The BEST episodes of Storyville season 2002
Every episode of Storyville season 2002, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Storyville season 2002!
Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since it was launched by the BBC in 1997 as a showcase for the best in international documentaries. 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.
#1 - Cry for Argentina
Season 2002 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/24/2002
Angus Macqueen's film captures the desperate situation as Argentineans try to make the best of life with their economy in freefall.
#2 - Robots Are Us
Season 2002 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/11/2002
Director Pierre-Henri Salfati explores the medieval myth of the Golem in the light of contemporary robot-building programmes at Palo Alto in California. He explores a question that has occupied the minds of theologians and scientists for centuries - whether humans could ever be replaced by a race of automatons?
#3 - Domestic Violence
Season 2002 - Episode 32 - Aired 7/18/2002
Director Frederick Wiseman's unblinking portrait of the circumstances in which the crime of domestic violence occurs, and what is being done to combat it. Filmed in Tampa, Florida, the film follows the police as they respond to calls, and goes inside the principal shelter for victims, the Springs.
#4 - Life and Debt In Jamaica
Season 2002 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/4/2002
A look at the price paid by Jamaica for seeking help from the International Monetary Fund during the 1970s.
#5 - First Contact
Season 2002 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/2002
An award-winning documentary telling the story of three Australian prospectors, whose search for gold in the 1930s led them to the previously unexplored highlands of Papua New Guinea.
#6 - Closing Down
Season 2002 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/2002
Film following the closure of a hairdressing salon in Italy after 43 years in business.
#7 - The Tour
Season 2002 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2002
Documentary following a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on a three-day organised tour through Israel in 1999. For many, this is a first visit to Israel, while others take the chance to see homes they lost when they went into exile.
#8 - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire - Part 2
Season 2002 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/2002
After the attempt on his life, which left him paralysed from the waist down, George Wallace showed remorse for his emotive policies and sought reconciliation with the black community.
#9 - Shadowplay
Season 2002 - Episode 36 - Aired 8/15/2002
The human cost of the terror campaign waged against the people of Indonesia in the 1960s.
#10 - The Cuban Game
Season 2002 - Episode 37 - Aired 8/19/2002
Manuel Martin Cuenca's documentary tells of how the Cuban national sport, baseball, turned into a battleground with the revolution in 1959, and how the sport became emblematic of Cuba's frosty relations with America.
#11 - Steps for the Future: Sincerely Yours
Season 2002 - Episode 38 - Aired 8/28/2002
Sex, love, relationships and Aids are examined as Dumisani Phakathi explores his community in Soweto, South Africa.
#12 - Louis Malle's India
Season 2002 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/3/2002
A compilation of the French director's TV series, L'inde Fantôme, which followed his trip to India.
#13 - See What Happens
Season 2002 - Episode 40 - Aired 9/16/2002
Profile of film-makers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
#14 - Greedy in Thailand
Season 2002 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/27/2002
In the 1990s investors poured money into Thailand, making it one of the most prosperous "Asian tigers", but success was short-lived and was followed by a dramatic slump. In Pascal Vasselin's film, entrepreneurs, speculators and workers talk about an economic riches-to-rags story.
#15 - Kabul ER
Season 2002 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/7/2002
In November 2001, as western forces began the bombardment of Afghanistan, members of the NGO emergency crew dealt with the casualties. This film captures the hardship of their work.
#16 - Scottsboro
Season 2002 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/7/2002
Exploring the arrest, in 1931, and subsequent trial of nine black boys accused of gang rape.
#17 - Ghosts of Attica
Season 2002 - Episode 45 - Aired 10/29/2002
Brad Lichtenstein's film tells the story of the bloodiest uprising in US penal history, which occurred in September 1971 when over 1,000 inmates gained control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
#18 - Last Party 2000
Season 2002 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/5/2002
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman attempts to discover why the American electorate is so apathetic.
#19 - Journeys with George
Season 2002 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/5/2002
After a year shadowing George W Bush, Alexandra Pelosi presents a profile.
#20 - The Somme
Season 2002 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/10/2002
An account of the one of the pivotal conflicts of the First World War, using archive film and interviews with survivors to portray the reality of warfare. Originally shown as part of the landmark BBC series from 1964, The Great War.
#21 - My Terrorist
Season 2002 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/12/2002
In 1978, film director Yulie Cohen-Gerstel was the victim of a terrorist attack in London in which several of her colleagues died. This film chronicles her attempts to free the last surviving terrorist involved in the attack from prison.
#22 - Milosevic: How to Be a Dictator
Season 2002 - Episode 51 - Aired 12/10/2002
Exploring the character and ambitions of the former Yugoslavian President, who for ten years orchestrated Europe's most ruthless dictatorship since the Second World War. Including interviews with insiders who served in the regime.
#23 - Cool and Crazy
Season 2002 - Episode 52 - Aired 12/20/2002
Documentary from director Knut Erik Jensen, following the eccentric members of a male voice choir in a beleaguered Norwegian fishing village and their trip to Murmansk.
#24 - Simon and I
Season 2002 - Episode 50 - Aired 12/3/2002
Profiling South African gay activists Simon Nkoli and Bev Ditsie.
#25 - The Bonzos
Season 2002 - Episode 33 - Aired 7/29/2002
The story of a 2,000-strong collection of priceless paintings stolen from European galleries by the Nazis - and of the British agents, nicknamed "the Bonzos" who saved them from oblivion.