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Laos - Le trésor oublié de la civilisation khmère 2024 star_border 9

The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations 2024
Professor Alice Roberts uncovers the science being used by computer scientist Professor Brent Seales as he utilises cutting-edge technology to read hundreds of carbonised scrolls that were buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.

The Alexander Ball 2024
The Alexander Ball is an observational documentary extravaganza celebrating Samoan-Māori-Australian trans woman of colour, Ella Ganza, and the Meanjin (Brisbane) ballroom scene, as she and her ballroom family prepare for one of the biggest pride events of the year: The Alexander Ball.

Eiffel Tower: Building the Impossible 2023 star_border 8.5
In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this project, this pioneer and visionary had created more than 300 metal structures around the world.

Rebel With a Cause - Part 2: Neville Bonner 2023
In 1971, Jagera elder Neville becomes the first Aboriginal Australian to enter Australian parliament. He sits for over 12 years in both state and federal parliament.

Rebel With a Cause - Part 1: Pat O'Shane 2023
The story of how Pat O'Shane AM defied the odds to become one of Australia's most brilliant legal game changers, and a look at her ambitious federal election campaign. What does it take to make a difference? Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future. Senator Neville Bonner, a Jagera Elder, was the first Indigenous person elected to Parliament, serving 12 years across four federal governments. Former teacher and barrister Pat O’Shane, a Kuku Yalanji woman, became Australia’s first Aboriginal magistrate – a position she held from 1986 until 2013. Birri Gubba Gungalu radio host Tiga Bayles ruled the airwaves, presenting Sydney’s Radio Redfern and establishing the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association and the National Indigenous Radio Service. And Noonuccal poet, conservationist and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal was the first Aboriginal person to publish a book of verse.

Uncovering Incels 2023
The incel community is a world that’s usually closed off to the outside - especially to women. Incels, short for 'involuntary celibates', are mostly lonely young men who can’t find a sexual or romantic partner – and resent women for it. In this two-part investigation, two female producers meet with current and former incels from around Australia to learn what it means to be an incel.

Wuthering Harlots 2022
In the Eighteenth Century, London was the biggest city in the world - a global centre for trade, manufacturing and industry. Bigger and richer than ever before there was money to spend - and much of that money was spent on sex. The capital was a hotbed of prostitution and promiscuity upon which tens of thousands of women and girls worked. This docudrama offers a scholarly yet sensational romp through the brothels, bordellos, bath-houses, and baronial bed chambers of the capital, with eye-opening accounts, from the time, anecdotes, rich and vivid illustrations and rousing dramatic reconstructions with a narrative featuring recurring characters. We unveil a world in which tens of thousands of women (and men) were used for sexual pleasure.

Tut's Toxic Tomb 2022 star_border 6
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores the gripping science behind an astonishing Egyptian legend as she investigates whether toxins inside Tutankhamun's tomb and among the pharaoh's treasures could explain a number of mysterious deaths.

Time to Buy: A Musical 2022 star_border 8.5
An all singing, all dancing fever dream musical about the Australian property market. Featuring first home buyers, boomer investors, predatory lenders and a real estate chatbot in the middle of an existential crisis. This is the story of love, money and negative gearing.

The Truth About Anxiety 2021
Celia Pacquola is an award-winning actor and comedian. She also suffers from anxiety. She wants to help millions of Australians through their battle with anxiety by telling her story, challenging stigma and showing a way through it. She will meet those suffering from the condition, those on the road to recovery and those who are helping with the journey.

Jackie Chan: Building an Icon 2021 star_border 8
Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Jackie Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and for the entire Asian continent.

Death in the Tower: King Richard and the Two Princes 2021
Two boys are waiting in the Tower of London for their big day of celebration. The older boy is just 12 years old in the summer of 1483 and is to be crowned King of England. But suddenly doubts arise among the nobles about the succession to the throne and his uncle receives the crown. After the coronation, the two young heirs to the throne disappear from the face of the earth. Have they been kidnapped or murdered? The new King Richard III remains silent on the matter. But the doubts about his accession to the throne remain. In the 17th century, bones are found during building work, confirming the old suspicion against Richard III as a child murderer. What happened to the two boys in the Tower? A cold case from the age of the knights in England, in which numerous new clues have been found in recent years.

Baie de Naples, la colère des volcans 2020 star_border 8

Genoa Bridge Disaster 2019
The story of some of the people on the Polcevera Bridge on the day of its collapse, investigating what caused the bridge to fail so catastrophically.

