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Across the Roof of the World
- 1998
- Documentary
- 45mins
- Status: Completed
Ride by motorbike from one end of the Indian Himalaya at the source of the Ghanges, through little Tibet and sacred festivals, across the world's hightest road to Srinigar in Kashmir.
Across the Sea of Galilee
- 1993
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE shows the rich diversity of modern life in Israel, as the historic Arafat Peace Agreement was being negotiated. Greg Grainger takes us on a series of adventures through Israel, camel riding across the Negev Desert to meet Bedouin tribesmen, living on a kibbutz on the Lebanon border and driving tanks in the Golan Heights. The documentary also records the daily lives and views of Jews, Palestinians and Christians.
Across The Soviet Union
- 1990
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
From Leningrad to Moscow, ACROPSS THE SOVIET UNION is a post-Glasnost study of the Soviet people, schools, home life, cultural events. The young pioneers of Kiev, the opera of Odessa, and a trek through Georgia, experiencing the ruggedly independent Georgians.
Action Aloft
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
ACTION ALOFT depicts great ballooning adventures set in three countries: Britain, France and Australia. At Bristol's annual hot air balloon festival balloons of every shape and size are on show for the biggest hot air balloon festival in Europe. The second part of the journey takes us to France, low flying over picturesque chateaus. There's action aplenty in Australia with a classic race by the world's best hot air balloonists across the continent.
Africa Alive
- 1990
- Documentary
- 2 x 42mins
- Status: Completed
AFRIC ALIVE follows a trip down the bandit coastline of Kenya in pursuit of poachers. It features fascinating footage of hand-reared orphaned rhinos and elephants, rituals of the Masai tribe, and canoe expedition amidst the hippos of Lake Kariba leading to a near fatal rafting trip down the Zambesi River. This documentray examines the fate of the African elephant and rhino.
African Adventurers
- 1993
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
In this film we concentrate on people who've dedicated their lives to adventure in the wilderness, like American Randall Jay Moore who lives in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, where he works with a group of tamed African elephants, Mike Calnan, an Australian known as Captain Africa and Les Carslyle who has just set up a game reserve known as Phinda in South Africa.
Alaska Alive!
- 1998
- Documentary
- 50mins
- Status: Completed
Expedition across Alaska, taking in wildlife, characters, scenery and adventure. From a cruise along the inside passage with collapsing glaciers and waters thrashing with killer whales to wild grizzly bear cubs and the iditarod dog sled race.
Along The Andes 1 & 2
- 1996
- Documentary
- 2 x 45mins
- Status: Completed
The people of the Andes, from Colombia through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. Festivals, bullfights, coca chewing Indians, lost cities...
Along the Barrier Reef
- 1993
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Action in the air and in the sea, as we follow a modern-day Tarzan along Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Fly with Hurse Cutler by seaplane to remote islands, inhabited by ageing hippies, sky dive over Dunk Island and experience life under the sea among the magnificent coral and giant cod. Hurse shows us his own job as a coconut de-nutter, harvesting coconut trees on Barrier Reef resorts to prevent guests from being hit and injured.
Amazon to Ice
- 1988
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
An expedition by kayak around the great waterways of South America - from the wilds of Tierra de Fuego to the raging rapids and Inca studded walls of the upper Amazon. Amazing footage of the Moreno glacier collapsing. We see the crew paddling across the face of the Iguazu Falls and on Lake Titicaca, floating islands and their native inhabitants as well as reed boat builders.
Animal Cunning
- 1994
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
ANIMAL CUNNING looks at just how clever animals are, how capable of rational thought they are. Animals and experts from all over the world such as the Wisconsin Primate Research Centre and Kewalo Basin Marine Laboratory in Hawaii. The program examines animals in five categories - sea life, domestic pets, wildlife, birds and apes and chimpanzees.
Antarctica Alive!
- 1998
- Documentary
- 50mins
- Status: Completed
The beauty and savagery of the Antarctic, its wildlife - from seals, to penguins and whales - in action sequences.
