Storyville: Season 2009
Season 13 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Storyville Season 12.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 13 Progress Shield
Blast!
Jan 7, 2009 · 80 min
Documentary which follows the story of Mark Devlin and his team of scientists as they try to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under
Fashion Victim
Jan 21, 2009 · 60 min
Documentary telling the strange story of fashion designer Gianni Versace, a household name and designer to the stars, who was murdered on the steps of his Miami mansion in 1997.
Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators
Feb 2, 2009 · 60 min
Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location
Heavy Load
Feb 9, 2009 · 60 min
Documentary about punk band Heavy Load, subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band, but uniquely made up of musi
Prostitution Behind the Veil
Feb 14, 2009 · 50 min
Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women whose misfortunes have landed them in the same run-down building. Their husbands are serving long prison sentences, bo
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
Feb 16, 2009 · 90 min
Powerful documentary from Emmy award-winning director Tom Roberts which explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the moving personal journey of r
Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods
Feb 23, 2009 · 90 min
Documentary telling the true story of five young British freestyle footballers' journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona, a coming
Bulletproof Salesman
Mar 2, 2009 · 60 min
Documentary about self-confessed war profiteer Fidelis Cloer, who, in a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, has supplied kings, presidents and the occasional dictator wi
Robert Capa - In Love and War
Mar 7, 2009 · 50 min
Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40. The film traces Endre F
The Children's Ward
Mar 9, 2009 · 60 min
Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries. Six-year-old Murtaza took a landmine home to play with and it blew up in his
The Jazz Baroness
Apr 17, 2009 · 80 min
Documentary, made by her great niece, about the British Jewish baroness who fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk. Pannonica Rothschild was born with everything, got m
Up for Debate - Team Qatar
May 11, 2009 · 90 min
Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders. So when the Qatari Emiress charged two recent
The Baby and the Buddha
May 18, 2009 · 90 min
Nati Baratz's documentary chronicles a former disciple's search for his reincarnated Tibetan master. After 26 years of isolated meditation in a mountain cave, Lama Konchog became
The Jew who Dealt with Nazis - Killing Kasztner
May 25, 2009 · 90 min
After 50 years, will the Jew accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the Holocaust be exonerated? Dr Israel (Rezso) Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who tried to rescue the last m
The Genius and the Boys
Jun 6, 2009 · 80 min
D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New G
Blindsight
Jun 7, 2009 · 100 min
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, this documentary follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up the 23,000 foot Lhakpa
Angels of Rio
Jun 8, 2009 · 60 min
Detective Jahlk is the most famous private eye in Brazil, specialising in 'corporate crime' and employing a team of young female agents. This documentary follows the case brought
The Trials of Oppenheimer
Jul 15, 2009 · 90 min
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectac
The Time of their Lives
Jul 20, 2009 · 60 min
Set in a north London residential home for the active elderly, this documentary paints a portrait of life at the Mary Feilding Guild and of three of its oldest residents. With a co
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Jul 26, 2009 · 90 min
The definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called 'our greatest comic writer', whose suicide led Rolling Stone magazine, where Thompson began h
Man on Wire
Aug 2, 2009 · 85 min
Documentary based on Philippe Petit's autobiographical book To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. In August 1974, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent
The Baby and the Buddha
Sep 6, 2009 · 59 min
Nati Baratz's documentary chronicles a former disciple's search for his reincarnated Tibetan master. After 26 years of isolated meditation in a mountain cave, Lama Konchog became
Napoli - City of the Damned
Sep 14, 2009 · 70 min
When thinking of devastated cities in the World War II, Naples is often forgotten, but when it was liberated by the Allies it was on its last legs, with 200,000 homeless and no pow
Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired
Oct 13, 2009 · 85 min
In September 2009, Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a 30-year-old warrant. In 1978, the filmmaker skipped bail and escaped to France. For decades, no-one truly underst
Men of the City
Oct 24, 2009 · 60 min
People who work in the city either make money out of money, or from the proximity of money. But what do they feel about their jobs? In Men of the City, filmmaker Marc Isaacs goes b
War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery
Nov 9, 2009 · 60 min
"Documentary focusing on Section 60 of the historic Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia - the 'saddest acre in America' - where US service men and women from the Iraq and Afgha
Hi Society - The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
Nov 17, 2009 · 60 min
Nicky Haslam, renowned socialite, bon viveur, wit and best friend to all is also one of the world's most respected and highly paid interior designers, whose clients include royalty
Survivors: The Horse Boy
Nov 24, 2009 · 60 min
Filmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little-known world, in a documentary which chronicles Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff's personal odyssey to make sen
Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach
Dec 1, 2009 · 60 min
A failed coup attempt ... a British mercenary in a grim African prison ... a dictator accused by the West of torture ... and beneath it all, a spectacular underwater oil reserve th
The Age of Stupid
Dec 14, 2009 · 85 min
Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking