A family discovers their child has leukemia. But this is not the only case of cancer in this small country town in the middle of the cotton belt, where clouds of chemicals hang over the town and contaminate the water. The family confronts government departments, chemical companies and the cotton growers before the final climax in court.
A tale about a pig that learns how to herd sheep and becomes the national sheep-dog champion.
The further adventures of Babe the talking pig.
Jack, a 'born-again' Christian and a man with a violent past, has high hopes for his first serious job since getting out of gaol. He and his wife Alison take an isolated posting in the empty heart of Australia but in the heat and struggle Jack's memories of his tortured childhood emerge and Alison discovers that fear can replace love. Jack starts backsliding...
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...
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 NUGGET is a gentle morality tale about three road workers who stumble upon the world's biggest nugget and become instant millionaires - or so they think. The road workers are mates from way back, and each weekend they go out to an old gold mining site hoping to strike it rich. Each weekend they come back with nothing but a hangover. But then everything changes when they discover the world's biggest nugget - worth many millions of dollars. THE NUGGET looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of these working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
Every 11 years the Sun's poles reverse with unimaginable violence. The peak of the storm is called a solarmax. The large format science documentary SOLARMAX tells the story of the human relationship with our nearest star - the Sun - from ancient times to contemporary space science. Real images captured by NASA's SOHO satellite provide a spectacular view of the Sun as it has never been seen before.