Storyville
Season 20 Episode 2 - The Great Gangster Film Fraud
Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam £2.5m off the British taxman by faking the production of a £20m movie. But they are found out, arrested and then bailed. While out on bail, they decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Loose Women's Andrea McLean. The film's title is A Landscape of Lies. But the cinematic alibi does not convince the jury when the trial runs in 2013. The producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long sentences. A comic British crime caper and classic heist movie, but in this movie the heist IS the movie.
Episodes in Season 20
The Golden Age of Circus: The Show of Shows
85 min
The Great Gangster Film Fraud
85 min
A Death Row Tale: The Fear of 13
85 min
The Toughest Horse Race in the World: Palio
85 min
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
85 min
The Black Panthers
85 min
Bolshoi's Babylon
85 min
My Nazi Legacy
85 min
Being Evel Knievel
85 min
Unlocking The Cage
85 min
Moazzam Begg: Living the War on Terror
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (1)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (2)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (3)
85 min
Chasing Asylum - Inside Australia's Detention Camps
85 min
Weiner - Sexts, Scandals and Politics
85 min
Jim - The James Foley Story
85 min
Brides for Sale - Sonita
85 min
The Cult that Stole Children - Inside the Family
85 min
Forever Pure - Football and Racism in Jerusalem
85 min
