Storyville
Season 18 Episode 13 - Searching for Sugar Man
Oscar-winning documentary which tells the remarkable story of the American rock icon who never was. With a great soundtrack, moving interviews and a breathtaking twist, this is the ultimate film about the resonating power of music. In the late 60s, Detroit-based singer Sixto Rodriguez was momentarily hailed as the finest recording artist of his generation. But when his album bombed, he disappeared into oblivion amid rumours of a gruesome onstage suicide. The film tells the astonishing story of how a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and became a phenomenon. Two South African fans turned detectives to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. This is a film about hope, inspiration and the realisation of deferred dreams. The film is directed by Malik Bendjelloul who sadly died in May 2014.
Episodes in Season 18
Mandela, The Myth and Me
85 min
Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
85 min
The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
85 min
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
85 min
K2: The Killer Summit
85 min
Cutie and the Boxer
85 min
Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
85 min
The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
85 min
Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
85 min
Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
85 min
Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
85 min
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
85 min
Searching for Sugar Man
85 min
The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
85 min
The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
85 min
Velorama
85 min
A Sunday In Hell
85 min
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
85 min
The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
85 min
Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
85 min
The Gatekeepers
85 min
Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
85 min
Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
85 min
112 Weddings
85 min
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
85 min
Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
85 min
