10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - A Syrian Love Story
Season 19 Episode 19 - Aired 9/28/2015
Award-winning documentary film by renowned filmmaker Sean McAllister, telling the poignant story of a family torn apart by the Assad regime. When Sean begins filming them in Syria in 2009, prior to the wave of revolutions in the Arab world, Raghda is incarcerated as a political prisoner and Amer is caring for their young boys alone. Raghda is eventually released from prison, but the family is forced to flee the country following the arrest of Sean McAllister himself. In exile, Raghda battles between being a mother or a revolutionary. Filmed over five years, this is an intimate and deeply moving portrait of a family trying to survive in exile - adapting to their new home, but missing their homeland. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
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#2 - My Nazi Legacy
Season 20 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2016
Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers. For the third, the eminent human rights lawyer and author Philippe Sands, it means visiting the place where much of his own Jewish family was destroyed by the fathers of the two men he has come to know. An emotional, psychological exploration of three men wrestling with their past, the present of Europe, and conflicting versions of the truth.
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#3 - Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/1997
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
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#4 - Nobody's Business
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/1997
Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his father's life.
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#5 - Wednesday
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/1997
Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St. Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961, his own birthday, in former Leningrad. Fifty-one women and fifty men fitted the profile. In the course of time a few of these 101 people had died, others had moved to another community or abroad. But in 1995 Kossakovsky managed to capture on film all seventy remaining residents, in the street, at work or simply at home. While doing so he spent time with doctors and patients, entertainers and businessmen, construction workers and homeless people. In his unorthodox style Kossakovsky has produced a beautiful profile of people in their thirties in St. Petersburg.
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#6 - Naughty Boy
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/1997
A profile of Danish film-maker Ole Ege, whose work pushed the boundaries of acceptability when Denmark legalized pornography in 1969.
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#7 - Paradise Lost
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/1997
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
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#8 - East Side Story
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1998
A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
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#9 - When We Were Kings
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 5/24/1998
On 30 October 1974, perhaps the most famous heavyweight championship boxing match of all time took place in Kinshasa, Zaire - the "Rumble in the Jungle" between champion George Foreman and challenger Muhammad Ali. In historical footage and new interviews, this documentary explores the relationship between African-Americans and the African continent during the Black Power era in terms of both popular culture and international politics, including the brutality of then-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
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#10 - Kurt and Courtney
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1998
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love, a nanny for Kurt and Courtney's child, friends and lovers of both, and others. Although Love won't talk to him and his inquiries lose him financial backing, he comes to believe the coroner's verdict. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.
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#11 - Don't Look Back
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1998
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan is playful and enigmatic.
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#12 - 444 Days
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/1998
444 Days offers a detailed insight into the troubled history between the USA and Iran, telling the story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. On 4 November 1979, hundreds of Islamic students occupied the Embassy, taking 52 US diplomats hostage and beginning a siege that would topple a president. Featuring exclusive interviews with captors and victims, 444 Days delivers a gripping account of the crisis as it unfolded.
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#13 - Year of the Dogs
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1998
Year of the Dogs is a documentary detailing the turbulent 1996 season of the Australian Football League (AFL) team Footscray Football Club (now Western Bulldogs).
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#14 - Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/1998
A reassessment of the tragedy at Waco that left 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect dead.
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#15 - Gigi, Monica and Bianca
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/1998
This documentary, made by several of the Dardenne Brothers regular collaborators, tells the story of a group of Romanian teenagers living on the streets of Bucharest, particularly focusing on 'Gigi' and his pregnant girlfriend 'Monica'. We watch their struggles, listen to their ambitions and witness their lives unfold as their child is born and they must find a way to support her and themselves. This is an uncompromising documentary, that shows the hardships its characters are facing in graphic detail, but without commentary or sentiment. Much like the Dardenne's feature films, the characters and situations are left to speak for themselves and it's hard not to be emotionally effected.
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#16 - Moon Over Broadway
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/1998
A chronicle of the ups and downs that occur during the rehearsals and previews process of Ken Ludwig's Broadway comedy "Moon Over Buffalo".
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#17 - Who is Bernard Tapie?
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2002
Part 3 looks at the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China. Waitress Peng has sacrificed her own education to support her sister's studies, while owner Qin Linzi discusses her own difficult childhood and introduces us to her privileged daughter. The restaurant prepares a 70th birthday banquet for Sun and her family, with special dishes including steamed longevity buns and stir-fried turtle.
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#18 - Meeting My Daughter
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 6/24/2002
Part 4 looks to the future with a banquet for a new baby and the anniversary show organised by the West Lake to celebrate its third year. Managers, chefs and waiting staff take to the stage in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza rounded off with a star turn by the owner, Qin Linzi. The restaurant addresses the high rate of staff turnover and gives the waiting staff a pay rise, while Qin discusses how important it is for her to drink with her customers.
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#19 - Robots Are Us
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2002
What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Why We Fight is the provocative new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Named after the series of short films by legendary director Frank Capra that explored America’s reasons for entering World War II, Why We Fight surveys a half-century of military conflicts, asking how – and answering why – a nation of, by and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a government system whose survival depends on an Orwellian state of constant war.
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#21 - Chain Camera
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 8/8/2002
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#22 - Out of Phoenix Bridge
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/2002
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#23 - More Than A Life
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 9/2/2002
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#24 - Louis Malle's India
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2002
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#25 - See What Happens
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2002
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The Best Episodes of Storyville
Every episode of Storyville ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Storyville!
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...
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"A Syrian Love Story" is the best rated episode of "Storyville". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/2015. This episode scored 3.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "My Nazi Legacy".