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The Trials Of Oppenheimer

Storyville - The Trials Of Oppenheimer

J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spec ...

11-03-2024

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Total Trust: Surveillance State

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A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist. ...

20-02-2024

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The Eternal Memory

Storyville - The Eternal Memory

An extraordinary portrait of unconditional love and devotion, directed by Oscar-nominated documentary director Maite Alberdi.\n\nAugusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia have ...

13-02-2024

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Another Body: My Ai Porn Nightmare

Storyville - Another Body: My Ai Porn Nightmare

When 22-year-old American engineering student Taylor discovers that her face has been digitally altered to appear in online hardcore porn videos, she is devastated and doesn't k ...

06-02-2024

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Beyond Utopia: Escape From North Korea

Storyville - Beyond Utopia: Escape From North Korea

A suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom. The film follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most o ...

30-01-2024

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Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer

Storyville - Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer

Hundreds of Nazi war criminals fled to Australia after World War Two hoping to start over and avoid prosecution. Not all of them found the refuge they had sought; quite a few di ...

23-01-2024

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Keeping It Up: The Story Of Viagra

Storyville - Keeping It Up: The Story Of Viagra

Twenty-five years ago, Viagra kick-started the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. From Wales to New York, this is the big story of the little ...

04-01-2024

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Songs Of Earth

Storyville - Songs Of Earth

The dizzyingly beautiful mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the backdrop for this immersive story of a family whose lives are linked intrinsically to their environment. Se ...

25-12-2023

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Pianoforte

Storyville - Pianoforte

Considered to be one of the most prestigious competitions in classical music, the International Chopin Piano Competition, held in Warsaw every five years since 1927, has been a ...

17-12-2023

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The Truffle Hunters

Storyville - The Truffle Hunters

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of elderly men hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle. This award-winning film follows these truffle hunters, who l ...

31-10-2023

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Made Of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest Rivalry

Storyville - Made Of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest Rivalry

Back in November 2022, England played host to the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup. The unflinching action and raw passion on display took many new fans by surprise, and as the ...

10-10-2023

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If The Streets Were On Fire

Storyville - If The Streets Were On Fire

This is London from an exhilarating, rarely seen perspective. With knife violence rising, social activist Mac creates BikeStormz, a movement for kids across the city to express ...

03-10-2023

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Tanja: Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter?

Storyville - Tanja: Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter?

What would make a middle-class Dutch woman want to join a revolutionary struggle thousands of miles from home? This Storyville film tells the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the forme ...

26-09-2023

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Winning Hearts And Minds

Storyville - Winning Hearts And Minds

In the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, western troops were part of a Nato force, working with the then-new Afghan authorities to help ‘win the hearts and minds’ ...

19-09-2023

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Benjamin, Joshua And The Crown Shyness

Storyville - Benjamin, Joshua And The Crown Shyness

When high school ends and adulthood begins, Benjamin and Joshua Israel, two identical twins of Jewish origin, start feeling burdened. While friends and schoolmates are planning ...

12-09-2023

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Blue Box

Storyville - Blue Box

Blue Box is a brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel. Film-maker Michal Weits' great-grand ...

05-09-2023

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Ihuman

Storyville - Ihuman

A Storyville documentary. Artificial intelligence now permeates every aspect of our lives, but only a handful of people have any control over its influence on our world. \n\nWit ...

29-08-2023

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8 Bar: The Evolution Of Grime

Storyville - 8 Bar: The Evolution Of Grime

They called it young black kids’ punk rock - a genre that radio stations wouldn’t play and records that labels refused to sell. But grime would not be stopped. With ...

24-08-2023

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Pepe The Frog: Feels Good Man

Storyville - Pepe The Frog: Feels Good Man

Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in Boy’s Club, an American indie comic on Myspace. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after ...

23-07-2023

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Citizen Ashe

Storyville - Citizen Ashe

Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court. Known to most on account of his stellar sports career – he became the firs ...

04-06-2023

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The Queen Of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story

Storyville - The Queen Of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story

A Storyville documentary that takes a look at the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. Forced into a life of exile for exposing the harsh realit ...

