Storyville
Storyville: Season 29

Air Date

January 28, 2025

Episodes

11 episodes

Storyville

Season 29

Episodes

Your Fat Friend

1. Your Fat Friend

January 28, 2025
89 min

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

2. Black Box Diaries

February 4, 2025
96 min

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.

26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon

3. 26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon

February 11, 2025
85 min

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

4. Gaucho Gaucho: Argentina’s Last Ranchers

February 18, 2025
74 min

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

5. The Battle for Laikipia

February 25, 2025
87 min

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

6. The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6

March 4, 2025
68 min

A humorous and humane snapshot of life in a Covid-19 vaccine centre. Five years after the world first locked down to limit the spread of the virus, this film serves as collective therapy for the post-Covid era. The documentary was filmed in Croatia, where at the time, the government was still chasing down supplies of hard-to-get-hold-of vaccines. The queues of people waiting for them stretch endlessly along streets, with a tapestry of personalities amongst them - from the stern ‘gatekeeper’ of the line to elderly women deliberating their vaccine preferences. This is a reminder of a unique moment in time - one shared by people across the globe.

Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s Airwaves

7. Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s Airwaves

March 11, 2025
79 min

In 2002, a group of Falun Gong practitioners in China came up with an audacious plan to hit back at the government’s crackdown on their faith. This film explores the aftermath of that brazen stunt.

White Man Walking

8. White Man Walking

May 25, 2025
70 min

A Storyville documentary that traces the shocking, gruelling and emotional 1500-mile walk that white film-maker Rob Bliss embarked on in 2020, walking through America’s southern states, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt.

The Jackal Speaks

9. The Jackal Speaks

June 3, 2025
90 min

This Storyville documentary features the first public account from Carlos the Jackal, one of the 20th century's most notorious terrorists. Speaking from a French prison, he recounts his path from Venezuelan childhood to global infamy, reflecting on his actions and ideology with stark honesty.

Wedding Night

10. Wedding Night

June 10, 2025
71 min

A Storyville documentary in which ultra-orthodox Jewish couples speak bravely about their feelings during matchmaking, the engagement period, the wedding ceremony, their first night alone together and the morning after.

The Contestant

11. The Contestant

June 17, 2025
87 min

The incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone... completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV to over 17 million viewers a week.

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