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Two Australians from two very different worlds meet on one fateful day with tragic consequences and seismic repercussions. A 19-year-old Aboriginal man from a small community in the heart of the Northern Territory lies dead. A 27-year-old white police officer from a wealthy family in the Australia’s capital stands accused of murder. This is the story of how the paths of Kumanjayi Walker and Zachary Rolfe came to cross, what happened next, and why this one case reaches far beyond these two men to tell a deeply compelling, insightful and confronting story about the country both were born into.
Extraordinary access to the lives of ten Australians and their families, as they sign up to a unique six month treatment program and confront their addiction head on.
A polemic documentary series that tells the extraordinary story of Australia's First Wars - and calls for the First Peoples who died in these conflicts to be acknowledged by the nation and officially recognised by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. First Wars is a documentary series which investigates the frontier conflicts between 1788 and 1928 and their impact, asks Australians who we are, and what we want to become.
Inspired by their stylish African American brothers, the genesis of the Black Panther's Brisbane Chapter is recounted through the eyes of Marlene Cummins, who looks back on the best and worst experiences of this controversial Aboriginal group in the police state of Queensland, in 1971. This unflinching documentary is a journey through the underbelly of Black experience in the volatile period of the 60s and 70s, from an insider's perspective of a Black Panther woman. Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Rachel Perkins and produced by Blackfella Films, the company behind the documentary series First Australians, the telemovie Mabo and landmark drama series Redfern Now.
An inspiring documentary series that takes us on a journey to celebrate our love of books, meet our great storytellers and explore our Australian identity.
Celebrates the coming together of Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians to record the new Festival Mushroom Records Corroboration CD. The CD features 22 different musical acts, both famous and aspiring, both veteran and fresh on the block, incorporating almost every musical style including opera, hip hop, gospel, acoustic, metal, rock, pop and dance. With the direction of independent record producer, Kurt Luthy, artists paired off joining forces to collaborate on tracks, with some interesting mixes coming out of the collaborations. Part of ICAM series.
A senior Aboriginal man reflects on communication the old way. But times have changed and this old man now has a new way!
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.
When Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case they uncover evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths and disappearances of gay men that took place in the 80s and 90s. The killer is using THRUSTR to entice his victims and anyone using the App is now at risk. In reopening the cold cases the detectives reveal the hidden truth about the past murders, finally giving closure to the victims' families, and uncover critical evidence leading to the serial killer.
Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s a murderous epidemic grips Sydney. The attackers are united by contempt. Their targets united by their sexual identity. All are gay. For the first time, Deep Water - The Real Story presents the full account of the gay hate crime epidemic that bloodied Sydney’s coastline. It stirs up old cases in the hope that new evidence will rise to the surface. So that maybe, after all these years, there will be peace for the dead, and justice for their loved ones.
In an Australian scientific and television first, members of the public from different ethnicities across the nation will donate their DNA to take part in this unique experiment, while 3 well known Australians trace their genetic origins back in time. Their DNA will be analysed by world leading scientists, including a team based in Australia. The results will create a genetic map stretching across the globe and 200,000 years back in time. DNA NATION is a groundbreaking documentary series. It will change the waywe think about Australia, the world and ourselves.
Five high profile Australians swap their privileged lives to discover what life is like for the nation’s 105,000 homeless people.
Five wealthy volunteers have all agreed to swap their lavish lifestyles for 10 days living on the streets of Melbourne. They're going to find out what it's like to go from having everything to having absolutely nothing. The social experiment raises as many questions as it answers, as the deep complexities of homelessness are experienced and explored. And for some...it's life changing.
With the gap between the haves and the have-nots ever widening, we take high profile Australians and for ten days and nights immerse them into the world of homelessness. From sleeping rough on the streets, to living in emergency accommodation, to moving into temporary accommodation…The group discovers what it’s like to go from having everything to not knowing where they’ll be staying from one night to the next.
After sparking a national discussion on the homelessness crisis and inspiring those with the power and means to tackle this critical problem, Filthy Rich & Homeless returns for a third season. Five high-profile Australians with the potential to effect positive change will swap their privileged lives to discover what life is like for the nation’s homeless. This time, we’ll extend the exploration outside Australia’s cities and look at hidden homelessness.
