Storyville: Season 2014
Season 18 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 17.
- 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 18 Progress Shield
Mandela, The Myth and Me
Jan 13, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary made by a young South African filmmaker before Nelson Mandela's death which raises important questions about the iconic leader's legacy. Khalo Matabane spent two years
Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
Jan 20, 2014 · 85 min
Storyville follows artist Ai Weiwei, China's most notorious artist. In recent years his provocative work has brought him global recognition - and a prision sentence from the Commun
The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
Jan 26, 2014 · 85 min
A film by Martin Wallace and Jarvis Cocker, The Big Melt combines 100 years of footage from the BFI National Archive with a score recorded live at the Crucible Theatre on the openi
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
Feb 3, 2014 · 85 min
Colonel Gaddafi was called 'mad dog' by Ronald Reagan. His income from oil was a billion dollars a week. He washed his hands in deer's blood. No other dictator had such sex appeal
K2: The Killer Summit
Feb 5, 2014 · 85 min
In August 2008, 25 climbers from several international expeditions converged on high camp of K2, the final stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on earth. Just 48 h
Cutie and the Boxer
Feb 17, 2014 · 85 min
Oscar-nominated documentary which explores love, sacrifice and the creative spirit through the 40-year chaotic marriage of two Japanese artists in New York, by following the rivalr
Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
Feb 27, 2014 · 85 min
A gripping story of triumph and failure, set in the world's youngest country. South Sudan became an independent state in 2011, following almost 50 years of civil war. This documen
The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
Mar 3, 2014 · 85 min
Oscar-nominated film compiled from the video diary of a Palestinian farmer who documents unrest in his West Bank village. Emad Burnat starts filming with his first camera following
Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
Mar 7, 2014 · 85 min
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals in Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence
Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
Mar 19, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary exploring one of Japan's biggest train crashes in modern history, caused when a driver tried to catch up with a delay of just 80 seconds. It's a cautionary tale of what
Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
Mar 24, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary looking into into the religiously obsessive, competitive and bitterly divided cult of Bigfoot hunting, as filmmaker Morgan Matthews accompanies three American Bigfoot s
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Mar 31, 2014 · 85 min
Moving and deeply personal documentary about Tim Hetherington, the award-winning British war photographer and film-maker killed in 2011 during the Libyan civil war. Director Sebast
Searching for Sugar Man
May 30, 2014 · 85 min
Oscar-winning documentary which tells the remarkable story of the American rock icon who never was. With a great soundtrack, moving interviews and a breathtaking twist, this is the
The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
Jun 22, 2014 · 85 min
Storyville tells the riveting story of what happened when, in 1973, tennis star Billie Jean King agreed to face former world champion and self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig Bobby
The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
Jul 6, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary telling the intimate but explosive story about the man behind the greatest fraud in recent sporting history, a portrait of a man who stopped at nothing in pursuit of mo
Velorama
Jul 6, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire, the film makes full use of stunning British Film Institute fo
A Sunday In Hell
Jul 10, 2014 · 85 min
Jorgen Leth's film focuses on the 1976 Paris-Roubaix single day bike race over the cobbled farm tracks of northern France, normally reserved for cattle. Leth covers the race with t
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
Sep 15, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary which follows three Chinese teenagers inside a Beijing rehabilitation centre for internet addicts. China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of
The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
Sep 22, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary which provides a vivid glimpse into a vanishing way of life in the Himalayas, as new technology extends its tentacles even into these remote regions. In 1999, the King
Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
Sep 29, 2014 · 85 min
Storyville follows Viktor Bout, Russian entrepreneur, arms smuggler and, strangest of all, amateur film-maker. Until three days prior to his 2008 arrest on charges of conspiring to
The Gatekeepers
Oct 11, 2014 · 85 min
For the first time ever, six former heads of Israel's domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. Since
Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Oct 15, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary which follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of
Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
Oct 19, 2014 · 85 min
With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum security prison exclusively for mur
112 Weddings
Oct 26, 2014 · 85 min
Documentary which explores timeless themes of love and marital commitment. For the past two decades, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Block has helped support himself by shooti
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
Nov 2, 2014 · 85 min
Renowned magician James 'The Amazing' Randi has been wowing audiences with his jaw-dropping illusions, escapes and sleight of hand for over 50 years. When he began seeing his cheri
Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
Dec 22, 2014 · 85 min
Storyville presents a heartfelt and heartbreaking documentary following a cast of Nottingham amateur actors staging a production of Puss in Boots. It tells the story of how a smal