About this season
Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.
Episodes (37)
1. Stalin's Skyscraper
Aired 6 January 2006 • 85 min
2. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
Aired 23 January 2006 • 85 min
3. McLibel
Aired 30 January 2006 • 85 min
4. Before the Flood: Tuvalu
Aired 21 February 2006 • 85 min
Now that global warming is officially acknowledged, the world's eyes are on which country will be the first to sink beneath the waves. A candidate is Tuvalu, an island in the midst of the Pacific and home to 11,000 inhabitants. This tiny island sold its internet domain name, .tv, to a Californian company for $50 million, but now global warming is causing the island to sink. How are they spending the windfall?
5. My Architect
Aired 28 February 2006 • 85 min
6. Murderball
Aired 4 March 2006 • 85 min
7. One Day in September
Aired 7 March 2006 • 85 min
8. Born into Brothels
Aired 7 March 2006 • 85 min
10. Darwin's Nightmare
Aired 14 March 2006 • 85 min
11. Our Brand is Crisis
Aired 21 March 2006 • 85 min
12. Hollywood and the Holocaust
Aired 26 March 2006 • 85 min
How effectively does Hollywood depict reality? Is it possible to reconcile the demands of popular entertainment with a historical event as sombre as the Holocaust? Daniel Anker's film supplies many questions and some answers. He starts back in the 1930s by showing Hollywood's ham-fisted efforts to chronicle the rise of Nazism. Later, in 1945, a planeload of Hollywood executives were shipped to visit the newly liberated concentration camps. When the rushes were screened in Hollywood, many of them were overcome by what they saw. But, for the next 10 years, Hollywood didn't touch the Holocaust.
13. Bus 174
Aired 28 March 2006 • 85 min
14. Born Into Brothels
Aired 8 April 2006 • 85 min
15. Viva Zapatero! Berlusconi Rules - OK?
Aired 11 April 2006 • 85 min
16. Shakespeare Behind Bars
Aired 18 April 2006 • 85 min
17. Philip and his Seven Wives
Aired 25 April 2006 • 85 min
18. Gangs of Medellin
Aired 9 May 2006 • 85 min
19. The Pipeline Next Door
Aired 30 May 2006 • 85 min
20. Flying Down To Kabul
Aired 20 June 2006 • 85 min
21. Tarnation
Aired 27 June 2006 • 85 min
22. Sonny Intervals And Showers
Aired 4 July 2006 • 85 min
23. Albert Maysles, The Poetic Eye
Aired 6 August 2006
24. Gimme Shelter
Aired 7 August 2006
25. Salesman
Aired 9 August 2006
26. Overnight
Aired 21 August 2006
27. Riot On!
Aired 22 August 2006
28. Behind The Couch Casting In Hollywood
Aired 28 August 2006
29. What Remains
Aired 18 September 2006
30. Abel Rasies Cain
Aired 25 September 2006
31. Prostitiution Behind The Veil
Aired 2 October 2006
Prostitution Behind the Veil explores a side of Iran rarely seen or talked about. For over a year, director Nahid Persson filmed the everyday lives of two young female prostitutes in Iran as they eked out a living in a country where the profession is banned. The filmmaker often took great risks to follow Minna and Fariba as they sought out customers-men who would often marry them briefly, so as not to violate the laws of Islam by having extramarital sex. The two women are good friends and neighbor, who have experienced the widespread mistreatment of women and the double standards that permeate Iranian society today.
32. The Emperor's Army Marches On
Aired 9 October 2006
33. The Prisoner, Or How I planned To Kill Tony Blair
Aired 16 October 2006
34. Orthodykes
Aired 23 October 2006
35. Street Fight
Aired 30 October 2006
36. The American Ruling Class
Aired 6 November 2006
37. The Team, Homeless Soccer
Aired 13 November 2006
38. 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep
Aired 11 December 2006