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Late one night, on his property in far western New South Wales, an old man in pain goes out hunting and manages to bag God.
Few ever knew that Josef Stalin's last conscious night on the planet was spent in the loving and devoted arms of a young Australian, Joan Fraser. Fewer still knew that their love child would bring Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now...
Xmas Eve, 2014, in the shadow of the Great Pryamids of Egypt and Australian journalist, Peter Greste, is reporting from this most dangerous city on earth where bloody daily clashes between student revolutionaries and the government take place. No-one is safe. What Peter Greste doesn't know on that first night as he files his news across the globe is that he is the target and within a few hours he would be arrested, strip searched, despatched to a dungeon and accused of multiple crimes of terrorism, each one of which carried the death penalty. Welcome to Cairo.
By 1944, Japan's swift conquests had turned attention away from Europe. As war in Europe drew to a close those fighting in the Pacific found their resolve shaken and their spirit in tatters from a campaign that never let up until a single bomb lethally found its target over Hiroshima.
World War II saw millions of soldiers bloodily battling in everything from desert and snow to overgrown jungle until the Allied armies stormed Berlin. By then, Europe had subdivided, colonial empires had crumpled and the Holocaust had torn mercilessly into Jewish history.
Max and Cloudy wait anxiously at the hospital for news of Max's wife, Lucy, who has had a fall. A couple of hours earlier, Max and Cloudy had been making love in the garden. As the night progresses, Max and Cloudy's 'perfect moment' transforms itself into something far from perfect.
A comedy drama about a young lawyer who finds his conscience in a most unlikely place - a law firm.
A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL is a Faustian comedy about a scientist on the verge of discovering the key to the ageing process - but he needs more money to finish his work.
While he spends the day in bed with a cold, Phillip's friends become convinced that he has killed himself.
Harry Langford and his wife Ella believe to escape detection for murder is to escape punishment. They are wrong!
At Maralinga in 1956, atom bombs were not the only things being tested. At the height of the Cold War, the human capacity for loyalty and betrayal were constantly pitted against each other. But not just in terms of espionage. Friend against friend. Lover against lover. Government against its people. If only trust could bloom in an infinite desert. But these are not trusting times.
Brilliant pianist, innovative composer and radical intellectual, Percy Grainger was an eccentric genius who relished extreme sado-masochism and shared an intense relationship with his mother, Rose. PASSION is the story of this 20th century maverick and his mother.
RAKE is about love, madness, addiction, and the law--in short, it is about modern life.
RAKE stars Richard Roxburgh (Blue Murder, Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible II ) as criminal defence barrister Cleaver Greene – defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause ... both in the court room and the bedroom.
One might be forgiven for thinking prison is as low as things can sink for Criminal Barrister Cleaver Greene. But when we rejoin our silver-tongued hero things are heading south again as he emerges a legal pariah. This series shows Cleaver fighting to re-establish himself, and despite himself. Before long, there is corruption at corporate and government levels; a faux heist, a faux cancer and two very real Royal Commissions. And, of course, the constant fear Greene will mess up the whole thing royally.
Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) crashes back to earth - literally and metaphorically, when he’s propelled through a harbourside window into the unwelcoming embrace of chaos past. Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter. Before long Cleaver’s being chased back to Sin City. But Sydney has become a dark place: terrorist threats and a loss of faith in authority have seen it take a turn towards the dystopian. When Cleaver finally emerges, he will be accompanied by a Mistress of the Black Arts, navigating a yellow brick road leading straight to our dark corridors of power. Twisting and weaving the stories of the ensemble of characters we’ve grown to love over three stellar seasons, Season 4 of RAKE continues the misadventures of dissolute Cleaver Greene and casts the fool’s gaze on all levels of politics, the legal system, and our wider fears and obsessions.
One year on from taking up residency in Canberra as a Senator in Federal Parliament, Cleaver’s chaos has not abated. Having single-handedly caused the downfall of the Governor General, there are old foes and new. David Potter has made the transition to Senator for the Greens (without the extra ‘e’) and Cleaver has a new nemesis in the formidable and right wing Senator Penny Evans. Nicole Vargas is now Cleaver’s Chief of Staff, and Jack lurks in the Parliamentary shadows, ready to make or break careers. On the eve of the arrival of US Defence Secretary Linus Potemkin for an Asian Security Summit, there is a purported terrorist gas attack on New Parliament House causing the seat of government to move down the hill to its old home and now Museum of Australian Democracy. Old friends, it doesn't take much persuasion for Potemkin and Cleaver to fall into their old ways and party like it is 1999 ... only for Cleaver to discover that Linus is the keeper of the nuclear codes and that he may not be in a healthy mental state due to the pressures of office and a secret private life.
John Woldring wakes one morning to find a young woman stumbling semi-consciously towards his farmhouse. She is dark (Middle Eastern perhaps) and has no English. There is great beauty hidden beneath the blood and bruises. She has obviously run from something truly terrible. But John Woldring doesn't call the police. He will handle this his own way. Has she landed in a sanctuary or another nightmare?
In the mould of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, VALENTINE'S DAY is a tale of hope and redemption. Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) has totally lost his way in the world when he finds himself in a strange country town. With a sentence of 200 hours of community service, Valentine must coach the town's 'no-hoper' football team, who are teetering on the brink of demise. If the team don't win three out of the next four games, they'll be merged with their arch rivals and the town will also lose its precious pie factory. Valentine is embraced, heart and soul by the townsfolk. This one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town.
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