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This medical drama focuses on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
A medical drama about a nursing unit.
Bad cops Detective Red Lilywhite and Lou Knutt are plain clothes detectives based at a southern Sydney beachside suburb and part of a police force that is still the best money can buy! They are masters of their domain, giving the greenlight to all the criminal activity in their area for a ten percent piece of the action, all the while dispensing their own particular and often ludicrous brand of justice as they see fit.
The nature and illusion of escape in working class suburban Australia, using the restoration of a 1958 Holden as a metaphor for freedom.
A film about people who touch dead bodies. Morticians, embalmers, and grave diggers describe their work in a down to earth manner. They provide a layperson's guide to the crafts of embalming and autopsy, talking about their macabre and often funny experiences with corpses, and finally, their burial preparations. BODY WORK investigates and revels in the most taboo of taboos.
A look at the culture of that frequently lethal contemporary pin-up - the car. A series of ordinary Australians sit, presciently frail, against snapshots of roadside icons, and tell us the almost generic stories of their loves, lives and tragedies in cars. Can the tyranny of distance and scale, so particularly Australian, explain the excessive attachment of Australians to their cars?
The territory of Cops: L.A.C. covers the inner city, the harbourside and the eastern beaches of Sydney, from lowlifes to high society and everything in between. Their brief is to fight and control crime on their turf. From shoplifting to murder, small-time drug deals to major organised crime, these cops see it all every day.
Ben and Rosie's ten year marriage has hit the wall. The story of their trial separation is told in two distinct halves - his and hers. While each side is as convincing as the other, it is only by watching both halves the audience gets the real story.
An explosive action series and tale of forbidden love set against the culturally diverse backgrounds of street crime on the tougher side of the city and the affluence of the city beach suburbs. Breaking new ground for Australian drama, exploring youth culture, including the taboo subjects of the underground world of drag racing and ram-raiding.
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.
Two feuding detectives hunt down a cop-killer, who is leaving a trail of broken lives across Sydney…including their own.
It's Sydney in 1969 and the Mafia have just sent Tony and Sal, a couple of Chicago hoods, to Australia to get a cut from the profits of the illegal gambling which is flourishing due to Yank soldiers on R&R from Vietnam. Barry Ryan who runs Sydney's shady end of town doesn't think much of this idea and co-opts his nephew, Darcy, his wife, Sharon, and mistress, Margaret, into helping him keep the Mafia at bay. A trip to the outback is what he has in mind.
THE FEDS is a prestige movie for television inspired by the work of the nation's premier law enforcement body, the Australian Federal Police. The action swings from Australia to Hong Kong and back, in a world where the Triads and L'Honarata co-exist and where governments fall and rise. At the heart of the story are the ordinary people who are cops, or work with cops or happen to be married to cops.
THE FEDS are prestige movies for television inspired by the work of the nation's premier law enforcement body, the Australian Federal Police. The action swings from Australia to Hong Kong and back, in a world where the Triads and L'Honarata co-exist and where governments fall and rise. At the heart of the story are the ordinary people who are cops, or work with cops or happen to be married to cops.
FENCES documents the many areas of personal space from physical personal space to the space society creates for us within. It identifies the many ways our personal space can be invaded and how we try to avoid it.
Set in a small country town, FIREFLIES centres on the townspeople and its rural bushfire brigade. You can measure a township by the commitment of its people. Most of them are volunteers, from the fire brigade to the CWA. Whether you're new in town, or here for generations, when you're facing the driest, hottest summer in decades, it pays to belong.
Set in a small country town, FIREFLIES centres on the townspeople and its rural bushfire brigade. You can measure a township by the commitment of its people. Most of them are volunteers, from the fire brigade to the CWA. Whether you're new in town, or here for generations, when you're facing the driest hottest summer in decades, it pays to belong.
Exciting outback adventures with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
John Godshall Johnson is an Australian who has spent a lifetime making violins by hand for the love of the intrument. Each one bears the message 'This instrument may be freely given but never bought or sold'. This film examines Johnson's technical skill and philosophy which underlies his work.
Poor Lenny, he gives it a go, he gives it a try and look what happens. So he isn't really a greenkeeper, and the green's crook; it'll come good, it'll be right, he just needs a bit more time, that's all... Lenny's a battler, he won't give up and he's going to sort it out one way or the other...
Jane Halifax is a forensic psychiatrist whose speciality is the criminal mind.
Jane Halifax is a forensic psychiatrist whose specialty is the criminal mind.
Examines the lives, loves, drama and heartache of the residents of Summer Bay.
HOME AND AWAY follows the lives, loves, drama and heartache of the residents of Summer Bay.
When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder, identity fraud, chaos and intrigue where no-one is safe and no-one can be trusted. In a world where crime has no borders and everyone has something to hide, Gary and Claire risk it all to catch the criminals but will they lose their loved ones in the process?
Two unemployed men, bored by life and angry at the world, spend their time drinking beer and watching videos until one day they actually decide to do something - rob a bank.
Jane Halifax clashes with a fiery homicide detective while profiling a series of bizarre killings. Convinced that Jane is wrong, the detective abuses his authority by framing his suspect, which leads to tragic circumstances.
