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Throughout the Earth's history, the polar landscapes have undergone dynamic transformation through ice sheet expansion and retreat, glacial erosion, changes in sea ice extent, and permafrost dynamics, all influenced by variations in climate over time. As a result, ice has carved out the shape of life here on Earth. At the beginning of the 21st Century, we are seeing the fastest ever changes to the polar ice caps and there is great urgency to understand how our comfortable clement lives are tied to the extremes of the world.
An observational documentary extravaganza celebrating Samoan-Australian trans woman of colour, Ella Ganza, and the Meanjin (Brisbane) ballroom scene, as the community prepares for one of biggest pride events of the year: The Alexander Ball.
In 2021 Jess Hill and the team from Northern Pictures journeyed into Australian homes to explore a national crisis: Domestic abuse. Now, our Parliament has exploded with revelations of sexual misconduct, hundreds of thousands of teenagers have shared their stories of rape and sexual assault, and the prime minister has been lambasted for his inability to formulate a response. Men and women are protesting. School kids are striking against their principals. Social media is at once outraged and blindly accusing. The Government is in freefall on the issue. So what is it we're so angry about? What is this slippery thing we call 'consent'?
BETTER DATE THAN NEVER is a character-led, multi-part docuseries following a diverse group of single love seekers as they take a huge step in anyone's life - into the dating world. Each participant has a unique story, and a different reason for a later start to their dating journey. But they all share a common goal - to step out on their first date. With a little help from the producers, they launch into a world they've always wanted to explore, on a journey that takes them on the sometimes rocky road to finding love.
BIG WEATHER (and how to survive it) is a three-part documentary series presented by ABC's Craig Reucassel, exploring the devastating effects of extreme weather on Australia, and the practical, life-saving ways its communities empower themselves to prepare, survive and recover.
BLUE is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine world is on a precipice.
CHANGING MINDS SERIES 2 will continue to challenge the stigmas, taboos and myths around mental illness as it meets the patients living with mental health problems and follows the staff who are helping them get back to their everyday lives.
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.
As madcap enterprises go, this is up there. A bunch of guys who are variously blind, limbless, paraplegic and crippled take part in the world's toughest ocean race, the Sydney to Hobart. Crashing waves. Lashing rain. Gale-force winds. The number one rule in the Sydney to Hobart's cruel seas is one hand for the boat and one hand for you. But what do you do if you don't have two hands? Find out in disAble-bodied Sailors, a four part series with a unique take on what it is to be disabled in Australia today.
This uplifting, warm, and insightful documentary series draws on science to uncover the hidden skills of people with Autism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's; helping these extraordinary jobseekers find roles that can finally harness their strengths.
The critically acclaimed documentary series Employable Me returns in 2019 following the stories of nine more people with disabilities as they battle to find work. The series brings them together with experts so that they can take on the challenge of finding meaningful employment.
THE EXHIBITIONISTS is both a playful and profound docu-comedy, celebrating women in the arts.
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.
This series takes us to the front line of those fighting the war against ice. Through unprecedented access with police and other agencies, we follow the stories of meth lab busts, importation, decontamination of suburbs by clean up crews, forensic teams tracing precursors and toxicologists investigating human impact from passive meth cooking. This is a series about the drug that is impacting us all.
We're told that trial by jury is the best justice available, but is it? In a television first, we are putting the jury system itself on trial, as we re-run a real, complex, close call murder case - word for word - in front of a new jury.
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.
LOCKDOWN OZ: MAXIMUM SECURITY takes us inside Casuarina Maximum Security, the toughest jail in the state of Western Australian and the scene of one of the bloodiest prison riots in Australia's history.
A four-part series that looks at relationships and dating for those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The uplifting series draws on relationship coaching to help young people with neuro-diverse conditions find love and shift the public perception of disability.
Relationships and the dating game is an exciting and sometimes overwhelming time for everyone … particularly for those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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!
Magical Land of Oz offers a blue-chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty that delights and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives are far from predictable.
