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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.
BONDI RESCUE is a unique observational series, which follows the whole of the elite professional lifeguards who patrol Australia's busiest beach.
A summer in the life of the Bondi Lifeguards.
BONDI RESCUE is a unique observational series which follows the whole of the elite professional Lifeguards who patrol Australia's busiest beach.
BONDI RESCUE is a unique observational series, which follows the elite professional lifeguards who patrol Australia's busiest beach.
BONDI RESCUE follows the work of the elite professional Lifeguards who patrol Australia’s busiest beach. The mix of high drama, great characters and an exotic location combine to create one of the most popular factual series on Australian television.
BONDI RESCUE'S favourite lifeguards head to Bali to work alongside their Indonesian counterparts on the beach at Kuta.
75 aliases, three continents, one woman. This is her story – all of them. Con Girl explores the many lies and lives of serial con woman Samantha Azzopardi. Russian gymnast Emily Sciberras tells her new friend that her entire family has been killed in a murder-suicide. A distressed teenager is found on the streets of Dublin, so traumatised she can’t speak. 14-year-old Aurora arrives at a clinic in Canada after escaping a terrifying kidnapper. What do these women have in common? They are all fake identities created by Samantha Azzopardi, who has deceived victims & authorities around the globe. Samantha doesn’t fit the usual profile of con artist. Her motives are a mystery. She doesn’t physically hurt anyone. She doesn’t want money. Yet the emotional toll on her victims is devastating. Con Girl is a psychological mystery that looks at the methods and motivations of a unique woman. And for the first time, Samantha’s victims speak about the trauma she ignited in her decades of deception.
CROSSING THE LINE is a reality-doco series hosted by comedian Neel Kolhatkar. Each episode will focus on a particular topic e.g. American jokes and a group of participants will be delivered a sequence of progressively intensifying jokes on said subject matter by Neel or the co-host. At any point in the sequence they can push a button to signal that joke 'crossed the line.' Concluding the episode we discuss the varying responses and discuss what made them offensive or not offensive.
This documentary special investigates the extraordinary history of cruising and a darker side few are aware of. In the face of the pandemic will a holiday on the high seas ever be the same again?
Former cop Jack Darby and flinty English nurse Joan Kirkhope collide in the Australian outback and become entangled in a string of intriguing mysteries. Forming an unlikely investigative duo, they quickly realise the greatest mystery they face is each other.
What would it be like to step into someone else’s shoes and live as them? Dave Zwolenski explores just that in this fascinating, ‘fly on the wall’ series. If there’s someone who’s been criticised, marginalised or under public scrutiny, Dave wants to get to know them and get under their skin. He meets a pig hunter, a sex entrepreneur, a homeless person, a radio shock jock, a politician, a race punter to name a few.
The film follows Dick Smith's public campaign against rapid population growth. The polemical film tests the propositions, one by one, put forward in favour of a Big Australia. Can this popular entrepreneur persuade the nation to change its mind?
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.
A pilot for a seven-part, half-hour documentary series shot on Hi 8 Video. The intent of the series is to forge a new area of program-making for television, using low-cost technology and encouraging access to the medium by non-professional people. The pilot profiles Deb, the leader of the 'Vixens', a Sydney women's motorbike gang who parade under the banner 'Dykes On Bikes'.
Australia’s longest serving caretaker Prime Minister is back where he belongs: on the hustings, in the press, under the radar and all over the issues of the day. All he has to do is turn up.
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM six Australians explore the real lives and historical struggles of refugees. Following in their footsteps they trace, in reverse, the journey that refugees take to reach Australia.
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM six Australians explore the real lives and historical struggles of refugees. Following in their footsteps they trace, in reverse, the journey that refugees take to reach Australia. In the first episode they are immersed in the everyday lives of settled refugees in contemporary Australia; in the second episode they explore the experiences of boat people and internally displaced persons in East Timor; and in the final episode they join refugees in the vast Kakuma camp in Kenya.
Six Australian agree to challenge their preconceived notion about refugees and asylum seekers by taking a confronting refugee journey themselves for 25 days.
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM SERIES 3 will investigate how current changes in Australian government policy have affected the lives of refugees and asylum seekers, and as a point of difference from the earlier series, the journey will be seen through the prism of stateless refugees. Casting ordinary Australians with preconceived ideas about refugees and asylum seekers and sending them to experience a refugee’s journey in reverse, GO BACK 3 will be the most compelling, timely debate so far.
