Storyville · SEASON 12
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Episode 13 · 2008-03-09
- Documentary
Episode overview
Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind more number one hits that the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined. Drawn together from Detroit's jazz and blues scene, the film recounts their evolution of the Motown sound from its origins to its demise in LA during the 1970s, and reunites the surviving Funk Brothers for the first time in thirty years.
85 minutes
Season 12 episodes
1. The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair2008-01-15
2. Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors2008-01-22
3. Jonestown: The World's Biggest Mass Suicide2008-01-27
4. The Devil Came on Horseback2008-01-29
5. Hitler's Secretary2008-01-30
6. The Polish Ambulance Murders2008-02-05
7. Orthodox Stance2008-02-12
8. Blue Blood2008-02-17
9. Very Russian Geniuses2008-02-19
10. Dance With a Serial Killer2008-02-24
11. Tito's Ghost2008-02-26
12. Dolce Vita Africana2008-03-04
13. Standing in the Shadows of Motown2008-03-09
14. Somebody Has to Live: The Journey of Ariel Dorfman2008-03-11
15. All White in Barking2008-03-14
16. The English Surgeon2008-03-30
18. My Secret Agent Auntie2008-05-07
19. The Battle for Jerusalem2008-05-14
20. My Israel2008-05-14
21. Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation2008-05-15
22. Bob Dylan's Indian Birthday2008-05-21
23. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Enterprise2008-05-27
24. Death of a WAG2008-05-28
25. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - A Good Match2008-06-03
26. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Family Duties2008-06-10
27. The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper2008-06-16
28. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Bright Future2008-06-17
29. The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World - Compilation2008-07-07
30. The Chuck Show2008-07-23
31. Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story2008-07-27
32. Kidult: My Kid Could Paint That2008-07-30
33. The Burning Season2008-08-06
34. Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman - 12008-08-13
35. Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman - 22008-08-20
36. 19682008-09-22
37. Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected2008-10-06
38. Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired2008-10-13
39. Shot in Bombay2008-10-20
40. When Borat Came to Town2008-10-27
