True Stories Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• After Innocence
• Allan's Story

  Powerful and inspiring, this series features real-life stories from the heart of people who have faced extraordinary challenges

• Battlecentre

  Award-winning documentary film-maker Leo Regan tackles his most difficult subject to date : evangelical Christian movement the Jesus Army. While staying at Battlecentre, one of the sect's UK houses, Regan spends time getting to know members and observing their deeply held beliefs, and finds his own attitudes : as a lapsed Catholic : put to the test

• Beyond Hatred

  Documentary looking at the aftermath of the murder of 29-year-old Francois Chenu, killed in a park in the French city of Rheims when a gang of skinheads failed to find an Arab, so moved on to target a homosexual. Focusing on both his family's response and the innate prejudice and neglect shown in the accused as they stand trial, this award-winning film tells Francois' story in the words of those who knew, loved and lost him

• Biggie and Tupac

  Nick Broomfield examines the East-West Coast rivalry that culminated in the deaths of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. The film looks at the former friendship between the two artists and investigates possible cover-ups and police corruption

• Cath's Story

  Powerful and inspiring, this series features real-life stories from the heart of people who have faced extraordinary challenges

• Chosen

  Bafta Award-winning filmmaker Brian Woods explores the dark and unspoken world of sexual abuse in Britain's private schools. After 30 years of silence, three men who were once victims of this clandestine crime speak about their harrowing experiences, and explain how the events of their boyhood have affected their adult lives

• Christine's Story

  Powerful and inspiring, this series features real-life stories from the heart of people who have faced extraordinary challenges

• 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

• Divorce: Iranian Style

  Documentary challenging accepted notions of the way marriage is dealt with in Muslim societies. Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini follow the goings-on in the matrimonial court of Judge Deldar, in the heart of Tehran. A 16-year old girl is desperate to escape from an arranged marriage to a man twice her age, while a woman struggles to get custody of her children against her ex-husband and strict Islamic law

• Dylan's Story

  Five-year-old Dylan Hartung travels to New York to receive treatment for neuroblastoma

• Facing the Music

  The financial crisis faced by Sydney University's music department, as Professor Anne Boyd struggles to keep the system running despite cutbacks to the budget. Forced to lower staffing levels and canvas for private funding, she faces a difficult time : but can she keep the programme on track with all these extra distractions?

• Favela Rising
• 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

• The Great Happiness Space - Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

  Documentary examining a secretive high-class male escort service run from a cafe in the Japanese city of Osaka. Twenty boys are taught all the techniques for wooing rich women into fake relationships of instant gratification by making them laugh and feel good about their lives, but though the costs are high, they aren't merely financial - the young men featured are outcasts from society driven by money and love is never on offer

• 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

• Mad Hot Ballroom

  Marilyn Agrelo's documentary film, which follows the progress of 11-year-old pupils from the New York City state school system, as they enter the world of competitive ballroom dancing. Despite their initial reluctance to participate, the youngsters' journey into merengue, rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing sees them transformed into determined competitors, who begin to rethink their definitions of 'cool' by learning more about the world around them

• Men in the Woods

  Film-maker Jane Treays embarks on a quest to track down the two men who cast a shadow over her childhood by indecently exposing themselves to her. Along the way she consults an eminent expert on the psychological make-up of sex offenders and meets some of the estimated three quarters of British women who have undergone similar traumas

• Monica Lewinsky

  Monica Lewinsky receives questions from an invited audience, consisting mainly of students, about her relationship with ex-President Bill Clinton. Among the subjects addressed are the Starr Report, the effects on herself, her family and friends, the betrayal of Linda Tripp and the manner in which the event was distorted by the media

• Murder Most Foul

  Sir Antony Sher visits his native South Africa to examine the violence engulfing the country, which claimed the life of a leading young actor and his friend days before he was due to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon. Entering the world of gangs in a society teetering on the brink, the actor must reconcile love for his country with the shocking statistic that there are 50 murders every day in a country just three years away from hosting the football World Cup

• Raising Alexander

  The symptoms and devastating consequences of autism, an illness characterised by self-absorption and an inability to interact with others. The complex nature of the condition is highlighted by the harrowing story of a couple's efforts to bring their autistic son out of his private world

• Runaway

  Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini's film offers an insight into life inside a girls' refuge in Tehran, where youngsters arrive for all manner of reasons, including violence and cruelty within the family. The programme reveals how the residents feel they are regarded by others, as well as how they perceive themselves

• Soldat

  Disturbing report on the plight of young Russian conscript soldiers, who allegedly suffer brutality at the hands of older troops during their two-year period of military service. This film charts several months in the life of one army unit, seeking to uncover the truth behind an illegal but institutionalised regime of bullying which has claimed hundreds of lives

• Southpaw

  Profile of boxer Francis Barrett, a Galway traveller who rose to stardom as an Olympic contender in spite of the prejudice and abuse he and his family encountered at home. Proving his credentials with his fists, he overcame problems of poverty and met the taunts of bigots with quiet dignity to become one of Ireland's brightest prospects at Sydney. Subsequently married and settled in London, Francis is working harder than ever to capture both the English ABA welterweight title and its Irish counterpart

• Tim's Story

  Truck driver Tim Stuhlfauth shares his experience of being held at gunpoint and forced to drive for 16 hours without a break, and reveals the dramatic conclusion that resulted from his quick-thinking