Storyville

A Cry from the Grave: documentary about the week of horror in the Balkans in 1995 when troops of the Bosnian Serb army massacred over 7,000 men from Srebrenica

In the middle of the night of December 9th, 2001, wealthy novelist Michael Peterson called the emergency services in Durham, North Carolina, to tell them he had found his wife Kathleen unconscious at the bottom of the stairs. But when the police discovered the pool of blood around her body and the lacerations on her skull, they arrested Michael Peterson for murder. Was the death Michael Peterson's wife Kathleen an accident or a crime? Oscar-winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade follows the dramatic story of a notorious murder case for Storyville.

Did Michael Peterson's wife uncover details of his bisexuality shortly before she died, and how will this affect the ongoing murder investigation into her death?

The prosecution unearth the story of another death from 1985 that only reinforces their convictions. It seems that Elizabeth Ratliff, a good friend of Michael Peterson, was also found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany. Prosecutor Jim Hardin decides to exhume her body and presses for a fresh autopsy in North Carolina.

The defence faces a blow as a new autopsy concludes that Elizabeth Ratliff was unlawfully killed. The prosecution also presents an iron poker - supposedly a replica of the murder weapon. What now for Michael Peterson?

The prosecution witnesses falter during defence lawyer David Rudolf's cross-examination.

As the trial continues, the prosecutor attempts to portray Michael Peterson as a deviant.

The defence witnesses take their turn, but there's a worry that the experts' account will not be enough to convince the jury.

The jury in the Michael Peterson case deliberates for five days before reaching a verdict.

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism and comes to a bloody end five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis.

The tragic story of Kurt Gerron , a Jewish director and Weimar star, ordered to make Nazi propaganda films.

Storyville depicts eight months with an Iraqi pianist, now playing in a hotel bar and wondering about the future of his country.

Global companies wish to be well-thought of and very successful. Being Finnish, and therefore Scandinavian, Nokia is in the lead when it comes to feeling good about capitalism. But it is not always easy to feel good about the methods by which you make piles of money. Enter ethical consultants. Thomas Balmes' funny, perceptive film follows a Nokia executive and a British ethical management consultant as they make their way around Nokia's prime phone charger suppliers in China.

Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis. With poor performances and spiralling debts, reform of the club is urgently needed. The new board, under the leadership of the charismatic Joan Laporta, attempt to turn an old fashioned Catalan family affair into a global football business.

How was this seemingly simple creature actually revealed to be complex? Mark Lewis investigates for Storyville.

By selling the internet domain name .tv for$50 million, the previously impoverished Pacific island nation of Tuvalu landed a massive dot-com windfall. Nature, however, has dealt its citizens a cruel hand - rising sea levels caused by global warming. Can anything be done to stem the tide? Storyville investigates.

First of a six-part series in which the main decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia and the US tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict. 1948-56. Fifty years ago, the state of Israel was proclaimed in what had once been British-ruled Palestine. This episode recounts how the US, later lsrael's greatest ally, came close to stopping the creation of the new state.

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

Storyville documentary in which Jerusalem-born director Danae Elon tracks down the children of her Palestinian babysitter. who were sent to the US in the 1970s to avoid the conflict at home.

Storyville paints a portrait of a couple who live in Manila's railtrack slums. The film draws us into the heart of the urban poor world: the worries, prayers, squabbles and songs of life on the railtracks.

McLibel is a British documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed in 1997 as a 52-minute television version after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then extended with new footage to 85-minute feature length in 2005, after the McLibel defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Archive footage and extracts from Goebbels' voluminous diaries combine to provide a vivid insight into the mind of Hitler's propaganda minister.

Storyville documentary featuring an interview with Traudl Junge , who worked as one of Hitler's secretaries from 1942 until the dictator's suicide in 1945.

Errol Morris's revealing Oscar-winning documentary. Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara outlines what he learned about conflict from the many years he spent helping to direct and create US foreign policy - a lengthy period that stretches from the final months of the Second World War to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Vietnam War.

This Storyville documentary explores how Stalin's interest in American skyscrapers led to the building of seven Soviet versions in Moscow. Focusing on the building where the party elite were housed, director Pavel Lounguine meets those remaining, and their descendants, who are of course reluctant to leave what's become prime real estate.

Candid documentary about maverick director Terry Gilliam 's attempt to make the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. When shooting begins, Gilliam must contend with torrential rains, noisy military jets, a sick leading man and ever-spiralling costs, which all conspire to put an end to the production.

In November 2004, Tom Roberts spent 30 days with the US Army in south Baghdad. Filming started just after the Fallujah campaign was launched, heralding reprisal ambushes. Travelling with the patrols, Roberts witnessed the fatal escalation of tension.