30-05-2023

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Inside Kabul

Storyville - Inside Kabul

When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the lives and destinies of two young Afghani women, Raha and Marwa, were changed forever. \n\nInside Kabul is an animated film based ...

23-05-2023

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Welcome To Chechnya: The Gay Purge

Storyville - Welcome To Chechnya: The Gay Purge

Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge lays bare the Russian Federation republic's deadly war against its gay citizens. Countless victims have been killed and hundreds more are miss ...

23-05-2023

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In The Name Of The Father

Storyville - In The Name Of The Father

Extraordinary film based in the Breslov Hasidic community in Yavniel, Israel.\n\nThe community was founded in the 1980s and led by charismatic leader Rabbi Schick, also known as ...

16-05-2023

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Blue Bag Life

Storyville - Blue Bag Life

Storyville documentary in which UK artist and film-maker Lisa Selby turns the camera on herself as she tries to understand her relationships with her late mother and her partner ...

09-05-2023

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Attica: America’s Bloodiest Prison Uprising

Storyville - Attica: America’s Bloodiest Prison Uprising

A Storyville documentary about the violent five-day standoff between inmates and law enforcement which gripped America in 1971.

02-05-2023

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Nelly And Nadine: Ravensbrück, 1944

Storyville - Nelly And Nadine: Ravensbrück, 1944

A Storyville documentary about two women who fall in love in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

25-04-2023

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The Night Notre-dame Burned

Storyville - The Night Notre-dame Burned

A Storyville documentary that tells the dramatic story of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral on 15 April 2019. Blow by blow, it follows the team of brave firefighters ...

04-04-2023

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The Pm, The Playboy And The Wolf Of Wall Street

Storyville - The Pm, The Playboy And The Wolf Of Wall Street

A Malaysian wealth fund is robbed of US$3.5 billion. It is the world’s biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, an abuse of power a ...

14-03-2023

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Scandalous! The Tabloid That Changed America

Storyville - Scandalous! The Tabloid That Changed America

Sex! Gossip! Scandal! Over the course of 60 years, the National Enquirer became the most infamous tabloid in America, pumping out salacious stories, stretching the limits of jou ...

12-03-2023

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Sex On Screen

Storyville - Sex On Screen

A Storyville documentary that explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll on those involved in filming them, and the impact such images have on women and ...

28-02-2023

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Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes

Storyville - Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes

Despite the huge risks, two Russian film-makers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country. Many thousands have fled. Those that have stayed have h ...

26-02-2023

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The Spy In Your Mobile

Storyville - The Spy In Your Mobile

A Storyville documentary that investigates a powerful and terrifying spyware called Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by Israeli company NSO Group and used on journa ...

18-02-2023

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Casa Susanna

Storyville - Casa Susanna

In the 1950s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskill mountains, there was a small wooden house with a barn behind it called Casa Susanna, a holiday ...

04-02-2023

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Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Storyville - Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Three minutes of footage is all that remains of the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, filmed in 1938 by photographer David Kurtz. This Storyville documentary unravels the ta ...

29-01-2023

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A Bunch Of Amateurs

Storyville - A Bunch Of Amateurs

A bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.\n\nAs its members grow ...

13-12-2022

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A House Made Of Splinters

Storyville - A House Made Of Splinters

Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia’s invasion in February 2022. \n ...

08-11-2022

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The Fire Within

Storyville - The Fire Within

On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the vol ...

22-10-2022

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Beneath The Surface

Storyville - Beneath The Surface

In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway. It revealed generations of negligen ...

15-10-2022

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Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

Storyville - Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

In October 1972, a student rugby team boarded a small plane in Montevideo to fly across the Andes for a long weekend of playing rugby and partying in Chile. But they never reach ...

11-10-2022

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Midwives

Storyville - Midwives

Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minorit ...

08-10-2022

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Collective: Unravelling A Scandal

Storyville - Collective: Unravelling A Scandal

In 2015, a fire at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon afterwards, the burn victims recovering in hospital - from seemingly non-life-threaten ...

04-10-2022

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And Still I Sing

Storyville - And Still I Sing

Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country’s hit TV show Afghan Star. With two young women ...

