Bengali sisters travel from London to Bangladesh to undertake arranged marriages. | |
Template:Date sortable | Once in a Lifetime | Players, coaches and journalists recall the all-star New York Cosmos of the seventies. | |
Template:Date sortable | Kite Like Me | Jamie Kastner finds out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. | |
Template:Date sortable | Office Tigers: Part 4 | Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing. | |
Template:Date sortable | Office Tigers: Part 3 | Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing. | |
Template:Date sortable | Office Tigers: Part 2 | Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing. | |
Template:Date sortable | Office Tigers: Part 1 | Series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing. | |
Template:Date sortable | Paris Brothel | Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which existed until 1946. | |
Template:Date sortable | Winged Migration | Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds. | |
Template:Date sortable | The Natural History of the Chicken | Documentary expanding the frontiers of popular awareness over the chicken's many virtues. | |
Template:Date sortable | Laughing with Hitler | Examining the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told about the Nazis. | |
Template:Date sortable | Why We Fight | Film exploring the joint venture between the US government and the arms industry. | |
Template:Date sortable | Journeys with George | Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over nearly a year. | |
Template:Date sortable | Heirs to an Execution | Ivy Meeropol tells how her family was torn apart when her grandparents were executed. | |
Template:Date sortable | RFK | David Grubin's biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy. | |
Template:Date sortable | How Vietnam Was Lost | The story of two seemingly unconnected events that changed the course of the Vietnam War. | |
Template:Date sortable | Children of the Chinese Circus | Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school. | |
Template:Date sortable | Black Sun | Documentary about a blind man who travels the world alone. | |
Template:Date sortable | How Much is Your Life Worth? | Documentary about the work of attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death. | |
Template:Date sortable | Oswald's Ghost | Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies surrounding the JFK assassination. | |
Template:Date sortable | Cuba! Africa! Revolution: Part 2 | Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa. | |
Template:Date sortable | Cuba! Africa! Revolution: Part 1 | Two-part documentary about Cuban intervention in Africa from the 1960s onwards. | |
Template:Date sortable | A Story of People in War and Peace | Documentary about the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1989-1994). | |
Template:Date sortable | In Search of Ghandi | Indian filmmaker Lalit Vachani retreads the route of Mahatma Gandhi's famous Salt March. | |
Template:Date sortable | Law of the Dragon | Series following the work of Judge Chen and his travelling court in China |
External links
References
- ^ "Storyville". BBC. Retrieved 1 December 2012.