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This is the story of how one very shrewd man - Sydney-born lawyer, Ted Marr - wheels and deals with the world's trickiest politicians and countries to indulge his own bacchanalian tribute to pleasure - The Bella Vista Ball.
Driving along the freeway, a man loses his concentration - just for a second. And in that second, his life passes before his eyes: Speed and decay...Freeways and faded spring...
Darwin’s Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere changed our world, forever. The epic adventures of Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace revolutionized science, turned society on its head and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. In this brilliant three-part dramatised series, we take a fresh look at Charles Darwin’s oft-overlooked experiences in New Zealand, Australia and the Cocos & Keeling Islands and discover that these extraordinary places were crucial in formulating his radical theory of evolution. Australasia was also critical in forging the lives and careers of Darwin’s greatest allies: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace. These three men would support and defend Charles Darwin through years of illness, isolation, agonizing self-doubt and religious crisis. Without their courage and tenacity, Darwin may never have published On the Origin of Species – his great work about evolution and a book that changed the way we understand our world and our place in it.
Focusing on several specific incidents, the long history of a relationship between a father and son is dramatised and abstracted using a unique fusion of gesture, conventional drama and dance.
In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of 'Forbidden Love', was exposed as a fake. She'd won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin with a fatwah on her head for her campaign against honour killings. But she was really Norma Bagain, an alleged Chicago con artist on the run from the FBI for $1 million of fraud. Spinning murder, greed and literary scandal into a web that entangles us all, FORBIDDEN LIE$ is a real-life thriller for our time.
I, PSYCHOPATH will take us on a road trip into the life and mind of a psychopath. Former white-collar criminal, Sam Vaknin goes in search of a diagnosis that proves beyond doubt that he doesn't have a conscience and that he can't be cured.
In the frontline of the Korean War, Australian soldier Ron Cashman befriended two South Korean conscripts. Forty years later he is meeting them for the first time since the war. KOREAN ANZACS is the story of how this friendship helped Ron make peace with the war after 40 years of suffering from post-traumatic stress.
THE BATTLE AT FROMELLES has been described as the worst 24 hours in Australian military history. But with the discovery of six unmarked mass-graves in Northern France it is now possible to unpack in forensic detail the terrible events of 1916 and put names to the bodies of some of those buried. And as the first new Commonwealth war cemetery nears completion, we track down living descendants, people who 90 years later, are still trying to find resolution to a loss that only a marked grave can bring.
Take a road-trip of discovery with the irrepressible Warren Brown - political cartoonist, columnist and history 'tragic' - as he reveals a fascinating mix of national treasures drawn from public and private collections across Australia. In each episode, Warren’s enthusiasm and humour shine a welcome spotlight on the sometimes forgotten gems that are an irreplaceable part of our national story.
Skeleton is a head-first, full-throttle slide down a winding, icy track. It’s one of the most dangerous and demanding sports there is. And, for four fearless young women from Australia’s beaches, it’s their unexpected chance at Olympic glory. Even though they’ll work together to qualify for the Games, in the end, only one will be selected to compete. Handpicked for the challenge, science is now pushing them to new extremes. This exhilarating documentary follows the fate of the team - the athletes, manager and coach - as they hurtle towards the 2006 Torino Winter Games, tracking both the scientific juggernaut and the all-too-human drama.
Is it a hard-nosed investigation of the world of bondage and discipline? A light-hearted musical tribute to dominance and submission? A dark journey through the steamy underbelly of adult perversion? Or is it... None of the Above? We got the dirt on this one – there is none. That is, all we could pin to it is glamour. Pure, disciplined, adult, old-fashioned glamour. Or not.
Stand-up comic, media presenter and former art student Peter Berner is swapping banter for brushes in a serious bid for artistic acceptance. He’s decided to tackle the subject he knows and loves best - himself - and enter a self-portrait into the Archibald Prize. This is a video diary of his endeavours from blank canvas to judgement day, including interviews with other artists and critics about the creative process and the background to one of Australia’s highest profile art competitions, and some excruciatingly honest critiques of his work. The result is characteristically irreverent and decidedly revealing.
POINTES is a non-dialogue documentary – lyrical and fluid in tone, with a naturalistic hard edge. It focuses on the life of pointe shoes at various stages, from their making in the Bloch's shoe factory through their breaking in, performance and discardment. The documentary draws a strong parallel between the lives of the shoes to that of a dancer's career.
This film examines the notion of the commodification of culture: how it is bought and sold as Buddhas or koalas and how we as tourists enter into that contract.
With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace - an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy.
Women potters from the Hermannsberg Mission in Central Australia travel to Lombok in Indonesia on a cultural exchange to work with Sasak women potters. An unexpected culture clash occurs.
Set in the wheatbelt of New South Wales, Australia during the 1930s Depression. The film relates a fragment of a migrant woman's life as she and her children search for sustenance.
By late 1944, the worst of World War Two appears to be over. But the conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will be a long road to Tokyo for the Allies... Combining interviews and vivid archival footage, this is an eyewitness account of an often forgotten episode in history, providing a social context as well as a military overview of the titanic struggle to defeat Japan. For Australia, it is signposted with some of the bloodiest campaigns and most appalling events of the war - and the memory of 8031 POWs who would never come home.
On Safari, leaving paper pushing behind, Roy Wright picks up his spear and flourishes it, hurling himself into the New Age. A humorous animation on the subjects of masculinity, bizarre natural phenomena and the possibilities of change.
Travelling through the countryside at breakneck speed, a businessman almost loses control of his car. He is forced to pull over. The last thing he remembers seeing as he fixes the car is a large moving shadow from the corner of his eye. This is the story of two men who don't know each other, who don't know they need each other. They are parasites trapped in the same landscape.
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