Blog Wars

S11 E01 • Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 • Jan 17 • 1h 25m

My Friend Sasha, A Very Russian Murder

S11 E02 • Monday, Jan 22, 2007 • Jan 22 • 1h 25m

Diameter Of The Bomb

S11 E03 • Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 • Jan 24 • 1h 25m

Heir To An Execution

S11 E04 • Wednesday, Jan 31, 2007 • Jan 31 • 1h 25m

Godless In America

S11 E05 • Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007 • Feb 7 • 1h 25m

Milosevic On Trial - 1

S11 E06 • Monday, Feb 12, 2007 • Feb 12 • 1h 25m

Milosevic On Trial - 2

S11 E07 • Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007 • Feb 14 • 1h 25m

So Much, So Fast

S11 E08 • Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007 • Feb 21 • 1h 25m

This Film Is Not Rated

S11 E09 • Thursday, Mar 1, 2007 • Mar 1 • 1h 25m

New York Doll

S11 E10 • Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 • Oct 23 • 40m

Documentary which details the turbulent history of controversial American proto-punk rockers The New York Dolls through the eyes of bassist Arthur Kane, telling the story of the band from its formation, through drug problems and the deaths of several members. After the Dolls' break up in 1975 Kane faded away into virtual obscurity and battled alcoholism in LA, but in 2004, Morrissey asked the surviving three New York Dolls to play at London's 2004 Meltdown Festival, of which he was the curator.

Abduction - The Megumi Yokota Story

S11 E11 • Thursday, Mar 22, 2007 • Mar 22

The remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean agents while on her way home from school. For twenty years, her parents remained unaware of her fate.

Screamers

S11 E13 • Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 • Mar 29 • 1h 25m

A Story Of People In War And Peace

S11 E14 • Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007 • Apr 17 • 1h 25m

Cuba! Africa! Revolution -1

S11 E15 • Tuesday, Apr 24, 2007 • Apr 24 • 1h 25m

First of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superpower rivalry, revolutionary idealism and the events that sowed the seeds of later wars. From Che Guevara's campaign in the Congo to the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola, Jihan El Tahri shows how Cuba tried to carve out an alternative path for Third World nations, with unique archive stills and footage of Che and Fidel Castro.

Cuba! Africa! Revolution -2

S11 E16 • Tuesday, May 1, 2007 • May 1 • 1h 25m

Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superpower rivalry, revolutionary idealism and the events that sowed the seeds of later wars. From Che Guevara's campaign in the Congo to the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola, Jihan El Tahri shows how Cuba tried to carve out an alternative path for Third World nations, with unique archive stills and footage of Che and Fidel Castro.

Oswald's Ghost

S11 E17 • Tuesday, May 8, 2007 • May 8 • 1h 25m

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

S11 E18 • Tuesday, May 15, 2007 • May 15 • 1h 25m

Black Sun

S11 E19 • Tuesday, May 22, 2007 • May 22

Documentary about Hugues de Montalembert, blinded in a random street mugging in 1978, but who defied expectation and continued to travel the world, alone. Using Montalembert's own voiceover to show how he dealt with the life-changing event, film-maker and composer Gary Tarn constructs a poetic meditation on an extraordinary life without vision.

Children of the Chinese Circus

S11 E20 • Tuesday, May 29, 2007 • May 29

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way.

How Vietnam Was Lost

S11 E21 • Monday, Jun 4, 2007 • Jun 4 • 1h 25m

Based on David Maraniss's book 'They Marched into Sunlight', a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Whilst a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong ambush which killed 61 young men, half a world away angry students at the University of Wisconsin were protesting the presence of Dow Chemical recruiters on campus.

RFK

S11 E22 • Tuesday, Jun 5, 2007 • Jun 5 • 1h 25m

David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elder brother John. After JFK's assassination, he discovered his own identity in the forefront of American politics before his career was also tragically curtailed by an assassin's bullet.

