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Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, tries to help a fellow psychiatrist prove his innocence when he is suspected of murdering one of his patients with whom he had been having an affair.
ADVENTURE PLANET is a collection of true stories offering a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary people who have a passion for adventure. From rock climbing to mountain biking, kayaking and cross country skiing these adventurers face challenges that test them both physically and spiritually. Also available as 2 x 1 hour eps.
An Australian tourist has a series of ribald adventures in London.
The documentary charts an aeroplane's 14,000 kilometre journey back to Australia after 18 years in Arizona, USA. It combines archival footage of Connie, the aeroplane, with the history of how Qantas used the plane to open Australia to the rest of the world in the 1950s and early 1960s. The final stage traces the return flight to Australia.
Jane Halifax must face the demons of her past when she is asked to join the investigation of a shocking mass killing. Her helplessness - she can help neither the survivors, nor the police in tracking down the killer - begins to extract a heavy toll on Jane's psyche.
A journey into unkown Africa. The journey starts where the road ends, and goes up from there.
Mark Tennant and Mike Penman join forces and camera equipment to present a fresh one hour series that uncovers life as a wildlife photographer. In each episode they set out somewhere in Africa on a photographic safari that is designed to throw them into difficult situations, or 'tightspots'. Two unconventional experts have one major thing in common - a failure to disguise their professional competitiveness. Tennant will do anything to get a great shot; Penman will do anything to get a better one. Hold onto your hats!
A program hosted from the First Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro which explains Agenda 21 and its underlying motivations and linkages. It provides the glue to bind together Agenda 21, the political process surrounding its adoption and the examples of what can and might be.
Five best friends have to make $30,000 in 30 days. How far would YOU go for your friends?
The series AMERICAN JOURNEY captures the adventurous spirit of 26 people as they travel across America, following their unique passions and pursuits. The documentary explores how travel enriches peoples lives and can open doors to personal growth and discovery.
A mother brings her daughter, Amy, to the city after she overreacts to a visit from well meaning welfare officers. Amy is a deaf mute, and, despite soliciting help from all manner of specialists, it is through a young musical neighbour, Robert, that Amy breaks through her silence.
Juxtaposing modern medical scenes with evocations of ancient medical practices, we explore plastic, prosthetic and emergency surgery over the millennia. The findings are surprising.
Behind the scenes of an iconic Australian rock band. Thirty years ago, The Angels were the kings of Australian rock. One year ago, they were battling it out in court over naming rights. This is the story of how The Angels fell apart, and how they tried to put it all back together again. In this Access All Areas documentary, we follow the band to rehearsals, band meetings, backstage, dressing rooms, and centre stage - as the five original members of The Angels try to re-discover the magic that first made them rock stars.
An aspiring horror movie writer looks for love in a world of heartache, desperation and soft fluffy toys.
An observational cinema look at the work of a Sydney intensive language centre where newly arrived immigrant teenagers are given a crash course in the English language and the Australian way of life.
AUSTRALIAN RULES is based on the novel 'Deadly, Unna?' by Phillip Gwynne and set in a shabby little fishing village in outback South Australia. It is a contemporary story about two communities, the Goonyas (whites) and the Nungas (blacks), and the one thing they have in common - the local Australian Rules football team. Screened at Sundance, Edinburgh, others.
Tom McGregor returns home determined to atone for his role in the fatal motorcycle accident that claimed the life of his younger sister. Tom's mission is to overcome his personal demons by bringing the family's abandoned service station back to life. However, Tom's plans get sidetracked by an unexpected parade of passing travellers.
This series is an extraordinary look at Australia and some of the most feared wild animals in the country through the unique eyes of a real life Crocodile Dundee, a Barefoot Bushman, Rob Bredl. Rob has been handling wild and dangerous animals all his life - and does it like no one else. He explains animal behaviour in a completely different way to conventional animal behaviourists and researchers. Rob Bredl is a natural performer and host - laconic, daring and knowledgeable.
The Barefoot Bushman, Rob Bredl, takes us on a journey through the unique Gulf country in northern Queensland. Rob follows the extraordinary route taken by the stranded crew of the US airforce plane that crashed in the area during World War II. The crew walked for over 300 kilometres, but in the end all but one died due to lack of food. Rob takes us through this country to show us how to survive and what to eat. The food is strange but there is plenty of it.
Rob Bredl is 'The Barefoot Bushman' and is out to dispel some myths about our native animals. This episode features the dingo.
Robbie Bredl is a self taught expert who has rewritten the book on crocodile behaviour - he understands them like no other. In this one-hour documentary, we see footage never seen before. Crocodile attacks and kills, close ups in a specially prepared tank, egg laying and breeding. We also hear some remarkable attack stories. All is presented by Robbie Bredl who is a natural performer and host; laconic, daring and knowledgeable. He is a real life 'Crocodile Dundee' - a Barefoot Bushman!
The Barefoot Bushman, Rob Bredl looks at the world's most dangerous snakes, the taipans. We travel with him to where they live in the cane fields of tropical Queensland and remote central Australia. We follow the natural history of the taipans from combat, mating, egg laying, hatching through to the dramatic hunt. The Barefoot Bushamn shows us just how deadly they are and explains why.
The Barefoot Bushman looks at Australia's newest poisonous snake - the tiger snake. It examines the natural history of the most unusual species in the snake world including how the tiger snake species beat the odds and survived and prospered in places no other could. Rob also travels to remote islands off the southern coats of Australia to show us the giant and the pygmy taipans.
A family action adventure series about four children who live in a small city on Australia's west coast and their exciting and unpredictable adventures.
BEAT BUGS' original characters are a group of young bugs learning life lessons in an overgrown backyard.
Money doesn't always make you happy but it can sometimes make you murder. BEHIND MANSIONS WALLS will tell the real story of high society and high intrigue and use dramatic recreations to show the key moments of these crimes and their investigations.
High in the Himalayas, two old climbing partners, now almost 80, are still roped together on a climb without end. An inspiring tale of an amazing 50 year partnership, the first ten years with an ice axe, the last 40 with a hammer. This moving film features Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest, returning in his eightieth year to continue his work among the Sherpa people of Nepal to whom he has dedicated the last 40 years of his life. In that time he has built and maintained 30 schools, two hospitals and many health clinics, countless bridges, two airfields and several monasteries.
A story of romance and humour set in Australia's far North East. Former journalist Tom Stopple escapes Brisbane and heads north to find himself immersed in a world of immense beauty, bounty hunting and a three-way fight for the girl of his dreams.
In the eyes of Billy's teenage daughter, he's a loser; and his girlfriend can't seem to find the key to his heart. But when his pub jazz band takes off after Billy finds he can sing like his idol, the legendary Billie Holiday, life changes. Fame, fortune - and Faust - turn Billy's world on its head until what emerges is the true romantic spirit of Billy Appleby - voice and all.
Jared is 17 and lives with his mother in Blackrock, a suburb in a large industrial city on the coast of New South Wales. Finishing strongly in his second last year at school, he is starting to get a handle on life. Then Ricko, the young local hero and Jared's idol, returns. Jared throws a welcome home party for him at the local surf club. Everyone is there. A 15-year-old girl is found dead on the beach. Jared is torn between loyalty and truth.
