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Visually stunning and packed with scientific facts, 72 Cutest Animals is a countdown and investigation into the cutest animals in the world. From owls to bats and koalas to cats, this series uncovers the unusual characteristics that actually make an animal cute – and it’s more than just a pretty face!
You’re in crystal clear waters, scuba diving, with fish all colours of the rainbow surrounding you. One small, beautiful shell grabs your attention, you pick it up, there’s a tiny pinch…and congratulations, you have been stung by a cone shell, one of Australia’s lesser-known nasties and, unless you get help, in one hour you’re dead! Welcome to 72 DANGEROUS ANIMALS AUSTRALIA. This is an unforgettable journey of horror and fascination.
From first-hand accounts from the people that live there, 72 Dangerous Places to Live is a fascinating discovery of the world’s riskiest places to live.
THE ABBEY puts monastic life to the test in this extraordinary series which follows five Australian women as they spend 33 days and nights living the life of a Benedictine nun. Never before has the outside world entered the cloisters of The Abbey. Will the women cope with the 4am wake-up calls and the seven daily visits to the church? Can they live by the 1,500 year-old Rule of Silence, Obedience and Renunciation? Will they each find what they are searching for?
Figaro Pho is a warm-hearted, adorable, quirky and mischievous character, who just happens to be afflicted with a multitude of weird and wonderful phobias. Based on the award-winning series of shorts by Luke Jurevicius, this long-form series provides an even more intimate experience with the loveable character tragic character Figaro Pho.
When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19 year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Season two picks up with Easton West living his life out of the public eye and concentrating on being a better man, until his new-found peace is shattered by the return of his niece Diana to Adelaide, flaunting her successful career and love life in London. But both must put their troubles aside when a secret from the past throws the West family into more chaos than ever.
VIETNAM: THE WAR BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND THE USA is a re-examination of a turning point in Australia's history and national identity. The film addresses both the political and military histories of the war in tandem with each other for the first time. Paul Ham, the author of the definitive history of the war from the Australian perspective, presents this essay style documentary supported by archival footage, audio, still and interviews with key players.
Tells the story of a forensic investigation into one of the world’s most notorious massacres. In 1991, an estimated 200 people were shot and killed by the Indonesian military during an independence march in occupied East Timor. None of the victims’ bodies has ever been found. Now forensic pathologists from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine have been asked to help find and identify the victims.
For over half a century, The Australian Ballet has evolved to become our nations most treasured performing arts company and an international icon of dance. AND WE DANCED is a landmark 3 x 1 hour series which looks back to reveal what has shaped this world-class institution and made it uniquely ours.
ART AND SOUL is a major three-part series about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Guided by the distinguished Aboriginal curator Hetti Perkins (eldest daughter of activist Charles Perkins; Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), ART AND SOUL is a personal journey of discovery into a world of ideas and the imagination.
Exploring the dynamic world of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists, including the pre-eminent collection at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
This is a landmark series in which Edmund Capon tells the story of art in Australia and the role it has played in the development of the nation. The three-part series interrelates the stories of European and Indigenous art. Edmund travels across the continent to encounter important art and meet significant contemporary artists whose work is influential, or whose creativity deals with themes from Australian history.
In this 3-part series, presented by screen icon Jacki Weaver, we crack open a forgotten vault of Australian government films - now stored in the National Film and Sound Archive - that unearth a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia in the 1970s. Featuring an all-star cast of commentators including Ben Law, Jan Fran and Zoe Coombs Marr, and behind-the-scenes insights from the people who made and featured in these revealing films like Phil Noyce, Dr Gary Foley and Jacki herself, the series offers a fun, insightful, and nostalgic exploration of a decade of political and social change when the idea of Australia was completely reimagined and the modern nation we know today came kicking and screaming into existence.
Could the day when technology gives our biology superhuman powers be closer than we think? How might our brains and bodies adapt? Might the human brain prove itself as the ultimate computer? In this two-part series, a boy’s impossible wish is granted … and we catch a glimpse of our superhuman future.
Beep and Mort are two best friends from different worlds learning to solve their daily dilemmas and unexpected challenges through invention, play and adventure.
Beep is a robot from the stars. Mort is a cuddly resident of Mollyvale. And although they come from worlds apart, they’re the best of friends together. In this all-new season, when they’re not busy inventing epic contraptions, building pillow forts, or solving whodunnits, Beep and Mort are visiting the land of lost things or creating the best club in the absolute universe. Expect twenty wildly fun, all-new adventures, with the same sentiment at heart: that it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’re made of, home is wherever you lay your furry head… or charge your battery. And friendship is the greatest power of all.
This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely hero-(ine)s from a backwater at the arse-end of the world daring to step up from the shadows in their shimmering sequined glory and be counted. It’s the story of how a low-budget Australian film about three cocks-in-frocks changed the course of history and loudly and proudly brought a celebration of gay culture to the world that continues to resonate twenty years on.
in 2004, an unknown cricket team ventured to India in search of one last glorious innings. They never imagined they'd make history in the Kingdom of Bhutan.
BIG WORDS, SMALL STORIES is an animated television series for 5-7 year old's that slides one big word into each silly episode in a laugh-out loud way! Based on the books written by Judith Henderson and illustrated by T.L. McBeth (The Missing Donut, The Travelling Dust Ball and Smell the Daisies, published by Kids Can Press), silly big words like bamboozled, pernickety, flabbergasted, and hullabaloo appear in the stories of our four main kid characters and their anthropomorphic animal friends, providing education and hilarious entertainment for children at home.
BIRTHPLACE OF THE GIANTS is an epic scientific expedition where intrepid whale researchers Curt and Micheline Jenner from the Centre for Whale Research in Western Australia have joined forces with the Australian Defence Department and for the first time in the world will attempt to capture the birth of a Humpback whale calf on camera.
A new sketch comedy show from some of the funniest blackfellas in Australia. (Well, they better be.) Following in the footsteps of the 1973 pilot Basically Black, this is the first sketch comedy series written entirely by blackfellas and commissioned by the ABC.
A sketch comedy show by blackfellas. For everyone.
Acerbic, witty, and altogether unapologetic, Black Comedy carves up sacred cows, dismantles stereotypes, and turns modern Australian culture inside out.
The fourth series of BLACK COMEDY will continue an acerbic, witty and altogether unapologetic comedic exploration of what it means to be black in contemporary Australia. The sketch comedy show is written and performed by some of the sharpest and funniest blackfellas in the country who carve up sacred cows, dismantle stereotypes, and turn modern Australian culture inside out.
