Storyville

Chicago rock band Wilco were on the brink of greatness as they recorded fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2000, but a year later they were without a record deal and two of their original line-up. Sam Jones 's film tells the story.

Nudity, drugs and strong language abound in a Storyville tribute to the flamboyant, gender-bending hippies who staged exuberant musicals in late 60s/ early 70s San Francisco.

US power giant AES Corp tries to introduce the citizens of Georgia to a billed power supply, where previously it was gratis - but the Georgians devise new ways to get free electricity.

This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes Leopold II, King of the Belgium's private colony of the Congo between 1885 and 1908 as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.

Director Mohamed Kounda 's touching documentary, filmed over three years, captures the love-hate relationship between singer/trumpeter Chantz Powell - who does an uncanny imitation of Satchmo - and his formidable mother/manager Glinda, as Chantz tries to sell his talent to Europe and America.

Oscar-nominated film tells the story of the radical 1960s American political activists who believed that in order to protest against the Vietnam War, it was necessary to take violent action to avoid marginalisation by the government. Sam Green and Bill Siegel 's film includes interviews with the main protagonists involved with the movement.

How independent journalists risked their lives to report the true impact of war on the citizens of Baghdad.

Following a diverse group of immigrants and refugees struggling to settle in the United States. Subjects include a family who fled Nigeria's Ogoni delta, two Dominicans with dreams of sporting stardom and a young Palestinian woman.

Storyville examines the arrests and trial - over an eleven-month period from July 1963 to June 1964 - which saw Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants condemned to life imprisonment on Robben Island.

During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown in Johannesburg was an enclave of creativity amid the insanity of apartheid. Storyville pays tribute to a bygone era.

An Oliver Stone documentary. In 2002, the film-maker travelled to Havana to meet with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. This film details their discussions of pivotal moments in world history, including JFK's assassination, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis.

For Storyville, Argentinian director Rodrigo Vazquez tells the story of Operation Condor, a 1970s bid to repress Latin America's left-wing groups in a collusion between military dictators, Interpol and the CIA.

in 1995, Italian student Giacomo Turra died while in Colombian police custody. Officials claim his injuries were self-inflicted, but his family dismiss this. Storyville follows their quest for the truth.

A Storyville account of repression and dissent during the 40 years of the German Democratic Republic. The secret police, aka the Stasi, cultivated a climate of fear and paranoia in the years after the Second World War - but resistance eventually led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Members of the al-Saud royal family recount the history of Saudi Arabia for Storyville, from its warrior origins through to the discovery of oil in the 1930s and its affluent present, while contributors such as Henry Kissinger reflect on the Islamic state's ties with America.

Sarah Goodman 's documentary follows three young people who, in the wake of 9/11, join the US Army to give direction to their lives. With strong language.

As the second intifada began in 2000, three young men died on the Gaza Strip. Why did they have to die? Contains strong language and images.

A critical look at the life of legendary one-eyed General Moshe Dayan, who took charge of his nation's occupation of the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza following the 1967 Israeli-Arab war.

A critical appraisal of the life and actions of Itzhak Rabin. A former general and statesman, he was assassinated in 1995 while attempting to implement the doomed Oslo peace accords.

A critical look at the life of Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who was re-elected for the second time in January, 2003. Known in his homeland as 'Arik', he has courted controversy with his tough stance against the Palestinians in a military and political career spanning more than half a century.

Personal stories of a group of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews struggling to reconcile their faith with their strictly forbidden homosexuality.

Two gay New Yorkers seek help from a surrogate mother in a Storyville documentary.

Recovering crack addict Diane tries to reunite her family after her HIV-positive daughter Love gives birth to a baby boy. As Diane fights to regain the trust of Love and her five other children, the child welfare system in New York thwarts her efforts as Love's suitability as a parent is called into question following a depressive bout.

Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind more number one hits that the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined. Drawn together from Detroit's jazz and blues scene, the film recounts their evolution of the Motown sound from its origins to its demise in LA during the 1970s, and reunites the surviving Funk Brothers for the first time in thirty years.

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

Sheena McDonald examines her life and memory, four years after a car accident put her in a coma for 72 hours.

Battling through dirt and dustclouds - and finally across cobbled streets - cycling greats such as Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Martens and Moser took part in the 1976 Paris to Roubaix single-day race. Jorgen Leth caught the action.

Storyville documentary in which Athenian director Amalia Zepos investigates the impact of the Olympic Games on her city. Will Greek politicians and businessmen exploit the event for their own ends?