The first phase is hallucinogenic, the second glandular, the third - body melt. A peaceful morning in a suburban court is about to be interrupted by a deafening car crash. A few residents will be transfixed by the driver deliberately hurtling toward one of the unsuspecting houses. They will scream as he smashes headfirst through the windscreen, but no-one will see the strange tentacles erupt from the man's neck and force their way down his throat. Something weird is going on in beautiful Homesville ... and it's going to get worse.
BODY PARTS depicts the biggest growth industry of the 21st century. With demand exceeding supply so dramatically, science is looking at radical solutions to make up the shortfall. BODY PARTS focuses on the scientific research that will deliver the world an inexhaustible supply of transplantable organs. The latest research presents a range of options from xenotransplantations, where animal organs are being developed for human transplantation, to sci-fi farms, where human clones are grown for their organs.
A scientific exploration of unusual birth stories, BORN AGAINST THE ODDS features dramatic reenactments and detailed medical explanations of immaculate conceptions, bowel babies and precipitous births.
Extraordinary birthdays: miraculous stories of baby deliveries against the odds. A sequel.
BRAIN ATTACK focuses on strokes - the risks, the warning signs and the ground breaking emergency steps that minimise the long term effects. Utilising a highly reactive production approach, the program will feature filmed sequences and case studies from leading stroke treatment centres around the USA, offering access to the most innovative Brain attack teams in the world.
This hour long documentary explores the phenomenon of human guinea pigs - people who undergo drug trials and experimental surgery before they've been FDA approved. This hour brings stories of bravery to light from the vanguard of medicine.
A young woman enlists her family's help in bringing sexual harassment charges against her former boss. But is she lying?
For 30 years, Arrente man Rupert Max Stuart has maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl. In BROKEN ENGLISH, we hear from Max and those personally involved in the case. Max Stuart claims he fell prey to prejudices in the white justice system and alleges he was beaten and verballed by police. He spent 14 years in prison and faced the gallows nine times for a crime he says he didn't commit.
The temptation of undreamt wealth leads to an impulsive decision, one which has a bizarre and tragic twist. The double-edged sword of money stretches the ties of the Taylor family to the limit.
Adult drama for the dynamic generation about people taking chances - some win, some lose.
Adult drama about a family who wins three million dollars in a lottery.
In 1930-31 the British Arctic Air Route Expedition (BAARE) set out to investigate the possibility of an air route to North America via Iceland and Greenland. Plans to fly across the Greenland icecap were abandoned after their Gypsy Moth aircraft suffered considerable damage. They then set out on a gruelling and remarkable overland expedition negotiating rapids, lakes and fjords between the icecap and the sea. This program documents the incredible journey of three adventurers as they retrace the steps of the 1930-31 expedition across the icy labyrinth that is Greenland.
Few ever knew that Josef Stalin's last conscious night on the planet was spent in the loving and devoted arms of a young Australian, Joan Fraser. Fewer still knew that their love child would bring Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now...
Psychological portrait of a notorious crime figure which looks at the real motivation behind the ambitions he presents to the world.
One night in the lives and loves of six young people who work in a pizza delivery shop. Over the course of 24 hours their lives will collide, changing them forever.
Takes an in-depth look at the Greenhouse Effect and how it will effect all our lives.
We follow a group of stand-up comedy students as they prepare to perform at the Comedy Store in Sydney.
Two warring restaurants whose cooks (and dishwashers) can't keep their hands off each other.
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads make a local bowling club a prime candidate for takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club. In what turns into an epic battle, young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
Joey Dredge is in trouble: he's been expelled from school after throwing himself off the tuckshop roof again; is haunted by the death of his father; hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bully son; and has just discovered that he has to spend Christmas with the lot of them down at their beach house by the bay. All looks hopeless until Albert, Joey's long-lost great-grandfather appears unexpectedly after a stint in prison. Joey soon finds himself a wonderful friend and a partner in crime...
After the death of her child, a mother is arrested for the murder. Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, suspects post-natal depression. But as the mother's story unravels Jane doubts that she is guilty. But who is the mother protecting, her child or her lover?
The misadventures of two Irish lads, Fergus and Wesley, on the run from the Australian Department of Immigration, an IRA hitman and the SAS who have mistaken them for terrorists.
A dramatic love story which unfolds over a single day in a small country town in the mid 1960s. An outsider's return triggers tension and unrest.
Relocating from America to the Gold Coast, Lyn Graham has chosen a home that will threaten the very existence of her children. There is an evil past that is set to corrupt her two young children in a series of satanic rituals. It is the teenage brother Danny who, with the help of his girlfriend, must uncover the dark secrets and seek out an escaped killer, risking his soul in a classic battle of good and evil.
Morality and justice are tested to the limit when a leading city detective lays his life on the line to bring down the establishment.
A group of film students decide to finish a 'cursed' film which originally ceased production 14 years earlier, after the director was viciously murdered. After shooting commences the students start to disappear one by one. Now they just have to finish the film before it finishes them.
DAGS: a comedy about weddings, robberies, kidnappings and living in the suburbs.
A factual crime series that sees best-selling crime author M William Phelps and serial killer expert John Kelly working together on unsolved murder cases, consulting a 'real life Hannibal Lecter.'
The true story of Australia's worst peace-time disaster. Made with the support and participation of the survivors and rescuers.
Nell is an aspiring actor with an unusual gift - she can communicate with horses.
An old woman lies dead, seemingly killed by her own dog. An open and shut case? The killer dog is condemned to death row, but Margaret O'Halloran, the legendary Dogwoman, suspects foul play. Did the dog do it, or were there more sinister circumstances? In a race against time to save the dog's life, Margaret is drawn into a world of secrets and lies, intrigue and conspiracy.
In a remote Aboriginal settlement a man is killed for breaking traditional law. To the community it's an execution, but to Constable Ray Lorkin it's a murder.
Follows female murderers throughout history and what motivates them to kill.
DEAR CLAUDIA is a romantic comedy about two people, marooned in life, marooned together with a bag of mail. Walter and Claudia can't wait to get away from each other, until letters they never wrote start to bring them together.
Jane Halifax is called out of semi-retirement to advise in the murder trial of a former patient who is accused of burning his parents to death. Realising the accused may not be guilty, Jane begins to suspect his brother, who seems to be living a bizarre double life.
Diana Spencer is 20-something, from an Australian country town, and shares the same name and birthday as the Princess of Wales. Her obsession with the Princess takes her to London. She comes close to shaking hands with her, but is elbowed out of the way by a London paparazzi photographer, Rob Naylor. When she finally teams up with Rob in search of her idol, strange things start to happen...
Margaret O'Halloran can think like a dog. This is a rare gift; something that many aspire to, but few achieve. It has earned her the title of Dogwoman.
This film chronicles the daily antics of some of the 100 dolphins that live in the waters off Bunbury and the interaction research scientist, Stephen Honnor, has with them.
In a world populated entirely by robots, the Dumbotz – three hopelessly inept and foolhardy robots, Houston, L-VIZ and Thunderbot – are called upon by the mayor of Lower Dumpton to save their world from all the sorts of things that worlds need saving from. Despite being a forgotten town off a B-road off ramp, trouble seems to happen with alarming regularity. The whole town must be accident prone or something!