BODYLINE: THE ULTIMATE TEST is a unique collaboration between ABC’s sports and science departments, investigating the newest advances in sports science and analysis with Australia’s leading experts. Adam Zwar, our on-screen presenter and self-confessed cricket tragic, will, with the help of biometric scientists, test cricketers past and present, historians and other passionate cricket lovers, breakdown the fast leg theory, and in doing so, discover that it wasn't just cricket that underpinned one of the most controversial moments in Anglo-Australian relations.
In a city famous for its prosperity and 'can do' attitude, we enter the exciting and surprisingly diverse world of Perth entrepreneurs to discover the secret of their success.
Yu Na and Min Park want more excitement in their lives, but they don't realise just how crazy their lives will become when they discover their once unremarkable parents are actually international spies and have disappeared in suspicious circumstances!
BUSH SLAM brings together Australia’s top poets, songwriters and comedians in a performance best described as a poetry brawl. Two poets, one town, capturing the heartbeat of the nation in verse.
In the midst of a silent yet devastating epidemic of fatherlessness, CALL ME DAD is a film about fathers with broken families whose children are gone. Now, through a men’s program, they each have the chance to regain what’s lost, to transform himself and earn another shot at the title, ‘Dad’.
A journey through the dark, chilling and frequently unbelievable tales of power-broking and deceit from inside the nation’s capital. Australian political journalist and commentator Annabel Crabb goes in search of Canberra’s secrets over the past century, exploring the passionate interplay of sex, secrets and subterfuge that has long been carried out in the shadows of the national stage. How have our secrets changed over the past century and what does this reveal about us as a society? This is the history that Canberra has tried to hide.
CASUALITIES OF WAR tells the story of Leigh, a Special Forces soldier who served with the Australian Army in East Timor. Leigh believes that the hardest part of going to war is coming home. A year after Leigh returned from East Timor he reached breaking point and left the army. It is only now, four years later, he feels able to speak out about the realities of being a soldier. There is a world of silence that sits between those who have seen unspeakable acts of violence and those who have not.
Since the Federal Government’s National School Chaplaincy Program (NSCP) was announced in 2006, the number of chaplains in government schools has grown to over 2 700. While the program’s been largely embraced, some are uneasy. The majority of school chaplains are Christian, and Queensland has the most. Toowoomba dad Ron Williams argues they are ‘proselytising by stealth’ and he’s planning a High Court challenge against the Federal Government’s funding of the Chaplaincy program. Compass investigates.
For the first time in Australian television history, a documentary series has been filmed inside one of the busiest mental health units in the country. Brave, raw and sometimes funny, the three-part series CHANGING MINDS goes behind the locked doors of Liverpool Hospital’s Mental Health Unit to meet the patients and staff who are challenging the stigma and taboos that exist around mental illness. Patients agreed to be filmed while mentally unwell and then consented formally once they recovered their health. Their stories reveal the realities of 21st century psychiatric care.
Art and life combine in spectacular fashion on screen as Chinese contemporary artists reflect the vast social upheaval that has accompanied China’s emergence as a world economic power.
CHOPPER RESCUE is an observational documentary series that follows the lives of the EMQ helicopter rescue crews in Far North Queensland as they rescue people in remote locations over land and sea.
Ever wondered what drives people to spend up to 11 months of their year and thousands of dollars all in the name of Christmas? Meet the Watsons, the Greenways and the Overtons, three families who represent some of Australia’s leading Christmas light enthusiasts, and discover the meaning and motivation behind their curious and creative passion.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary CIRCUS OZ: THE BIG BIRTHDAY BASH, looks at the larrikin fuelled, uniquely Australian performing arts company - Circus Oz. Filmed in 2008, this behind the scenes observational style series, shows the company in development and rehearsals for a landmark tour called the '30th Birthday Bash'.
A missing person, a murder that shocked the nation and a suspect hunted by social media as police close in. CONVICTION takes viewers inside the homicide squad as they bring the killer to justice.
CROC COLLEGE follows six Australians who dream of changing their ordinary lives for the better. The three men and three women do just that when they embark on one of the most thrilling and dangerous training courses Australia has to offer. Led by Queensland croc legend John Lever, the students learn how to handle, farm and manage the world’s oldest and largest living reptile - the saltwater crocodile. They will also study the hardcore and sometimes ethically confronting business side to croc farming and some will take part in a ground breaking scientific artificial insemination project.
The political-thriller is set in 1969 and follows Bert Wainer, a local GP, who embarks on a campaign for law reform after the death of a young woman. He discovers an illegal abortion ring protected by corrupt homicide detectives, allowing the medical establishment, media and politicians to ignore the impact of anti-abortion laws.
A thought-provoking documentary that charts the impact of Bruce Pascoe's DARK EMU - the book that challenged Australia to rethink its history and ignited a debate that continues to rage.
3 Girls and 3 Boys with one thing in common - they are all single. Together they have made a pact to commit three months to stepping outside their comfort zones and actively searching for a love life. From Tinder to Dating Boot Camp, they will try every form of dating that's possible in this modern world. This is real life, caught on camera as it happens. Who will find love first?
DRUGS, DEATH AND BETRAYAL lifts the lid on the slaughter that resulted when two underworld tribes went to war over drug profits during Melbourne's infamous gangland killings.
THE DEEP follows the adventures of the Nekton family - a brilliant team of underwater explorers. With state-of-the-art technology and an unquenchable thirst for discovery, the Nektons explore the mysterious depths of the ocean, where most of our world lies unexplored and unexplained.
The Nekton family’s amazing undersea adventures continue with friends new and old, upgraded tech, and incredible sea creatures, big, small and HUGE. But most importantly, they finally catch a glimpse of their ultimate goal: the lost city of Lemuria!
DINGO: WILD DOG AT WAR follows charismatic farmer and canine advocate David Graham as he hunts for solutions to the dilemma surrounding Australia's native dog, the dingo. The Australian bush is at war... Can one man find the way to peace?
India’s 1.2 billion people think Aussies are DUMB, DRUNK AND RACIST. But doesn’t every country have its negative stereotypes? In this six part factual series, journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four Indians on a road-trip around Australia to examine our worst stereotypes - are we really beer swilling racist bogans, or are we simply misunderstood? Shot entirely on location in India & Australia, this series puts it’s Indian protagonists smack bang in the middle of passionate debates and immersive experiences that will change their opinion of Australia forever.