In one of the most ambitious television events in broadcasting history, Go Back Live will present a dynamic snapshot of the global refugee crisis by following refugee narratives in real time over three consecutive nights as a live documentary.
From the Gold Coast to the tropical tip of Australia, when an animal is in trouble, this elite team of experts gets the call.
THE GREAT MINT SWINDLE depicts the Mickelberg brothers’ two decade fight for justice after being convicted of Australia’s most famous gold heist. It is a mysterious saga about their fight to clear their names over a crime that has never been solved.
For the first time, witness the world’s largest island continent, its people, its workings, its unique wildlife and dramatic landscape from a revealing perspective – from above. GREAT SOUTHERN LAND will lift viewers into the heavens for a grand and fascinating look at the stunning patterns of Australian life.
Larger-than-life Australian long-line fishermen risking it all on a daily basis are at the heart of the new documentary series, HARDLINERS.
A brand new series featuring one of Australia’s most celebrated detectives – Ron Iddles, a tough and unorthodox Victorian homicide detective who used his head and his heart to solve some of Australia’s biggest crime mysteries.
1971. In the Western Desert outpost of Papunya, tribal groups fought to preserve their law, culture and identity by inventing a new art form. Sacred symbols once painted on their bodies and in the sand migrated to canvas and took the art world by storm. In the midst of this revolutionary act was an unlikely friendship between Papunya elder Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and a teacher from the city, Geoff Bardon.
A sweeping saga of empires rising and falling as the world’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, fights to maintain and expand the mining dynasty left to her by her father, whilst her children sue her for their share of the multi-billion dollar inheritance.
This is the story of how two unpretentious geniuses re-wrote the rule book in advertising. From "How Do ya Feel?" to Paul Hogan putting "another shrimp on the barbie". They had a hit parade of jingles and ads that did much more than sell products, they changed the way we thought about ourselves ... and helped take a new Australian identity to the world.
JABBED follows powerful personal stories of families whose lives are irreversibly altered by the politics of immunisation.
A compelling and innovative insight into a hidden Australian multicultural institution –the kebab shop. From behind the spits and skewers of meat, 2 multicultural families have a unique front row seat on Australian life. In Melbourne, Muslim-Indian couple Mustafa and Zareena risk everything to grow their kebab empire. On Sydney’s Angry Mile of George St, is Oz Turk which after 14 yrs Turkish couple Fatima and Nafi are handing over to Syrian first-timers Fadi and Rami. In an Australian TV first – fixed rig cameras document the challenges both owners and staff face in the busiest party season of the year – the 3 weeks leading up to Christmas.
Death is often hidden away in modern society. This series takes audiences inside Sydney’s Sacred Heart Hospice, following the working lives of the staff of Sacred Heart Hospice as they care for the terminally ill.
Love, heartbreak, colour and chaos! The amazing story of cross-cultural weddings in Australia.
The journey to every wedding day brings tears and tension, chaos and compromise. So what happens when you try to send two vastly different cultures down the aisle? The answer: you double-down on the stress & drama and buckle up for an epic, colourful tale of love against the odds. This observational documentary series follows a diverse cast of couples as they try to straddle the gulf between cultures and the gap between their parents' expectations and their own dreams.
MARRY ME MARRY MY FAMILY is the amazing story of cross-cultural weddings in Australia. This 3x1 hour observational documentary series follows a diverse cast of couples as they try to straddle the gulf between cultures and the gap between their parents' expectations and their own dreams.
Jon Kelly is a big trucker moving the BIGGEST things in a BIG country. This Mega Trucker has built his family business hauling some of the world’s largest loads across the treacherous Australian terrain. Jon’s drivers ride chrome behemoths in this larger-than-life series.
Mr. Black is an old-school sports journalist who unexpectedly has to move in with his daughter, Angela. What he finds out is that her boyfriend, the sensitive Fin, has also recently moved in. It’s game on.
From the heart of the Australian outback comes the inside story of a terrifying murder that shocked the world. MURDER IN THE OUTBACK is a blockbuster True Crime series that investigates the 2001 disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio in outback Australia.
1814. Van Diemen's Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hated towards those he once served, English convict Michael Howe and a young Aboriginal girl turn a desperate band of convicts, deserters and bushmen into a fearsome guerrilla army and lead them in open rebellion against a brutal, corrupt establishment.
