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Storyville (1997) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Storyville online in HD.

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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.

Cast & Crew

Storyville — Series Details

Storyville — Episode Guide

Season 1997

• E1: Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997-11-15) — Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Acc
• E2: Nobody's Business (1997-11-22) — Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his father's life.
• E3: Wednesday (1997-11-29) — Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St. Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961, his own birthday, in former Leningrad. Fifty-one women and fifty
• E4: Naughty Boy (1997-12-06) — A profile of Danish film-maker Ole Ege, whose work pushed the boundaries of acceptability when Denmark legalized pornography in 1969.
• E5: Paradise Lost (1997-12-13) — A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

Season 1998

• E1: East Side Story (1998-01-03) — A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct – and entertaining, besides.
• E2: When We Were Kings (1998-05-24) — On 30 October 1974, perhaps the most famous heavyweight championship boxing match of all time took place in Kinshasa, Zaire – the "Rumble in the Jungle" between champion George For
• E3: Kurt and Courtney (1998-10-31) — After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provide
• E4: Don't Look Back (1998-10-31) — Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, fro
• E5: 444 Days (1998-11-14) — 444 Days offers a detailed insight into the troubled history between the USA and Iran, telling the story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. On 4 November
• E6: Year of the Dogs (1998-11-21) — Year of the Dogs is a documentary detailing the turbulent 1996 season of the Australian Football League (AFL) team Footscray Football Club (now Western Bulldogs).
• E7: Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1998-11-28) — A reassessment of the tragedy at Waco that left 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect dead.
• E8: Gigi, Monica and Bianca (1998-12-05) — This documentary, made by several of the Dardenne Brothers regular collaborators, tells the story of a group of Romanian teenagers living on the streets of Bucharest, particularly
• E9: Moon Over Broadway (1998-12-21) — A chronicle of the ups and downs that occur during the rehearsals and previews process of Ken Ludwig's Broadway comedy "Moon Over Buffalo".

Season 1999

• E1: A Small Town in Poland (1999-03-21) — 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 ackn
• E2: Resurrection (1999-04-04) — 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
• E3: Fragments: Jerusalem (1999-04-04) — 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 histor
• E4: Photographer (1999-09-04) — 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 chil
• E5: I Was a Slave Labourer (1999-10-16) — 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 acknowle
• E6: An American Love Story: Welcome to America (1999-10-30) — 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 chil
• E7: An American Love Story: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up (1999-10-31) — Part 2: Daughter Cicily travels to Nigeria to spend a term with a group of students.
• E8: An American Love Story: It's Another New Year and I Ain't 't Gone (1999-11-01) — Part 3: The family celebrate Christmas, but Cicily contracts malaria.
• E9: An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy (1999-11-02) — Part 4: Chaney introduces her first boyfriend to Bill and Karen. Is she too young for romantic matters?
• E10: An American Love Story: True Love (1999-11-03) — Part 5: Continuing the documentary about a mixed-race couple. The family faces a crisis when Karen is admitted into hospital for a hysterectomy.
• E11: An American Love Story: It's My Job (1999-11-04) — Part 6: Bill struggles to overcome his drink problem, while daughter Cicily – now a graduate – begins her search for a job.
• E12: An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet (1999-11-05) — Part 7: Concluding the documentary portrait of a mixed-race couple. Bill and Karen reflect on their courtship period during the sixties.
• E13: Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (1999-11-06) — Director Paul Jay's acclaimed film follows Hart for a year and explores the reality behind the theatre of wrestling.
• E14: A Cry from the Grave (1999-11-27) — 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.
• E15: Grey Gardens (1999-12-11) — 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
• E16: Out of Phoenix Bridge (1999-12-21) — 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.

Season 2000

• E1: Kick the Habit: The Last Cigarette (2000-02-26) — This film looks at America's love-hate relationship with cigarettes over the course of the century.
• E2: My Best Fiend: Herzog – Madman or Genius (2000-03-18) — Tracing director Werner Herzog's strange and troubled relationship with actor Klaus Kinski.
• E3: Genocide, the Judgement (2000-07-02) — Following the trial of the mayor of a Rwandan village, who was brought before a UN tribunal to face a genocide and crimes against humanity charge.
• E4: One Day in September (2000-09-05) — Oscar-winning documentary recounting the kidnapping of 12 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.
• E5: Norman Mailer: Oh My America: Farewell to the Fifties (2000-10-11) — The first of a two-part programme in which writer Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. But, disappointed by post-war America, he grew to despise the f
• E6: Norman Mailer – Oh My America: Beyond the Revolution (2000-10-12) — In this second and final episode, writer and social critic Norman Mailer describes the revolution in attitudes during the sixties, the impact of the Vietnam war, and the Reagan and
• E7: Donald and Luba (2000-12-22) — Don Boyd charts the truth about his parents as he travels around the world following the course of their lives.