When Art and Vance Watkins re-open the doors of the neglected resort they grew up in, they're prepared for travellers, adventurers and escapees from life's dark places - not for their estranged father. When Gerry Watkins returns to stake his emotional claim on the Far Out East, he's finally forced to face the music. Vance is willing to forget. Art can only forgive the worst in his father when he begins to embrace the best - and it's then he discovers his own glorious ratbag within.
Having spent most of his professional life wandering the globe in search of paradise, travel writer and prodigal son, Art Watkins (Richard Roxburgh), rushes home, too late to be by his dying mother's bedside. Hoping to pay his last respects and escape the run down tropical resort - the scene of his misspent youth - a twist in the tale traps him out at the Far Out East. There he has to face his bitter brother, his childhood sweetheart, and a teenage son he hardly knows. Thanks to his mother's posthumous attempt to reunite her scattered family, Art discovers that his best chance of happiness is the 'paradise lost' he left behind.
Welcome to THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING, a surreal stroll into the creative minds of some of Australia’s most exciting and newest comedy writers and directors. THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING aspires to take sketch comedy off in a totally different direction. You won’t see parodies, impersonations or mock doc. What you will see is brilliant actors delivering grounded performance-driven comedy. It will be random, ridiculous and surreal.
On Australia Day 1972, four young Indigenous activists arrived on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra. They had little idea their small protest would turn into a major defining period of Australia's modern history. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy became a national voice for Aboriginal Australians, and played a major role in the creation of the first Australian land rights legislation. With rarely seen images and interviews, EMBASSY DAYS presents this raw and emotional time as it was captured. From the Message Stick series.
In March 2012, Australian and Chinese scientists announced the startling discovery of prehistoric human remains from a remote cave in China unlike any found before. With access to an unfolding scientific investigation, we dramatically reconstruct the ancient lives and Ice Age world of the Red Deer Cave People and join an international team as it hunts for answers to solve the mystery: Who were the Red Deer Cave people and why did they disappear?
As our third longest-serving prime minister, Andrew Dugdale was a man who mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, co-hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. But since his publicly-mandated retirement, this not-so-elder statesman has far too much time on his hands and no one to waste it on. What’s a former Man of the People’ to do? This narrative comedy series fixes its beady eye on the world of grounded high-flyers and benched heavy-hitters. How do they make sure their elephant stamp on history remains indelible? What do they do when someone goes through their cupboards and finds all those skeletons? And does anybody want anything from the shops?
FAMILY FOOTSTEPS is an immersive documentary series which provides a 'sliding doors' experience for Australians to live the life they might have lived, had their parents or grandparents not immigrated to Australia.
Tasmania is one of the world's last great wildlife havens but its struggling native species are under threat from a feral fox invasion. Or are they? There's some nasty business going down in Australia's island state. A feral intruder is on the loose. He's cunning, deadly and a master of stealth, so expert at flying under the radar that some believe he doesn't even exist.
When death is at your door, how will you view the world and your place in it? Four terminally ill Australians from vastly different backgrounds take us on a confronting, uplifting and surprisingly humorous journey as they look back on their lives and consider their final words.
Firestarter marks the 30th anniversary of Australia’s most iconic performing arts company: Bangarra Dance Theatre. Told through the personal family story of its celebrated and longstanding artistic director, Stephen Page.
When Helen Tudor-Fisk’s life falls apart, she takes a job in a small suburban firm specialising in wills and probate assuming that, because the clients are dead she won’t have to deal with people.
Bubble, pop, go! Fizzy and younger sib Suds are two animated bubbles who love to explore the real world. Endlessly curious, the pair always find something new that captures their imagination. Whether it’s trucks, planes, alpacas or even sushi, the pair become obsessed with what they’ve just discovered and want to know all sorts of things about it. Fizzy & Suds! is a show about passions that celebrates curiosity and divergent out-of-the-box thinking, born out of a desire to indulge the glorious passions that pre-school children have at this age. Our bubbles are always in a lather about their latest discovery – and they can’t help but explore it from every angle.
GIRLS OWN WAR STORIES is a one hour documentary that tells the truth about Australian women in World War Two; a war that changed and liberated Australian women's lives for five short years.
Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. One brother is in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of a family enemy and his wife has run away, leaving him to raise two daughters. His sister-in-law is in love with him, his car repair shop is about to go under and his mother is giving him advice, despite the fact that she died in 1990. Can he find a way to honour his promise to her that he will keep the family together?
The story of a heroic Australian pilot murdered by the Nazis and of the post-war manhunt to not only find his killer, but those responsible for executing 50 Allied airmen in the aftermath of the Great Escape of World War II.
In GREAT WHITE MATRIX we join navy diver and shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder, along with legendary shark-mad cameraman Andy Casagrande, on their mission to investigate one of the greatest mysteries of modern shark science: the drivers of sharks’ predatory behaviour, and the turning points that see the ocean’s most dangerous shark go from chasing fish to chasing flesh. The two shark-loving heroes will use an array of cutting-edge camera technology including custom-built time slice rigs and bite-cam techniques, which will allow them to analyse every move, muscle and tooth of the great white shark.
Charlie Company is one of four companies from the 51st Battalion based in the Torres Strait. It is the most racially integrated unit in the Australian Defence Force: the soldiers, both black and white, are proudly united by the green of their camouflage uniforms. It's their job to detect threats before they can penetrate our vast and often remote coastline. Prepare yourself for battle alongside the Green Warriors. Part of Message Stick series.
In the 1960's and 70's a small group of Australians agitated for the end of conscription of young men to serve in the Vietnam War. This small group became a mass movement that caused the Menzies era Liberal/Country Party to lose power. This documentary looks at the personal cost of the activists by resisting conscription.
A dynamic duo gives the bush image a facelift in a shed show that raises the town's exposure and a few eyebrows.
Former Prime Minister (PM) John Howard, is adamant that Bob Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving PM, had a very positive impact on modern Australia. He invites former PM Bob Hawke, author Clive James and many others to challenge his opinion and, in the process, reveals an enormous amount about how the game of politics is played.
The definitive television record of the Howard Government (1996-2007). The four-part series documents the life and times of Australia's second longest serving Prime Minister and the key events, achievements and controversies of his government.
The rise and fall of Australia’s master spy, a complex Machiavellian character, who attempts to counter the Communist threat, but finds himself in a ‘wilderness of mirrors’ where nobody is who or what they seem.
From a rehearsal room in Sydney through to opening night in New York, a company of actors reveals the magic and struggle of creating theatre.
