Storyville - Season 29 / Year 2025

Season 29 / Year 2025
Episodes

Your Fat Friend
A Storyville documentary following the rise of Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to best-selling author, whose aim is to promote a paradigm shift in the way we view fatness.

Black Box Diaries
A Storyville documentary that follows director Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.

26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon
A Storyville documentary that tells a story of transformation and second chances as three men sentenced to life for murder undertake running a marathon around a crowded prison yard.

Gaucho Gaucho: Argentina's Last Ranchers
A Storyville documentary that follows the lives of Argentina's gauchos (cowboys and cowgirls), as they try to preserve their traditions in a fast-changing world.

The Battle for Laikipia
A Storyville documentary, shot over several years in one of Africa's most famous conservation areas, that charts mounting tensions between the Samburu people and fourth-generation European settlers.

The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6
A Storyville documentary that offers a humorous and humane snapshot of life in a Covid-19 vaccine centre, a reminder of a unique moment in time - one shared by people across the globe.

Eternal Spring: The Heist of China's Airwaves
A Storyville documentary that revisits the spiritual group Falun Gong's audacious attempt to counter the government narrative about them by hacking into state TV stations in China.

White Man Walking
A Storyville documentary that follows white film-maker Rob Bliss as he walks 1500 miles through America's southern states wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt.

The Jackal Speaks
A Storyville documentary in which Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known globally as Carlos the Jackal, tells his story from the confines of a French high-security prison.

Wedding Night
A Storyville documentary in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish couples speak bravely about their wedding and first night together, when the expectation is they will consummate their marriage.

The Contestant
A Storyville documentary that tells the true story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, who spent 15 months in a small room, naked, starving and alone, unaware he was being broadcast to millions of people on TV.

The Wolves Always Come at Night
A Storyville documentary in which a young Mongolian couple must adapt to a new, urban way of life when they are forced from their land by a devastating storm, which kills their herd.

The Srebrenica Tape
A Storyville documentary following a young woman's quest to find out more about her father, who was one of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Holding Liat
A Storyville documentary following the family of Liat Beinin Atzili, kidnapped from Israel on 7 October 2023, as they try to secure her release.

The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

Mr Nobody Against Putin
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.

Sanatorium
Storyville documentary. A bittersweet and surreal summer unfolds inside a crumbling Soviet-era wellness resort in Odesa, where guests seek healing, love and distraction.

Welded Together
A Storyville documentary about a young welder, forced to confront a traumatic past when she has to care for her half-sister. A powerful story of love, survival and second chances.
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