RECRUITS is an observational documentary series that follows a group of police recruits as they embark on the long and gruelling journey towards becoming police officers. With unprecedented access to the New South Wales Police college and its recruits, Recruits will give audiences a rare glimpse at what’s required of the people we entrust to keep the peace and uphold the law.
A year after graduating from Police College, we catch up with recruits featured in series 1. For the last year they've experienced the brutal reality of the job. Every day is unpredictable and every decision vital.
RECRUITS: PARAMEDICS follows a group of trainee paramedics as they train to become what’s known in the business as a “first responder” – an elite paramedic capable of bringing even the most critical patient back from the brink. With unprecedented access to the NSW Ambulance service, the series will give audiences a unique insight into the extensive training each paramedic undertakes to equip them with the clinical skill they’ll need for a long career on the road.
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.
The notorious Robodebt scheme has inspired an innovative and immersive landmark series that combines factual storytelling and high-end drama to take audiences beyond the headlines to experience the impact the scheme had on Australia’s most vulnerable citizens.
A series that combines documentary storytelling with drama to uncover the human story of the notorious “Robodebt" scandal that struck at the heart of inequality and social cohesion in Australia. A brave bunch of Australians took a stand against Centrelink debts that were unfair, inaccurate and illegal. This is the story of their heroic fight against impossible odds.
Shaun Micallef goes on a shocking, surprising and entertaining quest to understand Australia’s cultural love affair with alcohol.
A six-part series following journalist and blogger Joe Hildebrand as he travels Australia exploring the cultural makeup of society.
SLEEK GEEKS is popular science at its best featuring Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and maths whiz Adam Spencer. The Sleek Geeks mix science with humour as they set out to answer some of the perplexing scientific mysteries we encounter on a daily basis. The Sleek Geeks’ mission is to reveal the surprising science that lies hidden in our homes, offices and backyards. Based loosely around themes such as 'Time', 'Mind Games' and 'Senses', Sleek Geeks provides moments of deep thought to the most arcane and bizarre ideas imaginable.
StreetSmart are the most inept suburban crime gang in history, but despite spectacularly failing every time, they approach every heist with blind optimism.
Three Boys, One Dream. THREE BOYS DREAMING follows the fortunes of five young Aboriginal footballers from around Australia as they try to make the big time in the AFL.
John Doyle and Tim Flannery explore Australia's last frontier in an eclectic journey across the top end from Cairns to Broome. As climate change shifts the national focus northward the two men examine the colourful past, present and future of the deep north in their inimitable style.
First mate John Doyle and Captain Tim Flannery take a quixotic voyage down the Murray Darling Rivers in the mighty Bismarck, a three metre tinnie with a very bad leak.
Australia is inextricably connected to China - but how much do we really know about it? It's time for the Two Men to explore our powerful partner. Tim Flannery and John Doyle follow the journey of Australian iron ore from the Pilbara to the heart of China.
Based on Australia's most successful newspaper column in the Good Weekend magazine. TWO OF US celebrates friendship and love in all its surprising forms. Each episode profiles a unique relationship between friends, mates, relatives or lovers.
THE GREAT DIVIDE effectively bisects Australia. To the East are abundant rivers, fertile land and ever-burgeoning population. To the West are uncertainty, drought and vast tracts of emptiness. As we follow the range northward we are not just undertaking a geographical journey, but a journey into the very heart of ancient and modern Australia. Exploring this iconic divide gives us license to investigate some of the big themes and stories of our age. And of course have a bit of fun on the way.
Follows a month long journey through Vietnam as Ken Done gathers material for a new exhibition and looks at the emergence of the country after the war. Part history, part travelogue, part art film, it is an entertaining overview of Vietnam.
Long before Cold Chisel, long before 'Barnesy' there was a true story of James Dixon Swan. A feature documentary on the early life of Australia's biggest rock star - Jimmy Barnes. Based on his book, Working Class Boy.
The 1996 football season is about to begin. The people of Footscray are battlers and so is their fooball team. The mighty bulldogs haven't won a premiership since 1954. The hopes and apsirations of a whole tribe are resting on the broad shoulders of the 'Doggies'. This documentary follows the Footscray Football Club through the football season, from the boardroom to the changeroom.
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