The BEST episodes of Storyville season 2005
Every episode of Storyville season 2005, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Storyville season 2005!
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 - Death on the Staircase: 4/8 A Prosecution Trickery
Season 2005 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/2005
The defence faces a blow as a new autopsy concludes that Elizabeth Ratliff was unlawfully killed. The prosecution also presents an iron poker - supposedly a replica of the murder weapon. What now for Michael Peterson?
#2 - Barca: The Inside Story (2004)
Season 2005 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/2005
Documentary following the fortunes of Barcelona Football Club over a year of crisis. With poor performances and spiralling debts, reform of the club is urgently needed. The new board, under the leadership of the charismatic Joan Laporta, attempt to turn an old fashioned Catalan family affair into a global football business.
#3 - Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Season 2005 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2005
Storyville documentary featuring an interview with Traudl Junge , who worked as one of Hitler's secretaries from 1942 until the dictator's suicide in 1945.
#4 - Dr. Goebbels Speaks
Season 2005 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2005
Archive footage and extracts from Goebbels' voluminous diaries combine to provide a vivid insight into the mind of Hitler's propaganda minister.
#5 - Kinsey
Season 2005 - Episode 54 - Aired 12/19/2005
Storyville looks at the life and work of the controversial US biologist.
#6 - Shake Hands With the Devil
Season 2005 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/17/2005
Ten years after he headed the UN's disastrous mission in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire returns to the site of the genocide to confront survivors and his demons.
#7 - Sir! No Sir! The GI Revolt
Season 2005 - Episode 50 - Aired 12/5/2005
Storyville on how thousands of active-duty GIs created a huge movement against the war in Vietnam.
#8 - How Vietnam Was Lost
Season 2005 - Episode 48 - Aired 12/4/2005
Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Whilst a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong ambush which killed 61 young men, half a world away angry students at the University of Wisconsin were protesting the presence of Dow Chemical recruiters on campus.
#9 - Sitting for Parliament
Season 2005 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/21/2005
Director John T Davis follows fellow Belfast native artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly over a six-month period.
#10 - The White Diamond
Season 2005 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/14/2005
Werner Herzog 's compelling record of a daring expedition to the rainforests of South America English aeronautical engineer Dr Graham Dorrington plans to assemble a helium-filled airship in the Guyanese jungle and explore the the canopy's unique ecology. But the project is not without risk - a similar expedition 12 years earlier ended in catastrophe when Dorrington's friend Dieter Plage fell to his death.
#11 - The Wild Blue Yonder
Season 2005 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/12/2005
Werner Herzog takes the Galileo mission to Jupiter's moons as a starting point for a hypothetical investigation. Brad Dourif plays an alien refugee on Earth whose native planet has become uninhabitable. Herzog interweaves discussions with scientists and Nasa astronauts about colonising space beyond our solar system.
#12 - A Very English Village 5/5
Season 2005 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/13/2005
Going for the Kill. Farmer Gary Lee , who also serves as master of the local hunt, and his brother Mark battle economic forces beyond their control in a desperate bid to keep their family business running. Meanwhile, the hunting fraternity offers its view on the February 2005 ban.
#13 - A Very English Village 4/5
Season 2005 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/6/2005
At one time. the Sandrock Inn was at the heart of Ditchling, East Sussex - but now the pub is under threat from developers. The villagers mount a spirited fight against an unpopular planning proposal - but is it enough to delay last orders?
#14 - A Very English Village 3/5
Season 2005 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/29/2005
Artist Eric Gill of the Arts and Crafts movement arrived in Ditchling in 1907. His legacy includes the typeface gill sans - but his bohemian lifestyle remains controversial.
#15 - A Very English Village 2/5
Season 2005 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/22/2005
Storyville continues its exploration of South Downs village Ditchling with a profile of the amateur-dramatics society, led by Sonia Stock.
#16 - A Very English Village 1/5
Season 2005 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/15/2005
Storyville film-maker Luke Holland , who has lived in Ditchling on the East Sussex Downs for the last ten years, explores aspects of village life past and present. He begins with a look at how economic uncertainty and the controversial ban on hunting with hounds have adversely affected a local farming family.
#17 - Winged Migration
Season 2005 - Episode 55 - Aired 12/27/2005
Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on all seven continents. Stunning techniques help contribute to this bird's eye view of the world.
#18 - Liberia: An Uncivil War
Season 2005 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/8/2005
In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal. Two armies engage in the final battle of a decade long civil war. Hundreds of innocent civilians die from mortar shells launched from afar and thousands more suffer hunger while the soldiers, mostly teenagers, keep the capital city under siege. The nation prays that America, the world's sole superpower, will put an end to the violence. Conceived in Washington in the early 1800s, its constitution written at Harvard, its founding fathers freed slaves who returned to Africa, Liberia is the one country in the world worthy of the title, Made in America. By the year 2000, Liberia, once considered the gem of Africa, was ranked last in the world for quality of life.
#19 - Another Road Home
Season 2005 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/5/2005
Storyville documentary in which Jerusalem-born director Danae Elon tracks down the children of her Palestinian babysitter. who were sent to the US in the 1970s to avoid the conflict at home.
#20 - The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara
Season 2005 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2005
Errol Morris's revealing Oscar-winning documentary. Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara outlines what he learned about conflict from the many years he spent helping to direct and create US foreign policy - a lengthy period that stretches from the final months of the Second World War to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Vietnam War.
#21 - Lost in La Mancha
Season 2005 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/2005
Candid documentary about maverick director Terry Gilliam 's attempt to make the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. When shooting begins, Gilliam must contend with torrential rains, noisy military jets, a sick leading man and ever-spiralling costs, which all conspire to put an end to the production.
#22 - Srebrenica: Never Again?
Season 2005 - Episode 30 - Aired 7/11/2005
A decade after the massacre that I killed over 7,000, film-maker Leslie Woodhead returns to the town in eastern Bosnia. Have the survivors of the genocide rebuilt their lives and has reconciliation been possible? This Storyville film also highlights the failure of the international community to intervene in gross human-rights abuses and genocide.
#23 - The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats
Season 2005 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/13/2005
Humorous Storyville documentary in which Mark Lewis delves into the world of pampered. pedigree felines.
#24 - Animaliclous
Season 2005 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/20/2005
A Storyville collection of true tales revealing the hidden dangers of the animal world, including a mad squirrel that terrorised a whole neighbourhood.
#25 - The Wonderful World of Dogs
Season 2005 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/6/2005
Dog judges, commentators and owners all contribute to Storyville's hilarious interpretation of the canine worldview.