Storyville Season 29 Episodes

Episode 1

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.

Episode 2

Black Box Diaries

96 mins

A Storyville documentary that follows 25-year-old journalist Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in 2015 and attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.

Episode 3

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.

Episode 4

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.

Episode 5

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.

Episode 6

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.

Episode 7

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.

Episode 8

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.

Episode 9

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. Created by Yaron Niski and Danny Liber

Episode 10

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.

Episode 11

The Contestant

A Storyville documentary that tells the 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.

Episode 12

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.

Episode 13

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.

Episode 14

Football's Financial Shame: The Story of the V11

Unveiling a hidden scandal affecting a group of former players of the Premier League, the world's biggest and richest football league.

Episode 15

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.

Episode 16

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.

Episode 17

Mr Nobody Against Putin

A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.

Episode 18

Sanatorium

85 mins

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

Episode 19

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.