The first of six documentaries from both established and lesser-known film-makers located around the world. Werner Herzog 's film recounts the extraordinary story of Dieter Dengler, a US pilot who survived capture and torture by Laotian guerillas during the Vietnam War.

Alan Berliner 's poignant portrait of his father, Oscar - a man who neither wanted to be the focus of a film nor believed his life was important enough a subject.

On Wednesday 19 July 1961, 50 boys and 51 girls were born in Leningrad. Among them was film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky. Thirty years later he began to trace the people whose birthday he shared. Some had died, others had emigrated, but 50 had remained, among them a man imprisoned for stealing from his mother and another who has made a fortune from importing food.

When Denmark legalised pornography in 1969, Danish film-maker Ole Ege led the way pushing the boundaries of acceptability to the limit. Tonight's documentary profiles Ege's life and work, and examines how a previously prudish society reacted to the sudden advent of total freedom. This programme contains some nudity and strong language.

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's film probes doubts about the guilt of a trio of teenagers tried and convicted of the murder of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas, Texas, in 1994.