In this one-hour natural history film, Dr Ann Jones takes us to meet the world's smallest penguins, living on the southern coastline of Australia. From the world's most famous penguin parade on Phillip Island to the penguins lives in the city suburb of St Kilda, we meet key characters who over the next six months will attempt to complete their mission: to stake their territory, partner up and raise their chicks. Warm, surprising, revelatory and uplifting, MEET THE PENGUINS shows us that whilst the Little Penguins may be the world's smallest penguin, they might just be the toughest too!
A team of marine explorers will head our expedition to the reef to provide insights and perspective during the live broadcast. Through their eyes, we learn about the fragile nature of the reef and how it forms one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth. The broadcast event is timed to lunar cycle, as corals have set their biological clocks for the largest mass breeding event on the planet. From Heron Island, Moore's Reef and Townsville, the action will filter back to our Reef HQ in Cairns, where leading scientists and passionate ambassadors and will discuss conservation initiatives, indigenous perspectives, and how we can all get involved in citizen science projects on the Reef.
In the Thai town of Lopburi live two rival Macaque families, the temple troop and the market monkeys. These two gangs are sworn enemies. But this year two star-crossed lovers have dared to go against troop tradition and follow their hearts.
Andrew Ettinghausen is going to discover what it takes to make it as a commercial fisherman in a country known for its tough land, rough sea and rugged people. He will travel to every dirty, deadly, slimy and smelly nook across the expanse of Australia to join the fisher folk and work alongside the waterproofed warriors of our nations marine industry, whilst experiencing first-hand why people are willing to risk their lives on a daily basis. Plus he'll reveal some Australian-first hi-tech aquaculture solutions that are poised to not only solve some of our oceans' biggest problems, but save declining fish stocks around the world as well. Thousands depend on the oceans for their livelihood, but are facing unprecedented pressures to survive: poachers, disease, climate change all threaten the only way of life they know. This is a series about our toughest folk and a disappearing way of life on the oceans across 8 million square kilometers of our island continent.
The intriguing story of Australia's South Sea Pearl, the rarest and most value marine gem, is a story of a remarkable collaboration. Forged from nature and nurtured by man, it begins in one of the most remote and dramatic landscapes on Earth. The divers' search for wild pearl oysters is just the first step in a high-risk venture which, if successful, may result in a harvest worth in excess of $100 million, to be sold through the jewellery houses of New York, London and Paris two years later.
In this three-part series we go under the cloak of domestic abuse to better understand the men who choose to be violent and the women who have stayed with them, too often until death. We meet the families who are fighting to protect themselves and the people at the coal face determined to rewrite this story.
During this extraordinary night of broadcast, we will witness stories about whales, great white sharks, cuttlefish, albatross along our great southern coastline. We will learn how the southern coastline of Australia is warming and changing four times faster than anywhere in the world, and what this means for scientists trying to protect fragile ecosystems.
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series AUSTRALIA - EYE OF THE STORM.
From the makers of SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO?, STRONG FEMALE LEAD explores the gender politics during Julia Gillard's term as Australia's first and still only female Prime Minister. Looking back at Ms Gillard's time as Prime Minister, the film examines the response and tone from media commentators, the Australian public and within Parliament itself.
An anthropology series with a twist. Boni and Lemarti are blood-drinking, hip-hop loving warriors from the Maasai and Samburu tribe. With a little black book full of addresses of people they've taken on safari, they decide to gatecrash on these unsuspecting acquaintances as they journey to the West to explore the modern world.
Australia's fauna has a long, impressive history of surviving on the driest inhabited continent on Earth. Fire is a force that has shaped the nature of Australia. However, as this bushfire season has made brutally clear, climate change is increasing the scale and intensity of bushfires. 'After the Fires' charts the long-term recovery of wildlife in the aftermath of Australia's recent catastrophic bushfires through stories of hope, human intervention and resilience. It provides an urgent message to safeguard our environment and bring about the necessary intervention required to maintain biodiversity on our planet, before it is too late.
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