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2012
2012x1
Survivors: Despicable Dick
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Enigmatic rascal and recovering addict Dick Kuchera has offended many people in his time. As part of Storyville's Survivors season, Despicable Dick follows him on a life-changing road .. show full overview
2012x2
Survivors: My Friend Sam: Living For the Moment
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As part of Storyville's Survivors season, My Friend Sam: Living For the Moment is about an extraordinary man named Sam Frears. Sam, now 39 years old, was born with an extremely rare .. show full overview
2012x3
Survivors: Lust for Life
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Heather Leach was a cheeky flame-haired documentary director living life to the full - maybe too full! But at the age of 30 she was suddenly diagnosed with a thyroid disease and then .. show full overview
2012x4
Guerrilla - The Taking Of Patty Hearst
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The story of the 1974 kidnap of Patty Hearst, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad, which set off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history. (2005)
2012x4
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
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Nominated for a 2011 Academy Award, this documentary tells the remarkable story of a young American environmentalist involved with the Earth Liberation Front - a group the FBI came to .. show full overview
2012x5
The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story
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Documentary which tells the story of a group of men and women who risked their lives to rescue a library - and preserve a nation's history - in the midst of the Bosnian war. Amid bullets .. show full overview
2012x6
Fire in Babylon
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Documentary which tells the story of how West Indies cricket triumphed over its colonial masters through the achievements of one of the most gifted teams in sporting history. Key players .. show full overview
2012x7
Knuckle: Bare Fist Fighting
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Documentary which goes inside the secretive Traveller world - a world of long and bitter memories. Filmed over twelve years, the film chronicles a history of violent feuding between .. show full overview
2012x8
Murderball
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Documentary exploring the sport of wheelchair rugby, unofficially known as murderball. Created by quadriplegic athletes and played with bone-breaking intensity, the game is as aggressive .. show full overview
2012x9
Who Is Gorky? An Abstract Life
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In a personal journey into a family tragedy, filmmaker Cosima Spender explores how she and her relatives have been shaped by her grandfather - the pioneering Abstract Expressionist .. show full overview
2012x10
The Reluctant Revolutionary
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DURATION: 1 HOUR, 10 MINUTES An intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, told through the eyes of warm-hearted local tour guide Kais. Award-winning documentary filmmaker .. show full overview
2012x11
Tabloid: Sex in Chains
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Documentary which follows the stranger-than-fiction account of a former beauty queen whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams became a tabloid sensation. Allegations that .. show full overview
2012x12
Hijack Hell: Bus 174
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During the early morning rush hour in Rio de Janeiro on 12 June 2000, a hijacker seized control of a bus near the city's historic botanical gardens. A lone gunman, seemingly insane or on .. show full overview
2012x13
The Real Great Escape
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For the first time, the true story of the mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape is told by his niece, Lindy Wilson. Squadron Leader Roger Bushell was a young London barrister, an .. show full overview
2012x14
Surviving Progress
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Documentary telling the double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. With rich imagery the film connects financial collapse, growing .. show full overview
2012x15
Girl Model
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Storyville: documentary which exposes the shocking supply of ever younger girl models to the Japanese modelling industry. The film follows 13-year-old Nadya from poverty in Siberia to .. show full overview
2012x16
Albino Witchcraft Murders
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Storyville: documentary which charts the attempts of two people with albinism to follow their dreams in the face of prejudice and fear in Tanzania. Against the backdrop of an escalation .. show full overview
2012x17
Hitler, Stalin, and Mr Jones
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An investigation into who killed Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. Jones's greatest scoop was to reveal the starvation to death of millions in 1930s Ukraine, caused by Stalin's policies. A .. show full overview
2012x18
The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story
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A documentary which 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 realities of apartheid, .. show full overview
2012x19
Racing Dreams
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The coming-of-age story of three kids who dream of one day becoming professional race car drivers. Eleven-year-old Annabeth, twelve-year-old Josh and thirteen-year-old Brandon compete .. show full overview
2012x20
The $750 Million Thief
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Manhattan attorney Marc Dreier funded an increasingly extravagant lifestyle through fraud that netted over 750 million dollars. Director Marc H Simon filmed his former employer and mentor during Dreier's 60-day wait under house arrest for sentencing.
2012x21
Olympic Massacre: One Day In September
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In September 1972, Palestinian terrorists took12 Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic Village in Munich. This film recounts in gripping hour-by-hour detail the horrifying story of the .. show full overview
2012x22
JFK's Road to the White House: Primary 1960
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'A new kind of reporting, a new form of history', Robert Drew promised John F Kennedy. He was proposing a revolutionary, small camera filming live with Kennedy day and night for nearly a .. show full overview
2012x23
The Chef Who Conquered New York: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
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Storyville takes an intimate look at the driven and talented British celebrity chef, Paul Liebrandt, who at 24 was the youngest chef to be awarded three stars by the New York Times. His .. show full overview
2012x24
From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film
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Made from over 100 years of BFI archive footage, From the Sea to the Land Beyond offers a poetic meditation on Britain's unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives. With a .. show full overview
2012x25
The Other Irish Travellers
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A documentary which takes a personal look at the history of Ireland's vanished Anglo-Irish classes through the quirky family of filmmaker Fiona Murphy. The director follows her father .. show full overview