BBC Storyville – The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar (2020)
English | Size: 1.66 GB
Category: Tutorial
When 23-year-old Israeli Jonathan Agassi arrived with a bang on the gay porn scene in the late 2000s, his rise to fame was stratospheric, revolutionising the industry. After a traumatic childhood growing up gay in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, the man behind the performer claims that porn saved his life, but at a cost.
BBC Storyville – Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders (2020)
English | Size: 1.08 GB
Category: Documentary
Jewish lawyer Lea Tsemel is a controversial figure in Israel. For the last 50 years, she has fearlessly defended Palestinians prosecuted in Israeli courts for resisting the occupation both violently and non-violently. Taking on tough cases, including charges of terrorism, the odds are stacked sharply against her. To many Israelis, Lea defends the indefensible, but for Palestinians she is more than a lawyer, she is an advocate.
BBC Storyville – Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride (2020)
English | Size: 1.14 GB
Category: Documentary
In a small fishing community on the west coast of Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to local fishermen. The trend started 25 years ago when Sommai, a former sex worker from north east Thailand, married Niels. She became a matchmaker for lonely Danish locals and impoverished women from her village in Thailand. At first, these stories seem straightforward: white men from a wealthy country marrying Asian women looking for a way out of poverty, but a different, far more complex and surprising tale unfolds in the film.
BBC Storyville – Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2020)
English | Size: 1.74 GB
Category: Documentary
On 18th November 1978, over 900 men, women and children lost their lives at Jonestown, a remote settlement established by the People’s Temple in northern Guyana. They were led to their deaths by cult leader Jim Jones, a charismatic preacher who turned into an egomaniacal demagogue. Jones had insisted his followers perform ‘revolutionary suicide’ by drinking poison – either voluntarily or by force.
BBC Storyville – Facing Franco’s Crimes: The Silence of Others (2019)
English | Size: 1.71 GB
Category: Documentary
With the recent exhumation and removal of Franco’s remains from a public mausoleum for the fallen – a symbolic gesture by the current socialist government to give the 500,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War their rightful recognition – this Storyville documentary is a timely reminder of Spain’s traumatic past.