The BEST episodes of Storyville season 2006
Every episode of Storyville season 2006, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Storyville season 2006!
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 - Prostitution Behind the Veil
Season 2006 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/2/2006
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.
#2 - Bus I74
Season 2006 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/28/2006
A chilling Storyville documentary using vivid TV-news footage to recount the hijacking of a bus in Rio de Janeiro by a lone gunman, whose brutal life story of grinding poverty, drugs and random violence is also explored.
#3 - Darwin's Nightmare
Season 2006 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2006
How the cannibalism of the Nile perch provides a pithy metaphor for the West's ecological destruction. An Oscar-nominated Storyville film.
#4 - When the Levees Broke - Part 2
Season 2006 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/19/2006
A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts III & IV. The final part of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they find new hope in the aftermath of the disaster.
#5 - Flying Down to Kabul
Season 2006 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/2006
The Storyville tale of Danish pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern and her efforts to help a young Afghan girl who longed to become a pilot too.
#6 - Tarnation
Season 2006 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/27/2006
Super-8 film, answerphone messages and news clippings are masterfully assembled by film-maker Jonathan Caouette in a unique, moving account of a childhood blighted by addiction, mental illness and abuse.
#7 - Sunny Intervals and Showers
Season 2006 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/4/2006
How does bipolar disorder - manic depression - impact on relatives of sufferers? Storyville charts the changes in one such family.
#8 - Overnight
Season 2006 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/21/2006
Tony Montana's 2004 documentary, following a first-time director's attempts to get his film made.
#9 - Riot On!
Season 2006 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/22/2006
Sex, lies and games abound in a 2004 documentary about a disastrous Finnish business venture.
#10 - Behind the Couch
Season 2006 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/23/2006
A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.
#11 - What Remains
Season 2006 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/18/2006
Storyville explores the unsettling yet strangely beautiful work of photographer Sally Mann , whose subjects range from rotting corpses to, most controversially, her children in semi-naked poses.
#12 - Abel Raises Cain
Season 2006 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/25/2006
Storyville tribute to her father Alan Abel , a "professional prankster" whose attempts to fool the media included a campaign for a Sex Olympics.
#13 - The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Season 2006 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/9/2006
A compelling, at times chilling, account of Second World War veteran Kenzo Okuzaki 's crusade to resolve a mystery. Why were some of his comrades executed by their own superiors - and what became of their bodies?
#14 - Hammer and Tickle
Season 2006 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/10/2006
How jokes became the language of truth under the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites, from bitter quips denouncing Stalin's gulags to digs at the technology gap of the 1970s and the cynicism of the 1980s.
#15 - The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
Season 2006 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/16/2006
Storyville sets out the nightmarish experiences of an Iraqi cameraman living in Baghdad who was arrested by US troops, accused of plotting to kill the British premier and imprisoned for eight months.
#16 - Orthodykes
Season 2006 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/23/2006
Storyville meets three lesbians struggling to reconcile their sexual identities with their duties as mothers and wives in Jerusalem's Orthodox communities.
#17 - Street Fight
Season 2006 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/30/2006
Storyville follows Newark mayoral candidate Cory Booker 's electoral campaign, and the resistance he faces from the established four-term incumbent Sharpe James.
#18 - The American Ruling Class
Season 2006 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/6/2006
Storyville documentary musical, following Lewis Lapham as he guides two Ivy League graduates through their career possibilities.
#19 - 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
Season 2006 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/11/2006
Performers from the Kirghiz tribe re-enact their exile to Turkey in British film-maker Ben Hopkins's Storyville special.
#20 - When the Levees Broke - Part 1
Season 2006 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/18/2006
A Requiem in Four Acts: Acts I & II. Storyville presents the UK premiere of Spike Lee 's epic documentary, following the people of New Orleans as they search for new hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
#21 - Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Season 2006 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/2006
A New York photojournalist teaches the marginalised children of Calcutta's prostitutes how to record the world around them.
#22 - Albert Maysles - The Poetic Eye
Season 2006 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/6/2006
Storyville celebrates the work of documentary pioneers Albert and David Maysies.
#23 - Rat
Season 2006 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2006
From the sewers of New York, the rat's journey reveals a different side of natural history. Showing as part of Storyville.
#24 - My Architect
Season 2006 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2006
Nathaniel Kahn - one of two illegitimate children that the architect Louis Kahn had with two different women - seeks to find out who his late father really was.
#25 - The Fine Art of Whistling
Season 2006 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2006
Storyville arches an eyebrow at the 31st International Whistling Competition in North Carolina, where competitors, including an investment banker and a turkey hauler, compete with virtuoso renditions of Vivaldi, Mozart and Texan swing.