Storyville
Season 21 Episode 16 - This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
A profoundly intimate documentary filmed by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews over a period of more than ten years in the life of Morgan's father Geoff and his wonderfully eccentric partner Anna. In an attempt to reconnect with his dad after becoming estranged, Morgan uses the camera as both a facilitator and a filter that enables him to stay close during challenging times. The film follows Geoff and Anna through a financial crisis that sees them losing their home, it captures the challenges of their relationship, and documents the decline in Geoff's health as a result of emphysema and cancer. With the warmth, love and humour that is so often mixed up in family dramas, this is a documentary made from the inside by a film-maker who is used to turning his camera towards other people's families - but never his own. The result is deeply personal, but the themes of a challenging paternal dynamic, a relationship under pressure, and death in the family, are widespread and universal.
Episodes in Season 21
Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
85 min
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
85 min
Notes On Blindness
85 min
Life, Animated
85 min
Killing For Love
85 min
Murder in Italy
85 min
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
85 min
Last Days of Solitary
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 2
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 3
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
90 min
Tokyo Girls
85 min
Oink: Man Loves Pig
85 min
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
85 min
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
85 min
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
85 min
Queerama
85 min
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
85 min
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
85 min
The Boy Who Changed America
85 min
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
85 min
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
85 min
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
85 min
My Mother's Lost Children
85 min
Last Men in Aleppo
85 min
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
85 min
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
85 min