Aussies
- 1988
- Documentary
- 5 x 50mins
- Status: Completed
A wide ranging series about Australia and its people on the eve of the 1998 Bicentennial.
Beyond Patagonia
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
A team of kayakers sets out to explore South America's major waterways. On Lake Titicaca the group visits two ancient Indian tribes. On the Urubamba River the team visits Inca ruins on its way to the famous Lost City, Machu Picchu. At Lago Argentina the team is granted permission to paddle out and film the massive Moreno Glacier, which collapses in a breathtaking spectacle once every four years. The film also includes a journey to the vast Iguazu Falls as featured in the film THE MISSION. The final part of the journey takes the group to Tierra del Fuego to trace the path of Charles Darwin's famous voyage of discovery to reach Ushuaia, the world's most southerly town.
The Big Hurt
- 1986
- Feature
- 93mins
- Status: Completed
It would just have been the day he got out of prison if he hadn't met Lisa. A hard-bitten journo who has done time for contempt searches for a dead man.
Big Ideas
- 1992
- TV drama
- 91mins
- Status: Completed
An intrepid young entrepreneur takes on the bureaucracy in an ecological detective hunt.
Blue Mountains Magic
- 1998
- Documentary
- 46mins
- Status: Completed
Nostalgia and wilderness are the dominant themes in this topical travelogue of the Blue Mountains. The Jurassic Pines, steam trains, vintage cars, Charleston dancing, Jenolan Caves.
Cambodia: Fields Of Hope
- 1990
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
One million people died as a result of Pol Pot's policies of genocide. One decade on, we look at how the Cambodian people have survived: a trip by train across Cambodia; watching new discoveries made at the ancient temples of Angkor Wat; and New Year celebrations and the disco soldiers of the Mekong River — a film of enormous courage.
Canada Wild
- 1992
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Features four Canadian wilderness regions and wildlife including Queen Charlotte Islands, the Rocky Mountains, Cape Churchill where polar bears congregate once a year waiting for the ice flow to form and Baffin Island, home of the Inuit Eskimos.
Canadian Traverse
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
The wilderness of outback Canada is the backdrop for the opening of this adventure which begins in the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Galapagos of North America. It's the land of the Haida Indians and we visit their ancient villages, studded with totem poles. We move to the Rocky Mountains to take part in a horse trek, before travelling by boat with a family of Inuits, Canadian Eskimos who hunt caribou and seal. We trek across the Arctic Circle encountering glaciers and icy streams as we travel into spectacular valleys.
Caribbean Blue
- 1999
- Documentary
- 48mins
- Status: Completed
A classic sailing adventure around the Caribbean with festivals on shore.
The Charm Of Britain
- 1993
- Documentary
- 2 x 43mins
- Status: Completed
A topical travelogue of Britain showing regional differences between Cornwall, Wales and Scotland; and royalty, the Queen and Princess Diana.
The Cherry Blossom Trail
- 2000
- Documentary
- 92mins
- Status: Completed
THE CHERRY BLOSSOM TRAIL follows a revered time of Oriental beauty in Japan known as the Hanami: that time when the fruit trees come into bloom.
Classic Everest
- 1990
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
The personal trials and tribulations of a group of ordinary people as they travel part of the way up Mount Everest. The group is led by Tashi Tensing, grandson of the sherpa who accompanied Sr Edmund Hillary on the first successful climb of the world's highest mountain. The film includes bones claimed to be from the yeti and the Mani Rhindu festival at the Tenboche monastery.
Danube Interlude
- 1988
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
A trip through Hungary witnessing the breakdown of communism. Includes sailing, horseriding, gypsies, festivals, grape picking and traditional weddings.
The Delights of Turkey
- 2001
- Documentary
- 46mins
- Status: Completed
A trip by motorbike through western Turkey, encourntery all the Roman ruins and fascinating settlements such as Cappadocia.
The Distant Home
- 1992
- TV drama
- 91mins
- Status: Completed
A suburban couple discovers their young daughter is an alien.