Oswald's Ghost

S11 E23 • Tuesday, Jun 5, 2007 • Jun 5 • 1h 25m

Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies and controversy surrounding the JFK assassination. Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hayden, Mark Lane and others, it probes the deep psychic wounds it made on American politics and culture, leading to a decade of governmental skullduggery, political paranoia, demagoguery and division on a huge scale. With the subsequent assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy in 1968 and the revelation of President Nixon's constitutional subversion in the early 70s, the last hopes of American idealism were shattered.

Heirs to an Execution

S11 E24 • Wednesday, Jun 6, 2007 • Jun 6

Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells the story of how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for 'conspiracy to commit espionage'. Their names were seared into American history that day as both martyrs and 'atom spies', but the young Jewish couple left behind two orphaned boys - Ivy's dad Michael, and six-year-old Robert. The film sheds new light on a chapter in American history and provides a personal perspective on an iconic event.

Journeys with George

S11 E25 • Thursday, Jun 7, 2007 • Jun 7 • 1h 25m

Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over nearly a year as she followed the then president-to-be as part of the press corps travelling with him on planes and buses. She learns a lot about the man, and asks whether it is possible to spend so much time with someone without attaining any degree of intimacy.

Why We Fight

S11 E26 • Friday, Jun 8, 2007 • Jun 8 • 1h 25m

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Why We Fight is the provocative new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Named after the series of short films by legendary director Frank Capra that explored America’s reasons for entering World War II, Why We Fight surveys a half-century of military conflicts, asking how – and answering why – a nation of, by and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a government system whose survival depends on an Orwellian state of constant war.

Laughing with Hitler

S11 E27 • Saturday, Jun 9, 2007 • Jun 9 • 1h 25m

Documentary which examines the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told by and about the Nazis and the fate that befell some of the joke tellers. In the early days of the Nazi era, jokes about Hitler were punishable as treason, and during the war they were even seen as unpatriotic, a crime punishable by death. Cabaret artiste, Werner Finck, was imprisoned in a concentration camp, but then released, while actor Fritz Muliar's anti-Hitler jokes landed him in a penal battalion in Russia.

Winged Migration

S11 E28 • Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 • Jun 19 • 1h 25m

Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on all seven continents. Stunning techniques help contribute to this bird's eye view of the world.

Paris Brothel

S11 E29 • Tuesday, Jun 26, 2007 • Jun 26 • 1h 25m

Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which remained a central part of French life until their closure in 1946.

Kike Like Me

S11 E30 • Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007 • Jun 27 • 1h 25m

Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. Along the way he meets anti-semitic politician Pat Buchanan, Israeli novelist AB Yehoshua, British anti-Israeli curmudgeon Richard Ingrams and Hasids in Brooklyn; he causes a near-riot in a Parisian suburb simply by asking what people think about Jews; and he meets the 'dominatrix' behind Berlin's largest memorial to dead Jews

Office Tigers 1

S11 E31 • Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007 • Jun 27 • 1h 25m

First of a four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around ambitious Office Tiger employees such as Amita and Sunita, who eagerly soak up the language and style of their bosses while holding on to the aspects of their own culture that serve them best, and the Americans who strive to guide them, including Joe (co-CEO), a former Goldman Sachs banker who believes in pushing himself and his workers to the limit.

Office Tigers 2

S11 E32 • Wednesday, Jul 4, 2007 • Jul 4 • 1h 25m

Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Tiger employees such as Amita and Sunita, who eagerly soak up the language and style of their bosses while holding on to the aspects of their own culture that serve them best, and the Americans who strive to guide them, including Joe (co-CEO), a former Goldman Sachs banker who never sleeps and is always asking his workers for more effort.

Office Tigers 3

S11 E33 • Wednesday, Jul 11, 2007 • Jul 11 • 1h 25m

Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Tiger employees such as Amita and Sunita, who eagerly soak up the language and style of their bosses while holding on to the aspects of their own culture that serve them best, and the Americans who strive to guide them, including Joe (co-CEO), a former Goldman Sachs banker who never sleeps and is always asking his workers for more effort.

Once in a Lifetime

S11 E34 • Sunday, Jul 15, 2007 • Jul 15 • 1h 25m

The seventies in America were a time of growth and experimentation. Clothes became different, hairstyles exotic, and music was heading in strange new directions. With a wave of high-profile imports it was hoped soccer might become the next big thing. Players, coaches and journalists recall the The Cosmos, the high octane New York club whose all-star team were equally famed for their antics at Studio 54 as for their footballing skills.