A study of the Wood Royal Commission, which gripped the Australian public’s imagination for almost three years as it rolled out like a twisting, shocking thriller. It surged to life through the persistence and resolve of the independent politician John Hatton.
For the first time, cameras will go behind the scenes to reveal what it takes to run one of the world’s greatest performing arts centres, the Sydney Opera House.
THE INTERVENTION examines the process of the federal intervention taking place in Indigenous communities in the Katherine region in the Northern Territory in the name of neglected and abused children.
What happens when a source of unimaginable power falls into the hands of a teenage boy?
IT'S A DATE is a narrative comedy series which explores the tensions that erupt when two people get together and focus solely on each other.
IT'S A DATE is an eight part narrative comedy series which explores the tensions that erupt when two people get together and focus solely on each other. Each episode follows two self-contained dates which address dating questions such as, should you have sex on the first date? How important is a sense of humour? Should you go on first impressions? Written primarily by Peter Helliar, the series surprises with exciting combinations of talent and unexpected scenarios in which characters struggle to find love and/or affection.
An eight-episode return journey into the world of dating.
Jack's back in this six-part thriller which takes us from the cultural atoll of Fitzroy to the bustling city of Manila, where Jack's on-again-off-again lover Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp) has landed a job as a foreign correspondent. In the wake of Linda's departure, Jack is engaged to track down a missing man, Wayne Dilthey (Dan Hamill), but the investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. The client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set up - one that now has Jack prime suspect for murder.
Jack Irish is a part-time lawyer, mug punter and finder of people who’d rather remain lost. When a high profile Judge, Justice Loder commissions him to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, dodgy drug dealers, blackmailers, and unhinged killers. Anyone who touches the red book turns up dead. Jack should follow his instinct and back away – if only the judge wasn’t family. Instead he finds himself chasing the red book in a dangerous race to a remote coastal property with an ominous name: Dead Point.
This series follows Jonathon Welch as he attempts to audition, rehearse, conduct and arrange a new choir of female prisoners. Jonathon's aim is to use choral and community singing as a force for social good among the disadvantaged. Singing connects people, it builds self-esteem, it helps build social skills and encourages greater psychological well-being.
Jaimen Hudson’s aerial whale and dolphin imagery are stunning. His spectacular photographs and videos reach hundreds of millions of people online and he has been interviewed by media organisations across the world. Unbeknown to most he is confined to a wheelchair. Jaimen has an ambition to take his talents to a new level and pursue childhood dream of filming underwater. Embarking on the greatest challenge of his life, Jaimen begins his quest to become the world’s first underwater cinematographer with quadriplegia. Struggling against the constraints of his disability and the concerns of those around him, Jaimen sets out to prove to himself and the world that nothing will keep him from achieving his dreams. This is his story.
JA'MIE: PRIVATE SCHOOL GIRL will follow the recalcitrant teenager in her final few weeks at Hillford Girls Grammar School as she gets caught up in events that change her life.
In the eight-part legal-political thriller JANET KING, Marta Dusseldorp will reprise her CROWNIES role as the titular senior Crown prosecutor.
A new mockumentary comedy series that sees Jonah Takalua in the midst of island life but still experiencing the familiar frustrations of a bored teenage delinquent.
A preschool series featuring Australia’s most loved Children’s Presenter, Justine Clarke that captures all of the backstage drama, excitement and collaboration of putting on a live musical show.
KIDS ON SPEED is a 3 x one-hour documentary series exploring one of the most hotly disputed and most commonly diagnosed mental disorders of our time: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The series will take six children and their families through a range of evidence-based assessments, treatments and confronting interventions in an attempt to improve their lives for good.
The family of WW2 cinematographer Damien Parer take the notorious 96 kilometre long Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, an adventure of a lifetime. Track veteran Bill James accompanies them and reveals the true history of the epic Australian/Japanese battle...The Kokoda Campaign of 1942.
Sydney, 1961. The women who work in Goodes ladies wear face tumultuous lives navigating societal shifts and personal challenges amidst the fashion transformation of the sixties.
A 6 x half hour TV series about a woman whose sexual history catches up with her in the most unusual of ways.
LAID SERIES 2 is about a woman whose sexual history catches up with her in the most unusual of ways. In the second series, the world of our heroine Roo, is turned upside down when she is introduced to somebody stricken with a vaguely similar set of mysterious circumstances to the ones plaguing her - although this person is very different from Roo.
Comedy documentary series LAWRENCE LEUNG'S UNBELIEVABLE sees the stand up comedian and investigator embark on a quest to uncover all that is unrational and improbable in our world, well as much as he could fit into six episodes anyway. With his curious quasi-scientific research and somewhat ludicrous real-life experiments Leung takes pot shots at our own misconceptions and tests the limits of our beliefs.
The extraordinary trilogy of The Tampa, The Siev X and the 'children overboard' is a tale about democracy and how power works amidst an inconsolable paranoia that is the national inheritance of the most laid back people on earth.
The story continues for the children of the LIFE series, now they are three, as they reveal what it takes to give a child the best chance at life.
LIFE AT 7 continues the stories of 11 Australian children against the backdrop of the largest-ever longitudinal study on child development in this country, looking this time at peers and temperament.
The fifth instalment in the longitudinal series, examining what it is that gives a child the best chance at life. In LIFE AT 9 we explore creativity and independence.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on earth. Home to a stunning array of animals, from microscopic plankton to 100-tonne whales, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World. LIFE ON THE REEF combines the strongest elements of observational documentary storytelling with blue chip natural history, presenting unique, fresh and authentic stories of Australia’s greatest natural icon, through the eyes, actions, challenges and adventures of the rangers, Traditional Owners, police and scientists.
They look like dragons, man-eating, fire-spitting monsters. To their victims, they are powerful enemies, armed with sharp teeth, tearing claws, a whip-like tail - and, it turns out, an extraordinary intelligence. Lizard Kings takes us into deep Australia’s red heartland, and into the lives and minds of our great lizards- the Monitors.
Thousands of Baby Boomers are living in fear of what may lie ahead. On the eve of a dementia epidemic, three couples reveal how love and humour can balance despair for those living the long goodbye.
The story of an unsung Australian genius whose inventions, 50 years ahead of their time, could now revolutionise the modern world. Unaccountably, these brilliant tools had all but disappeared until a recent discovery brought some of them to light. Henry Hoke was an Australian inventor whose many astonishing achievements have never received acknowledgment, but as climate change forces us to reinvent our world, Henry's time has finally arrived.
