Storyville - The Contestant (original) (raw)
Storyville The Contestant
Storyville - The Contestant
A Storyville documentary that tells the true story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, who spent 15 months in a small room, naked, starving and alone, unaware he was being broadcast to millions of people on TV.
- Duration1h 27m
- First shown10pm 17 Jun 2025
- Available for over a year
Audio DescribedSign Language
Episodes Episodes
- Speechless: 2. The Pendulum SwingsPart two of a film exploring the freedom of speech conversations on US campuses.
- Speechless: 1. The New Campus RevolutionFilm exploring the culture wars and freedom of speech conversations on US campuses.
- André is dying, but he is determined to do so with humour, curiosity and defiance.
- Three men embark on a journey to have a baby which challenges social expectations.
- Against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, five Khartoum residents search for freedom.
- Portrait of a Confused FatherDeeply personal film charting a father–son relationship that takes a sudden, tragic turn.
- A woman in China hires a 'mistress dispeller' to bring her husband’s affair to an end.
- A group of sex workers in Kolkata reclaim their narrative through film-making.
- Five people in Bucha, Ukraine, attempt to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of war.
- Documentary following undercover police as they investigate online crime against children.
- A welder is forced to confront a traumatic past when she has to care for her half-sister.
- A bittersweet summer unfolds inside a crumbling Soviet-era wellness resort in Odesa.
- A Russian schoolteacher risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
- Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.
- Documentary about Liat Beinin Atzili, kidnapped from Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
- A woman seeks to find out more about her father, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
- The Wolves Always Come at NightA family must adapt to a new life after a devastating storm forces them from their home.
- This episode
- Ultra-orthodox Jewish couples speak bravely about their wedding and first night together.
- A rare portrait of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as the infamous Carlos the Jackal.
- White film-maker Rob Bliss walks 1500 miles in the US wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.
- Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s AirwavesHow Falun Gong practitioners hit back at the Chinese government by hijacking the airwaves.
- The Covid Queue at Pavilion 6Humorous and humane snapshot of life in a Covid-19 vaccine centre.
- Film charting mounting tensions between a nomadic African community and European settlers.
- Gaucho Gaucho: Argentina’s Last RanchersFollowing the Argentinian gauchos preserving their traditions in a fast-changing world.
- 26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison MarathonThree men sentenced to life undertake running a marathon around a crowded prison yard.
- Documentary following director Shiori Ito’s brave investigation of her own sexual assault.
- A portrait of anonymous blogger turned best-selling author Aubrey Gordon.
- Film following a young Himalayan boy over five transformative years.
- A road movie following Amber and Guna, happiness agents for the government of Bhutan.
- Film following Talib leaders in the year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
- Documentary following people who use artificial intelligence to 'connect with the dead'.
- Film about a seemingly ordinary Englishman who spent more than 40 years as a mercenary.
- Simulation that escalates the threat posed by the US Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.
- A mother and daughter inherit an enormous crumbling mansion in the Argentine Pampas.
- A defiant journalist battles for freedom of the press and against state-censored media.