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Storyville
Storyville

Storyville

IMDb: 7.6 1997-11-15 United Kingdom

Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.

Episodes

Episode 1
A Small Town in Poland

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.

Episode 2
Resurrection

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.

Episode 3
Fragments: Jerusalem

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.

Episode 4
Photographer

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

Episode 5
I Was a Slave Labourer

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

Episode 6
An American Love Story: Welcome to America

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.

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

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

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

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

Episode 9
An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy

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

Episode 10
An American Love Story: True Love

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 13
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

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

Episode 14
A Cry from the Grave

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.

Episode 15
Grey Gardens

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.

Episode 16
Out of Phoenix Bridge

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.

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