A global look at the impact of engineering on our world.
Based on the stage play of the same name by David Williamson about the moral decline of a Melbourne couple who move to Sydney.
Barky - 25, lost soul, left home two years ago to escape his abusive father, leaving behind everything in the world that was important to him; now that his father is dead, he thinks it's safe to come home.
A new Ford Mustang not built for the road but built for the racetrack.
Fanshaw and Crudnut are a pair of badly behaved, childish, bickering slugs from outer space. And they’re on an intergalactic mission.. apparently. Their mission is to boldly go where no slug with half an ounce of common sense has ever been before. They travel through the galaxy in a beaten up flying saucer on a series of completely pointless quests that land them in the most ludicrous situations. For Fanshaw and Crudnut it’s a lose-lose situation.
It’s Christmas Eve and Princess Vial is demanding her presents… now! To complete the mission Fanshaw and Crudnut must open the Slughole in Time and let Slug Santa out to deliver the presents early. Our two slugs embark on an epic quest that will change Christmas forever!
Every climbing season hundred of mountaineers steel themselves to ascend Mt Everest, knowing they might not return. This is the story of one man who would not give up. Australian Mike Rheinberger was a man possessed by a dream that would soon become a nightmare. Two years after his double-edged victory, Rheinberger's guide Mark Whetu, returns to the Himalayas to put ghosts to rest ... and celebrate his freedom.
Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, is teamed up with an out of town detective, Jonah Cole, to solve a progression of serial rapes and murders.
Coping with the demands of motherhood, Vicki, a young artist, escapes into an ill-conceived love affair. This only makes matters worse, throwing her and the household into emotional turmoil. She is tormented by her deceit and confesses all to her husband and must face the pain she has inflicted upon the man she truly loves. She must also face her punishment. She tries to be a good wife and mother but her creative imagination is running riot. How can she have her cake and eat it too? Fantasy saves the day!
A female fire-fighter battles sexism and the curse of her brother's name when she is forced to join an arson investigation which points to one of her male colleagues in the Fire Brigade as a serial pyromaniac.
Stories of new female recruit Morgan and her fellow firefighters based at a Brisbane station.
Further stories of the Southeast firefighters.
FLYING FOXES - GREY SKIES OVER SYDNEY focuses on the grey headed flying fox which lives in Sydney's central business district. It explores this member of the bat family's close association with the urban environment, their movements and their feeding habits, focusing on two permanent flying fox camps situated in Sydney's inner suburbs and Botanical Gardens.
The story of Errol Flynn's early years, depicting his childhood in Tasmania and his wild teenage years in New Guinea. Before he was 21, he stood trial for murder. He was a thief, a liar, a gigolo, a gambler, a sailor, a streetfighter, a soldier of fortune. He was Errol Flynn.
Jack is a small-time filmmaker who dreams of being a hero fireman, a soccer star, a rock guitarist when he gets older; in fact, he is 29. Kit is an unknown piano-accordion-playing artist with a green/red conscience. Kit and Jack's long-term relationship has reached an all-time low. It may or may not be reinvigorated by sharing a house with E. E is a part-time university student who is more into writing 'Pretty Ugly' - a zine about herself, what she does and who she is with - than studying. Instead of having careers, kids, influence and money Jack, Kit and E are having fun! Or are they?
FRIDAY ON MY MIND is a migrant fairytale: the story of The Easybeats. Two Dutchmen, a couple of English and a Scott met at Villawood Migrant Hostel in 1964. Within a year they topped the music charts in Australia. Two years later they were world-beaters, Australia’s first international rock superstars. Fan hysteria (Easy Fever) was generated wherever they appeared. By 1969 it was over. Lead singer Stevie Wright was only 21. Forty years on, the original members of The Easybeats tell their story for the first time in one documentary.
Imagine that a film crew has been given carte blanche to make 'fly on the wall' documentaries on the organisation of the forthcoming Sydney Olympic Games. The team has the complete confidence of the managing body and complete (or almost complete!) access to meetings, briefings, on-site inspections, news conferences, etc. The organisers are so confident of success, they are allowing this warts and all exploration of their work.
Imagine that a film crew has been given carte blanch to make a 'fly on the wall' documentary on the organisation of the forthcoming Sydney Olympic Games. The team has the complete confidence of the managing body and complete (or almost complete!) access to meetings, briefings, on-site inspections, news conferences, etc. The organisers are so confident of success, they are allowing this warts and all exploration of their work.
Two years ago we made THE GAMES suggesting that the organisation of the Sydney Olympics was in some way amusing. We deeply regret this and have embarked on making another series to correct this impression.
GIFT OF LIFE explores the complex web of logistics, surgery and emotion involved in the world of organ donation and transplantation.
How would you like to be a 13-year-old child and be handed the gift of your dreams; a gift so special it has the potential to make you everything you ever wanted to be. On the other hand, how would you like to be one of the poor, tortured suckers who is condemned to accompany the gift, and keep the 13-year-old child on the straight and narrow, or else suffer the indignity of being transformed into a cockroach, cane toad or a squishy blob on the bottom of your shoe.....!
The telemovie introducing the series about Elvis Maginnis, who is a former cop from a family with criminal connections. He joined the force to escape the family - and he left the force to escape the brotherhood. So Maginnis bought a dry-cleaning franchise and set himself up in business. Independence and freedom with no strings attached - or so he thought. But the family and the force wouldn't leave him alone, both needed to test his loyalty. Both wanted him to do 'just one last job' - except they ask him every week.....
Elvis Maginnis is a former cop from a family with criminal connections. He joined the force to escape the family - and he left the force to escape the brotherhood. So Maginnis bought a dry-cleaning franchise and set himself up in business. Independence and freedom with no strings attached - or so he thought. But the family and the force wouldn't leave him alone, both needed to test his loyalty. Both wanted him to do 'just one last job' - except they ask him every week...
This is a documentary about the caravan's of older, retired Australians who move about the country in search of experience and new life.
GREY VOYAGERS follows six highly motivated older travellers on unique odysseys to parts of the world of special significance to them.
A tale of love, lust and betrayal. University Professor Justin Thorne, adored by students, is the envy of his peers. But a young girl's fantasy turns to obsession and threatens to destroy everything he holds dear: his freedom, his family and his career.
A bomb explodes at an animal research laboratory. Margaret O'Halloran, the legendary Dogwoman, and Kelty, her famous tracker dog, are called to the rescue.
In the mid to late 1960s Ford built the GT40 known as the 'Ferrari Beater' at LeMans. This documentary follows the making of this Ford GT Sports car in time for the company's centenary.
Jane Halifax is a forensic psychiatrist whose speciality is the criminal mind.
The year is 1910: Alan is a 13-year-old country boy whose only ambition is to become a famous horseman. But infantile paralysis (polio) has left him crippled. HAMMERS OVER THE ANVIL is the heartbreaking, inspirational story of his struggle to come to terms with life as it really is. Based on the story by Alan Marshall.
Forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, counsels a police officer who has shot a felon in the line of duty. The pressure increases when the officer's family begins to receive threats regarding evidence he is to give in court.
Three brothers have found a uniquely profitable way to spend their jail time. Crime does pay, and no-one gets hurt - until they discover the catch. When sex and greed come between bad cops and good criminals, the consequences are fatal. For some.