K9, a robot in the guise and personality of a dog! This highly intelligent and loyal creature tackles space adventures head on in the fight against justice.
Les Norton follows the exploits of a country boy who has escaped a troubled past to find himself in Sydney, working as a bouncer/fixer at the city’s most notorious illegal casino. A classic fish out of water, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged deeper into the web of underground criminality. Chaos and capers naturally ensue. It’s an irreverent love letter to Sydney and the decadence of the mid-‘80s, a period of tumultuous social transition that can be seen, in large part, as the gateway to contemporary Australia, all underscored by our national obsession with the blurry line between crime and civilian life.
A collage of people in their 'homes' which exposes the myths surrounding home ownership including the shrinking potential of home ownership. Living Room reveals surprising values and attitudes.
A character drama set in 1969 in Kings Cross; the time and place Australia came of age and the new generation broke all the rules.
It’s now 1972, the year of Gough Whitlam’s election, free education and immigration. With new faces, a cover-up and a shocking death, the men and women of LOVE CHILD will face their greatest challenges yet.
Life in a small coastal fishing town is turned upside down when Eddie Maloney returns to face everything that he walked out on three years ago. Mullet is a warm, often comic look at love, relationships and the great Australian solution to everything...the barbie.
Taxi driving is a competitive business but, say the drivers, you can't beat it for a sense of freedom. However, not all drivers are in the game out of freedom of choice. Many are overseas immigrants whose professional qualifications proved unacceptable in Australia - they had to make a living somehow.
Four boys get lost in the forest, and discover, when they return home, that they have returned to an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference – they were never born.
On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix finds a magically sealed Book of Shadows. In performing the spell, the boys unwittingly release Tegan, a powerful teenage chaos force with a score to settle. Tegan’s appetite for revenge causes a string of catastrophic battles and as the link between their world and Negative Space grows more tenuous, the godlike child Bear, guardian of the multiverse, unleashes the full wrath of the Restoring Demon. The Nowhere Boys find themselves reluctantly drawn into an epic showdown where they discover that to save the lives of their loved ones and return stability to their world, they must make the ultimate sacrifice… themselves.
Boy publisher Rupert Murdoch comes to Sydney to take on the Packers in a war for control of newspapers and television.
From Australian writer/director David Caesar (Mullet, Dirty Deeds) comes Prime Mover, a diesel charged romance about ambition, pressure, responsibility and the love shared by a man, a woman and his truck. Starring rising talents Michael Dorman (Suburban Mayhem, Daybreakers, Acolytes) and Award winning actress Emily Barclay (In My Fathers Den, Suburban Mayhem), Prime Mover is a bitter sweet love story with action, some singing and a little bit of dance.
Set in the Torres Strait Islands, this tells the story of a talented, bloody-minded and committed white woman and a people who love her but want her gone.
Each week our heroes risk their lives to save others in the most spectacular ways. In series 3, the Rescue Operations Unit has come under threat from a private rescue outfit hell-bent on taking over Rescue's operations. It's game on in series 3 as RESCUE goes head-to-head with 'Lifeblood' in a battle for survival.
RUSH returns to Tactical Response - a squad of Police striving to be faster and tactically superior. Their aim is to get to the crisis first and respond with alternative, less lethal solutions. The third season is about what it is to be a family within the team. Brotherhood and sisterhood are challenged in action as TR continues pushing to do things better. We return to Melbourne with the characters from previous two series, Josh, Lawson, Michael, Dom, Stella, Shannan, Kerry and Leon.
RUSH is a contemporary action drama series set in a critical incident police unit; providing an insider's view of police under pressure. Our heroes are a mobile squad trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged.
Exploring ideas of ordinariness and happiness, the real vs the advertising face of Australian teenagers.
The secretive world of undercover cops.
The 13 part drama series looks at the lengths people go to, to get themselves out of debt.
Twelve self-contained half-hour dramas, each with a twist at the end, written and directed by a variety of new writers and directors.
The new series, UNDERBELLY: A TALE OF TWO CITIES, will focus on the clash between anti-marijuana crusader Don Mackay and the organised crime groups that controlled the Griffith-based dope trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Mackay was murdered in the car park of the Griffith Hotel on 15 July 1977. Though bloodstains and several spent .22 cartridge cases were found at the scene, Mackay's body was never found.
UNDERBELLY: BADNESS chronicles the spider web of criminality spun by Anthony Perish and the quest by a dedicated team of police to bring him and his associates to justice.
Set during the roaring ‘20s in Sydney, when organised crime in Australia began. This is the story of the bloody battle between the era’s most feared vice queens – Tilly Devine and her rival Kate Leigh.
Spanning the years from 1915 to 1927, UNDERBELLY: SQUIZZY tells the epic story of Squizzy's relentless quest for power, ultimately creating a public persona that made him the first superstar gangster of the 20th Century.
A thrilling police action drama, set on Sydney Harbour where sparkling waters conceal dark undertows of crime, corruption and tragedy.
The Sydney water police are the WATER RATS. The harbour is their beat. It's the best job in the force. It's exciting. It's dangerous. Sydney's where the big money is and some people will do anything to get in on the action.
A water police action drama series set against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour.
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