Storyville - Season 24 / Year 2020

Storyville - Season 24 / Year 2020

Season 24 / Year 2020

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DatesJan 7, 2020 - Dec 7, 2020
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Episodes

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (1)
Year 2020Episode 180 min

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (1)

A Storyville documentary. Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform 'revolutionary suicide' in northern Guyana?

Jan 7, 2020
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2)
Year 2020Episode 280 min

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2)

A Storyville documentary. The Jonestown project quickly begins to implode. Jones's excessive drug use, irrational behaviour and the isolation of his followers raises the alarm back home.

Jan 8, 2020
The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature
Year 2020Episode 390 min

The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature

A Storyville documentary. The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. What will CRISPR mean for human evolution?

Jan 27, 2020
Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders
Year 2020Episode 495 min

Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders

Jewish lawyer Lea Tsemel is a controversial figure in Israel. For the last 50 years, she has fearlessly defended Palestinians prosecuted in Israeli courts for resisting the occupation.

Feb 10, 2020
Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride
Year 2020Episode 590 min

Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride

A Storyville documentary that reveals the complex and surprising truth behind the relationships of four Thai-Danish married couples in a small fishing community in Denmark.

Feb 17, 2020
The Island and the Whales
Year 2020Episode 650 min

The Island and the Whales

The people of the Faroe Islands believe that pilot whale hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten to change the community and their way of life forever.

Feb 23, 2020
The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar
Year 2020Episode 790 min

The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar

A Storyville documentary, filmed over seven years, that follows pornstar Jonathan Agassi and explores the impact that both the industry and his upbringing have had on his life.

Feb 24, 2020
The Accused: Damned or Devoted?
Year 2020Episode 880 min

The Accused: Damned or Devoted?

Mar 2, 2020
College Behind Bars - Episode 1
Year 2020Episode 950 min

College Behind Bars - Episode 1

First of a two-part documentary telling the story of a group of American men and women studying for college degrees while in prison for serious crimes. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security institutions in New York state, Lynn Novick's film tackles the failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for more than two million Americans living behind bars.

Jun 15, 2020
College Behind Bars - Episode 2
Year 2020Episode 1050 min

College Behind Bars - Episode 2

Concluding part of the documentary about prisoners enrolled in the Bard Prison Initiative, featuring the background stories of participants and their families.

Jun 15, 2020
Scandalous! The Tabloid that Changed America
Year 2020Episode 11

Scandalous! The Tabloid that Changed America

Jun 24, 2020
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge
Year 2020Episode 1290 min

Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge

Documentary laying bare Chechnya's deadly war against its gay citizens, which reveals the bravery of those running rescue missions to protect the republic's LGBTQ community.

Jul 1, 2020
The Underdog vs The State: The Battle for Kenya
Year 2020Episode 1395 min

The Underdog vs The State: The Battle for Kenya

Documentary that looks at the tough reality of running for politics in a country riven by corruption and tribal factionalism, through the story of Boniface `Softie" Mwangi.

Jul 8, 2020
United Skates
Year 2020Episode 1485 min

United Skates

Documentary exploring the campaign to save the US's last standing roller rinks from closure against a backdrop of growing racial tension. The film reveals the story of underground subculture that has grown up around these venues and given rise to some of the world's greatest musical talent - but has itself remained virtually unknown to the mainstream.

Jul 14, 2020
The Two Escobars
Year 2020Episode 15

The Two Escobars

Sep 6, 2020
Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man
Year 2020Episode 1890 min

Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man

Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in an online comic. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after being hijacked by the alt-right.

Oct 26, 2020
Undercover in the Alt-Right
Year 2020Episode 19

Undercover in the Alt-Right

Patrik Hermansson went deep undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville. He extracted damning information that runs all of the way to the White House. And he caught it all on hidden camera.

Oct 10, 2020
An Army of Sons
Year 2020Episode 20

An Army of Sons

Nov 1, 2020
The Night Notre-Dame Burned
Year 2020Episode 2190 min

The Night Notre-Dame Burned

A Storyville documentary that reveals the events that immediately followed the discovery of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019.

Nov 16, 2020
The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper
Year 2020Episode 2290 min

The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper

A Storyville documentary. A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. The real-life tale of one of America's most extraordinary unsolved crimes. Just who is DB Cooper?

Nov 23, 2020
Locked In: Breaking the Silence
Year 2020Episode 2375 min

Locked In: Breaking the Silence

A Storyville documentary. Film-maker Xavier Alford has a rare and life-changing illness. Confronting his fears, he finds talking with fellow patients and his family makes all of them stronger.

Nov 30, 2020
Red Penguins: Murder, Money and Ice Hockey
Year 2020Episode 2475 min

Red Penguins: Murder, Money and Ice Hockey

A tale of capitalism and opportunism run amok - complete with gangsters, strippers and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink in Moscow.

Dec 7, 2020

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