Jane Halifax is called in to analyse death threats made against Simon Laser, a well known gossip columnist for a weekly magazine after his gay lover is found murdered.
From the Neolithic sky watchers of Europe, to the solar observatories and blood sacrifices of Mesoamerica, from the sun gods of the Egyptians and Greeks to the dawning of Aristotelian science, HEART OF THE SUN reveals how the development of our whole cosmology has been informed by our struggle with this oldest of mysteries...the sun.
Midori, an unhappy Japanese honeymooner, fakes her disappearance and ends up being taken hostage in a bungled bank robbery. Saved by Colin, the getaway driver, the unlikely pair are pursued across the outback by the obsessive husband, the police and the revenge-seeking bank robbers.
A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, his mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him. With nothing to lose, he enlists the help of his best friend and concocts a plan to rig the biggest horse race in Australia.
HORSES tells the story of three horses born on the same night and follows their very different destinies.
Two very different men compete to build the world's best hot rod.
Three sisters are reunited at their seaside family home by the disappearance of their father. Based on the award-winning Australian play by Hannie Rayson.
A lush, visual exploration of the origins, evolution and sexual mystique surrounding the Pacific Island HULA GIRLS.
THE HUMAN JOURNEY follows the greatest journey of all time, that of modern humans. From Africa to Australia, the series investigates the great mystery of how our ancestors, the first Eve and the first Adam, emerged from Africa to populate the planet. It explores our origins and inquires whether, regardless of race or place, we may all be related. Indeed, from the one tribe or family.
The science of predation; how, when and why animals attack humans.
Three extraordinary men from different parts of the globe compete in a race from the edge of the sun-scorched desert to the tropical coast in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia.
Two unemployed men, bored by life and angry at the world, spend their time drinking beer and watching videos until one day they actually decide to do something - rob a bank.
Set in the 1930s and 40s, IN A SAVAGE LAND is an epic love story that explores the relationship between two newly married anthropologists who travel to the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea to study the sexual mores of a village. Their relationship begins to break down when she starts to question the validity of his work. She travels to another island to do her own research with a village of headhunters - but needs the help of a pearl trader to get her there. They begin to fall in love as war breaks out in the Pacific.
This documentary tells the story of one of medicine's modern miracles going horribly wrong. We relive the nightmarish experiences of patients who've regained consciousness and pain perception while under anaesthetic.
A gripping documentary reliving the terror and heroism of recent history's worst maritime disasters. INCREDIBLE OCEAN RESCUES focuses on Australia's Search and Rescue teams who managed to save 52 people during the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race where six sailors lost their lives and countless others lost their love of yachting. Rescuers winched from helicopters dived into the enormous seas time and time again to catch their human quarry. The heroism of these truly incredible ocean rescues has been rewarded on both sides of the Pacific and makes a compelling documentary subject.
Celebrated artist Jack Zeffa is hired by nightclub owner Bill Kazak to paint a portrait of his beautiful but troubled wife Ruby. As Jack paints her, he and Ruby fall in love. In the intimacy of his studio, as Jack paints Ruby, she inspires him to break from the tortured past that has been smothering his artistic capabilities. Ruby, taken seriously by a man for the first time in her life, sees a future beyond the darkness she has endured while trapped in her marriage to Kazak.
Jane Halifax clashes with a fiery homicide detective while profiling a series of bizarre killings. Convinced that Jane is wrong, the detective abuses his authority by framing his suspect, which leads to tragic circumstances.
Adapted from D.H. Lawrence's story of love, violence and political intrigue, based on his personal experiences in Australia in 1922. 'Kangaroo' - the code name of the charismatic leader of a secret fascist army - brings all his dark power to bear to seduce the writer into embracing his ideas, but the writer and his wife find strength in their love reawakened in the exotic southern land.
James Grant is the most admired school captain ever bred at Lawley Grammar, the most legendary rugby captain to ever lead the First Fifteen and the Dux of the school. James is on the path to success, and nothing is going to stop him...except one small thing. James loves to ballet dance. He secretly auditions for a small ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet and wins the part. James' other world is falling apart...his girlfriend wants to break up and his coach forces him to play a match that's scheduled on the same day as the performance. To make matters worse, the ballet is now to be performed at the Opera House, in front of thousands....
In the format of the successful Backyard Science series, KID DETECTIVES is immersive children's television program where kids get to solve real mysteries with a hands-on approach to forensics. With dramatised Fantasy Mysteries and At Home Crime Scenes, children discover how science can help solve mysteries big and small – and, in the process become Crime Scene Detectives themselves!
In the wake of the Asian Tsunami this powerful documentary explores the science of compassion. Observational and character driven, the film uses strong personal journeys and world leading scientists to provide a unique insight into the mysteries of altruism and the true nature of human kind.
Al and Nikki are lovers on the run from the police, heading across the Nullarbor. When a series of murders are committed along the way, each begins to suspect the other as the killer.
THE LAST BULLET tells the story of two combatants - one Japansese, an experienced sniper, and one Australian, a raw recruit. They are the only survivors of one of the last battles of the war. Each knows of the other's existence and knows full well that this enemy soldier will kill...unless he can be killed first. Their dramatic fight for survival leads ultimately to a point where there is just one bullet left to fire. Based on an original story by Hiroaki Yoshida.
Two sisters, eldest and youngest daughters of a domineering father, are reunited after a time apart. While Beth is away trying to sort things out with their father, Vicki and Beth's husband begin an involvement which tears the household apart. A desperate little domestic comedy.
Harry Bowman, the old Dogman has gone missing. Margaret O'Halloran, the legendary Dogwoman returns to her old home town of Jindarup to find out what's happened to her friend and mentor.
When Sharon Sinclair brutally murders her parents her psychiatrist informs the police he has been treating Sharon for multiple personality disorder. Forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, is called in by the court to give a psychiatric assessment of Sharon.
When a small criminal law practice suddenly finds itself out of its depth with two murder cases on its hands, one of the partners seeks the assistance of her former teacher, who presumably has turned his back on the law for good.
A 52 part live action puppet series set in a spooky Gothic school run by a retired movie actress. It features the (mis)adventures of a group of children who just happen to be rather familiar monsters as well.
The unconventional life of a legendary eccentric who recited Shakespeare for a dollar on the streets of Sydney and rode taxis for the price of a sonnet. LILIAN'S STORY is a celebration of being alive. Based on the novel by Kate Grenville.
A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL is a Faustian comedy about a scientist on the verge of discovering the key to the ageing process - but he needs more money to finish his work.
The story of Lizzie the librarian, her mobile library and the townsfolk of Long Flat.
We asked Australians to share with us the best travel experiences this country has to offer and the results were revealed in the LONELY PLANET BLUELIST AUSTRALIA TV series. The TV show features some of Australia's most unique travel experiences road tested by prominent Australian personalities as well as the best travel videos submitted by the audience.
Playful, sassy, streetsmart and unexpected, LONELY PLANET SIX DEGREES connects its viewers to what makes each city special – the people that live in it. LONELY PLANET SIX DEGREES explores the world’s coolest cities by connecting with the people who live in them. By emphasising the human dimension of travel, LONELY PLANET SIX DEGREES moves beyond sightseeing and offers the surest way of being whisked off your feet and fast-tracked to the heart of the city.