27-09-2022

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One Day In Ukraine

Storyville - One Day In Ukraine

A snapshot of one day in a country under siege. Filmed on 14 March 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war, by a collective of Ukrainian film-makers who wanted to doc ...

24-09-2022

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Gorbachev. Heaven

Storyville - Gorbachev. Heaven

Mikhail Gorbachev helped to shape the 20th century, being the architect of glasnost and perestroika. His actions brought down the Berlin Wall, giving countries of the former Sov ...

17-09-2022

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The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery Of Db Cooper

Storyville - The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery Of Db Cooper

A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. This is the extraordinary, real-life tale of one of the greatest unsolved heists in American history and ...

07-08-2022

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On The Morning You Wake (to The End Of The World)

Storyville - On The Morning You Wake (to The End Of The World)

On 13 January 2018, Hawaiians were suddenly confronted by an urgent nuclear threat. This was the text message they received from their country's emergency management agency: \n\ ...

05-07-2022

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Into My Name

Storyville - Into My Name

A compelling coming-of-age story of four friends, sharing important turning points in their lives as they transition to a new gender.\n \nNic, Leo, Raff and Andrea meet in Bolog ...

21-06-2022

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John Curry: The Ice King

Storyville - John Curry: The Ice King

One of the greatest ice skaters of all time, John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form and made history by becoming the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homo ...

05-06-2022

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The Trial Of Ratko Mladic

Storyville - The Trial Of Ratko Mladic

The Trial of Ratko Mladic, the worst times in Europe since the Second World War and the man at the heart of them.\n\nOn the 22nd of November 2017, the Bosnian Serb general, Ratk ...

16-05-2022

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College Behind Bars: Episode 2

Storyville - College Behind Bars: Episode 2

A two-part Storyville documentary that tells the inspiring story of a group of men and women in the USA struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.\n\ ...

10-05-2022

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College Behind Bars: Episode 1

Storyville - College Behind Bars: Episode 1

A two-part Storyville documentary that tells the inspiring story of a group of men and women in the USA struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.\n\ ...

03-05-2022

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The Earth Is Blue As An Orange

Storyville - The Earth Is Blue As An Orange

Single mother Anna and her four children are living under siege in Ukraine in 2019. Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a film-maker and so, as bombs descend on neighbouring ...

30-03-2022

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Tango With Putin

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In Putin’s Russia, former music radio producer Natasha Sindeeva dreams of becoming famous and decides to build her own TV station to focus on pop culture. \n\nTango with P ...

24-03-2022

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The Distant Barking Of Dogs

Storyville - The Distant Barking Of Dogs

Ten-year-old Oleg lives with his grandma in eastern Ukraine, close to the front line of the war between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. His village, Hnu ...

23-03-2022

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Undercover Oap: The Mole Agent

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A recently widowed 83-year-old goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home in a warm-hearted and surprising look at age, isolation and loneliness. \n\nSergio is a Chilean spy - so ...

16-03-2022

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Writing With Fire

Storyville - Writing With Fire

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, a group of women set up India’s only newspaper run entirely by women. All of them are from the lowest caste, Dalit, and are ...

09-03-2022

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Price Of Gold

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The world could not keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games – Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. Just weeks before the Olympics in 1994, at the US Figure Sk ...

24-02-2022

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Try Harder!

Storyville - Try Harder!

The American college application process can be stressful at the best of times. For the super-smart, mostly Asian-American students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School, ...

16-02-2022

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President

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When Robert Mugabe was ousted by his own party, Zimbabwe’s new leaders promised a democratic presidential election – the first since the start of Mugabe’s rul ...

09-02-2022

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Misha And The Wolves

Storyville - Misha And The Wolves

The dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher – who turned detective – revealed an audacious deceptio ...

02-02-2022

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Final Account

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A portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich. Men and women ranging from former SS officers to children who grew up in Hitler&rs ...

26-01-2022

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The Age Of Stupid

Storyville - The Age Of Stupid

Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and aski ...

30-10-2021

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Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight

Storyville - Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight

In December 2019, Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, charged with financial crimes, stunned the world by fleeing Japan in a box supposedly containing a pri ...

