Air date: 2001-01-02

Runtime: min

Award-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.

Air date: 2001-01-04

Runtime: min

Documentary 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.

Air date: 2001-01-14

Runtime: min

Film-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.

Air date: 2001-03-15

Runtime: min

Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union

Air date: 2001-03-22

Runtime: min

The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.

Air date: 2001-04-02

Runtime: min

What 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?

Air date: 2001-04-30

Runtime: min

Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.

Air date: 2001-05-07

Runtime: min

In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.

Air date: 2001-05-14

Runtime: min

Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

Air date: 2001-05-28

Runtime: min

This 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.

Air date: 2001-06-06

Runtime: min

First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.

Air date: 2001-06-08

Runtime: min

Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.

Air date: 2001-06-23

Runtime: min

Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.

Air date: 2001-08-27

Runtime: min

The 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.

Air date: 2001-08-30

Runtime: min

Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.

Air date: 2001-09-03

Runtime: min

The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.

Air date: 2001-09-10

Runtime: min

A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso

Air date: 2001-10-15

Runtime: min

Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.

Air date: 2001-10-29

Runtime: min

Photojournalist 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.

Air date: 2001-11-05

Runtime: min

Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.

Air date: 2001-11-28

Runtime: min

Film about the painful legacy left by child abuse.

Air date: 2001-12-19

Runtime: min

How the influence of Christian missionaries in Papua New Guinea is steadily eroding the traditional customs and beliefs of the tribes-people there.

Air date: 2001-12-27

Runtime: min

Maximilian Schell's documentary about the life of Marlene Dietrich, for which he garnered information from the film star during a 17-hour conversation.