16 episodes

Storyville - Season 1999

First aired Mar 21, 1999Season 3

Browse all 16 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

A Small Town in Poland

NR
Mar 21, 1999

The small town of Bransk used to boast a large Jewish population before the Holocaust. As Bransk prepares to celebrate its 500th anniversary, the authorities debate whether to acknowledge the town's Jewish past.

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Episode 2

Resurrection

NR
Apr 4, 1999

Cuba's cemeteries are too small to hold all of the country's dead. This film chronicles the emotional scenes at the exhumation of bodies after they have been buried for three years, and the subsequent storing of their bones in a crypt - a process that is watched by the dead's relatives.

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Episode 3

Fragments: Jerusalem

NR
Apr 4, 1999

Director Ron Havilio intertwines a highly personal view of Jerusalem - where he has lived for nearly 50 years - with an overview of the Holy City's fascinating and litigious history. He also looks at life in the city as it approaches the new millennium.

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Episode 4

Photographer

NR
Sep 4, 1999

In 1987, 600 colour slides depicting scenes in a wartime Jewish ghetto in Poland, were found in a Vienna bookshop. Director Dariusz Jablonski 's uses these photos to provide a chilling testimonial to one of World War Two's darkest chapters

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Episode 5

I Was a Slave Labourer

NR
Oct 16, 1999

German gov't and industry have resisted demands to compensate the millions who worked as slave labourers under the Third Reich. Rudy Kennedy tries to force German firms to acknowledge their links with Nazi atrocities

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Episode 6

An American Love Story: Welcome to America

NR
Oct 30, 1999

A seven-part documentary from director Jennifer Fox sheds light on the state of race relations by following two years in the lives of a mixed-race married couple and their two children in New York.

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Episode 7

An American Love Story: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up

NR
Oct 31, 1999

Part 2: Daughter Cicily travels to Nigeria to spend a term with a group of students.

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Episode 8

An American Love Story: It's Another New Year and I Ain't 't Gone

NR
Nov 1, 1999

Part 3: The family celebrate Christmas, but Cicily contracts malaria.

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Episode 9

An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy

NR
Nov 2, 1999

Part 4: Chaney introduces her first boyfriend to Bill and Karen. Is she too young for romantic matters?

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Episode 10

An American Love Story: True Love

NR
Nov 3, 1999

Part 5: Continuing the documentary about a mixed-race couple. The family faces a crisis when Karen is admitted into hospital for a hysterectomy.

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Episode 11

An American Love Story: It's My Job

NR
Nov 4, 1999

Part 6: Bill struggles to overcome his drink problem, while daughter Cicily - now a graduate - begins her search for a job.

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Episode 12

An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet

NR
Nov 5, 1999

Part 7: Concluding the documentary portrait of a mixed-race couple. Bill and Karen reflect on their courtship period during the sixties.

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Episode 13

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

NR
Nov 6, 1999

Director Paul Jay's acclaimed film follows Hart for a year and explores the reality behind the theatre of wrestling.

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Episode 14

A Cry from the Grave

NR
Nov 27, 1999

Leslie Woodhead 's film is the result of a year-long investigation into the killing and the aftermath of Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War.

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Episode 15

Grey Gardens

NR
Dec 11, 1999

Despite their aristocratic background and the fact that they were aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis , Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter Edie lived in anonymity in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.

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Episode 16

Out of Phoenix Bridge

NR
Dec 21, 1999

For Ah Feng, Jialing, Xiazi and Ziao, their years working as maids while sharing a room in a Beijing slum may be freest of their lives.