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- A journey in a heated and paranoid America with a man in search of a lost love, a woman lost in desire for revenge and a twenty-year-old diary about the yearning to waste oneself in destruction.
- After fifty mail-order brides are kidnapped by bandits, the blind gunfighter hired to escort them heads into Mexico in pursuit.
- When a tomb in Vietnam is opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed. May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatised by war.
- A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building's community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart.
- A documentary about vitamins: the history of their discovery, the dietary supplement industry, and the dangers of both deficiencies and excessive intake.
- A film about the Paris Peace Conference that negotiated the end of World War I with the Versailles Treaty.
- Ernie Dingo explores Australia's iconic destinations from the Kakadu National Park to the Great Barrier Reef, and introduces us to the people who live there in a symbiotic relationship with nature.
- Exploring offenses practiced by popular media, big business, police forces and Governments helping the Australian 225 year campaign of genocide continue against Aboriginal Australians.
- When the dust settles, culture remains...The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
- The Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia's most iconic passenger train. In Australia's first 'Slow TV' documentary, The Ghan doesn't just travel through the heart of Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin, it explores the part the Ghan played in the foundation of modern multicultural Australia.
- Mark Coles Smith travels to the Kimberley region in Western Australia, where he grew up, to investigate why it has the highest suicide rate in the world, especially among young indigenous men, and what can be done to restore hope.
- Since the most recent and historic flooding tragedies in Southeast Asia (in 2004 and 2011), researchers around the world are mobilized to study the complex mechanics of tsunamis.
- Crossing Australia from Perth to Sydney, the pivotal part played by the transcontinental railway line in linking the far-flung west coast with the eastern states is explored.
- In Sudan it is taboo for a man to cook. But when a group of refugee Sudanese men in Australia is found starving because the men don't know what to do with a fridge full of groceries, something has to change. Ayen Kuol, a Sudanese health worker, decides to challenge a million years of custom and culture and to start a cooking school for African men.
- Look Me In The Eye explores what happens when two estranged people come face to face - without conversation - to look each other in the eye.
- One of Australia's worst environmental disasters. The film calls upon experts, Indigenous elders and locals, to unravel the cause and effects of this catastrophe on people and wildlife.
- Stories of Injury, fear, humor, and falling in love from soldiers caught up in conflicts from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
- Over the last century scientists have devised many ingenious methods to unlock the secrets of the mind. In this BBC TV series, Into the Mind, Michael Mosley goes in search of these bizarre, brilliant and the unorthodox experiments that have led to scientific discovery.
- When renowned singer-songwriter Kev Carmody released his first album, Pillars of Society, in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine described it as "arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia". Kev was propelled onto the national stage as a voice of protest for Aboriginal people. This documentary looks at Kev up close - cattle mustering in southern Queensland, making music in suburban Sydney and playing Long Bay Jail.
- In 2001 tons of ashed human bones were found in Melbourne, contaminated by Strontium 90, a toxic residue of nuclear weapon tests in Australia and around the world.
- The Loop is an absurd journey into disability, authorship and representation, twisting the world of soap operas to share Lorcan's experience of disability.
- This is the story of the 12 British atomic bomb tests in Australia seen through the eyes of Aboriginal elders, atomic veterans and experts "That uranium belongs to us" says Uncle Kevin, "we knew about that long before the white man came here, it's our responsibility, it's part of the Dreamtime" With the building of a new $500 million nuclear reactor in Sydney, the expansion of more multi-national uranium mines and the community opposition to having an international nuclear waste repository 'in our backyard', the fight is on ...
- A study of the different expectations for the son and daughter of an Italian family living in Australia, the problems this causes, and the final happy resolution.
- In the 1950s, the British Government tested nuclear bombs in northern South Australia. These days, there are mines and waste dumps in the area. The indigenous communities in the region have concerns about how the fall out from the testing and the risks of mining leaks impact on their communities. Indigenous anti-nuclear campaigner, Kevin Buzzcott, goes on a journey through northern South Australia to hear the stories of Aboriginal elders who have experienced the effects of the nuclear industry. This is the first time many of these elders have told their stories to the public.
- 'Big Girls Don't Cry' is about the strength and resilience of three people and their families coping with end-stage renal failure. Mariah Swan (from Moree) gets a kidney transplant at 18 months of age and now we visit her when she is 10 years old. Glenda Kerinuaia (from Bathurst Island) chooses to self-administer Peritoneal Dialysis so that she can participate in the cultural and family life of Tiwi Island. Essie Coffey OAM (from Brewarrina) speaks poignantly of the hardship associated with Haemodialysis. Essie tells us of her cultural dilemma in receiving a kidney transplant. Eventually with her weakened immune system, the common cold claimed her life. Renal physicians tell us what it means for Indigenous Australians living with debilitating renal disease in remote and rural communities.