This show is a crash course in great sex. Each week Luke McGregor takes on a new challenge with the help therapists, sex coaches and scientists, proving if someone as anxious as Luke can get better at sex, then anyone can!
Tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is a fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.
Australia’s food icon, Maggie Beer, leads an ambitious world first social experiment to transform the meals and dining experience at an aged care home.
What are the secrets to a happy family? What makes some families pull together in a crisis while others seem to fall apart? In the past few decades, science has revealed surprising truths about the qualities happy families share. But how will the research stack up when it's put to the test in the lives of ordinary Australian families? This third series, as a follow up to the popular ABC1 series, 'Making Australia Happy' and 'Making Couples Happy', takes three unhappy families on the brink and attempts to transform their relationships using the latest science. With research consistently linking family difficulties with a range of problems - from anxiety and depression to substance abuse and social breakdown - making families happy is more urgent than ever.
THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA is a landmark cross-platform social history series that tells the big stories of post-war Australia through the family histories and personal archives of those that lived it: the people of Australia.
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically—and mentally—as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
It’s life on the edge in Antarctica. This summer in one of the fastest warming areas on the planet join a family of Adélie Penguins in a quest to make a chick against the odds.
Using Robert Menzies’ World War II diaries and remarkable 16mm film, MENZIES AND CHURCHILL AT WAR lifts the lid on a bitter behind-the-scenes battle between Winston Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister as the fate of Australia hangs in the balance.
A murder mystery series based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood. Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life.
MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES SERIES 2 is a 13 x 1-hour murder mystery series based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood.The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is back! The second series of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries builds on the meticulously constructed world of series one as it follows the independent, glamorous and unflappable leading lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis). This lush take on the traditional crime drama explores the fascinating and varied sub cultures of 1920s ‘between-the-wars’ Melbourne.
The third Series of MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES continues the unconventional antics of stylish lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, as she solves crimes with the help of her ensemble of household cohorts and continues her playful partnership with the suave and dedicated, Detective Jack Robinson.
THE MISSION is a four-part documentary series about three young Nigerian priests who journey from equatorial Africa to Australia’s island state, Tasmania, as modern day missionaries
One of the most brilliant generals of World War I and an architect of Anzac Day, Sir John Monash helped create the Anzac legend by ensuring the courage of his men was enshrined in Australian history.
Once a year we visit the Moodys as they come together to share this universally celebrated holiday, stuffed full of all the fun, fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, overbearing in-laws, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities that any family who has experienced the melting pot of Christmas Day will relate to. Because while in theory Christmas is a time for family to share and celebrate, in practice it’s often a day spent with relatives you hardly know, where dirty laundry is aired, family rifts resurface, strangers are forced to act like family, and celebratory drinks can disintegrate into drunken rows. As often happens at the Moodys...Each episode takes place on Christmas Day, or during the Christmas period, and 12 months passes between every episode.
Lawrence Mooney loves a party. He’s a comedian, a midnight til dawn radio host, a raconteur and notorious man-about-town, with a degree in mayhem and a Masters in social chaos. It’s not that he avoids responsibility - he’s just never found a need for it. His ability to smooth a social faux pas with boisterous hi jinks has dug him out of the deepest holes, but life has caught him napping. His long time girlfriend, Kate, is pregnant and Lawrence’s habit of breaking rules and avoiding consequences has finally come knocking.
Arthur Gbeme has moved back into his Western Sydney childhood home. As he tells it, he has “put his life on hold” to care for his mum, Maggie, but the truth is, there isn’t much to put on hold. A former nurse, Maggie used to be a firebrand – a renegade. But since the death of her husband, Maggie has been… a little off. A bold re-imagining of the Australian classic, ‘Mother & Son’ is a show about ageing, migrant upbringing, changing family roles, and caring for someone you love even when they’re driving you up the wall. It’s an unapologetically hilarious comedy about a “helpless old woman” who runs rings around her adult son.
Filmmakers Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond follow MLC School's legendary director of music, Kern Carey, as she throws her young students into musical waters over their heads. Fifteen months later, at the Sydney Opera House, this extraordinary educational program comes to fruition, and we celebrate the making of music and what it can give us.
It's 1964 and when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea, the gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall and must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class Private Detective in her own right.
Two men get into a hansom cab one murky night in Melbourne. They’re driven through the city where one man gets out. The other rides on to St Kilda. There, the driver finds the second man murdered…
At a time of heightened tension and increasing security risks throughout the world, NAVY DIVERS is a timely exploration of life at the front line of national defence with unprecedented access to the Navy's most extreme training course.
The world's favourite scaredy pants is ready to take on the world in a series of hilarious and charming adventures. With his trusty robotic dog companion Rivet by his side, and his quirky new friends Snotty Ronald, obsessive Prudence and skaterboy Rudy, Figaro will step out and face his fears head on.
Mental health issues and loneliness in Australia are on the rise and so are dogs on death row. Joel Creasey has a solution: a mutual rescue.
This six-part series is a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood through the eyes of six aspiring Australian actors, as they compete with the world’s best for coveted roles during the highly competitive US TV pilot season, a frenzied time in Los Angeles, when all the networks cast their upcoming pilots. Securing a role could launch their international careers and prove to be an opportunity of a lifetime. It will be the biggest challenge of their careers so there is a lot at stake. NEXT STOP HOLLYWOOD is about the pursuit of dreams, the spirit of determination and the breaking of hearts.
Murray Fredericks is an award-winning artist renowned for his photographs of the vast empty space of Lake Eyre, South Australia. When he relocates his work to the Greenland Icecap - atop a melting glacier and under the solar storms of Aurora Borealis - he finds himself alone in a landscape he's never been, in a place he doesn't understand, hoping this time he hasn't taken his quest too far. What begins as an artistic odyssey, becomes an adventure of extremes in one of the most breathtaking environments on Earth.
When Luke, a tech-nerd, arrives for his first day at Bremin High all appears to be tiresomely ordinary, but what he doesn’t know is that Bremin is located at the convergence of magical ley lines and that someone has been awaiting his arrival to put together a new gang of Nowhere Boys. Three have already been identified: Heath, the school’s ‘bad boy’, is Fire; high achiever and track athlete Niyanta is Earth; and musical theatre geek Jesse is Air. Unbeknown to him Luke is the fourth element –Water. Coinciding with Luke’s arrival, people start disappearing, until one morning Luke, Heath, Niyanta and Jesse – discover they are the last four people in the universe, and they have been thrust together into a terrifying empty wasteland.