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult. Nick Fraser (Editor) Papa Wemba is a well-known Congolese singer. He is also a big cheese in Le Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et Persons Élégants, which translated into English means a society of people who spend huge amounts of money on designer clothes with the motive of making themselves as conspicuously elegant as possible. The film is a splendid evocation of Papa Wemba's music, but it is also an unusual insight into what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary Europe. The sapeur have borrowed from our own culture, creating something rich and strange and wholly Congolese. Don't miss the scene where they try on fur coats.

Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM's true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself. I suppose the strength of a documentary lies in its ability to make you believe its central thesis. Despite the lack of a definitive whistleblower, Vikram Jayanti's conspiracy thriller about chess legend Garry Kasparov's match against IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer does suggest something very unusual going on behind closed doors at the software firm. If the computer did what it did unassisted, then this is a triumph for science, yet IBM weren't acting like victors. Why, having developed what could have been a working prototype for an artificial intelligence, did the firm refuse to share details of its operational systems, and - a real smoking gun, this - dismantle it immediately after the last match? If they had nothing to hide, they were going a funny way about it. Jayanti and Kasparov both point the finger at the same scenario - human intervention on the machine's side of the game. Jayanti digs up a fascinating parallel to this - the tale of 'The Turk', a creepy-looking chess-playing robot that beat Napoleon and did indeed have a human covertly guiding it. Excerpts from a fascinating silent film about The Turk are peppered throughout this film. Even if you're not convinced, the film still has plenty of supplemental pleasures, not least in a dissection of a chess match as charged and fascinating as 'When We Were Kings' (1997)'s explanation of the Rumble in the Jungle. It also functions as a Cliff Notes guide to Kasparov's r

Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera is notorious for relaying the pronouncements of Osama Bin Laden to the world. But is it really an anti-American mouthpiece for Islamic terrorists?

New York, 22 June 1938: in one of the most compelling boxing rematches of all time, black American Joe Louis, reigning world heavyweight champion and representative of Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal, sought - and got - revenge over Max Schmeling, perceived symbol of Nazi Germany. The bout drew 90,000 into Yankee Stadium, while millions more tuned in on their radios. But, as this documentary reveals, neither "Brown Bomber" Louis nor Schmeling matched the stereotypes presented to the public.

Modern-day Afghanistan: a beauty academy opens its doors in Kabul and is so overwhelmed by applicants that a lottery system has to be instituted to award places. This is the reality that lies in stark contrast to recent times in Afghanistan, when the ruling Taliban forced women to be faceless. Covered by burqas and forbidden to show even the tiniest patch of skin, they lived in this oppressive atmosphere for six long years. But life has changed, and Afghan women are increasingly taking an interest in their appearance. Tracing the opening of the academy.

Storyville presents an American road trip with a twist: in the wake of 9/11, film-maker Nina Davenport drives from California to New York and hears stories of loss.

Storyville' s journey through oil-producing regions begins in Ecuador and Angola - where oil has been more a curse than a blessing.

Storyville' s journey through oil-producing regions follows a new pipeline through some of the most politically dangerous and geographically challenging places on Earth.

Roland and Jonas, two of the 500,000 would-be immigrants entering Europe illegally every year, try to find gainful employment to support their families in this Storyville travelogue.

Following the recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya , Storyville follows investigations by human rights lawyer Karen Nersisyan into the murders of six other Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003.

Storyville examines the wilderness areas being opened up to oil exploration. How far will we go to get it?

Being frozen offers a second life - or so claim proponents of cryonics. Storyville takes a look at the, ultimate science-fiction fantasy.

An assassin robbed Bobby Kennedy of his brother John and a role that gave meaning to his life. Then, just as he began to move beyond his brother's shadow. he too was killed. Storyville looks at the remarkable and tragic life of the third Kennedy son - who may well have been president had he not been murdered.

Storyville asks, what do we know about George W Bush 's faith? Do his spiritual beliefs affect his political decision-making? And do Bush's views mirror those of the politically influential evangelical movement?

A look at the politics of hate. This award-winning Storyville film documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the killing in 2002 of Muslims in Gujarat after an attack on a train left 58 Hindus dead.

Storyville film by Yulie Cohen Gerstel who left New York to give birth to and raise her children in Israel. Now. as she struggles to defend the policies of the country she loves, she questions whether she and her teenage daughters should leave.

Hyde Park in July 1969, Mick Jagger pays tribute to Brian Jones with a reading from Shelley before leading the Stones through Jumpin' Jack Flash , I'm Free, Honky Tonk Women, Midnight Rambler and more.

Storyville takes a look at the recording of the soundtrack to the satirical stage show, which includes Springtime for Hitler.