10-10-2021

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United Skates

Storyville - United Skates

When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battles in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture - one ...

02-10-2021

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Hurt Locker Hero

Storyville - Hurt Locker Hero

The heart-stopping story of 'Crazy Fakhir', a Kurdish colonel in the Iraqi army and legendary bomb disposal expert who single-handedly disarmed thousands of landmines across the ...

25-09-2021

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Toffs, Queers And Traitors: The Extraordinary Life Of Guy Burgess

Storyville - Toffs, Queers And Traitors: The Extraordinary Life Of Guy Burgess

It was a scandal that shook the British establishment to its roots. In June 1951, the government was forced to admit that two Foreign Office diplomats had disappeared. One of th ...

28-08-2021

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Under The Wire

Storyville - Under The Wire

On 13 February 2012, war-correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy entered war-ravaged Syria to cover the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged city of Homs, ...

21-08-2021

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Eagle Huntress

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Aisholpan is a 13-year-old girl from a remote Mongolian tribe, who dreams of becoming an eagle hunter - just like her father and her grandfather before him. The ancient traditio ...

31-07-2021

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Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral

Storyville - Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral

This Storyville documentary details the story of celebrity favourite and globally trending megachurch Hillsong. In a relatively short time it has grown explosively, from small f ...

21-07-2021

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Raising A School Shooter

Storyville - Raising A School Shooter

As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger. In this powerful and sensitively tol ...

07-07-2021

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Petite Fille

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Petite Fille (Little Girl) is a moving and sensitive portrait of a young French girl called Sasha, who was assigned male at birth. This poignant and emotional documentary follow ...

04-07-2021

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When We Were Kings

Storyville - When We Were Kings

On 30 October 1974, perhaps the most famous heavyweight championship boxing match of all time took place in Kinshasa, Zaire - the \

08-05-2021

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A German Life: Goebbels's Secretary Remembers

Storyville - A German Life: Goebbels's Secretary Remembers

Actress Maggie Smith made a triumphant return to the stage to perform the role of 103-year-old Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary and stenographer to the Nazi-propaganda minister, Jose ...

22-04-2021

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Dark Secrets Of A Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne

Storyville - Dark Secrets Of A Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne

Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne tells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, ...

15-03-2021

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The Hunt For Gaddafi's Billions

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This investigative Storyville documentary takes us inside the dark and mysterious world of spies, special forces and political insiders as they race to find Colonel Muammar Gadd ...

03-03-2021

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Into The Storm: Surfing To Survive

Storyville - Into The Storm: Surfing To Survive

After finding a broken surfboard on his local beach, Jhonny Guerrero, a teenager from one of Peru’s toughest barrios, sets his heart on becoming a professional surfer. Wit ...

24-02-2021

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Whirlybird: Live Above La

Storyville - Whirlybird: Live Above La

Flying high above Los Angeles in a whirling news helicopter, Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (then known as Bob) spent the 80s and 90s capturing the city’s most epic breaking ...

18-02-2021

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My Mother's Lost Children

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An eccentric Jewish family is thrown into turmoil when two stolen children reappear after 40 years.

24-01-2021

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Red Penguins: Murder, Money And Ice Hockey

Storyville - 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. Shortly after the collapse of the Sovi ...

07-12-2020

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Locked In: Breaking The Silence

Storyville - Locked In: Breaking The Silence

An intimate, personal and surprisingly life-affirming story with a rare illness, Guillain-Barré syndrome, at its heart.\n\nDirector Xavier Alford is finally confronting a ...

03-12-2020

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Olympic Dreams Of Russian Gold - Over The Limit

Storyville - Olympic Dreams Of Russian Gold - Over The Limit

'You're not a human being, you're an athlete,' 20-year-old Rita is told by one of her two merciless coaches as she prepares to represent Russia in rhythmic gymnastics at the Oly ...

21-07-2020

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Jailed In America

Storyville - Jailed In America

For director Roger Ross Williams, prison was not a distant possibility when he was growing up, but a daily threat. 'As a young black man in a chaotic environment, I always felt ...

01-07-2020

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