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This is the story of Rebiya Kadeer, China’s nightmare – the woman it accuses of inciting terrorism within China’s borders. It is also the story of the ‘other Tibet’ – the country its people call East Turkestan, but which the Chinese call Xinjiang Province – the other stain on China’s moral character.
ANGEL is the story of a young ceramic artist with a taste for decoration and parody, whose career is dramatically affected by an unexpected major commission for one of Australia's most prestigious public art galleries. This half hour documentary about the monumental sculpture Angel, which stands in the moat at the entrance to the National Gallery of Victoria, explores what lies behind the gorgeously coloured tiles and what motivates its creator, sculptor Deborah Halpern.
Anny Salerni is the owner of Melbourne’s only gay and lesbian ballroom dancing studio, and is the driving force behind the art of same-sex ballroom dancing in Australia. Anny has been threatened in the past by the governing body for ballroom dancing in Australia but she is determined to provide a safe space for her students to dance.
Big Bag are a loose collection of musicians who play very tight music and go to Japan. Three of the band have disabilities; four don't. They're interdependent on each other, their manager and the extremely efficient Japanese tour staff. If that's not enough, there's the baby, the Japanese Elvis impersonators and golf at night. This documentary is a very funny and very close look at (probably) the oddest rock and roll tour of Japan.
Documents the four weeks leading up to the RecLink Grand Final. This grass roots league is operated by Melbourne welfare agencies that assist the homeless and unemployed.
The story of how a shellshocked war veteran took to the road as a hawker and ended up creating a national icon.
Eight hermits talk in a candid way about what gives purpose and meaning to their lives. We visit the environments; small bush cottage; a labyrinth by the sea; hermitage in the mountains; room attached to a church.
A unique minority culture exists in Australia's deaf community. Its history, culture and linguistics are seen through the eyes of a profoundly deaf artist, Peter Adams.
In 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army pursued their enemy to the lines of Australian and Canadian troops still digging fall-back defences, 12 kilometres to the rear. They fought for a valley, the ancient and traditional invasion route to Seoul. If it fell the southern capital and the war, was lost.
Star of 'Blue Heelers', Damien Walshe-Howling, while holidaying in the Philippines, meets up with 12 young students from Sydney who are on an exposure tour of Australian-assisted aid projects.
A story of murder, revenge, power and denial in an isolated rural community. The true, moving account of child abuse told by Tony Lock, who was imprisoned (and freed) for killing the man who destroyed his life. At four-years-old the little boy's hero becomes a monster when Tony is raped by a man he adored and his father's close friend. The mental torture and rape continues for another ten years. As an adult, a confused, angry and desperate Tony murders the older man.
Survival in the lethal environments of the Antarctic and space give rare insights into what personalities will cope best with future trips to Mars.
In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered an astonishing treatment for bi-polar disorder. It would revolutionise the way we think about mental illness and mark the beginning of psychopharmacology - using drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. This was inspired thinking at a time when Freudian psychoanalysis, electric shock and lobotomy were the dominant approaches and patients were often locked up in asylums. The breakthrough followed years of research and experimentation and it would take two more decades of struggle before lithium treatment was finally accepted - but Cade's successors persevered. Their work has meant a chance at stability for hundreds of thousands of people, and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar treatment today.
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