Storyville - Season 1999

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A Small Town in Poland

1 - A Small Town in Poland

Air Date: March 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.

Resurrection

2 - Resurrection

Air Date: April 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.

Fragments: Jerusalem

3 - Fragments: Jerusalem

Air Date: April 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.

Photographer

4 - Photographer

Air Date: September 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

I Was a Slave Labourer

5 - I Was a Slave Labourer

Air Date: October 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

An American Love Story: Welcome to America

6 - An American Love Story: Welcome to America

Air Date: October 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.

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

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

Air Date: October 31, 1999

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

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

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

Air Date: November 1, 1999

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

An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy

9 - An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy

Air Date: November 2, 1999

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

An American Love Story: True Love

10 - An American Love Story: True Love

Air Date: November 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.

An American Love Story: It's My Job

11 - An American Love Story: It's My Job

Air Date: November 4, 1999

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

An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet

12 - An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet

Air Date: November 5, 1999

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

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

13 - Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Air Date: November 6, 1999

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

A Cry from the Grave

14 - A Cry from the Grave

Air Date: November 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.

Grey Gardens

15 - Grey Gardens

Air Date: December 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.

Out of Phoenix Bridge

16 - Out of Phoenix Bridge

Air Date: December 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.