David France
Director
Storyville (1997)
Season 2025
Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.
Released Nov. 15, 1997
Episode 85 min
None+
Genres: Biography, Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.current-affairs, mdblist.has-trailer
Production Companies: BBC Four
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S29E1 - Your Fat Friend
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.
Jan. 28, 2025, midnight
S29E2 - Black Box Diaries
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.
Feb. 4, 2025, midnight
S29E3 - 26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon
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.
Feb. 11, 2025, midnight
S29E4 - Gaucho Gaucho: Argentina’s Last Ranchers
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.
Feb. 18, 2025, midnight
S29E5 - The Battle for Laikipia
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.
Feb. 25, 2025, midnight
S29E6 - The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6
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.
March 4, 2025, midnight
S29E7 - Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s Airwaves
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.
March 11, 2025, midnight
S29E8 - White Man Walking
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.
May 25, 2025, midnight
S29E9 - The Jackal Speaks
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.
June 3, 2025, midnight
S29E10 - Wedding Night
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.
June 10, 2025, midnight
S29E11 - The Contestant
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.
June 17, 2025, midnight
S29E12 - The Wolves Always Come at Night
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 the city and leave behind the land and rural lives they treasure.
June 24, 2025, midnight
S29E13 - The Srebrenica Tape
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.
July 1, 2025, midnight
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BBC Two
85 min/ep
58140 min
Nov. 15, 1997
Oct. 28, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
NR
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