Down the Mekong
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Boat trip down the Mekong River, through Cambodia. Travel with a group of soldiers along the Mekong, observing fascinating aspects of Cambodian culture. One decade on from the horrors of Pol Pot, here is a sensitive and optimistic study of how ordinary Cambodians have rebuilt their shattered lives. Travel by train across Cambodia to join unique New Year celebrations. This journey takes us to new discoveries made at the ancient temples of Angkor Wat and experience the release of the Birds of Hope at Buddhist Pagodas.
France: Soaring With the Senses
- 1991
- Documentary
- 2 x 44mins
- Status: Completed
Classic adventure through modern day France. Barge trip along the Canal du Midi; journey by France's latest triumph of technology to Corsica; hot balloon flight across chateaux of Loire Valley; Bastille Day celebrations in Paris with military parades and concerts, culminating in climb up Mont Blanc and a parapente flight through the French Alps — with characters such as Maurice Herzog and super chef Paul Bocuse.
The Gift Of The Gods
- 1991
- Documentary
- 70mins
- Status: Completed
The phenomenal story of garlic is told from its earliest recorded days of 4,000 BC, when it was entombed with Egyptians and later pharaohs including Tutankhamen up to the 1990s when it is being medically recommended for treating cancer, thrush, cholesterol, pollution, mercury poisoning and all sorts of infections and ailments.
Glass
- 1989
- Feature
- 92mins
- Status: Completed
A thriller and a mystery of distortions and reflections about friendship, flowers and carving knives. A haunting, stylised tale of escape.
The Great Air Race
- 1990
- TV drama
- 4 x 50mins
- Status: Completed
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.
The Great Air Race
- 1990
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
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.
Great Characters of Queensland
- 1993
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Introduces many of the more eccentric and colourful of the state's personalities, as they indulge in their own adventures. In this quest producer/presenter Greg Grainger travels right around Queensland, from lush tropical islands to harsh outback territories, discovering characters as diverse as a modern-day Tarzan on the Barrier Reef to an old-time story-teller at a bush rodeo. This documentary combines some fascinating people, the picturesque countryside they live in and good action.
Guardians of the Wild
- 1993
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Looks at people who care for endangered wildlife. Includes a safari in the heart of Botswana and relocating herds of impala in South African game parks.
Highlands Charm
- 1999
- Documentary
- 47mins
- Status: Completed
The beauty and characters of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, from the running of the Bong Bong up to the spectacle of the tulip festival in Bowral.
Hilarious Aussie Nights
- 1994
- Documentary
- 45mins
- Status: Completed
This program looks at a broad range of activities across Australia after dark including male strip clubs, scavenger hunts and paint balling.
Hot Air Affair
- 1988
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
An international balloon race across Australia. Shows many accidents including a balloon hitting a house and catching alight. Great characters.
Humpty Dumpty Man
- 1986
- TV drama
- 86mins
- Status: Completed
Based on the 1983 spy scandal involving David Combe. A story of intrigue, power, politics and murder set in Australia's national capital, Canberra.
Hunter Magic
- 1999
- Documentary
- 48mins
- Status: Completed
Prolific vineyards, the horse capital of Australia, the beautiful Barrington Tops, historic villages of the Hunter Valley of Australia.
Images of Italy
- 1993
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Greg Grainger takes us from the enchantment of the Tuscany region through to the classic charm of the opera at Verona and a gondola regatta in Venice. In Chianti country enjoy typical Tuscan fare prepared by someone who represents all that is old Italy, Lorenza de' Medici. In the city of Arezzo join the thrill of the annual Giostra del Saraceno, their jousting tournament. In Florence watch artisans at the Monastery of Santa Croce. In Naples taste the delicacy of Mozarella, sail to Capri and climb the infamous Mount Vesuvius.
In Sherpa's Footsteps
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
The account of an international group of trekkers who succeed in reaching a mountain peak near Everest base camp. Led by Tashi Tschering, grandson of the first man to reach the summit, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the group discovers a range of colourful activities along the way ... from the Festival of Lights to the enchanting festival Mani Rhindu, with its black magic dance at the sacred Tengboche monastery.
