Season 1999
16 episodes · Mar 21, 1999
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- S3E1
A Small Town in Poland
Mar 21, 1999The 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.
- S3E2
Resurrection
Apr 4, 1999Cuba'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.
- S3E3
Fragments: Jerusalem
Apr 4, 1999Director 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.
- S3E4
Photographer
Sep 4, 1999In 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
- S3E5
I Was a Slave Labourer
Oct 16, 1999German 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
- S3E6
An American Love Story: Welcome to America
Oct 30, 1999A 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.
- S3E7
An American Love Story: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up
Oct 31, 1999Part 2: Daughter Cicily travels to Nigeria to spend a term with a group of students.
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An American Love Story: It's Another New Year and I Ain't 't Gone
Nov 1, 1999Part 3: The family celebrate Christmas, but Cicily contracts malaria.
- S3E9
An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy
Nov 2, 1999Part 4: Chaney introduces her first boyfriend to Bill and Karen. Is she too young for romantic matters?
- S3E10
An American Love Story: True Love
Nov 3, 1999Part 5: Continuing the documentary about a mixed-race couple. The family faces a crisis when Karen is admitted into hospital for a hysterectomy.
- S3E11
An American Love Story: It's My Job
Nov 4, 1999Part 6: Bill struggles to overcome his drink problem, while daughter Cicily - now a graduate - begins her search for a job.
- S3E12
An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet
Nov 5, 1999Part 7: Concluding the documentary portrait of a mixed-race couple. Bill and Karen reflect on their courtship period during the sixties.
- S3E13
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
Nov 6, 1999Director Paul Jay's acclaimed film follows Hart for a year and explores the reality behind the theatre of wrestling.
- S3E14
A Cry from the Grave
Nov 27, 1999Leslie 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.
- S3E15
Grey Gardens
Dec 11, 1999Despite 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.
- S3E16
Out of Phoenix Bridge
Dec 21, 1999For 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.