• Air date: 06 Jan '06 37 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (37)
    • 1. Stalin's Skyscraper

      06 Jan '06
    • 2. The Beauty Academy of Kabul

      23 Jan '06
    • 3. McLibel

      30 Jan '06
    • 4. Before the Flood: Tuvalu

      21 Feb '06
      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

      28 Feb '06
    • 6. Murderball

      04 Mar '06
    • 7. One Day in September

      07 Mar '06
    • 8. Born into Brothels

      07 Mar '06
    • 10. Darwin's Nightmare

      14 Mar '06
    • 11. Our Brand is Crisis

      21 Mar '06
    • 12. Hollywood and the Holocaust

      26 Mar '06
      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
    • 13. Bus 174

      28 Mar '06
    • 14. Born Into Brothels

      08 Apr '06
    • 15. Viva Zapatero! Berlusconi Rules - OK?

      11 Apr '06
    • 16. Shakespeare Behind Bars

      18 Apr '06
    • 17. Philip and his Seven Wives

      25 Apr '06
    • 18. Gangs of Medellin

      09 May '06
    • 19. The Pipeline Next Door

      30 May '06
    • 20. Flying Down To Kabul

      20 Jun '06
    • 21. Tarnation

      27 Jun '06
    • 22. Sonny Intervals And Showers

      04 Jul '06
    • 23. Albert Maysles, The Poetic Eye

      06 Aug '06
    • 24. Gimme Shelter

      07 Aug '06
    • 25. Salesman

      09 Aug '06
    • 26. Overnight

      21 Aug '06