A natural history documentary featuring previously unknown underwater behaviour, and a passionate and engaging scientist whose mission it is to unlock the secrets of the most devoted of all marine mothers – the Australian Sea Lion.
Young Australian lone adventurer Tim Cope, follows the trail of Genghis 10,000 kms across Eurasia, with 3 horses and a dog.
ON TRIAL is a ground breaking documentary series for Australian television offering unprecedented access to criminal matters in an Australian court.
OUTBACK CHOIR follows the heartwarming journey of a regional children’s choir, and its founder Michelle Leonard’s personal mission to bring a desolate musical landscape back to life. Chronicling their journey from audition to stage, the film reveals the trials and tribulations of running a children’s choir in the most isolated and disadvantaged region of NSW, where sport is king and music education is non-existent. Despite vastly different lives, hopes and dreams, one thing remains the same for all these children: to believe in themselves, they all need someone to believe in them.
OUTLAND is a comedy about a gay science fiction fan club, and the lives, loves and never-ending dramas of its members.
PARER'S WAR is the story of World War II frontline cameraman Damien Parer and his desperate efforts to reveal the savage truth of battle and the brutal truth of the heart
With unparalleled access, PIRATE PATROL follows the highly challenging lives of the crew of a Royal Australian Navy frigate as it embarks on a nine-month tour in the hazardous waters of the Persian Gulf.
Planey Lulin is a coming-of-age series about a sparky pre-teen girl whose alien powers suddenly kick in, making her the target of hostile intergalactic invaders!
Ricky Maynard is a Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer driven by a need to reveal his people’s true history. From the Message Stick series.
In Australia everyone has a possum story. Forced out of their bushland habitats over the past decade these mischievous marsupials have swarmed into the cities. Each night countless possums scamper across power lines, rooftops, fences and trees in a never-ending quest for food and shelter. But have the possums of one inner-city park finally met their match? POSSUM WARS lifts the lid on the private world of Australia’s most unwanted marsupial and their battle to make it in the big city.
With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace - an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy.
Gem Coll and Tag Anaton, two teenagers from different worlds, join the mysterious Prisoner Zero and his crew aboard the spaceship Rogue. Across 26 x 24 minute action packed episodes, our heroes battle against the evil Imperium, travel to alien worlds to fight monsters from ancient times and try to find out just who Prisoner Zero is, and why the Imperium took away his memories.
A transplant patient becomes a doctor in the life and death world of the cardio-thoracic ward of a major teaching hospital, where she and her colleagues have to face the political, personal and professional realities of working at the coalface of an ailing medical system.
RAKE is about love, madness, addiction, and the law--in short, it is about modern life.
RAKE stars Richard Roxburgh (Blue Murder, Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible II ) as criminal defence barrister Cleaver Greene – defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause ... both in the court room and the bedroom.
One might be forgiven for thinking prison is as low as things can sink for Criminal Barrister Cleaver Greene. But when we rejoin our silver-tongued hero things are heading south again as he emerges a legal pariah. This series shows Cleaver fighting to re-establish himself, and despite himself. Before long, there is corruption at corporate and government levels; a faux heist, a faux cancer and two very real Royal Commissions. And, of course, the constant fear Greene will mess up the whole thing royally.
Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) crashes back to earth - literally and metaphorically, when he’s propelled through a harbourside window into the unwelcoming embrace of chaos past. Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter. Before long Cleaver’s being chased back to Sin City. But Sydney has become a dark place: terrorist threats and a loss of faith in authority have seen it take a turn towards the dystopian. When Cleaver finally emerges, he will be accompanied by a Mistress of the Black Arts, navigating a yellow brick road leading straight to our dark corridors of power. Twisting and weaving the stories of the ensemble of characters we’ve grown to love over three stellar seasons, Season 4 of RAKE continues the misadventures of dissolute Cleaver Greene and casts the fool’s gaze on all levels of politics, the legal system, and our wider fears and obsessions.
After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life. He begins an epic “chicken chase” fuelled by a determination to find “lost” breeds of poultry before they are gone forever. His search covers almost 10,000 kilometres and five Australian states as he tracks down rare heritage breeds and meets others who share his passion.
Against the backdrop of the release of the Disney motion picture Saving Mr Banks (starring Emma Thompson as Pamela Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney) released worldwide in December 2013, THE REAL MARY POPPINS delves into the real story underlying the creation of Mary Poppins. Commissioned by the ABC, the documentary examines the real life relationship between Pamela Travers and Walt Disney and the inevitable friction between the two arising out of the adaptation of Mary Poppins for the silver screen. The deep connection between Pamela Travers and her Mary Poppins character is the foundation for the movie but in reality this connection bordered on the obsessive. Just why was Mary Poppins so important and more importantly where did she come from?
Sydney, the early fifties. All the ingredients for a murder epidemic were in place. What followed was a real-life crime wave that mirrored the cinematic style of film noir. The femme fatale was alive and killing. Between the years of 1947 and 1953, women were murdering their nearest and dearest with rat poison!
The highly celebrated and multi award winning drama is back for one last story. A powerful, heartbreaking and uplifting telemovie that explores the impact of a violent crime on two women, and the fight for justice that ensues.
REDFERN NOW centres around contemporary inner city Indigenous life. Over six episodes we join the households of six different families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident. Extraordinary events in ordinary lives.
REDFERN NOW is a kaleidoscopic drama series that explores the inner-city suburb and the people who inhabit it. Over six stand-alone episodes, with interlinking secondary characters, we join the households of six ordinary families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident.
A reptilian battle of titanic proportions is underway in Australia's north.
This series follows the trials and tribulations of Australians restoring buildings to their former glory. Across the country, thousands of old buildings and historic items lie forgotten and neglected, tangled up by red tape and development restrictions, or just slowly moldering into decay on the landscape. Many of these orphaned properties are of outstanding historical interest. And with every building being rescued, there are individuals or communities who despite the red tape, the costs, the hours of back-breaking work and the disruption to their lives, are dedicated to embracing our country’s past and completing their projects to restore a house and a piece of Australian history.
REVOLUTION SCHOOL is a four part documentary series which investigates how to improve secondary education in Australia. At a time when we are falling behind in the international education rankings, it tells the story of Kambrya College, a typical outer suburban high school in Melbourne. Kambrya struggles, but led by Principal Michael Muscat, it raises standards by applying cutting edge research developed by Professor John Hattie at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.
