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In THE ART OF WAR, Betty Churcher brings her unique perspective to a series on Australian art inspired or provoked by a century of conflict, from World War One to the “war on terror”. A personal exploration of art rather than a comprehensive history, it reveals how dramatically attitudes to war have changed, and how radically the trauma of war has changed art itself. With images from official war artists, soldiers on the frontline or in POW camps, civilians in concentration camps and those on the homefront, it is a story of unknown artists and famous names such as George Lambert, Nora Heysen, Wendy Sharpe and Sidney Nolan.
CHASING BIRDS follows three teams - the Hunter Thickheads, the Hunter Home-Brewers and the Whacked Out Woodswallows as they complete in an annual 'Twitchathon'. The aim is to spot as many species as possible in 24 hours. Not easy at the best of times - but especially difficult with a camera crew tagging along. Part comedy, part natural history and part road movie, CHASING BIRDS is a very enjoyable journey into the heart of serious obsession.
Colin Burgess formed AC/DC with the Young brothers - they are multi-millionaires whilst he is penniless. Both he and his brother Denny were stars in one of Australia's most successful bands (The Masters Apprentices) in the 1960s and 70s. By rights they should be dead after being involved in an horrific car crash. They are making a comeback at age 55 years.
Using the 'real life' documentary style, this drama observes two years in the life of the Byrne family as they become involved in the complicated legal path that leads to a fully defended custody hearing in the Family Court. The Byrne family are played by actors, with real-life lawyers and members of the judiciary in the legal roles.
An Australian shopper phoning Coles Myer, an English housewife ringing Harrods and a New York stockbroker calling American Express all have one thing in common - their customer service queries are likely to be re-routed to India and answered by Indians impersonating local operators. It’s an increasingly attractive business proposition - labour and set-up costs are low yet the staff is keen and highly educated. Diverted to Delhi follows university graduates through a training course as they put aside their own identities and learn to speak and think like their international callers.
FAMILY CONFIDENTIAL takes us inside the homes and lives of some of Australia's most iconic faces and families, revealing the inner truths behind the public headlines. This landmark biography series offers an exciting new understanding of some of the most influential names of our time, as seen through the lens of their families. Biography meets social history in unique and entertaining Australian television.
Multi-award winning Comedian Felicity Ward takes up the challenge of breaking down the stigmas around Mental illness. Drawing on her own experience with anxiety, Felicity takes us on an entertaining, candid and thought provoking journey. She's on a personal mission to get the word out and to speak up loudly on the issue of mental illness. Teaming up with Mental Health Australia, Felicity bravely makes it her mission to get 3000 promises/pledges on their online 'promise wall'. If her campaign is successful she has pledged to face her fears and fly upside down in a stunt plane. It's clear she'll do whatever it takes to get everybody talking about mental health.
This documentary looks at the attitude of the Church towards the ordination of women as priests, and follows a group of women lobbying for the right to be ordained into the Anglican priesthood. Featured in the program are Doctor Patricia Brennan, the Reverend Alison Cheek and Sister Angela of Stroud.
As the Pro-Am surfing circus hits the small tropical island of Nias, poor farmer turned local entrepreneur, Ama Dolyn, empire builds - just like his wealth-obsessed ancestors.
HOMELANDS is a passionate story of two people caught between two different Homelands. Maria and Carlos are El Salvadorian refugees now living in Melbourne, Australia with their four daughters. Peace returns to El Salvador and Carlos decides to go back to his former homeland. Maria follows him six months later, and makes a discovery which puts the marriage in great peril. The film is about a refugee family torn by the dilemma of trying to decide where they want to live and where, in fact, they belong.
This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners’ strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. It examines the complex issues the conflict raised, introduces the major players in the dispute and portrays a fascinating era of Australian history rarely seen on screen.
An Arab Australian comedy about food, families, gangsta rap and… rosewater!
In the early 1970s, Tasmania's Lake Pedder was flooded to make way for a massive hydro-electric scheme. The campaign to save the lake was a turning point for the environment movement. Though ultimately the lake and its spectacular quartz beach were lost, the world's first Green Party was born.
The story of five young soldiers who died on the Western Front 90 years ago, and have only just been found, reveals the reality behind life in the trenches in the war to end all wars. Forensic science reveals their identities and archaeology reveals their world.
During his final days before retiring from the High Court of Australia,Justice Michael Kirby explores the personal, moral and spiritual convictions which provide the framework for understanding one of Australia’s greatest legal minds. The backbone of this documentary is an exclusive long form interview with the Judge. It covers all aspects of his life in the Law, his commitment to Human Rights, his family background, his strong religious convictions and his enduring relationship with his life partner of forty years, Mr Johan van Vloten. And, of course, his strong commitment to Human Rights.
Drawing from the Film Australia archives, Pacific Stories is a co-production between Film Australia's National Interest Program and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Presented by Vika and Linda Bull, the project explores the geography, history and culture of the South Pacific. It is a digital cross-platform initiative, developed for delivery via broadband online and ABC 2. A six-hour season of films covers over 50 years of documentary making in the region while the interactive website, created by ABC New Media, provides historical and contemporary context through new interviews, text, audio and graphics.
RED STORM deals with dust storms in the outback and the associated environmental and health problems.
One in 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives, 40 million worldwide. Schizophrenia fills more hospital beds than any other illness. Madness has been with us for centuries, but schizophrenia is still a mystery. It has no known cause or cure. SPINNING OUT goes inside the locked wards, joins the crisis teams, the self-help groups and the families to see how they deal with the knife edge existence of their lives.
This moving and thought provoking documentary goes behind the scenes of Newcastle's BP steelworks to reveal the impact of its closure on the workers, their families and a city that had built itself on steel.
Part of THE TIPPING POINTS series, OCEANS: THE LAST FRONTIER explores the interconnected relationship between the oceans and climate system in the context of Australia. As the oceans change, affecting currents, tides, fishing zones, sea level rise and coastal erosion, this film explores the impacts on Indigenous communities across the far north of Australia, and how these changes threaten the very fabric of their culture and community.
The documentary follows the creative journey of five contemporary artists from blank canvas to finished painting. Each artist has a different relationship to the land they paint yet all are attempting to express their identity and sense of belonging through their work.
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.
THE VASECTOMIST follows Dr Doug Stein, a urologist from small-town Florida, on a mission to save the planet by ‘spreading the gospel of vasectomy’. He’s performed more vasectomies than anyone – 27,000 – throughout the US, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. A modern day Don Quixote; part dreamer, madman and visionary committed to the impossible quest of lowering population on the planet, one vasectomy at a time. As he travels the world, Doug confronts the difficult ethical questions surrounding birth control and the reluctance of men to be involved in family planning. While the mathematical absurdity of his vasectomy mission haunts his every procedure, the questions Doug raises about the future of humankind are critical to our collective wellbeing.
Tony, a new boy in a city school, is trying to deal with his dislocation during the course of a lesson. His teacher, Joe Glass, is an Irishman who has travelled long and extensively, struggling to dispel his feelings of not belonging and of accepting his need to be a part of someone, somewhere. Kohar, Joe's lover, is an Armenian brought up in Australia, wanting to acknowledge her heritage and find a place for it in her life. YOU CAN'T PUSH THE RIVER is an affirmation of the worth and value of our 'teachers'. It captures those unspoken, unacknowledged moments where a bond of shared humanity is forged between pupil and teacher, small moments that clarify our common destiny and fate.
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