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Cyclone

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.

Mega Cyclone

Jupiter’s famous blemish, the Great Red Spot, has vanished. When massive storms are reported in North America, it quickly becomes apparent that the huge, high storm that has been swirling around Jupiter for hundreds of years has landed on Earth. Swallowing up everything in its path, the Great Red Spot threatens to transform Earth into another Jupiter-like gas giant in just a matter of days! aka Mega Cyclone

Surviving Disaster

Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.

Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

In early 1972, Ita Buttrose and Kerry Packer got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history. CLEO Magazine - begun in a "fit of pique" - went on to help define women, Australia and the relationship between the two.

The Making of Me

Series in which famous people examine just why they are the way they are.

Devil's Dust

An intensely personal drama based on one of Australia's most shocking corporate scandals, Devil's Dust tells the story of ordinary Australians caught in a web of deception in the James Hardie asbestos saga. Spanning four decades, Devil's Dust shows how industrial manufacturer James Hardie first covered up its knowledge of the dangers of its asbestos mining and products and then threaten compensation plans by moving the company overseas.

Howzat! Kerry Packer's War

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament.

The Strange Calls

City cop Toby Banks is demoted to night duty at Coolum Beach. He joins local eccentric Gregor to investigate the strange calls: phone calls that expose the paranormal mysteries of the town.

Australia with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve sets off on an extraordinary adventure across Australia. This mad adventure, involving specially adapted off-road vehicles and a chopper, is part of an ongoing effort to stop the damaging spread of up to a million feral camels across the country.

Persons of Interest

Four episodes, each featuring a "person of interest" — Roger Milliss, Michael Hyde, Gary Foley and Frank Hardy — exploring their previously secret ASIO intelligence file.

Commando

Commando follows a small group of ordinary Australians who take part in one of the toughest military Selection Course's in the world. A physically, and psychologically gruelling 6 weeks, designed to identify potential candidates for the 1st and 2nd Commando Regiments - extremely specialised, combat capable Australian Special Forces Units.

John Bishop's Australia

Series following comedian John Bishop as he embarks on an Australian adventure, cycling from Sydney to Cairns. Along the way he meets extraordinary people and experiences some true natural wonders.

The War That Changed Us

The epic story of Australia and the First World War is revealed through the lives of five Australians and their transformative journeys through conflict on the battlefront and on the home front.

Air Australia

Australia's aviation history is a saga of daring feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, iron-fisted politicians and warring pilots; of humble beginnings and mega deals.

Snowy

The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.

Blood + Thunder: The Sound of Alberts

This two-part documentary looks back to the '60s and '70s and charts how Australia got its own rock 'n' roll sound thanks to the life-long bond between music company Albert Productions and The Youngs.

Sword of Honour

Capturing the spirit of the age and the turmoil of the times, Sword of Honour tells the heartbreaking story of a nation at war, the soldiers who left their families to fight, the social upheaval and the emotionally perilous journey back home.

Robson Green's Australian Adventure

Robson Green embarks on an epic series of adventures across Australia. His aim is to understand what life is really like away from the familiar and famous destinations, by venturing into the outback and beyond.

Alice to Nowhere

A nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The robbers track her to the outback, and are determined to let nothing—and no one—get in the way of them retrieving their loot.

The True Believers

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."

Dead Lucky

Two feuding detectives hunt down a cop-killer who leaves a trail of broken lives across Sydney.

Outback

Journey with the people and animals of Australia’s Kimberley region in North West Australia: a vast, rugged and remote wilderness, bursting with character.

Wrong Kind of Black

From the crocs and cops of 1960s Queensland to the blood-splattered disco floors of 1970s Melbourne, comes the hilarious and heartbreaking story of afro bearing, flare wearing DJ Monty Pryor and his brother Paul.

Australia's Hidden Islands

Each episode helps us discover the flora, fauna and animal life of a specific island. The photography is beautiful and is backed up with an interesting narration.

Australian Gangster

In the Sydney underworld, the lives of gangsters, the Instagram generation, and the glamorous social elite intertwine.

Halal Gurls

A comedy series offering a candid look into the lives of three 20-something Hijabis living their best lives in Australia as they endure the unseen everyday culture clash between their faith and desire.

Love Fraud

Four-part docu-series following the search for one man, Richard Scott Smith, who over the past 20 years used the internet and his dubious charms to prey upon unsuspecting women in search of love — conning them out of their money and dignity.

X-Ray Earth

Earth as it has never been seen before, by challenging preconceived notions about the world, making use of cutting-edge scientific tools, and travelling over, across and deep into the Earth's crust to learn just what makes the world tick.

Murder in the Outback

A major, revealing in-depth re-examination of the Falconio and Lees mystery, an infamous case from 2001 concerning a horror story of abduction and death on a lonely Australian highway

Ring of Scorpio

Ring of Scorpio is a 1990 Australian mini series. It was made with assistance from the Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Television and the Nine Network, and shooting took place in Morocco, Spain, Sydney and Broken Hill.

Further Back in Time for Dinner

An ordinary family travels back in time 120 years to immerse themselves in five decades of Australian history. Annabel Crabb guides the Ferrone family through history as they cook, eat and live, from Federation to the 1940s.

After the Night

The horrifying true story of Eric Edgar Cooke, one of Australia’s most notorious and deadliest serial killers.

The Record

The plan to smash the world record for attendance at a women’s sporting event depends on host and tournament favorites, Australia, getting through to the final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, but injuries, poor form and a new wave of international talent threaten to derail Australia's campaign at every turn.

Wakefield

Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.

Fires

Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.

Always Afternoon

Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between Germany and Australia. It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson.

Lie with Me

A British woman and her husband seek a fresh start in Australia after infidelity in their marriage. The couple hire a young nanny, but she isn't the innocent stranger she pretends to be.

Tsunami

Dr Xand van Tulleken and Raksha Dave tell the dramatic story of the Boxing Day Tsunami, which killed more than 250,000 people.

Life on the Outside

Would you let a convicted criminal stay in your home? Presented by Danielle Cormack, this ground-breaking new series follows a unique initiative to tackle recidivism - a person's relapse into criminal behaviour. Follow four Australian households that are prepared to offer their spare room to a formerly incarcerated person for 100 days.

Fearless: The Inside Story of the AFLW

A world-first look at the AFL Women’s Competition (AFLW) and the powerhouse movement it has become for women in sport. The six-part series spotlights four clubs: Adelaide Crows, Collingwood, GWS GIANTS, and Western Bulldogs.

The Australian Wars

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

Shipwreck Hunters Australia

A unique team of adventurous divers and underwater filmmakers are joined by expert maritime archaeologists on the hunt for long-lost shipwreck secrets along the vast coast of Western Australia. Led by an obsessed pirate captain, the missions combine new evidence and archival research in an all-out adventure into the mysterious past in one of the most stunning places on Earth.

Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake

After a terrible earthquake in Nepal, locals and tourists join forces to face destruction in this gripping docuseries.

Anzac Battlefields

Through graphics, archive, oral history and travels across the scenes of past battles, Neil Pigot and Dr Peter Pedersen explain where, why and how the ANZACs fought in France and Belgium almost 100 years ago.

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