Storyville - Season 24 / Year 2020

Season 24 / Year 2020

Episodes

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Accused: Damned or Devoted?

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.

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.

Scandalous! The Tabloid that Changed America

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.

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.

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.

The Two Escobars

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.

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.

An Army of Sons

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.

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?

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.

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.
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