- 'A Dying Shame' examines the plight of Aboriginal health in Australia. Through the personal stories of families and individuals within the Aboriginal community in Borroloola in the Northern Territory, this film reveals the human tragedy behind the bald statistics of Aboriginal health. Shot over nine months the film documents the struggles of individuals and their families in the face of poor health and an ineffectual health system, said to be one of the most inequitable health services in the Western world.
- Roll up your swags, pack your sense of adventure and hit the road with Olympic Champion Cathy Freeman and actor Luke Carroll as the two city slickers embark on a road trip through remote Indigenous Australia. Setting out from Australia's central deserts, Cathy and Luke embark on a 3000 kilometer odyssey to the country's outermost edge - on a journey that takes them from Uluru, to Cape York and onto the islands of the Torres Strait. They introduce us to places we've never seen, people we've never met and reveal the stories behind Australia's rich cultural heritage.
- Features Indigenous Australians of the Bunjalung, Coodjingburra and Minyangbal clans participating in a surfing competition and Aboriginal gathering at Fingal, N.S.W.
- An impressionistic look at controversial Melbourne master photographer Bill Henson, focusing on his exhibition at the Venice Biennial in Italy where he represents Australia, whilst giving context to his work as a whole. This documentary offers an interpretation of Henson's artistry through the prism of visual richness, complexity and decay of Venice itself.
- The tragic story of an underground film star who's hedonistic and thrill-seeking lifestyle came to a sudden stop when his body was found on the side of the road.
- Amidst the heart of a nation struggling to survive is a man and a program bringing hope to those most in need. On the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, a young optimist, Tawanda, leads a program for orphans and homeless young people that sees them gathering each day to play street soccer. There's one thing they all have in common - the love of the round ball. In 2008, the team prepares to travel to Melbourne in Australia to take on over fifty other nations at the Homeless World Cup.
- The Buchenwald Ball is a film that celebrates survival. Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, it tells the story of 45 orphans who escaped the Holocaust and found their way to Australia after their liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp. These child survivors came to be known as the Buchenwald Boys, a group of friends who drink hard, argue with gusto, sustain one another, and dance to live. The film documents their struggles, their humor, and ultimately the tenacity of their human spirits in the aftermath of unimaginable tragedy. Whether they are debating how to celebrate the 60th ball or the existence for God, the Boys are full of vigor and humor. Four of the Boys-Szaja Chaskiel, Sam Michalowicz, Henry Salter, and Joe Szwarcberg-now in their seventies and eighties, share stories from before and after their liberation, revealing memories of childhood homes, the last moments with murdered parents, surviving Nazi ghettos, camps and death marches, and their emigration to Australia. The film follows Chaskiel on his first visit to Poland and Germany since his liberation. Accompanied by his son, Mark, Chaskiel visits the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, where he visits Block 66, the children's block, where he and most of the Boys were imprisoned. Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation, the Buchenwald Boys hold a ball filled with music, dancing, and an energy that defies their advancing ages. The ball is a defiant celebration of life, friendship, family, and love.
- What would you risk for the chance to ditch the nine-to-five grind and be your own boss? Over four weeks Risking It All follows four rookie entrepreneurs as they attempt to transform their lives by setting up their own dream businesses. Risking It All captures the highs and lows involved in trying to get a new business off the ground. Presenter and business expert Shivani Gupta has a passion to see people grow their businesses. Shivani brings her vast experience and practical business sense to help out the entrepreneurs as they come face to face with the realities of being their own boss.
- 8:45 am. Hypochondriacs Clinic, Bergen, Norway. A young man is waiting for his consultation to start. In the next room, Dr. Wilhelmsen reads briefly through his journal, invites the patient in and sets up a video camera framing the nervous man in front of him. «Have you done your homework?» Dr. Wilhelmsen asks. «Yeah, I've looked through the tape from the last session, and what strikes me is that I didn't explain my problems properly.» Wilhelmsen plays the tape on TV. They watch the part from the last session where the patient explains his heart symptoms. The young man laughs at his own words and says: «Don't you agree it sounds a bit insane?» Wilhelmsen leans towards him and asks: «Do you know why? It is insane!» The film explores the insane world of hypochondriacs and points to a possible way out of the disease through therapy at the world's only dedicated hypochondriacs clinic. The clinic is situated in Bergen and is led by the renowned Dr. Ingvard Wilhelmsen.