Storyville: Season 2025
Season 29 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 28.
- 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 29 Progress Shield
Your Fat Friend
Jan 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
Feb 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 offen
26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon
Feb 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
Feb 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
Feb 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
The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6
Mar 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 t
Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s Airwaves
Mar 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 t
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 st
The Jackal Speaks
Jun 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 recount
Wedding Night
Jun 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 nigh
The Contestant
Jun 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 nationa
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Jun 24, 2025 · 89 min
A beautiful film, shot in Mongolia, telling the moving story of a young couple left devastated by a sandstorm which kills their entire flock of sheep. They are forced to move to th
The Srebrenica Tape
Jul 1, 2025 · 88 min
A young woman returns to Srebrenica, the town of her birth, to find out more about her father, who was one of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred there during the Bosnian War.
Holding Liat
Sep 30, 2025 · 88 min
A Storyville documentary following the family of Liat Beinin Atzili, kidnapped from Israel on 7 October 2023, as they try to secure her release.
The Librarians
Oct 7, 2025 · 88 min
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.
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Oct 14, 2025 · 88 min
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
Sanatorium
Oct 21, 2025 · 85 min
Storyville documentary. A bittersweet and surreal summer unfolds inside a crumbling Soviet-era wellness resort in Odesa, where guests seek healing, love and distraction.
Welded Together
Oct 28, 2025 · 94 min
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.