Why did a Greek-Canadian statistician from Ottawa decide to learn Mandarin, strap on a guitar and reinvent himself as a Chinese folk star? Storyville follows this unlikely story and George Sapounidis 's bid to land a dream gig: the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics and the transfer of the torch between Greece and China.

Director Pascale Lamche explores the allure of French actresses, which has fascinated generations of moviegoers. Includes interviews with Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau , Catherine Deneuve , Sophie Marceau , Audrey Tautou and Juliette Binoche.

A story of the Sicilian Mafia, American writer Alexander Stille and Palermo photographer Letizia Battaglia investigate the body-strewn and bloody mayhem created by gangsters in Sicily.

A South African man's personal tour of his country and a family he didn't know he had. Director Dumisani Phakathi 's film is showing as part of Storyville.

A decade after the massacre that I killed over 7,000, film-maker Leslie Woodhead returns to the town in eastern Bosnia. Have the survivors of the genocide rebuilt their lives and has reconciliation been possible? This Storyville film also highlights the failure of the international community to intervene in gross human-rights abuses and genocide.

In the wake of devasting civil war, in Sierra Leone, an inspirational athletics trainer attempts to set up a team to compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics. This moving documentary for BBC Storyville charted their extraordinary journey from barefoot training in the bombed-out streets of Freetown to their triumphant entry into the Olympic stadium.

Ten years after he headed the UN's disastrous mission in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire returns to the site of the genocide to confront survivors and his demons.

Werner Herzog takes the Galileo mission to Jupiter's moons as a starting point for a hypothetical investigation. Brad Dourif plays an alien refugee on Earth whose native planet has become uninhabitable. Herzog interweaves discussions with scientists and Nasa astronauts about colonising space beyond our solar system.

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.

Werner Herzog 's compelling record of a daring expedition to the rainforests of South America English aeronautical engineer Dr Graham Dorrington plans to assemble a helium-filled airship in the Guyanese jungle and explore the the canopy's unique ecology. But the project is not without risk - a similar expedition 12 years earlier ended in catastrophe when Dorrington's friend Dieter Plage fell to his death.

Storyville film-maker Luke Holland , who has lived in Ditchling on the East Sussex Downs for the last ten years, explores aspects of village life past and present. He begins with a look at how economic uncertainty and the controversial ban on hunting with hounds have adversely affected a local farming family.

A global ceasefire day was the dream of film-maker Jeremy Gilley. For five years he documented his efforts to persuade the world, via the UN, Nobel Peace Prize laureates, aid agencies, freedom fighters, media moguls and victims of war. This Storyville film is the result.

Director John T Davis follows fellow Belfast native artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly over a six-month period.

Storyville continues its exploration of South Downs village Ditchling with a profile of the amateur-dramatics society, led by Sonia Stock.

Martin Scorsese 's superb record of the farewell concert given by the Band in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day 1976. Dylan guests alongside Joni Mitchell , Neil Diamond , Emmylou Harris and Neil Young.

Artist Eric Gill of the Arts and Crafts movement arrived in Ditchling in 1907. His legacy includes the typeface gill sans - but his bohemian lifestyle remains controversial.

At one time. the Sandrock Inn was at the heart of Ditchling, East Sussex - but now the pub is under threat from developers. The villagers mount a spirited fight against an unpopular planning proposal - but is it enough to delay last orders?

Going for the Kill. Farmer Gary Lee , who also serves as master of the local hunt, and his brother Mark battle economic forces beyond their control in a desperate bid to keep their family business running. Meanwhile, the hunting fraternity offers its view on the February 2005 ban.

Dog judges, commentators and owners all contribute to Storyville's hilarious interpretation of the canine worldview.

In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal. Two armies engage in the final battle of a decade long civil war. Hundreds of innocent civilians die from mortar shells launched from afar and thousands more suffer hunger while the soldiers, mostly teenagers, keep the capital city under siege. The nation prays that America, the world's sole superpower, will put an end to the violence. Conceived in Washington in the early 1800s, its constitution written at Harvard, its founding fathers freed slaves who returned to Africa, Liberia is the one country in the world worthy of the title, Made in America. By the year 2000, Liberia, once considered the gem of Africa, was ranked last in the world for quality of life.

Humorous Storyville documentary in which Mark Lewis delves into the world of pampered. pedigree felines.

A Storyville collection of true tales revealing the hidden dangers of the animal world, including a mad squirrel that terrorised a whole neighbourhood.

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.

Competitors polish hooves and buff up bovine beauties for a livestock fair in Maine.

Storyville on how thousands of active-duty GIs created a huge movement against the war in Vietnam.

Political oppression, kidnap and corruption: the hallmarks of Alberto Fujimori , who, as Storyville reveals, held near-dictatorial power in 1990s Peru.

Storyville examines the disastrous decision to introduce toads from Hawaii to Australia as a pest control measure.

Storyville visits a carnival in the Amazon.

Storyville looks at the life and work of the controversial US biologist.

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.