When Doug Dooligan, a 19-year-old Aboriginal, gets out of gaol he has plans for a crime-free, trouble-free future. His best friend, Pretty Boy Floyd, has different ideas. Based on the novel, The Day of the Dog, by Archie Weller.
An exploration of the police/criminal culture that existed in Sydney in the 1980s.
Set in a migrant camp in 1952, BORDERTOWN examines 12 months in the lives of the newly arrived residents through a series on love stories. By the end of 1952 the camp closes and the residents must find a home in wider Australia.
The women who pledge their lives and their virtue to God are called Brides of Christ by their church. To the world they are nuns. This is the story of Catherine, Paul and Ambrose.
The epic story of one man's search to vindicate the most important decision of his life - a man who goes to China and is caught up in the tumultuous events that led to the tragedy of the massacre in Tiananmen Square.
Two warring restaurants whose cooks (and dishwashers) can't keep their hands off each other.
Nothing in the Sommers family horoscope warned them to be wary of a stranger from a foreign land. Even teenage Rastus, obsessed by UFOs and with her telescope nightly trained to the stars, is unable to discover what fate has in store for the family. But on first sighting Dallas Adair, she and her faithful dog Argus know turbulent times are ahead ...
A satirical drama set in the world of politics and the public service. It sees our eponymous hero, a lowly clerk, being moved from department to department facing constant challenges to his naive morality and Candide-like perception of the universe.
To commemorate 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin, this two-part series combines dramatic reconstruction of Charles Darwin's voyage around the globe from 1831 to 1836. His scientific observations culminated in the publication of the 'Theory of Evolution' in 1859. Well-known contemporary scientists illustrate Darwin's research procedures and evaluate them in light of their own investigations. The series sets out to show that Darwin's extraordinary precision and methodology remain for today's researchers in the fields of biology, geology and zoology.
DEADLINE GALLIPOLI brings together the high-octane drama of the battlefront and the personal journeys of the soldiers who have signed up for a war they believe will be glorious. It is the untold story of the journalists – Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, Phillip Schuler & Keith Murdoch – who find themselves appalled by how the battle is being managed. They are flawed human beings, workaholics, and womanisers, but each is profoundly affected by the bravery and wholesale slaughter he witnesses.
1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.
FRANKIE'S HOUSE was a centre for hedonism in Saigon when the young photo journalist, Tim Page, landed there in 1965. He went on to record the atrocities of the Vietnam War and win world acclaim. (Also available as 107 minute telemovie)
Set in a medical practice in and inner surburban area. Centres on the personal and professional lives of four doctors and their nurse-receptionist.
Medical drama series which explores the work of a sharp inner-suburban working-class surgery and the lives of the people involved with it.
Medical drama series which explores the work of an inner-suburban working-class surgery and the lives of those people most involved with it.
An air race from London to Melbourne is announced. The prizes are rich but the risks are high. From Europe, Australia and the United States fliers battle to find a plane and to raise the cash to compete. Those who win through this first test gather on a cold October dawn in England to race to Australia - half a world away.
An air race from London to Melbourne is announced. The prizes are rich but the risks are high. From Europe, Australia and the United States fliers battle to find a plane and to raise the cash to compete. Those who win through this first test gather on a cold October dawn in England to race to Australia, half a world away.
Stories of contemporary rural life are linked by the ongoing struggle to resolve the mystery surrounding the death of a local Aboriginal girl.
A dramatised documentary about the jury's deliberations in the trial of former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, who was charged with perjury.
The extraordinary trilogy of The Tampa, The Siev X and the 'children overboard' is a tale about democracy and how power works amidst an inconsolable paranoia that is the national inheritance of the most laid back people on earth.
The story of two remarkable children who were victims of the connivance and cruelty of the governments and organisations involved in the mass transportation of deprived and homeless children throughout the British Empire in the 1950s.
MY PLACE is the story of one spot in Australia, told by the children who live there over 260 years.
MY PLACE ONLINE let's you and your family can explore one place on earth and the kids who have lived there since time began. Like the television series and the book, this site is filled with people, places and objects, each with their own special story. It’s a way to have fun with the changing face of time.