A musical comedy about two mismatched housemates from the acclaimed comedic duo, Sammy J and Randy. Sammy J is a hopeless, down-and-out divorce lawyer who, six years into his legal career, is yet to win a case. And Randy is a cheating, gambling, drinking divorcee who also happens to be a purple puppet. Randy hit rock bottom after his divorce lawyer, Sammy J, managed to lose him everything. So Sammy J offered his spare room to Randy for a fortnight. That was twelve months ago. Now Sammy J and Randy are inseparable - loyal, eccentric, and prone to bursting into song at any given moment.
In the hidden depths of Australia’s wild Southern Ocean a great white shark is savagely attacked by a far larger and faster mystery predator. An electronic tracking device attached to the great white records a high-speed underwater chase six hundred meters deep before the shark and its tag are savagely devoured. Two weeks later, after being carried in the belly of the unknown killer, the still functioning tag is excreted and washed ashore, withholding clues that could reveal the identity of the shark’s super predator. This is the story of a super predator’s epic underwater attack that leads investigators to a mysterious and powerful natural phenomenon that, for a few short weeks each year, attracts the oceans most fearsome predators.
In 1810, emancipated English convict William Thornhill stakes a claim on 100 acres of land on the remote Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, only to find that a clan of Aboriginal people also lay claim to the land, as they have done since time immemorial.
SERANGOON ROAD is a detective series set against the exotic backdrop of 1960s Singapore, a port city at a crossroads of violence, politics and crime.
A psychological mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters following a convoluted chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.
Compass investigates the rules about sex within three different faiths. For Muslims sex within marriage is seen as an act of worship, although in the public arena the emphasis is on de-sexualising the body. For many Jewish women, the Mikvah or ritual immersion in pure water is a monthly pre-requisite before sex. And with many Hindus, although sex is not expressed openly in everyday life, the worshipping of a god represented as a phallic symbol is. We also uncover the facts behind some popular myths. Do Orthodox Jews really have sex through a hole in the sheet? What do modern Hindus think about the Kama Sutra?
SHARK GIRL is the story of Madison, a young Australian conservationist who has changed her life to protect sharks in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Park, where 80,000 sharks are caught every year. And reef sharks are disappearing at an alarming rate, with devastating impact on the entire marine system. Determined to show the world the importance of these mighty creatures she’s never feared, Madison sets out to investigate the Australian shark fisheries and connects with a global network of conservationists to safeguard the animals she loves.
Written in the colors of our skin is the story of an epic journey - one with extraordinary implications for our survival. From Australia to Africa and from Darwinian theory to current science, we shed new light on the human rainbow that is challenging traditional notions of 'race'.
SOUL MATES is a toxic bromance that follows the story of a couple of buddies who are continually drawn together across the course of human history, past and future. In the beginning of time these two mates are experiencing all of life’s firsts as a couple of cavemen. In 1979 they’re two New Zealanders killing it as Kiwi assassins. By 2013 they’re a pair of fashion-obsessed Bondi hipsters, and in the year 2145 they are tackling time travel conundrums, working nine to five in a time travel agency.
SOUL MATES is a bromace for the ages. It follows the story of two kindred spirits trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth exploring reincarnation in four different lifetimes.
SPORTING NATION will dissect Australia's magnificent cultural obsession, meet the heroes who inspire us, and examine how sporting culture in Australia has developed.
Dale Deakin, 23, owns and operates a spy shop franchise and presents a weekly online video blog about the shop and its amazing products.
SQUINTERS is a 6 x half hour comedy that celebrates the mundane morning work ritual that is the morning commute. Each episode tracks employees of dispatch centre K2 as they head off down the M4 into the morning sun, then again as they return home at the end of the day.
With a blend of social history, interview and comedy performance, this series explores the maturation of Australian comedy, unpicking our cultural cringe, poking fun at our national identity, confronting hard truths and uncovering our taboos with our greatest weapon – our ability to laugh at ourselves. Narrated by Eric Bana, the series charts the development of Australian comedy through social and political change. It explores the way humour has reflected and responded to multicultural Australia, gender issues, and politics. Each episode moves seamlessly back and forward through time, weaving contemporary comedy with early comedic performance, featuring over 50 interviews with the men and women who make us laugh.
Stop Laughing… This Is Serious is a three-part documentary series that continues the captivating story of Australian comedy. In series 2, we delve deeper into the defining moments of Australian comedy and how they shaped our comedic voice. Weaving contemporary comedy with the best of our past, we drill down into the craft itself to reveal the inner workings of the creative process, the influences and the inspiration, the risks and the rewards.
THE STRAITS follows the fortunes of a family who happen to be on the wrong side of the law. Their turf is Far North Queensland and the complex network of islands that form Australia’s northern frontier: the Torres Strait. Bordered to the north by a developing nation on the verge of becoming a failed state, and to the south by a rich first-world country, the Straits is a porous membrane for contraband – wildlife, drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants. In short, it’s a crime paradise.
Hapless city cop, Toby Banks, is demoted to night duty in the sleepy beachside village of Coolum, only to find himself investigating strange late night phone calls that reveal the bizarre truth of the town – a place where men turn into chickens, mermaids fall in love with locals and cats return from the grave…
From Modernism to McMansionism, Tim Ross – comedian, broadcaster and aficionado of architecture and design – takes us on an intimately personal journey into our Australian suburbs, then and now, in a bid to understand how they’ve changed and what that says about who we are.
Every 40 seconds, someone in the world attempts to take their own life. In SUICIDE AND ME, three young suicide survivors break through the stigma by revealing why they attempted, and ultimately, how they found hope. As their powerful stories unfold, a team of suicide hotline operators work through the night to help people through their most desperate hour.
Told entirely from the perspective of the survivors of the Mumbai terrorist attack, this is the revealing story of the emotions we experience, the decisions we make and the desperate actions we take when death is staring us in the face.
The inner struggle of Ian Thorpe as, despite failing at his Olympic comeback goal, he discovers a different relationship with the water and his own swimming legend.
Set in and around thriving Littleton City Council, thrillas its staff and ratepayers navigate busking licence auditions, animal control officers convinced they are in the mob and Mayors with Game of Thrones-esque delusions of grandeur; while its municipal rooms-for-hire lure wildly inappropriate dance teachers, dubious self-improvement classes and harangued relationship counsellors.
TIME OF OUR LIVES is the story of an Australian family as the juggle, fight, love and play their way through the challenges of contemporary family life.
