Storyville
Season 19 Episode 6 - The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog
An extraordinary portrait of eccentric New Yorker John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino's character in the iconic 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. Director Sidney Lumet's daylong saga, in which Wojtowicz took a bank hostage in the hopes of raising money for his trans lover's gender confirmation surgery, hardly exaggerated the actual 1972 event, but only captured one piece of a much larger story. Filmed over a ten-year period, the documentary chronicles wider aspects of Wojtowicz's life in the years leading up to his death. With jaw-dropping honesty, Wojtowicz describes how his excessive libido led him to have multiple female and male lovers, his own interviews interweaving with gripping archive footage of the robbery, 70s-era interviews and the early gay liberation movement. It all combines to create a larger-than-life persona - by turns lover, husband, soldier, activist, mama's boy and bank robber.
Episodes in Season 19
The Arabian Motorcycle Adventures
85 min
The Internet's Own Boy
85 min
Mugabe and the Democrats
85 min
Bulldozers, Paving Stones and Power: The Chinese Mayor
85 min
Love Hotel
85 min
The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog
85 min
Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship
85 min
The Great European Disaster Movie
85 min
1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure
85 min
India's Daughter
85 min
Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva
85 min
The Lost Gold of the Highlands
85 min
Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake
85 min
My Mother the Secret Baby
85 min
Himmler: The Decent One
85 min
Last Days of Vietnam
85 min
Circus Elephant Rampage
85 min
Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise
85 min
A Syrian Love Story
85 min
Lockerbie: My Brother's Bomber
85 min
Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets
85 min
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
85 min
Cartel Land
85 min
FBI Undercover
85 min
The Six-Day War: Censored Voices
85 min