In the Footsteps of the Pharoahs
- 1999
- Documentary
- 49mins
- Status: Completed
A journey through Egypt, visiting reminders of the country's prolific ancient civilisation, from Abu Simbel, to Luxor and the Pyramids.
In the Wake of the Vikings
- 2000
- Documentary
- 51mins
- Status: Completed
IN THE WAKE OF THE VIKINGS documents a modern day adventure in the same waters sailed by the great Viking explorers, Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson, in Greenland and Iceland a thousand years ago.
Jarunee the Singing Ape
- 1997
- Documentary
- 49mins
- Status: Completed
The birth and life of the gibbon Jarunee, including hunters and captors, raids and rehabilitation. Scenes of heart-ache and joy, in a touching special.
Knockdown
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
A dramatic personal account of one man's adventure sailing around the world. Don McIntyre enters the BOC Challenge single-handed round the world yacht race. Deep in the Southern Ocean the yacht suffered a knockdown. All these incredibly scary moments are captured on film. The program shows the highs and lows of McIntyre's 153-day, 28,000 mile voyage. These include skimming along the crest of the waves at 30 knots, being washed overboard, a near collision with a passing ship and many icebergs.
The Last Warriors
- 1995
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
Shows fascinating primitive customs still being practised by remote tribes around the world, with their lifestyles under threat from encroaching civilisation. The Dani and Asmat of Irian Jaya, the Malaitians of the Solomon Islands and the Inuits of Baffin Island.
Magic Harbour
- 1999
- Documentary
- 48mins
- Status: Completed
The beauty, characters, attractions and major events of Sydney Harbour. From fishermen to plot-boats, rowers, luxury cruisers and fairy penguin colonies.
Magic Of Africa
- 1996
- Documentary
- 44mins
- Status: Completed
The very best of African wildlife, peoples, adventures and experiences. Including wildlife safaris in the Serengeti and Kruger National Parks, a luxury steam train ride from Tanzania to South Africa, life of the Masaii and Victoria Falls.
Man On The Rim
- 1988
- Documentary
- 11 x 55mins
- Status: Completed
Takes a fascinating look at how the common thread of natural disaster has had diverse effects on the cultures and peoples of the Pacific Rim. Shot on location in nine Pacific Rim countries, the series explores the myriad of ways these cultures have sought to understand and live on this 'rim of fire' - home to three - quarters of the worlds active volcanoes.
The Maple Leaf Express
- 2000
- Documentary
- 51mins
- Status: Completed
THE MAPLE LEAF EXPRESS features a grand adventure right through the heart of Canada, from Novia Scotia on the far east coast, lapped by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, to the Pacific Coast in British Colombia.
The Marvels of Madagascar
- 2001
- Documentary
- 47mins
- Status: Completed
Unique wildlife such as lemurs and chameleons on the island of Madagascar.
Mediterranean Magic
- 1999
- Documentary
- 48mins
- Status: Completed
A classic sailing adventure around the Mediterranean, from Turkey and Greece to Corsica and Sardinia and the Cote d'Azur of France.
Mexico: Maya to Mariachis
- 2001
- Documentary
- 53mins
- Status: Completed
MEXICO: MAYA TO MARIACHIS captures all of the vibrancy and passion of Mexico, in a journey from the Pacific Coast to the Caribbean Sea, featuring bullfights, ballet, Monarch butterflies, fervent religious pilgrimages, Mariachis and the temples of Teotihuacan, Palenque, and Chichen-Ilza.
Mysteries of the Mekong
- 2001
- Documentary
- 54mins
- Status: Completed
MYSTERIES OF THE MEKONG documents a trip down the Mekong River through the heart of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, encountering great mysteries including the Plain of Jars, Angkor Wat, shaman hilltribe ceremonies, opium smokers, the tunnels of the Viet Cong, and Tu Duc's mausoleum.