LONELY PLANET SIX DEGREES sets out to explore the world's most happening cities by connecting with the people to live in them. If we're all connected by just six degrees of separation, all you really need is a single point of contact
Nonna Katia, Christina and Josie are three generations of Italian-Australian women living together in a hothouse atmosphere of love, support...and drama on an operatic scale.
The trials and tribulations of love, sex and romance for five university students.
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
Two sisters in an Australian country town develop a fierce and competitive crush on their new neighbour, a brooding and self-centred radio personality. A black comedy with a smouldering soundtrack and lots of fishing, LOVE SERENADE is the story of the one that didn't get away.
Shaun spins between chaos at home, hanging around the mall with his mates and girlfriend, small time crime, ditching school, and avoiding his youth worker. His dad is just out of gaol and Shaun's hoping that things are about to get better. Wrong. As his world tips further off its axis, Shaun realises that he is the only one who can change his life. MALLBOY is a universal story about the difficult decisions that jolt you out of adolesence and face you towards adulthood. Ready or not.
MARRIAGE ACTS is the story of David McKinnon, a family court judge, and the impact his decisions have on people in court as well as on his personal life.
MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS is a compelling and frightening insight into life behind bars in two of the USA's toughest maximum security prisons. The two prisons filmed, Oklahoma State Penitentiary's H Unit and Minnesota's Oak Park Heights, are separated by 700 miles, yet a vast chasm in operating philosophy.
Exploring the extremes of the human body, MEDICAL INCREDIBLE introduces us to some of the most unique members of the human race - people who live with extreme and unusual medical conditions. Each episode presents in-depth stories that will confound and astound.
This series explores the lives of people and families around the world whose medical condition makes them very rare if not unique.
This series explores the lives of people and families around the world whose medical condition makes them rare, if not unique.
MEDICAL MIRACLES is a four part documentary series, which investigates the 'outer limits' of new medical science. In laboratories and surgeries around the world researchers and specialists endeavour to discover the next major medical breakthrough. Each episode explores a different area of modern medicine, which is at the cutting edge in its specialisation and sometimes at the edge of community ethics.
Dr Darryl Jones is obsessed with Alphamale, a wily Brushturkey from the Tropics. Ex-motor mechanic Ray 'Whimpey' Reichelt loves Charlie, a shy desert dwelling Malleefowl. An extraordinary tale of two vastly different men and their love for two of Australia's unusual mound building birds.
Two teenage girls swap lives. One is a famous Australian soap star and the other an ordinary English schoolgirl.
Tony Bullimore, trapped in his upturned yacht deep in the Southern Ocean, is rescued by the Australian Navy.
The series follows the life of a young English boy named Keith who lives with his miserable mother and father in a fish and chip shop in the middle of London. In his search for paradise he convinces his family to move to Queensland, Australia, thinking they will find happiness. However he realises that it takes more than surroundings to change a person's state of mind.
Witness some of nature's deadliest encounters where stings, spikes and deadly venom are wielded with cold-blooded precision. This is the no-holds-barred, real life world of spiders, scorpions, centipedes and killer ants who fight to the death. The five encounters per episode are accompanied with expert commentary from Dr Linda Rayor; Cornell University's eminent entomologist and Dr Bryan Grieg Fry; "Professor Poison" from The University of Queensland. When bugs go to war there is just one guarantee - you're either dead or alive.
MONSTER BUG WARS SEASON 1 takes viewers into the hidden microscopic world, capturing the world's extraordinary creatures in High Definition.
MONSTER BUG WARS SEASON 2 takes viewers into the hidden microscopic world, capturing the world's extraordinary creatures in High Definition.
MOTOWN MAGIC is a series about music, magic and the power of one’s imagination, that tells stories inspired by songs from the world's most popular music catalogue. The series centres on Ben, an imaginative and slightly awkward eight-year-old African-American boy, who discovers the Master Piece – a magical paintbrush that allows him to travel through the street-art murals on the gritty walls of Motown into a fantastical world inhabited by magical characters, making friends and learning life lessons along the way.
In MULTIPLE MIRACLES we follow the extraordinary family of the Chalks as they face the joys of multiple new births, the heartache of an unexpected death and the many life changes that transpire when a family is blessed with multiple miracles.
Jane Halifax provides trauma counselling after a bus accident in a small Christian community. Barbiturates found in one of the driver's blood provides a focus for the town's anger, but Jane puts herself in the firing line by suggesting there are much darker forces at play.
When Robert Bartlett, a colleague of forensic psychiatrist, Jane Halifax, heads an assessment panel which releases a convicted murderer who murders within 24 hours of his release, the entire psychiatric assessment panel system comes under scrutiny.
Frank Kennedy is a 51-year-old woman who enrols at the same university as her son David. Armed with nothing more than intelligence and humour she creates a place for herself in the strange new world of the university ... becoming an icon and inspiration to those around her who want to change their lives but are afraid to take the chance.
Did man really land on the moon? Can you tenderise a steak with explosives? And can you really escape prison with a rope made from toilet paper? Adam and Jamie continue to put urban legends to the test.
We've all heard the stories - this is the series that investigates urban legends and puts them to the test to reveal the truth.
We have heard all the stories, this is the series that investigates urban legends and puts them to the test to reveal the truth.
We have all heard the stories - this is the series that investigates urban legends and puts them to the test to reveal the truth.
Morris West's story of a woman and her fight for independence and love in the beautiful but brutal country of Australia's vast north. When her rancher husband mysteriously disappears on sacred tribal land, she joins the search, only to betray him in the arms of the only man who can save his life.
Neri, the ocean girl, embarks on a quest to unite the clans of Oceania in order to repel the evil space wizard Galiel. Good triumphs over evil in this gothic adventure story.
Follows the adventures of Max and Milly and their lovable farmyard animal friends: Henry the horse, Charlotte the chook, Dash the duck, Shirley the sheep, Percy the pig and Daisy the cow.
The adventures of Max and Milly and their animal friends, on New Macdonald's Farm.
Follows the history of lingerie and swimwear and the impact its development has had on existing ideas of morality and womanhood in our society.
When the young Ken Elkin, an over-sexed and hyperactive youth with a taste for personal melodrama, first encounters the end of the world, it is at the annual Seventh Day Adventist Camp in 1956. But the world doesn't end. Arriving in Sydney in 1962 to attend University, Elkin encounters the end of the world for a second time, but the much anticipated apocalypse is once again postponed.
An exploration of the hopes and expectations of three working class women from Adelaide, and the differences and similarities they share with their daughters.
Follows the history of lingerie and swim wear and the impact its development has had on existing ideas of morality and womanhood in our society.
Like most girls her age Min Rogers has had her ups and downs - but at 22 she felt things were finally starting to go her way...and then the phone rings. Suddenly, she's out of a job, out of a boyfriend and out on the street. But Jaz will know what to do - she always does. Nothing like a friend's advice when you need it most and David seems like a nice guy to live with (Wrong!). Pass the blonde... And what about Stanley - Jaz said it was over between them anyway. Nothing wrong with an innocent flirt now and then...or was it more than that? Promises are made, loyalties are tested, friends are stretched...and then the phone rings. Whose place for Melrose?
