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Season 2001

23 episodes · 2001

  1. 1I Loved You

    02 Jan 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. 2Black and White in Colour

    04 Jan 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. 3The Sweetest Sound

    14 Jan 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. 4RUEU?

    15 Mar 2001

    Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union

  5. 5Joseph Desire Mobutu

    22 Mar 2001

    The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.

  6. 6Heidi Fleiss

    02 Apr 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. 7Romancing the Throne

    30 Apr 2001

    Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.

  8. 8Vision Man

    07 May 2001

    In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.

  9. 9The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

    14 May 2001

    Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

  10. 10Cod Wars

    28 May 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. 11The 50 Years War: Part 1

    06 Jun 2001

    First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.

  12. 12The 50 Years War - Part 2

    08 Jun 2001

    Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.

  13. 13Intimate Stranger

    23 Jun 2001

    Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.

  14. 14Jazz Man from the Gulag

    27 Aug 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. 15Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace

    30 Aug 2001

    Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.

  16. 16Rats in the Ranks

    03 Sep 2001

    The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.

  17. 17Picasso Days

    10 Sep 2001

    A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso

  18. 18The Gleaners and I

    15 Oct 2001

    Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.

  19. 19An Unquiet Peace

    29 Oct 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. 20Life and Death in Soweto

    05 Nov 2001

    Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.

  21. 21Just, Melvin

    28 Nov 2001

    Film about the painful legacy left by child abuse.

  22. 22Christ Comes to the Papuans

    19 Dec 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. 23Marlene

    27 Dec 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.