Storyville
Season 13 Episode 21 - Man on Wire
Documentary based on Philippe Petit's autobiographical book To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. In August 1974, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent nearly an hour walking, dancing, kneeling and lying on a wire which he and his friends had strung in secret between the rooftops of New York's Twin Towers. Six years of intense planning, dreaming and physical training fell into place that morning. Already an accomplished wire-walker, Petit had caught sight of an article about the planned construction of the Twin Towers while in a dentist's waiting room in 1968, and at that moment an obsession was born. He spent every waking moment since that day plotting the details of his walk (which he called 'le coup') and gathered a team of people around him to assist in the planning.
Episodes in Season 13
Blast!
80 min
Fashion Victim
60 min
Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators
60 min
Heavy Load
60 min
Prostitution Behind the Veil
50 min
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
90 min
Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods
90 min
Bulletproof Salesman
60 min
Robert Capa - In Love and War
50 min
The Children's Ward
60 min
The Jazz Baroness
80 min
Up for Debate - Team Qatar
90 min
The Baby and the Buddha
90 min
The Jew who Dealt with Nazis - Killing Kasztner
90 min
The Genius and the Boys
80 min
Blindsight
100 min
Angels of Rio
60 min
The Trials of Oppenheimer
90 min
The Time of their Lives
60 min
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
90 min
Man on Wire
85 min
The Baby and the Buddha
59 min
Napoli - City of the Damned
70 min
Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired
85 min
Men of the City
60 min
War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery
60 min
Hi Society - The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
60 min
Survivors: The Horse Boy
60 min
Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach
60 min
The Age of Stupid
85 min