Les animaux sacrés de l'Egypte ancienne 2018

The Ghan: Australia's Greatest Train Journey 2018 star_border 8
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.

Fair Game 2017
Heritier Lumumba, formerly known as Harry O'Brien, was in the middle of his best season of AFL when his club president, Eddie McGuire, made a racist on-air comment, suggesting that Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes could be used to promote a King Kong musical. As a man of colour and strong supporter of equality, Lumumba chose to speak out against his high-profile boss. What followed was a media storm and an on-air showdown with McGuire which painted Lumumba as an overly PC, hyper-sensitive villain. Through exclusive access to Lumumba, his friends and family, AFL legends Mick Malthouse, former Collingwood Captain Nick Maxwell and sports journalists, Fair Game uncovers the personal and professional journey of a man who at the top of his game, dared to hold a mirror to a nation that didn't like what it saw.

Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science 2017 star_border 7.4
Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow some of them from ancient scientists including those who lived 1,700 years before him.

Top Knot Detective 2017 star_border 6.5
In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.

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Red Flag: Music's Failed Revolution 2024
Award-winning filmmaker Marc Fennell dives into the bizarre story of an Aussie start-up that promised to revolutionise music as we know it. Instead, it vanished in a $180 million mystery.

Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey 2024
Shaun Micallef joins six beloved comedians as they undertake transformative journeys around the world, diving deep into their culture, history and identity

Malaysia Gourmet with Justine Schofield 2024
Justine discovers the diverse blend of Malay, Indian, Chinese and indigenous cuisines as she explores Malaysia, from vibrant markets to serene beaches.

Meet the Neighbours 2023
Eight Australian households participate in an immersive social experiment, giving up their city lives for a chance to live in the small rural town of Maryborough, Victoria.

Night Bloomers 2023
An anthology of Australian horror stories from the Korean diaspora about their plight to overcome the evil that lives amongst them.

Luke Nguyen's India 2023
Luke Nguyen circumnavigates southern India, discovering the sounds, colours and cuisines of the region, meeting local cooks and chefs, who introduce him to the world of Indian cuisine.

Larapinta 2023
Arrernte and Luritja woman Talia Liddle travels through the Central Australian outback along Larapinta, the oldest river in the world, meeting the people who call the river home and hearing stories of the river.

The Parasocial Social Club 2023
Jenny and Kevin, two millennial stand-up comedians, clumsily get through everyday life in Australia with humorous observations.

The Swap 2023
Six students from Australia's largest Islamic school swap places with six students from Catholic colleges and a secular state high school to bridge cross-cultural divides.

Latecomers 2022 star_border 7
Frank and Sarah two strangers with cerebral palsy become entrenched in each other's dysfunctional lives after witnessing their able bodied friends in an awkward situation at a bar.

Engineering Reborn 2022 star_border 2
An insight into how engineering icons of the past are transformed into inspirational beacons of the future.

It's Fine, I'm Fine 2022 star_border 8
Follows a suburban Australian psychologist and the ups and downs of her patients as they explore love, loss, anxiety, obsession and the uncertain future ahead. It celebrates the mess and melancholy of life with elements of unexpected magical realism.

Guillaume's Paris 2022
Guillaume Brahimi explores the streets of Paris and the city's magnificent food culture, meeting the artisans who make Paris what it is.

The Australian Wars 2022 star_border 10
There are more than ten thousand monuments across the country that honour the war dead . But what of the bloody battles fought on our home soil, in our longest-running war that established the Australian nation?

A Beginner's Guide To Grief 2022
A once hot-mess, now just a mess, Harriet is about to learn that grief gives zero fucks about playing by any rules - and soon, neither will she.

Eating Inn 2022

Legendary Castles 2022
Enter two legendary castles built on mountaintops and go behind the scenes of their construction, as computer-generated imagery, aerial footage, and the best experts will reveal the secrets of two architectural wonders that have left an imprint on our imagination as well as History.

Framed 2021
Marc Fennell investigates an art heist like no other. It's 1986 and Australia's most expensive painting has vanished from the National Gallery of Victoria. The only clues, a series of bizarre ransom notes and a city full of rumours. This is the true-crime story of Picasso's The Weeping Woman.

New Gold Mountain 2021 star_border 5.5
In the Bendigo Goldfields in 1855, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers and authorities when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links with the Chinese community.

The Unusual Suspects 2021 star_border 6.2
Follows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.

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