Season 2001

• E1: I Loved You (2001-01-02) — Award-winning film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky examines the nature of human love in three stories which together look at his mentors, a shot-gun wedding outside Moscow, and the relati
• E2: Black and White in Colour (2001-01-04) — Documentary focusing on Vera Bila , the most successful Romany singer in Europe. Born in Slovakia, she travels around Europe in search of places to perform, all the while awaiting
• E3: The Sweetest Sound (2001-01-14) — Film-maker Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for one of the many people who share his name. He attempts to come to terms with his alter egos when he holds a dinner party whe
• E4: RUEU? (2001-03-15) — Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union
• E5: Joseph Desire Mobutu (2001-03-22) — The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.
• E6: Heidi Fleiss (2001-04-02) — What made a nice girl from a well-to-do middle class family descend into the sleazy world of drugs, pimps, sex for money, and ultimately jail and ruin?
• E7: Romancing the Throne (2001-04-30) — Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.
• E8: Vision Man (2001-05-07) — In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.
• E9: The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2001-05-14) — Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
• E10: Cod Wars (2001-05-28) — This Icelandic documentary film tells the story of Britain and Iceland's struggle over the once plentiful cod-fishing grounds in the North Atlantic during the 1950s and the 1960s.
• E11: The 50 Years War: Part 1 (2001-06-06) — First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.
• E12: The 50 Years War – Part 2 (2001-06-08) — Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.
• E13: Intimate Stranger (2001-06-23) — Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.
• E14: Jazz Man from the Gulag (2001-08-27) — The life of the Jewish jazz musician Eddie Rosner, who fled Nazi Germany and settled in Russia, only to be arrested and imprisoned there after the war.
• E15: Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace (2001-08-30) — Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.
• E16: Rats in the Ranks (2001-09-03) — The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.
• E17: Picasso Days (2001-09-10) — A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso
• E18: The Gleaners and I (2001-10-15) — Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.
• E19: An Unquiet Peace (2001-10-29) — Photojournalist Nick Danziger 's return to Kosovo as he tries to trace the ethnic Albanian people he pictured in refugee camps during the war in the Balkans.
• E20: Life and Death in Soweto (2001-11-05) — Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.
• E21: Just, Melvin (2001-11-28) — Film about the painful legacy left by child abuse.
• E22: Christ Comes to the Papuans (2001-12-19) — How the influence of Christian missionaries in Papua New Guinea is steadily eroding the traditional customs and beliefs of the tribes-people there.
• E23: Marlene (2001-12-27) — Maximilian Schell's documentary about the life of Marlene Dietrich, for which he garnered information from the film star during a 17-hour conversation.

