Storyville

An Islamic world tour is documented by visits to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chechnia, and Qatar, the film endeavors to shed light on the process leading young men to the radical choice of self-sacrifice, becoming human bombs.

From the sewers of New York, the rat's journey reveals a different side of natural history. Showing as part of Storyville.

Nathaniel Kahn - one of two illegitimate children that the architect Louis Kahn had with two different women - seeks to find out who his late father really was.

A New York photojournalist teaches the marginalised children of Calcutta's prostitutes how to record the world around them.

Storyville arches an eyebrow at the 31st International Whistling Competition in North Carolina, where competitors, including an investment banker and a turkey hauler, compete with virtuoso renditions of Vivaldi, Mozart and Texan swing.

How the cannibalism of the Nile perch provides a pithy metaphor for the West's ecological destruction. An Oscar-nominated Storyville film.

Campaigner James Carville, who helped Bill Clinton win the US presidency, is in Bolivia. Can he help a very unpromising candidate?

How effectively does Hollywood depict reality? Is it possible to reconcile the demands of popular entertainment with a historical event as sombre as the Holocaust? Daniel Anker's film supplies many questions and some answers. He starts back in the 1930s by showing Hollywood's ham-fisted efforts to chronicle the rise of Nazism. Later, in 1945, a planeload of Hollywood executives were shipped to visit the newly liberated concentration camps. When the rushes were screened in Hollywood, many of them were overcome by what they saw. But, for the next 10 years, Hollywood didn't touch the Holocaust.

A chilling Storyville documentary using vivid TV-news footage to recount the hijacking of a bus in Rio de Janeiro by a lone gunman, whose brutal life story of grinding poverty, drugs and random violence is also explored.

In a witty Storyville expose, Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti reveals how her TV show RAIot was banned by the state-owned broadcaster after just one transmission.

Storyville follows the male inmates of an American prison as they prepare and rehearse a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Marc Isaacs' eye-opening Storyville film explores the life of a Jewish antiques dealer from a small English seaside town who believes it is his Biblical birthright to take as many wives as he chooses. Spending time with the family in Hove, Isaacs tries to understand why the women have chosen to live under the rule of this self-proclaimed Hebrew King.

A war-torn year in a Colombian district is chronicled by Storyville.

Storyville reveals BP's plans to build a pipeline through a stunning spa town in post-Soviet Georgia.

The Storyville tale of Danish pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern and her efforts to help a young Afghan girl who longed to become a pilot too.

Super-8 film, answerphone messages and news clippings are masterfully assembled by film-maker Jonathan Caouette in a unique, moving account of a childhood blighted by addiction, mental illness and abuse.

How does bipolar disorder - manic depression - impact on relatives of sufferers? Storyville charts the changes in one such family.

Storyville celebrates the work of documentary pioneers Albert and David Maysies.

Tony Montana's 2004 documentary, following a first-time director's attempts to get his film made.

Sex, lies and games abound in a 2004 documentary about a disastrous Finnish business venture.

A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.

Storyville explores the unsettling yet strangely beautiful work of photographer Sally Mann , whose subjects range from rotting corpses to, most controversially, her children in semi-naked poses.

Storyville tribute to her father Alan Abel , a "professional prankster" whose attempts to fool the media included a campaign for a Sex Olympics.

Prostitution Behind the Veil explores a side of Iran rarely seen or talked about. For over a year, director Nahid Persson filmed the everyday lives of two young female prostitutes in Iran as they eked out a living in a country where the profession is banned. The filmmaker often took great risks to follow Minna and Fariba as they sought out customers-men who would often marry them briefly, so as not to violate the laws of Islam by having extramarital sex. The two women are good friends and neighbor, who have experienced the widespread mistreatment of women and the double standards that permeate Iranian society today.

A compelling, at times chilling, account of Second World War veteran Kenzo Okuzaki 's crusade to resolve a mystery. Why were some of his comrades executed by their own superiors - and what became of their bodies?

How jokes became the language of truth under the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites, from bitter quips denouncing Stalin's gulags to digs at the technology gap of the 1970s and the cynicism of the 1980s.

Storyville sets out the nightmarish experiences of an Iraqi cameraman living in Baghdad who was arrested by US troops, accused of plotting to kill the British premier and imprisoned for eight months.

Storyville meets three lesbians struggling to reconcile their sexual identities with their duties as mothers and wives in Jerusalem's Orthodox communities.

Storyville follows Newark mayoral candidate Cory Booker 's electoral campaign, and the resistance he faces from the established four-term incumbent Sharpe James.

Storyville documentary musical, following Lewis Lapham as he guides two Ivy League graduates through their career possibilities.

James Marsh spends six months with members of the American team for the inaugural Homeless World Cup in Austria.

Performers from the Kirghiz tribe re-enact their exile to Turkey in British film-maker Ben Hopkins's Storyville special.

A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts I & II. Storyville presents the UK premiere of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they search for new hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts III & IV. The final part of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they find new hope in the aftermath of the disaster.