In September 1915 a patriotic young Australian journalist named Keith Murdoch visited the Anzac battlefield at the Dardanelles where, just weeks before, thousands of Australian and British soldiers...
Croatian-born grandmother Gina Sinozich has painted a prodigious and impressive collection of hundreds of internationally celebrated paintings since she first took up a brush just six years ago....
British theologian, Robert Beckford traces the rollercoaster relationship between faith and film, from the first Bible movies, made more than a century ago, to the present day.
Passport to English provides you with the opportunity to experience what it is like to sit a formal English language interview for assessment purposes. Although these are not actual IELTS tests, they...
Produced by ABC Education Television. A series of programs for secondary school classes devoted to basic concepts in science. Most of the programs show how scientific ideas have built on past...
The discovery of gold changed the course of Australia's history, when the gold rush era saw the population triple, the creation of inland towns on what had been vast sheep runs, the end of convict...
In Jordan, a team of archaeologists undertakes a survey of human settlement at the ancient city of Pella, in the hills overlooking the River Jordan.
Pella may hold the key to many aspects of history...
A delightful journey through the world of opera, this film is constructed around Joan Carden's preparation and performances as Cio-Cio-San in Madam Butterfly. We see Carden as an actor and singer and...
Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera and television directors in the world today, having directed more than 100 productions, large and small, across America and abroad. He gives the...
Considered one of the most significant voices of 1960's London, Lewis Morley took one of the most singular iconic images of this period - a naked Christine Keeler on an Arne Jacobson chair. At the...
PIECES OF ME puts a human face to the accelerating scientific advancements in genetic identification. The science of genetics is expanding faster than cures or treatments, so what do people do when...
Award winning wildlife film maker, David Parer has built his reputation on delivering the pictures we never thought we'd see. This fascinating documentary on the platypus is no exception as he sets...
An after-dark basketball competition targeting young people living in public housing across Sydney is about to take the kids of Woolloomoolloo by storm. Run by the dedicated coach Bassi, an ex-pro...
The story of 'Operation Seville' has no rivalry in the history of Australian Policing. Over several years the Australian Federal and NSW State Police Forces worked with the Mafia in growing and...
Docu-drama on police and political corruption in Queensland, as exposed during the Fitzgerald Inquiry. In three acts, the production incorporates dramatised reconstructions, archival footage and...
It takes 26 weeks of intense training to make a cop. Over six months Police Training Academy (PTA) follows the exhilarating highs and dramatic lows of 60 new recruits who are training in the new...
The story of six Wallabies, who after touring South Africa in 1969, realized that playing International rugby against South Africa would be condoning apartheid.
Making themselves unavailable for...
The Powder And the Glory tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women immigrated to America and...
Doctors Joanne Stone and Keith Eddleman of Mt. Sinai Hospital, co-authors of the best-selling book Pregnancy For Dummies, host this informative series that demystifies the very mystical process of...
This four part series examines four emotions in detail, from their evolutionary origin, to how the emotion is regulated by the body's own drug factory. We investigate how emotions hold the key to...
Bill Peach retraces the steps of the Australian Explorers in a ten part documentary series with re-enactments, the difficult feats and the proudest moments of these famous early Australians.
Volume 1...
On average, men die almost seven years earlier than women and have higher rates of heart disease, lung cancer, cardiovascular disease - in fact, almost every life threatening condition. And yet,...
In Painting Australia six prominent Australian landscape painters take us to their favourite locations, those often hidden and secret places that inspire their work and ignite their passion.
Part...
PHOTO FINISH is a unique series where amateur photographers compete head-to-head in themed photographic challenges.
Hosted by Andrew Günsberg, three photographers are given the same camera and are...
In the early 1990s Paul Keating's Labor government put Aboriginal reconciliation high on the agenda, establishing the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 1991 then following up the High Court's...
In this dazzling and colourful programme, Sir David Attenborough reveals two of his greatest passions, Birds of Paradise and the art of bird illustration. They are combined in the work of William...