Outrageous
- 1994
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Personalities around Australia who indulge in unusual activities, from the worm-eating farmer in the Adelaide Hills, to the sewer singers of Melbourne and the cockroach sucking exterminator in Sydney. Other characters include bizarre buskers, men who put their hands down their throat, Fat-o-grams, Zane the singing dog, surfing rabbits, face pullers and wizards.
Paradises of the Pacific
- 1992
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
PARADISES OF THE PACIFIC shows the ceremony to install the King of Vava'u in Tonga watched by his father King Tupou the fourth, the Batille celebrations in the Pacific, Islanders of New Caledonia and Turtle Island in the Yasawa Group, Fiji.
The Passion of Spain
- 1991
- Documentary
- 2 x 43mins
- Status: Completed
The world's most sociable people celebrate in spectacular fairs and parades. The feria of Seville, bag-pipers of Galicia, the farmers of Gomera who communicate by whistling. The pilgrimage to El Roclo, a million Spaniards treking across Andalusia, mass baptisings, covered wagons, mass hysteria. Meet the Royal Family - King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.
Polynesian Paradises
- 2002
- Documentary
- 44mins
- Status: Completed
POLYNESIAN PARADISES explores the characters of French Polynesia, from the warriors of the Marquesas to Marlon Brando's son on the family island of Tetiaroa.
Rafting From Everest
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
An international team, skippered by American river runner Gary Bolton, become the first people to raft through Tibet. The expedition begins on the Rhongbuk Glacier on Mount Everest and takes us through uncharted valleys to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Along the way, the team visits many villages never before seen by foreigners and records their ancient rituals such as sky burials. There are many moments of high action on the river, a true first in that these waters had never been traversed before, the rafters literally having no idea of what to expect around the next bend.
Russia Revisited
- 1993
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
A trip across Siberia, St Petersburg and Moscow.
Search For The Big Cats
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
This program looks at lions, cheetahs and leopards in the wild. Filmed throughout South Africa, many aspects of the life of these big cats is followed, from their hunting rituals to efforts to keep their numbers from diminishing.
Search for the Shark Callers
- 1991
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
Features the dying art of summoning sharks, a tradition still being practised in The Solomon Islands. Greg Grainger visits artificial islands, bride price ceremonies, steaming volcanos and pagan dances, culminating in dramatic footage of a native high priest and the agitated sharks he attracks.
Sharkmen of the Pacific
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Pursues adventures across the South Pacific, from the Solomons to Tahiti, looking at how sharks are revered. In the Solomons many islanders are animists believing their dead relatives have reappeared in the form of sharks. In the Marovo Lagoon islanders perform pagan dances around a sacred shrine, culminating in amazing scenes of sharks leaping out of the water to be fed. In Tahiti a local Tahitian adventurer rides the sharks completely fearlessly, all set to stunning Tahitian scenery.
Siberia to the Silk Road
- 1991
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
A face of Siberia rarely seen: Siberia in summer, and along the trans-Siberian Railway, to the borders of China and Kazakhstan; then onto the Silk Road through the southern Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.
Southern Belle: Olympic Territory
- 1995
- Documentary
- 4 x 44mins
- Status: Completed
Life in southern USA. Features characters, events and places in the territory surrounding the 1996 Olympic Games venue of Atlanta - Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Sunrise Over South Africa
- 1992
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
The treasures and truths of a South Africa seldom seen, documented as apartheid is dismantled. From its game parks rich in the wildest of wildlife and its stunning scenery, Table Mountain, the Drakensberg, to its profusion of colourful races, the Zulus, the ring necked Ndebele. Highlights include the Cheetah Lady with her hand-reared, tame cheetahs; ostrich racing; the baboons of Cape Drive climbing into the camera car and refusing to depart; amazing closeup footage of a day in the life of a leopard hunting and dragging its kill up a tree pursued by hyenas; and a rare black rhino born in captivity.
