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Storyville

Season 2005 2005
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  • 2005-05-05T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h 25m
  • 21h 15m (15 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

15 episodes

Season Premiere

2005-05-05T21:00:00Z

2005x01 Dr Goebbels Speaks

Season Premiere

2005x01 Dr Goebbels Speaks

  • 2005-05-05T21:00:00Z1h 25m

Archive footage and extracts from Goebbels' voluminous diaries combine to provide a vivid insight into the mind of Hitler's propaganda minister.

2005-02-03T22:00:00Z

2005x02 Made In China

2005x02 Made In China

  • 2005-02-03T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Global companies wish to be well-thought of and very successful. Being Finnish, and therefore Scandinavian, Nokia is in the lead when it comes to feeling good about capitalism. But it is not always easy to feel good about the methods by which you make piles of money. Enter ethical consultants.

Thomas Balmes' funny, perceptive film follows a Nokia executive and a British ethical management consultant as they make their way around Nokia's prime phone charger suppliers in China.

2005-07-12T21:00:00Z

2005x03 Small Pain For Glory

2005x03 Small Pain For Glory

  • 2005-07-12T21:00:00Z1h 25m

In the wake of devasting civil war, in Sierra Leone, an inspirational athletics trainer attempts to set up a team to compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics. This moving documentary for BBC Storyville charted their extraordinary journey from barefoot training in the bombed-out streets of Freetown to their triumphant entry into the Olympic stadium.

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.

The prosecution witnesses falter during defence lawyer David Rudolf's cross-examination.

As the trial continues, the prosecutor attempts to portray Michael Peterson as a deviant.

The defence witnesses take their turn, but there's a worry that the experts' account will not be enough to convince the jury.

The jury in the Michael Peterson case deliberates for five days before reaching a verdict.

2005-01-17T22:00:00Z

2005x09 Citizen King

2005x09 Citizen King

  • 2005-01-17T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Millions were galvanised by Martin Luther King 's dream of an America rid of racism.
But five years after his stirring speech, he met a bloody end Citizen King - showing in the Storyville strand - recounts the story of the years that changed history.

2005-01-24T22:00:00Z

2005x10 Prisoner of Paradise

2005x10 Prisoner of Paradise

  • 2005-01-24T22:00:00Z1h 25m

The tragic story of Kurt Gerron , a Jewish director and Weimar star, ordered to make Nazi propaganda films.

2005x11 The Liberace of Baghdad

  • 2005-01-25T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Storyville depicts eight months with an Iraqi pianist, now playing in a hotel bar and wondering about the future of his country.

2005-02-08T22:00:00Z

2005x12 Made In China

2005x12 Made In China

  • 2005-02-08T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Global companies wish to be well-thought of and very successful. Being Finnish, and therefore Scandinavian, Nokia is in the lead when it comes to feeling good about capitalism. But it is not always easy to feel good about the methods by which you make piles of money. Enter ethical consultants.

Thomas Balmes' funny, perceptive film follows a Nokia executive and a British ethical management consultant as they make their way around Nokia's prime phone charger suppliers in China.

2005x13 Barca: The Inside Story

  • 2005-02-20T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Debt and poor performances plunged FC Barcelona - one of the biggest football clubs - into the worst crisis of its 100-year history in 2003. With unprecedented access, Storyville film-makers spent a year documenting the new board's efforts to turn an old-fashioned Catalan family affair into a global business.

2005x14 Before the Flood: Tuvalu

  • 2005-03-09T22:00:00Z1h 25m

By selling the internet domain name .tv for$50 million, the previously impoverished Pacific island nation of Tuvalu landed a massive dot-com windfall. Nature, however, has dealt its citizens a cruel hand - rising sea levels caused by global warming. Can anything be done to stem the tide?
Storyville investigates.

2005-03-23T22:00:00Z

2005x15 Why we Fight

2005x15 Why we Fight

  • 2005-03-23T22:00:00Z1h 25m

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

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