Storyville: Season 2017
Season 21 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 20.
- 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 21 Progress Shield
Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
Jan 16, 2017 · 85 min
Documentary thriller about warfare in a world without rules - the world of cyberwar. It tells the story of Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware, known as a 'worm' for its abi
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
Feb 1, 2017 · 85 min
An inside account of a scandal that duped celebrities and the literary world. Former homeless youth JT LeRoy become an 'it boy' beloved by stars like Madonna and Courtney Love. His
Notes On Blindness
Feb 16, 2017 · 85 min
In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull, a professor at the University of Birmingham, became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he
Life, Animated
Feb 20, 2017 · 85 min
Nominated for an Academy Award, this film tells the uplifting story of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man and his family. After unremarkable early years, at the age of three Owen
Killing For Love
Mar 7, 2017 · 85 min
Documentary about a compelling murder mystery, fuelled by a passionate young love affair. It all looked clear-cut when German student Jens Soering confessed to the brutal murder of
Murder in Italy
Mar 13, 2017 · 85 min
On Friday, 26th November 2010, in the close-knit town of Bergamo, Letizia Ruggeri received a telephone call. It was Maura Gambirasio, a mother whose 13-year-old daughter Yara hadn'
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
Mar 20, 2017 · 85 min
The bizarre and sensational story of the despot who stole a film star. In 1978, North Korea's movie-loving dictator Kim Jong-il arranged for the Hong Kong kidnap of South Korea's l
Last Days of Solitary
Mar 27, 2017 · 85 min
In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform programme to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan Edge and his co-director Lau
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
May 14, 2017 · 85 min
Five-part series and winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of OJ Simpson. To many observers, the story of the crime of the century is
OJ: Made in America - Part 2
May 14, 2017 · 85 min
There was never one Los Angeles, California. There were always two. One was the world inhabited by OJ Simpson - wealthy, privileged, and predominantly white. A world where celebrit
OJ: Made in America - Part 3
May 16, 2017 · 90 min
The police arrived at the condo on Bundy Drive at 4:25 a.m. on June 13th, 1994. It was a gruesome murder scene, clearly the result of a violent confrontation that had left two peop
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
May 17, 2017 · 90 min
In January 1995, the trial of the century took place. It would be like nothing before it, nor anything that's come since, and reshape the landscape of the media and, truly, America
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
May 18, 2017 · 90 min
On the morning of October 3rd 1995, it was announced that OJ Simpson had been found not guilty of all charges. To many Americans, it was a stunning, almost explicable miscarriage o
Tokyo Girls
Jun 27, 2017 · 85 min
Girl bands and pop music permeate Japanese life. This film gets to the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity. Me
Oink: Man Loves Pig
Jul 2, 2017 · 85 min
Oink explores man's relationship to pigs, diving headfirst into a beguiling mix of sentimentality and violence - from keeping pigs in your bed to factory farming. The documentary v
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
Jul 10, 2017 · 85 min
A profoundly intimate documentary filmed by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews over a period of more than ten years in the life of Morgan's father Geoff and his wonderfully ecc
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
Jul 17, 2017 · 85 min
The former EU commissioner of health, Mr John Dalli, recently left his post having been accused of being in the pocket of 'big tobacco'. Two Danish journalists, Mads Brugger and Mi
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
Jul 24, 2017 · 85 min
Carne Ross was a career diplomat who believed western democracy could save us all. But after the Iraq war he became disillusioned and resigned. This film traces Carne's worldwide q
Queerama
Jul 31, 2017 · 85 min
Created from a treasure trove of archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets,
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
Aug 14, 2017 · 85 min
In 1974 two men vanished several months apart. Iceland, with a population of just over 200,000, was a close, tight-knit community where everyone knew everyone, but the police got n
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Aug 21, 2017 · 85 min
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, lib
The Boy Who Changed America
Sep 6, 2017 · 85 min
On 25 November 1999, a six-year-old Cuban boy was found floating alone off the Florida coast after his mother drowned during an attempt to escape Cuba for the United States. Set ag
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
Oct 26, 2017 · 85 min
Set inside one room in Folsom Prison in California, this film follows three men from outside as they take part in a four-day group therapy retreat with convicts serving long senten
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
Oct 30, 2017 · 85 min
The story of the homecoming of US Army sergeant and former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl, after five years in captivity. After walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, US Army
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
Nov 13, 2017 · 85 min
It was a scandal that shook the British establishment to its roots. In June 1951, the government was forced to admit that two Foreign Office diplomats had disappeared. One of them,
My Mother's Lost Children
Nov 20, 2017 · 85 min
A Storyville documentary: an eccentric Jewish family is thrown into turmoil when two stolen children reappear after 40 years.
Last Men in Aleppo
Nov 27, 2017 · 85 min
After five years of war in Syria the remaining 350,000 citizens of Aleppo are constantly under siege. Through the eyes of the volunteers of the White Helmets, in this film we exper
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
Nov 30, 2017 · 85 min
Twelve billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our solar system and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
Dec 7, 2017 · 85 min
To the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian now Slovenian cult band Laibach became the first rock group ever invited to perform in the dictatorially repressed state of Nor