Season 2001
23 episodes · Jan 2, 2001
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- S5E1
I Loved You
Jan 2, 2001Award-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.
- S5E2
Black and White in Colour
Jan 4, 2001Documentary 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.
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The Sweetest Sound
Jan 14, 2001Film-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.
- S5E4
RUEU?
Mar 15, 2001Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union
- S5E5
Joseph Desire Mobutu
Mar 22, 2001The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.
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Heidi Fleiss
Apr 2, 2001What 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?
- S5E7
Romancing the Throne
Apr 30, 2001Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.
- S5E8
Vision Man
May 7, 2001In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.
- S5E9
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
May 14, 2001Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
- S5E10
Cod Wars
May 28, 2001This 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.
- S5E11
The 50 Years War: Part 1
Jun 6, 2001First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.
- S5E12
The 50 Years War - Part 2
Jun 8, 2001Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.
- S5E13
Intimate Stranger
Jun 23, 2001Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.
- S5E14
Jazz Man from the Gulag
Aug 27, 2001The 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.
- S5E15
Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace
Aug 30, 2001Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.
- S5E16
Rats in the Ranks
Sep 3, 2001The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.
- S5E17
Picasso Days
Sep 10, 2001A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso
- S5E18
The Gleaners and I
Oct 15, 2001Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.
- S5E19
An Unquiet Peace
Oct 29, 2001Photojournalist 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.
- S5E20
Life and Death in Soweto
Nov 5, 2001Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.
- S5E22
Christ Comes to the Papuans
Dec 19, 2001How the influence of Christian missionaries in Papua New Guinea is steadily eroding the traditional customs and beliefs of the tribes-people there.
- S5E23
Marlene
Dec 27, 2001Maximilian Schell's documentary about the life of Marlene Dietrich, for which he garnered information from the film star during a 17-hour conversation.