Produced by Australia's finest Aboriginal filmmakers, this astonishing series chronicles the birth of a country and the collision of two worlds. It's an epic story that comes alive through the struggles of individuals, both black and white. Beautifully filmed, the series melds landscape, art, interviews and first-hand accounts with a vast archival collection to present the birth of contemporary Australia as never seen before, from the perspective of its first people: the first Australians.
FIRST CONTACT is a constructed documentary series that takes a group of six ordinary citizens and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia.
More than six out of ten who call Australia home have had little or no contact with Aboriginal people. The chasm and disconnect between the First Australians and the rest of the nation is vast. FIRST CONTACT is a 3 x 52 minute documentary series that will shine a light on this deep divide by taking a group of six non-Indigenous people, from different walks of life and with strong and varied opinions, and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time.
The provocative, controversial and dramatic television event First Contact returns to SBS with Ray Martin as host. The 3 x 1 hour constructed documentary series takes a group of six well-known Australians, with strong opinions on a unique journey into Aboriginal Australia.
A journey to discover the genius of the world’s oldest, most innovative and deadliest weapons.
Fifteen-year-old Marnie has to grow up too fast in a small country town.
Ten Australians spend a week together. Five have a history of mental illness. Five do not. The question is – Who’s Who? Mental illness is the invisible epidemic gripping our nation. Around four million Australians have a mental health or behavioural condition. This ground breaking two-part series addresses the issue of mental illness in a way never seen before on Australian television.
By exploring our past and inspiring questions about the future, this revelatory and seminal series asks Australians to understand where the nation has come from, and challenges what we might become.
Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstaking but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives.
Gina, a young Aboriginal mother, finds herself in a predicament when her husband, Max, returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.
LANI'S STORY is the tale of one woman and two relationships. One she has to leave to survive and one she can't survive without. The rates of domestic violence against Aboriginal women in Australia are at endemic proportions. How does one woman break the cycle? Will love be enough to get her through the hard times ahead?
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.
When the dust settles, culture remains…The Maralinga people survive and, through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength, fight to retain their country.
An exploration of multiculturalism and life in regional areas.
When you buy black there's no turning back!
A little girl devises a logical plan to rid the world of sadness… Well, her own world at least.
For any woman it's hard to make it to the top in their chosen field and if you're an Indigenous woman it's twice as hard. But for NSW Magistrate Pat O'Shane, achieving success in a male-dominated field and doing it at a time when women weren't easily accepted in the legal profession, has been a huge feat. Part of ICAM series.
An Australian scientist staging world first psychedelic trials hopes to change the course of the mental health epidemic.
From the multi-award winning producers of Dance Academy and Redfern Now, comes READY FOR THIS, the 13-part story of six teenagers, all elite in within their own field, who have come to live at Arcadia House to pursue their dreams. For some it’s the opportunity of a lifetime, for others it’s a last chance. All are strangers, some a long way from home, and the last thing they expect to find is family.
REDFERN NOW centres around and explores contemporary inner city Indigenous life.
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.
The extraordinary story of two women who sparked a revolution in Australian fashion.
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty-five minutes later lay dead in a watch house cell. This is also the story of that policeman, the tall enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia and the struggle to bring him to trial. THE TALL MAN is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no viewer will forget.
An unlikely national hero, Alex is catapulted into government in a cynical power play. Used, abandoned and underestimated, now she's on a path that will send the political establishment into meltdown.
Alex Irving is back, but this time she’s doing things her way. Can the ultimate outsider find a new way in and take control of a political establishment determined to shake everything she values?
It’s been two years since the explosive events of the second season and outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving, is completely at home in the nation’s capital. But what she’s about to discover will test her like never before.
Presented by Miranda Tapsell, You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Warwick Thornton’s We Don’t Need a Map, Erica Glynn’s In My Own Words, Tyson Mowarin’s Connection to Country and Trisha Morton-Thomas’ Occupation Native, which all capture moments in time that have the power to shape our history
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