Things are moving on for the Tivolli family after some momentous changes. Matt and Caroline are divorcing but must face an even greater challenge when a traumatic event with Alice affects them all. Chai Li’s reconnection with her birth mother brings unexpected complications when a life-changing issue arises for her adoptive parents Ray and Rosa. And the show’s central couple, Luce and Bernadette find new strength together as they deal with a major personal crisis. THE TIME OF OUR LIVES Series 2 continues the warm, intelligent and sensitive look at contemporary life in urban Australia.
When 'The Ghan' arrived in Darwin on the afternoon of Tuesday February 3 2004, it was a moment of great significance for the people of the NT, and indeed all Australians. It marked the completion of the first transcontinental rail journey from south to north. It meant that long-held dreams had come alive and that new dreams and new hopes were created. Mark Bowling was aboard 'The Ghan', and his half-hour ABC documentary, commemorates this extraordinary moment in Australia’s history.
Nearly 400 years after being tried by the Roman Catholic Inquisition, Galileo again faces charges of heresy. Leading scientists, scholars, barristers, politicians and churchmen take part in a unique performance event staged by the University of NSW and filmed by Compass. With exclusive interviews and behind the scenes coverage, this Compass special brings the drama and highlights of the re-trial together in a one hour television special.
A 50,000 year-old Indigenous civilisation. An international perfume industry facing ruin. And a delegation to the United Nations. From the red ochre earth of the outback to the grey cobblestones of the Champs Elysee, together they develop a plan for the future.
TRIGGER POINT seeks answers to the tragic chain of events that is set in motion when police use firearms in the course of duty - tragedy for both the shooting victims and the police who pull the trigger.
Widely regarded as Australia’s greatest living artist, the exuberant 80-year-old John Olsen talks with acclaimed art commentator Betty Churcher about his life’s work.
When Bess Denyar, a doctor with a posh mother, an architect husband and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents - Wayne and Julie Wheeler. If that’s not enough to digest, Bess also discovers that she has siblings - Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs, and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
Bess Denyar, an upper middle class doctor, having discovered she is adopted and comes from a family of drag racers in the outer suburbs, continues to deal with the adoption bombshell and its consequences. Caught in the middle of two tribes, it’s Bess who must keep juggling the fallout – on her adoptive and overbearing mother Margaret, her loving but slightly spoiled husband Danny, her twins Oscar and Edwina, not to mention the Wheelers, her newly found and delightfully bogan family.
UPPER MIDDLE BOGAN SERIES 3 sees Bess Denyar continuing to strive for a happy union between her adoptive upper middle family and her biological bogan family. Two years have passed since Bess, an upper middle class doctor, discovered she was adopted and found her drag racing, biological parents living in the outer suburbs. With her two families, the Brights and the Wheelers, each now facing a brand new set of challenges – moving houses, illness and injuries, relationships ending and beginning – Bess struggles to manage her families living at opposing ends of the freeway, with varying levels of success. Often caught in the middle of two tribes, Bess’ dreams of life as one big happy clan seem almost impossible… but only almost.
In the mould of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, VALENTINE'S DAY is a tale of hope and redemption. Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) has totally lost his way in the world when he finds himself in a strange country town. With a sentence of 200 hours of community service, Valentine must coach the town's 'no-hoper' football team, who are teetering on the brink of demise. If the team don't win three out of the next four games, they'll be merged with their arch rivals and the town will also lose its precious pie factory. Valentine is embraced, heart and soul by the townsfolk. This one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town.
The horses used by Australia’s military in World War I were popularly known as ‘Walers’. Bred for Australia’s tough conditions, they were the backbone of the Australian Light Horse regiments. GREAT WAR HORSES follows the pivotal role the Australian Light Horse regiments were to play in winning the Middle East. Of the 135,000 horses sent to war, one returned home. GREAT WAR HORSES is a powerful, moving testament to the animals that were sacrificed in war, featuring a variety of voices, from leading war historians to horse experts, to the descendants of the men who served.
THE WAR THAT CHANGED US is a four-part dramatised television series produced by Electric Pictures for ABC prime time television. The series tells the epic story of Australia’s involvement in World War I through the lives of six Australians. Their transformative journeys through conflict on the war front and the home front are brought to life through a blend of personal testimony, drama, expert analysis, location filming and archive. THE WAR THAT CHANGED US has substantial Australian history heritage value. This documentary series is a remarkable Australian story told on a grand scale.
The ABC's first 360 video narrative and virtual experience is a uniquely Australian story, taking viewers backstage to Australia's most famous rodeo at Warwick in regional Queensland. Experience a day in the life of local cattle farmer and champion bronco rider Michael Maher, as he prepares to compete in the Warwick Gold Cup Campdraft and Rodeo. He’s the home-town favourite, having recently proven himself on the Australian and American rodeo circuits. The pressure is on!
When Jane, a cocky Korean-Australian Adoptee gets called-out for being a ‘fake Asian’ and is accused of having a ‘white man fetish’, she throws herself into an unceremonious quest to reprogram her whitewashed libido, only to find that she is embarrassingly inadequate and way out of her depth. It soon becomes painfully obvious that popping her ‘Asian-guy cherry’ is not the easy feat she thought it would be and her whitewashed libido is only a symptom of a much deeper and more confronting problem.
Wielding an orator’s grandeur, a brilliant mind and a bulletproof self-belief, Gough Whitlam employed a “crash or crash through” approach to life and politics. He spent over 20 years fighting civil wars inside the Labor Party before eventually leading them to power. He was hailed as a Labor Messiah “but when he fell, he fell harder than any politician in Australian history”. Gough Whitlam modernised the lives of Australian people, and for that he was more loved and more hated than any Australian leader before or since.
A six-episode comedy following best friends Penny, Mia and Austin, as they plunder through their early twenties in the hyper-divisive, socio-political hellscape that is 2020, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.
Hosted by Indigenous chef Clayton Donovan and filmed on the north coast of NSW, this series uncovers Clayton’s unique approach to food while exploring the diverse landscape and culture of the region.
After years in the corporate world, an adventurous couple give it all away to become motorcycle tour guides, taking fellow bikers outside their comfort zones through some of the most awe-inspiring places on Earth. Adventure, excitement and danger stalk them around every corner. The sights, sounds, smells and the danger are all very real. Riding through some of the world’s most challenging locations, Mike and Denise experience culture and adventure in a way that no one else can.
The incredible and moving life and death of Aboriginal resistance warrior Yagan.
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