The story of Neri, a mysterious young girl from the ocean. Set in the tropical rainforests and spectacular coral reefs of Far North Queensland.
The story of Neri, a mysterious young girl from the ocean and her discovery by the young inhabitants of an underwater research colony. Set in the tropical rainforests and spectacular coral reefs of Far North Queensland.
Neri, the mysterious girl from the sea, returns to search for the secret of her past. Aided by the kids from Orca, she uncovers the incredible truth - and starts a quest for the sister she never knew existed.
Neri and the kids from the underwater city of Orca set out in search of an alien device capable when assembled of controlling the very movement of the oceans. But the dark forces of Ubri have also stumbled upon its existence and the race is on. At stake is the Earth's salvation - or its destruction.
Neri discovers an underwater pyramid built long ago by voyagers from her own planet. But when the Ocean Planet falls to rebels Neri engages in a deadly struggle with a rival princess for control of the mystical pyramid, which can save humanity or destroy it.
OFF THE RAILS: ON THE BACK ROADS TO BEIJING is the unlikely story of two young Australians determined to live a dream. Tim Cope and Chris Hatherley, both 20-years-old, embark on an epic journey: to cycle 10,000 kilometres on recumbent bicycles from North West Russia, across the Ural Mountains to Siberia, Mongolia, and Northern China, finishing in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
While trying to understand the link between Asperger's Syndrome (a mild form of autism), Creative Genius, the Director wonders if he has it himself and travels the world meeting sufferers. Hans Christian Andersen had the condition and his stories contain clues to it.
Australian conservationist Nigel Mason is determined to rescue 10 endangered elephants held captive in government training camps in Sumatra. Nigel intends to transport the elephants over 3500 kilometres, crossing three Indonesian islands. OPERATION JUMBO is both a thrilling race against time and a celebration of the special relationship that can exist between humans and animals.
When 23-year-old Jack Flange robs the fish markets to help his sister out of trouble, he doesn't expect the money to go missing after posting it to the secluded environs of the Hawkesbury River. Travelling north to recover the money, Jack discovers a world of tight-knit eccentrics including Pearl, a local girl with a reputation, to whom Jack becomes irresistibly attracted.
Country truck driver Jack Willis has written a romance novel. Fearing ridicule from his mates Jack uses a pen-name, that of his long-time friend Ruby Vale, a local crop-dusting pilot. Trouble brews for Jack when he lands a book deal with a publisher who sends out a vivacious publicist to convince their new novelist to come to Sydney for the promotion of 'her' new book. An offer to pay for Ruby's wedding soon convinces her that the favour is worthwhile. Jack realises that he can't permit the high-spirited Ruby to run-a-muck in Sydney in her new role as romance writer, so he decides to escort her as manager. Their relationship begins to take unexpected turns.
Brilliant pianist, innovative composer and radical intellectual, Percy Grainger was an eccentric genius who relished extreme sado-masochism and shared an intense relationship with his mother, Rose. PASSION is the story of this 20th century maverick and his mother.
When a young girl of 13 commits a brutal and seemingly unprovoked murder, it traumatises the school and stuns the wider community.
An historical series that tracks the 'descent from innocence' of United States foreign policy from its isolationist and idealistic stance prior to World War II to its disastrous self-appointed role as world policeman in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and '70s. This journey is seen against the backdrop of the disintegration of worldwide colonial empires and the impact of Cold War policies and the United Nations on newly-independent countries in Africa and Asia.
POISONOUS WOMEN reveals a remarkable untold story. For thousands of years poison has been the murder weapon of choice for the fairer sex. This documentary explores how poisons kill, as well as the science behind identifying a particular poison and linking it to the killer.
An unconventional historical documentary about the battle of Pozieres, France 1916.
SONGS FROM THE INSIDE is a 50-minute TV documentary musical, the first of this genre to be made in Australia. The film explores the stories of eight prisoners living inside the walls of Berrimah Prison through music, song and dance. With a holding capacity of over 800, Berrimah's the Northern Territory’s largest prison. Nearly 85% of inmates are Indigenous. The result is an in depth portrait of both the prison and its inmates, people normally out of sight and mind of contemporary Australia.
A look at the dire state of the health of men - done with the wry humour of John Clarke, Australia's leading satirist. We meet men around the world, explore their health problems and offer ideas and initiatives to help men improve their health.
A travel and adventure documentary which explores the phenomena of why some people are drawn to high risk sport and adventure activities and how this influences their lives and their relationships. Based around Queenstown, New Zealand, known internationally for the wide range of high risk activities it offers, RISK explores themes of universal interest against a backdrop of visually interesting and dramatic activities.
Innocent Ben Madigan is one of the many hopefuls trying to make it big through the sharp-edged world of personal injury. But the most important thing he learns from insurance is who gets to walk away.
One would scarcely imagine the wealth of life that lives on, in, under, and among the rocks that make up much of any coastline. What could possibly survive where waves constantly pound the rocks? This is The Rocky Shore and much of the life that is found here is extraordinary, weird and some even bizarre beyond belief. Food, water and oxygen are in abundance, but in some respects conditions couldn't be worse with blazing sun, blasting winds, exposure to salt air, and a water cover that constantly changes with the tide. THE ROCKY SHORE explores the adaptations that animals have developed to cope with these variations, without which life would not be possible.
Based on the life of world champion Aboriginal boxer, Lionel Rose.
Following the international success of the mini-series, Emmy Award-winning Michael Economou has reformatted the bitter sweet story of Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose into a taut, feature-length exposé of all that is both brutish and beautiful in Rose's extraordinary life.
ROUGH DIAMONDS centres on the relationship between city girl ex-pop star Chrissie Bright and her 13-year-old daughter Lisa. When Chrissie decides to 'get out' of Brisbane and heads towards Queensland's outback, she meets Mike Tyrell, a cattleman who drives trucks to keep the bank at bay. He is single and lives with his 13-year-old sister Sam. Mike's dream is to be a successful cattle breeder, Chrissie is seeking to find her 'true self'. When Mike's road train sideswipes Chrissie's car, Mike's moment of inattention changes both their lives.
Harvey, a neurotic private investigator and wannabe crime writer, gets asked to marry his best friend's mistress.
To join the ranks of Australia's elite SAS regiment you've got to make it through one of the toughest training courses in the world.
SAVING FACE takes us into the world of the cranio-facial surgeon. These men and women are the carpenters and construction workers of the surgery world. For their patients, who suffer facial deformity, life can be cruel. Birth defects can cause not only a grotesque appearance, speech and eating can also be difficult, sometimes impossible. SAVING FACE shows how some of the world's leading cranio-facial surgeons give new faces and new lives to their patients.
SCIENCE FRONTIERS is an exciting and quirky series of science-related programs with diverse topics that sit on the edge of the scientific frontier.
Could it be that Jane Halifax has finally got it wrong? It would seem so when she is asked to deliver a pre-sentencing report on a stalker who has been harassing a woman in her early 30s.
In the heart of South West Tasmania's world heritage wilderness stands one of Australia's most challenging mountains. Against all the odds, Warren Macdonald goes in search of the personal freedom he enjoyed before an horrific accident two years before. He spent 28 days hiking and climbing the peak, becoming the first double above-knee amputee ever to do so. A profound story of one man's extraordinary courage and determination to take back control of his life.