The story of one place on earth told by the children who live there from 1878 to before white settlement. The second part of MY PLACE, the series is based on the Nadia Wheatley/ Donna Rawlins book.
Six television plays reveal what men really feel about their lives today. Written by men, the anthology aims to present male emotions with piercing honesty and uncover the passions beneath the facade of maleness.
Twink, an ex cop, and Lennie, a recently released crim, reluctantly join forces to trackdown the mastermind behind the heist-gone-wrong that ruined both their careers. Although determinedly on opposite sides of the law, they find themselves growing to appreciate each other’s talents as they work together to unravel the mystery and make some much-needed cash along the way. OLD SCHOOL is an odd couple crime series about growing old in a modern world, where your former enemy might just turn out to be your closest ally. Old School is inspired by creator Paul Oliver's film Lennie Cahill shoots through.
The story of an idealistic young Australian newspaper proprietor and the repercussions of his personal and professional ambitions.
POLICE RESCUE depicts the exploits and daily life-and-death teamwork of the quiet heroes of the police force — the members of the Police Rescue Squad.
POLICE RESCUE depicts the exploits and daily life and death teamwork of the quiet heroes of the police force - the members of the Police Rescue Squad.
The third 13-episode series based on the work of the elite team of the Police Rescue Squad. Each episode will take viewers to different rescue situations and to join the squad members after hours, when they let off steam and deal with the personal trauma of their work.
Follows the action and adventures of the New South Wales Police Rescue team first seen in series I, II and III of POLICE RESCUE.
Lorrie, a narcotics detective, is transferred to the Police Rescue Squad where she is teamed with Mickey after her partner is killed in a raid. Internal Affairs suspects her of being corrupt and enlists Mickey to spy on her. Soon Lorrie and Mickey become romantically involved and Mickey reveals she is under suspicion. Amid heroic rescues and a climactic bombing, Lorrie's name is cleared.
An unlikely coalition of doctors, politicians, gays, drug users, prostitutes and nuns tell the story of how they pulled off a high-risk strategy that offended just about everyone, but made Australia one of the few countries in the world to turn aside the plague of AIDS.
Set in the Torres Strait Islands, this tells the story of a talented, bloody-minded and committed white woman and a people who love her but want her gone.
Based on Jill Kerr Conway's celebrated autobiography, this is the story of a childhood. Set mainly in the western plains of New South Wales, THE ROAD FROM COORAIN is a witness to the relationship between two extraordinary women.
Amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist, Harriet Dunkley, pursues a long-buried and exposing secret, leading to assassination attempts, suicide and murder. Beneath the placid façade of Canberra, she uncovers a ‘secret city’ of high-level Australians corrupted by the competing super-powers.
Based on the true story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who exposed Israel's nuclear capabilities to the world.
Seven telemovies, each one devoted to a deadly sin: greed; envy; sloth; wrath; pride; gluttony; and, of course, lust.
SEX: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY is a six part factual series hosted by Julia Zemiro that will explore the last fifty years of Australia’s sexual landscape. A lively series using a blend of experts, philosophers, academics and ordinary people that poses the big questions about sex in the modern day.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse.
THE STRAITS follows the fortunes of a family who happen to be on the wrong side of the law. Their turf is Far North Queensland and the complex network of islands that form Australia’s northern frontier: the Torres Strait. Bordered to the north by a developing nation on the verge of becoming a failed state, and to the south by a rich first-world country, the Straits is a porous membrane for contraband – wildlife, drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants. In short, it’s a crime paradise.
A television drama about cooking, love and passion. A Montague and Capulet tale of two warring restaurant dynasties.
THE TRACK is a major television documentary series which tells the story of horse racing and its place in Australia's history since 1788. The history of the track in Australia is very much the story of Australia itself. No other enterprise captures the social, cultural and political life of our country like horse racing does - the love of the theatre that is gambling, the fascination with the possibility that lives can change overnight, the importance of heroes in our lives, the role of the horse in the country's development and the way the Australian language has been inspired by the world's most fluent and colourful race callers.
Old friends gather for a home birth.