Storyville Episodes Episode guide
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Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship
Documentary exploring love and courtship on screen in the 20th century.
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The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog
Portrait of John Wojtowicz, inspiration for Al Pacino's character in Dog Day Afternoon.
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Love Hotel
Life inside a Japanese 'love hotel', where people visit for refuge, privacy and play.
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Bulldozers, Paving Stones and Power: The Chinese Mayor
How power works in the Chinese Communist Party, focused through the mission of one mayor.
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Mugabe and the Democrats
Documentary thriller set in Zimbabwe, following two political enemies on a joint mission.
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The Internet's Own Boy
Documentary which explores the life of social justice internet activist Aaron Swartz.
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The Arabian Motorcycle Adventures
An American man's odyssey through northern Africa and the Middle East on a motorbike.
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Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
Film following a cast of Nottingham amateur actors staging a production of Puss in Boots.
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Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
How magician James Randi has debunked faith healers, fortune tellers and psychics.
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112 Weddings
A filmmaker finds out what happened to some of the couples whose wedding videos he shot.
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Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
Documentary about a maximum security prison exclusively for murderers in Russia.
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Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Documentary which follows six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.
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The Gatekeepers
Six former heads of Israel's domestic secret service agency share their insights.
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Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
Documentary following Viktor Bout - entrepreneur, arms smuggler and amateur film-maker.
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The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
How new technology is extending its tentacles into one of the world's most remote regions.
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Web Junkies - China's Addicted Teens
Film following Chinese teenagers in a Beijing rehabilitation centre for internet addicts.
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Velorama
Documentary using BFI archive footage to look back at a century of cycling.
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The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
Film telling the story of the cyclist behind the greatest fraud in recent sporting history
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The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
The story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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Searching for Sugar Man
How forgotten 1960s American rocker Sixto Rodriguez became a phenomenon in South Africa.
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Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Film about Tim Hetherington, the war photographer killed during the Libyan civil war.
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Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
Documentary about the obsessive, competitive and divided cult of Bigfoot hunting.
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Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
Documentary exploring one of Japan's biggest train crashes in modern history.
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Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
Film about the studio where some of America's most creative and defiant music was made.
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The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
The video diary of a Palestinian farmer who films unrest in his West Bank village.
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Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
A Serbian coach attempts to forge South Sudan's first national football team.
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Cutie and the Boxer
Documentary about the chaotic 40-year marriage of two Japanese artists in New York.
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K2: The Killer Summit
Documentary looking at how 11 climbers were killed during a descent of K2 in August 2008.
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Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
Insiders who gave shape to Gaddafi's dark dreams talk about his terrifying regime.
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The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
Archive footage and a live score tell the story of steel and the story of Sheffield.