It's the night before Meg's wedding. She and her bridesmaids are planning to kick up their heels as the final hours before the big day tick down. However, not everything goes to plan as a last minute scandal threatens to ruin the whole affair.
June 1964. Madness! Music! Emotion! Five teenagers trapped in the giant basement of the hotel where the Beatles are staying during their Australian tour. As the night unfolds they slowly start to reveal their deepest secrets, their hopes, their dreams. SECRETS features some of the most famous music ever written.
Two one-hour documentaries about people going through the many stages of gender reassignment.
The remarkable story of Ron and Valerie Taylor, who have been filming the ocean and its creatures for more than 35 years. Using largely unseen archive footage, the series weaves underwater adventure, natural history and conservation into three episodes. SHADOW OF THE SHARK allows the audience an insight into the couple's intimate relationship with the sea, focusing in particular on the ocean's most vicious predator - the shark.
Summer 1927: Doctor Kate Munro arrives at the remote Gannet Island to take up a practice. The locals resist Kate's modern medicine as vigorously as they oppose her stormy romances with the two Hanlon Brothers. She must call on all her courage before she wins acceptance and finds happiness.
Following the fatal shark attacks at Cottesloe Beach in 2000 there was public outcry to kill the shark. The documentary hosted by Channel Nine's Tracy Grimshaw explores the truth about shark attacks and rates Australia's best and worst beaches.
It is the year 2050 and the teenage crew of the Star Runner are two years into a journey to the Silver Sun, a planet closely resembling Earth located in a distant solar system 45 light years away. It is their mission to ensure the safe delivery of 550 cryogenically suspended new settlers to populate the new world and pave the way for future generations of mankind.
In the distant past, mysterious individuals walked the Earth whose skulls were so strangely shaped they intrigue and puzzle everybody who sees them today. Skullduggery is an intriguing tale of an era when radical body modification, ritual murder and even the mutilation of the dead were common practices – all in an attempt to win favour with powerful and demanding beings from another realm.
A series of three mystery telemovies about murder, motherhood and mayhem.
The first instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies where two overworked young mums, de-skilled beyond their worst nightmares, become a formidable pair of sleuths. Their cases are the murder, greed and dark passions that lurk behind the anonymous facade of the suburbs. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
The second instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies finds Chrissy and Jo in the midst of organising a wedding. A mysterious death throws the wedding into chaos. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
The third instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies finds Chrissy and Jo at Chrissy's university reunion. Surrounded by success, Chrissy begins to question her decision to stay at home with the kids. When a friend is found murdered, Chrissy and Jo are drawn to solve the mystery. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
Two completely different teenage girls from opposite ends of the world are forced to live together in a run-down snake park in Outback Australia - with only their very strange families for company.
The Snowy Mountains Scheme was the largest project ever in Australian history. It took 25 years, 100,000 people and one billion dollars to build. More than one of the 'engineering wonders of the world', the Scheme opened the floodgates to post-war migration to Australia.
To mark the anniversary of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, this episode of the two part documentary series looks at personal stories of those who worked (or whose families worked) on the Scheme. It includes a Norwegian engineer, a German chainman/draftsman and miner, a Russian carpenter, an Irish first aid officer/writer, an Italian miner and sons of a Russian doctor and Norwegian engineer.
From the director of the popular 'Barefoot Bushman' series comes the remarkable story of Solomon - the crocodile who almost crushed the life out of Karla Bredl. Rob Bredl, described as a real life 'Crocodile Dundee', is back to trace the life of this wild creature from a hatchling until he was caught as a 4.5 metre rogue crocodile over 500 kilometres and 14 years later...And including the first-hand incredible story of the attack and rescue of Rob's niece Karla from the croc's jaws.
Jane Halifax is called in to help track down a serial killer. The killer has left a plea for her help, and Jane is confronted by her worst nightmare - that this killer might be one of her own patients.
A rural drama set around the local radio station.
What happens when actor Russell Crowe teams with millionaire Peter Holmes a Court to buy the South Sydney Rugby League team? Can the once mighty team, nicknamed 'The Rabbitohs', be remade into the Pride of the League?
An observational series set in the Kosciuszko National Park, Australia, following the park rangers, the visitors and the farming families living on the edge of the park through the four seasons of the year. Rangers are required to: manage the park; find lost skiers and bushwalkers; manage the interface between the park and the farming area around it; and protect the wildlife in the park.
When Jane Halifax's best friend dies mysteriously, Jane must unmask the murderer before she too becomes a victim.
A majestic saga sweeping two suburbs. It is the late 1960s. A 'time and motion' expert is called in to moderate Ball's moccasin factory. Amidst this upheaval an 18-year-old youth attempts a major romantic takeover.
The secretive world of undercover cops.
A drama series about undercover cops - police who work behind enemy lines, always without a badge and frequently without protection.
STINGS, FANGS AND SPINES is a pacy natural history documentary that takes viewers as close as they would ever want to be to a fire ant, viper, brown recluse spider and platypus. Utilising macro photography, 3D graphics, dramatic recreations and personal interviews with victims, this program is more than just deadly tales of envenomation - it reveals that stings, fangs and spines hold not only the ingredients of death, but as we open the doors on breakthrough science, we discover the key of life as well.
From the world's most isolated children's hospital come richly varied, compelling and personal stories of the ceaseless struggle to mend young lives - and of the often startling science that is employed.
This series explores the revolutionary period of pre-history that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had know for millennia to take up a completely new way of life - the decisive move to farming and herding, the creation of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals. The dramatic changes that led to the world's first civilisations.
In the heart of a wet Melbourne winter, She, an awkward young woman, begins a desperate crusade to excavate her sexuality.
STRANGE PLANET is a warm-hearted comedy about six young people's adventures and misadventures on earth. It's New Year's Eve. Life in the metropolis has kept two groups of friends apart, now fate brings them together at a remote beach house.
When a young ballroom champion defies the all-powerful Federation by dancing his own steps, his dream of winning the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix is shattered. His career seems in jeopardy until help comes from an unexpected quarter and he finds the courage to challenge the Federation.
With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemption. Harris, as a child of five, sits underneath his house amongst the cobwebs making 'sugar' by pounding sandstone rocks into fine grains and wrapping them into bags. Harris at 17 falls in love with Helen and when a tragic accident leads to a breakdown he ends up at 'The Cottage'... Thrust up against the lives of other innocent victims, Harris begins to make sense of his own guilt, grief and the secret of his past.
SUPER SURGERIES focuses on the medical centres and surgical procedures on the new frontier of medical science. Episodes include Robotics, Miracle Babies and Restoring Senses.
An observational, reality TV series set in Indiana's maximum security prison, 'Wabash' where we see selected inmates, correctional officers and management figures confront the myriad of dramas and pressures that occur daily.
This documentary goes inside a fetal surgery unit and explores the drama surrounding, and the technology supporting this extraordinary work.
Jonah Cole, a Sydney detective, is suspected of being crooked and seeks out his friend, Jane Halifax, for support. She becomes enmeshed in a tale of bribery, corruption and deception. How can Jane prove that the man she loves is innocent?