Office Tigers 4

S11 E35 • Wednesday, Jul 18, 2007 • Jul 18 • 1h 25m

Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears

S11 E36 • Wednesday, Jul 18, 2007 • Jul 18 • 1h 25m

TV Junkie

S11 E37 • Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 • Aug 5 • 1h 25m

Documentary about drug addiction. When he got a camera at the age of 14, Rick Kirkham began recording his life on tape. After his first break on TV he rose from local news to a job as correspondent for the daredevil magazine show Inside Edition. His girlfriend then got pregnant, and they married. Everything was golden... or was it? As well as capturing the good times, his camera shockingly reveals the dark side of his life with candour and vigour. What unfolds is a riveting journey into the heart and mind of a drug addict, with Rick's fight for survival caught on tape in an unprecedented way. He tries to be the devoted father and husband his family need, but his work assignments tip him back into his hellish cycle of drugs and despair. Directors Michael Cain and Matt Radecki have tackled the task of editing 3,000 hours of footage down to an intelligent and compassionate cautionary tale of a TV Junkie.

Children and Cancer - A Lion in the House

S11 E38 • Thursday, Aug 16, 2007 • Aug 16 • 1h 25m

Documentary which follows five families as they deal day-to-day with the challenges of living with children suffering from cancer, a film in which a possibly daunting and depressing subject is made involving and life-enhancing. With a rare intimacy and closeness, the presence of the camera seems to fade away and the viewer is left with no sense of being a voyeur as the story unfolds.

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

S11 E39 • Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 • Aug 29

In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history. The kidnappers, completely off the map before Patty Hearst disappeared into the San Francisco night, were a small band of young, ferociously militant political radicals, dedicated to the rights of prisoners and the working class. They called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. Over the course of about three years they robbed banks, senselessly killed two innocent people, instigated a firefight after attempting to shoplift a pair of socks, and, most famously, converted their hostage and victim. They also achieved an undeniable visionary manipulation of the media, inciting perhaps the first modern media frenzy.

Riot On!

S11 E40 • Monday, Sep 10, 2007 • Sep 10 • 1h 25m

Hollywood Overnight

S11 E41 • Monday, Sep 10, 2007 • Sep 10 • 1h 25m

Glow of White Women

S11 E42 • Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007 • Sep 11 • 1h 25m

This Film is not Yet Rated

S11 E43 • Monday, Sep 17, 2007 • Sep 17 • 1h 25m

The Undertaking

S11 E44 • Tuesday, Sep 18, 2007 • Sep 18 • 1h 25m

Iraq in Fragments

S11 E45 • Tuesday, Sep 25, 2007 • Sep 25 • 1h 25m

Belgrade Radio Warriors - Turn On, Tune In, Slob Out

S11 E46 • Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007 • Oct 2 • 1h 25m

Please Vote for Me

S11 E48 • Sunday, Oct 7, 2007 • Oct 7 • 1h 25m

Weijun Chen's film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor. Elections are uncommon in China, so when the children in a school in Wuhan, Central China are presented with the chance to choose their own class monitor they don't quite know what to make of it. It doesn't take them long to get into the swing of it and soon all sorts of dirty tricks are going on. Urged on by their parents, the candidates launch elaborate campaigns of bribery and coercion. After tantrums and tears, it's finally time for the vote. Who will win - the sweet girl who woos her voters with her flute playing, the bully who beats his classmates or the boy who has the best sweets?

Egypt: We Are Watching You

S11 E49 • Sunday, Oct 7, 2007 • Oct 7 • 1h 25m

Sitting for Parliament

S11 E50 • Monday, Oct 8, 2007 • Oct 8 • 1h 25m

Following Belfast artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. One of eleven Storyville documentaries screened as part of the worldwide Why Democracy? event.

Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate

S11 E51 • Monday, Oct 8, 2007 • Oct 8 • 1h 25m

Russia's Village of Fools

S11 E52 • Monday, Oct 8, 2007 • Oct 8 • 1h 25m