Storyville
Season 18 Episode 20 - Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
Storyville follows Viktor Bout, Russian entrepreneur, arms smuggler and, strangest of all, amateur film-maker. Until three days prior to his 2008 arrest on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, Bout kept his camcorder running. He documented a life spent in the grey areas of the arms industry, crossing the line morally, if not legally, many times over before he was eventually undone by a post-9/11 crackdown. Dubbed by some the Merchant of Death and portrayed by Nicolas Cage in Hollywood's Lord of War, Viktor Bout gained notoriety as the world's most famous arms dealer. With unprecedented access to Bout's home movies and US surveillance material gathered during the sting operation to bring him down, this film is a portrait of a garrulous, adventurous individual, intent on exploiting the murky loopholes of the arms industry. Interviews with his wife, family and former business partners describe moments both comical and harrowing in a career which ended in a 25-year prison sentence.
Episodes in Season 18
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Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
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The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
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Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
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K2: The Killer Summit
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Cutie and the Boxer
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Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
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The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
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Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
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Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
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Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
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Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
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Searching for Sugar Man
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The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
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The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
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Velorama
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A Sunday In Hell
85 min
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
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The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
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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
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112 Weddings
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Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
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Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
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