Jane Halifax is summoned to investigate a murder in a high security prison. Five suspects and an impenetrable wall of silence. When the director of the Unit disappears, Jane's task is to work out what is holding them together and break the code of silence before it's too late.
TABOO explores the extremes of culture and the extreme practices of subcultures around the world. TABOO examines why some rituals are so important to a country, a tribe or a group and what makes those rituals taboo for others. Shot in six continents.
Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys own, live and work in nearby takeaway fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast food outlet 'Burgies' unveils a new store next door to the fish and chip shops.
Jane Halifax is asked by the court to evaluate the state of mind of a woman in her early 30s, who has been charged with throwing acid on an expensive car. Apparently the woman had no association to the owner of the car and her motive remains a mystery.
A television drama about cooking, love and passion. A Montague and Capulet tale of two warring restaurant dynasties.
On his wedding day, Guy remembers his previous long-standing relationship with Jenny.
The true, untold story of Lindy Chamberlain.
The story of 15-year-old Noah who lives in the future when no animals roam the Earth. By unlocking the secrets of time travel Noah finds a way of bringing animals from the past to repopulate the World.
Continuing the story of 15-year-old Noah who lives in the future when no animals roam the Earth. By unlocking the secrets of time travel Noah finds a way of bringing animals from the past to repopulate the World.
Continuing the story of 15-year-old Noah who lives in the future when no animals roam the Earth. By unlocking the secrets of time travel Noah finds a way of bringing animals back from the past to repopulate the world.
Mimi and Hanif begin a road trip from Melbourne to Perth, Mimi heading home to make peace with her mother, Hanif running from the consequences of his involvement in a drug theft masterminded by his friend Dean. So begins a journey of discovery for Mimi and complication for Hanif, throwing their relationship into confusion and doubt.
Follows the misadventures of Jimmy, an aspiring young ex-streetkid who loses gangster dollars and has to pull his first 'job' to avoid the bullet. Unfortunately for Jimmy, he is distracted by the girl of his dreams who offers him the prospect of a better life, the job goes wrong, and a couple of street kids who acted as the catalyst for his downfall become entangled in the events that lead to Jimmy's transformation.
Three couples go to an idyllic island and create a magical wedding. A funny, touching and uplifting film based on a true story.
After six months at sea on an unassisted solo circumnavigation, Georgia Perry's yacht is becalmed for several days. Cabin fever sets in and the border between fact and fantasy begins to distort. But if these are just tricks of the mind, how do these encounters leave Georgia with physical manifestations?
An art teacher at a Catholic girls' school mysteriously works as a hooker on the inter-state express. She knows what she's getting into and she has her reasons. What she doesn't count on is falling in love with one of her clients and becoming captured in a dark web of deceit and murder.
The seas of our world are massive, heaving, living, biomasses connecting life on our planet. It was here millions of years ago that life on earth began. Little has changed in those millions of years. Coral reefs are the marine equivalents to Time Square, Piccadilly Circus or Kings Cross; an aquatic metropolis where life forms numbering hundreds of thousands congregate, take nourishment and propagate, away form the hostile turbulence of the outer ocean. Marine diversity is staggering; from the microscopic to the gargantuan, comical to the sheer terrifying, plain ugly to the exquisitely beautiful. WATERY CREATURES uses the latest film techniques including the Panavision Frazier lens system that will transport you beneath the surface of the waves, down to the richest and most intriguing environment known and unknown to man.
Based on the novel by John A Scott, WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN explores masculinity, spectatorship and the pornographic imagination. After Christopher Houghton has suffered a stroke from which he is not expected to recover, his wife, Sorel Atherton, receives the manuscript of a novella written by her husband and 'leaked' to her by her husband's friend and university colleague, Jeremy Fayrfax. Sorel finds in these pages evidence of a life betrayed. And while Christopher Houghton stares speechless and uncomprehending from his death bed, Fayrfax seeks a moment of truth.
Should you really drink eight glasses of water a day? Are automatic toothbrushes better than manual? Does eating chocolate really cause pimples? Regularly out-rating its prime-time competition, WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU is Australia's latest television sensation, a fun lifestyle series that uses its hosts as guinea pigs to get to the truth behind many of life's little mysteries.
All the things our mothers told us are put to the test in this health series.
This one-hour documentary gives firsthand accounts of people who have suffered the unwanted legacy of surgical tools being left inside them.
Medical teams perform miracles every day but mistakes do happen and when things go wrong in surgery lives can be ruined and reputations shattered. In this frightening documentary, you'll meet some of the 2,700 patients from the United States who in one year had surgical tools left behind.
Have fun with the most popular children's band in Australia - The Wiggles. Dorothy the Dinosaur thinks everybody has forgotten her birthday.
Animals and people. Four unique stories in distinctly Australian locations.
When it's Nature versus Technology the outcomes aren't always predictable... can humankind produce better technology than nature has already provided?
When a series of rapes occur all fingers point to one of Jane Halifax's patients. This can't be as Jane is his alibi. But why are the rapes exact reenactments of this patient's past attacks?
A comedy about love, politics, sex, religion, culture, cars and pizza. But not in that order.
Following the success of the social documentary 'Maximum Security Prisons', which compared two philosophies of male criminal detention, this documentary looks at the United States' maximum security prisons currently incarcerating approximately 90,000 women.
Each year the faithful make a pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska. Some 15,000 people descend on this unremarkable mid-western town, anxious to hear the wisdom of their humble guru. It is an event surrounded by ritual, adulation and a fair degree of cult worship. But this is not a religious sect, it is a shareholders' meeting. It's a billionaires' convention - probably the largest gathering of private wealth at any one time, anywhere in the world. Their guru, Warren Buffett, is an unassuming man in his late sixties. He also happens to be worth over $30 billion, making him the second richest man in the world.
Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, aids in the grief counselling of pupils at Blenheim House, a prestigious boys' school, after the death of a teacher. When a pupil is murdered, Jane suspects that the deaths are related.
Three chopper builders from three different counties, come together in the Californian desert to accept a challenge ... to contest the World Bike Build Off.
WORLDS APART comprises informative documentaries embracing the history and culture of each destination. Pastimes, religious beliefs, culinary tastes and the essence of the people are explored. Current episodes: 'After the Fire' (Northern Ireland); 'Romance of the Five Lands' (Italy, Cinque Terre); 'Inside Paris'; 'Into the Blue' (Australia's Blue Mountains); 'Secrets of the South' (Tasmania, Australia); and 'Where the River Meets the Sea' (Margaret River, Western Australia).
Two couples from different worlds collide, resonate and fall to pieces.
Barry White is a man dedicated to transforming classic car wrecks back to their former glory. In each episode, Barry White's Speed Shop - with its dysfunctional team of mechanics, hangers-on and family members - has just four weeks to find a dilapidated classic car and turn it into money. Auction dud or dream come true?
YOU SWALLOWED WHAT? is a weird buffet of indigestibles and accounts of people who bit off more than they could ever chew.
In this series, we follow real life job seekers and employers through the highs and lows of the recruitment process. Jobs on offer range from the high profile and glamorous to the downright quirky - anything from a croupier on a luxury liner to an ambulance officer, a speed dating coordinator to a Top Gun pilot.
A futuristic thriller in which two border guards from warring nations play increasingly dangerous games.