True Stories

Latest Episodes

• KZ

  Documentary about the area that once housed a concentration camp outside Mauthausen in Austria, and is now a tourist attraction that draws visitors from across Europe

• Fire Will Eat Us

  Film-maker Leslie Woodhead and anthropologist David Turton's account of how the cattle-herding Mursi warriors of southern Ethiopia are coping with both the influx of tourists and a major crisis : the country's authorities are demanding the tribe hand over some of their number suspected of committing murder, or face devastating reprisals

• Czech Dream

  A spotlight is shone on post-communist Czech consumerism as two film-makers plot a large-scale advertising campaign for a supermarket that never existed. Using modern selling techniques, the result - 4,000 people standing in a field with only a cardboard facade to show for the illuminated billboards, website and radio jingle - demonstrates the power of 'the brand' in the modern world and the desire to be part of something new, however empty