Tiger! Tiger! A Korean Odyssey
- 1994
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
This documentary reflects life in South Korea, once known as the Hermit Kingdom and now embracing the West as reunification with North Korea becomes increasingly likely. Traditions such as the colourful Farmers dance are examined as is the modern work ethic, with its western pleasures: Lotte World. Visit the island of Chejdo, travel in the autumn beauty of the countryside with its Royal Tombs and Buddhist temples and see Expo '93 with its futuristic creations.
The Time Game
- 1992
- TV drama
- 95mins
- Status: Completed
Relegated to his grandparents' country home for the school vacation, Tony discovers his grandfather's secret laboratory and has a holiday he never expected.
To the Island
- 1990
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
This documentary traces the fascinating story of Kastellorizo, a tiny Greek island two kilometres from the coast of Turkey. The geographic location has fated the island to a history of waves of conquest from Turkish, French, Italian, German and British forces. This has led to massive migration to all corners of the globe including Australia. The Kazzies have retained their culture and still call Kastellorizo home.
Towards the Golden Triangle
- 1997
- Documentary
- 47mins
- Status: Completed
A series of adventures through Southeast Asia; life with ring-necked Karen tribe, the hill-tribes of northern Thailand; dare-devils who wrestle crocodiles and kiss deadly cobras.
Tracks Across Africa
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
TRACKS ACROSS AFRICA documents classic train journeys searching for why the travellers embarked on this style of travel such as The Lunatic Express, named because it was considered crazy to build this line. Malarial mosquitoes claimed a huge toll amongst its workers while lions attacked and killed another 28. Rovos Rail is the world's most elegant train, restored 1920s rail carriages hauled by steam locomotives through the game reserves of South Africa.
Travel Fantasy
- 1994
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
TRAVEL FANTASY documents the ultimate round-world trip, beginning in the canals of Venice in a gondola and ending deep in the Pacific on board a luxury superyacht. In between, the journey progresses on board the Orient Express to France, where a hot air balloon trip across the Burgundy Valley ends at the charming Chateaux du Fey. A barging trip along the stunning Canal du Midi follows with the connection to North America made on board the Concorde as we fly with actress Lauren Bacall. In South Africa a trip on board Rovos Rail leads to an elephant back safari in the Okavanga Delta.
Waiting
- 1991
- Feature
- 95mins
- Status: Completed
Old friends gather for a home birth.
Weekend with Kate
- 1990
- Feature
- 92mins
- Status: Completed
Richard Muir is juggling both a high powered career as a PR Executive for Origin Records and a fiery office affair with his dominating colleague, Carla. Unfortunately, he's not doing either very well! Having temperamental British rock star Jon Thorne to entertain for the weekend will cause further complications...especially as Richard's wife, Kate, is planning to patch up their marriage with a romantic weekend for two at their beach hideaway.
Where Cannibals Roam
- 1994
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
WHERE CANNIBALS ROAM takes us through the seldom explored tropical jungles of Irian Jaya to meet some of the world's last cannibals. Our expedition involves a group of anthropological students who cross Irian Jaya from north to south, capturing scenes on film, which in the light of changing times are never likely to be seen again. The film begins in Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya, before the group flies into the rugged Central Highlands to Balium Valley. Further south the team travels by canoe to the vast swampy rainforest that runs down to the Arafura Sea concluded by a visit to a remote tribe on the Brazza River, leading to a self confessed cannibal, who reveals how he disposed of his victims.
White Fury: The Untamed Tibet
- 1986
- Documentary
- 43mins
- Status: Completed
First rafting expeditiojn in Tibet from the Rhongbuk Glacier on Mount Everest through uncharted valleys to the capital of Lhasa. The film shows ancient ceremonies such as sky burials where the dead are cut up and fed to vultures.
Yangtze to Shangri-la
- 2000
- Documentary
- 48mins
- Status: Completed
A sailing expedition up the Yangzte river through the three gorges in search of the mythical kingdom of Shangri-la.
You And Me And Uncle Bob
- 1992
- TV drama
- 91mins
- Status: Completed
Two kids contrive to bring love to an unlikely older couple.

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