Season 2002

• E1: Closing Down (2002-01-14) — Film following the closure of a hairdressing salon in Italy after 43 years in business.
• E2: Three Salons at the Seaside (2002-01-14) — Documentary, originally shown in 1994, observing life at three busy hairdressing salons in the town of Blackpool.
• E3: Baria's Big Wedding (2002-01-28) — Film following a 17-year-old girl from Marseille as she prepares for a marriage arranged before she was born.
• E4: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire – Part 1 (2002-02-11) — The story of right-wing American Politician George Wallace, who campaigned for racial segregation and on whom an assassination attempt was made in 1972.
• E5: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire – Part 2 (2002-02-12) — After the attempt on his life, which left him paralysed from the waist down, George Wallace showed remorse for his emotive policies and sought reconciliation with the black communi
• E6: First Contact (2002-02-18) — An award-winning documentary telling the story of three Australian prospectors, whose search for gold in the 1930s led them to the previously unexplored highlands of Papua New Guin
• E7: Black Harvest (2002-02-25) — A documentary programme filmed in the spectacular highlands of Papua New Guinea, where the expansionist policy of a coffee plantation owner has led to a bitter intertribal war.
• E8: Startup (2002-03-04) — Following the fortunes of two entrepreneurs, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, in their quest to develop a new media solution for connecting citizens with the US government via t
• E9: Southern Comfort (2002-03-07) — Following Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual from Georgia, who is dying from ovarian cancer. Robert resolves to beat the odds and take his partner on a visit to America's pr
• E10: Chain Camera (2002-03-14) — Eight camcorders were given out to students in Los Angeles. They filmed their lives for a week and then passed the camera on to someone else. The project lasted for a year and the
• E11: My Sperm-Donor Dad (2002-03-21) — Barry Stevens believes he has hundreds of half brothers and sisters because his parents were one of the early beneficiaries of artificial insemination. Half a century on, Stevens t
• E12: The Tour (2002-03-24) — Following a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on a 3 day organised tour through Israel in 1999. For many, this is a first visit to Israel, while others take t
• E13: Down from the Mountain (2002-03-28) — A reunion of some of the greatest names in bluegrass music at the Ryman theatre in Nashville. The stars featured include Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss. John Hartford and Ralph Stan
• E14: More Sex Please, We're Scandinavian (2002-03-30) — Scandinavia has the reputation of being a land of beautiful blondes and midnight sex romps. This film, by Torben Jensen and Ghita Beckendorff, charts the history of attitudes to se
• E15: Town Bloody Hall (2002-04-04) — The raucous debate on "women's lib" that took place in New York's City Hall in 1971, between novelist Norman Mailer, critic Diana Trilling and three members of the Women's Movement
• E16: The War Room (2002-04-11) — Following the Democrat's 1992 election trail of Bill Clinton, focusing on communications director George Stephanopoulos and campaign strategist James Carville as they attempt to se
• E17: Much Ado about Something (2002-04-23) — Celebrating William Shakespeare's birthday with an examination of the authenticity of his work. To what extent was Christopher Marlowe the inspiration behind his work, or was he –
• E18: Who is Bernard Tapie? (2002-04-25) — Part 3 looks at the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China. Waitress Peng has sacrificed her own education to support her sister's studies, while owner Qin
• E19: Coolies: How Britain Re-Invented Slavery (2002-04-29) — The slave trade was officially abolished throughout British Empire in 1807. This documentary reveals Britain's darkest secrets: a form of slavery continued well into 20th century –
• E20: This Is Palestine (2002-05-02) — Azza El-Hassan's film portrayal of her neighbourhood of Ramallah, a town under fire in the current Middle East conflict. With the threat of violence severely limiting locals' activ
• E21: The Settlers (2002-05-03) — Naomi Horowitz and her six children are one of seven Jewish families to settle in Tel Rumeida, a community in the heart of Palestinian self-rule territory. Ruth Walk's film looks a
• E22: Pie in the Sky (2002-05-06) — Brigid Berlin had a comfortable uptown upbringing that her mother hoped would end in her becoming a respectable socialite. Instead, she found cult recognition as an acolyte of Andy
• E23: Nico Icon (2002-05-06) — Known for singing with the Velvet Underground, Nico was a troubled soul whose iconic beauty was offset by a self-destructive urge. Susanne Ofteringer's film charts Nico's life, fro
• E24: Ajax (2002-05-14) — This film is a behind-the-scenes look at how a high-profile football club, celebrating its centenary year, survives in a modern sport where money rules and business comes first.
• E25: Gods of Brazil (2002-05-17) — Brazilian football suffered a dark day on 16 July 1950: the national team lost the World Cup final at home in front of 175,000 fans. But it heralded the dawn of a golden age made p
• E32: Domestic Violence (2002-07-18) — A look at how the Tampa, Florida police respond to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter for women and children. Police sequences include respon
• E33: The Bonzos (2002-07-29) — The story of a 2,000-strong collection of priceless paintings stolen from European galleries by the Nazis – and of the British agents, nicknamed "the Bonzos" who saved them from ob
• E34: Life And Debt In Jamaica (2002-08-04) — A look at the price paid by Jamaica for seeking help from the International Monetary Fund during the 1970s.
• E35: Dark Days (2002-08-08) — Marc Singer 's film follows a community of people eking out a living in the subway tunnels beneath the streets of New York.
• E36: Shadowplay (2002-08-15) — The human cost of the terror campaign waged against the people of Indonesia in the 1960s.
• E37: The Cuban Game (2002-08-19) — Manuel Martin Cuenca's documentary tells of how the Cuban national sport, baseball, turned into a battleground with the revolution in 1959, and how the sport became emblematic of C
• E38: Steps For The Future: Sincerely Yours (2002-08-28) — Sex, love, relationships and Aids are examined as Dumisani Phakathi explores his community in Soweto, South Africa.
• E39: Louis Malle's India (2002-09-03) — A compilation of the French director's TV series, L'inde Fantôme, which followed his trip to India.
• E40: See What Happens (2002-09-16) — Profile of film-makers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
• E41: Cry for Argentina (2002-09-24) — Angus Macqueen's film captures the desperate situation as Argentineans try to make the best of life with their economy in freefall.
• E42: Kabul Emergency Room (2002-10-07) — In November 2001, as western forces began the bombardment of Afghanistan, members of the NGO emergency crew dealt with the casualties. This film captures the hardship of their work
• E43: Scottsboro (2002-10-07) — Exploring the arrest, in 1931, and subsequent trial of nine black boys accused of gang rape.
• E44: Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (2002-10-15) — Chronicling the events that shaped the legendary US boxer, including 1974's "rumble in the jungle".
• E45: Ghosts of Attica (2002-10-29) — Brad Lichtenstein's film tells the story of the bloodiest uprising in US penal history, which occurred in September 1971 when over 1,000 inmates gained control of the Attica Correc
• E46: Last Party 2000 (2002-11-05) — Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman attempts to discover why the American electorate is so apathetic.
• E47: Journeys With George (2002-11-05) — After a year shadowing George W Bush, Alexandra Pelosi presents a profile.
• E48: The Somme (2002-11-10) — An account of the one of the pivotal conflicts of the First World War, using archive film and interviews with survivors to portray the reality of warfare. Originally shown as part
• E49: My Terrorist (2002-11-12) — In 1978, film director Yulie Cohen-Gerstel was the victim of a terrorist attack in London in which several of her colleagues died.
• E50: Aids 2002: Simon & I (2002-12-03) — Profiling South African gay activists Simon Nkoli and Bev Ditsie.
• E51: Milosevic: How to be a Dictator (2002-12-10) — Exploring the character and ambitions of the former Yugoslavian President, who for ten years orchestrated Europe's most ruthless dictatorship since the Second World War. Including

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How many seasons does Storyville have? 30 season(s) with 768 episodes.

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