Season 2001
Storyville
23 EPISODES • 2001
Season 5 of Storyville was released on January 2 and consists of 23 episodes.

Season 4

Episodes

1: I Loved You
Jan 2, 2001
Award-winning film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky examines the nature of human love in three stories which together look at his mentors, a shot-gun wedding outside Moscow, and the relationship of two St Petersburg kindergarten children.
2: Black and White in Colour
Jan 4, 2001
Documentary focusing on Vera Bila , the most successful Romany singer in Europe. Born in Slovakia, she travels around Europe in search of places to perform, all the while awaiting her son's release from prison.
3: The Sweetest Sound
Jan 14, 2001
Film-maker Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for one of the many people who share his name. He attempts to come to terms with his alter egos when he holds a dinner party where invites are confined to people called Alan Berliner.
4: RUEU?
Mar 15, 2001
Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union
5: Joseph Desire Mobutu
Mar 22, 2001
The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.
6: Heidi Fleiss
Apr 2, 2001
What made a nice girl from a well-to-do middle class family descend into the sleazy world of drugs, pimps, sex for money, and ultimately jail and ruin?
7: Romancing the Throne
Apr 30, 2001
Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.
8: Vision Man
May 7, 2001
In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.
9: The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
May 14, 2001
Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
10: Cod Wars
May 28, 2001
This Icelandic documentary film tells the story of Britain and Iceland's struggle over the once plentiful cod-fishing grounds in the North Atlantic during the 1950s and the 1960s.
11: The 50 Years War: Part 1
Jun 6, 2001
First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.
12: The 50 Years War - Part 2
Jun 8, 2001
Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.
13: Intimate Stranger
Jun 23, 2001
Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.
14: Jazz Man from the Gulag
Aug 27, 2001
The life of the Jewish jazz musician Eddie Rosner, who fled Nazi Germany and settled in Russia, only to be arrested and imprisoned there after the war.
15: Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace
Aug 30, 2001
Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.
16: Rats in the Ranks
Sep 3, 2001
The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.
17: Picasso Days
Sep 10, 2001
A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso
18: The Gleaners and I
Oct 15, 2001
Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.
19: An Unquiet Peace
Oct 29, 2001
Photojournalist Nick Danziger 's return to Kosovo as he tries to trace the ethnic Albanian people he pictured in refugee camps during the war in the Balkans.
20: Life and Death in Soweto
Nov 5, 2001
Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.
21: Just, Melvin
Nov 28, 2001
Film about the painful legacy left by child abuse.
22: Christ Comes to the Papuans
Dec 19, 2001
How the influence of Christian missionaries in Papua New Guinea is steadily eroding the traditional customs and beliefs of the tribes-people there.
23: Marlene
Dec 27, 2001
Maximilian Schell's documentary about the life of Marlene Dietrich, for which he garnered information from the film star during a 17-hour conversation.
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