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Living In The Shadow of WW2

Across three eye-opening episodes, Living in the Shadow of WW2 explores the ups and downs of everyday life while the greatest war in history raged on. Read more

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Australia After War

From the Great War onwards, combining the stories of veterans and their families, with commentary from leading academics and experts. A thought-provoking exploration of one of the most important icons in Australian life. Read more

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Code Red

Code Red explores the most significant and dramatic disasters in living memory. Over ten one-hour episodes, we investigate the anatomy of catastrophe and look at the ways in which they have changed us forever. Read more

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Machinery of War

From the beginning of the twentieth century to today, war was radically transformed. Through mechanisation and industrialisation, the methods used to settle conflicts have made the art of war more hi-tech, more expensive, and more devastating than ever before. Violence, it seems, is the mother of invention. Read more

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The Black Hand

Anthony LaPaglia explores an Australian Italian community's struggle against The Black Hand and its ruthless leader Vincenzo D’Agostino amidst extreme politics, global upheaval and looming war. Read more

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Deception: World War II

Deception: World War II is a four-part chronological series that weaves tales of the deception and countermeasures, used by both sides of the Second World War to deadly effect. Read more

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Inside Japan's War

To Western eyes, the war against Japan began with the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the Asian perspective, it started ten years earlier when Japan invaded Manchuria in Northern China. Read more

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The China Century

The forces that have powered China's rise are rarely explored, while the lives of Chinese people barely get a mention. Beyond the headlines what do we really know about China and its 1.4 billion citizens? Read more

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Beyond The Towers

Mass murder in New York and Washington by the Al Qaeda terrorist group, led by Osama bin Laden, propelled the United States and its allies, including Australia, into a 20 year war in Afghanistan which they could not win. Read more

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Total War

A Total War is all encompassing, a war without boundary or limitation. It is a war of material and morale. A war that mobilises, destroys and displaces civilian populations. Read more

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Behind History

An exploration of the places, people, and events that shaped the world, looking at the stories behind some of the most remarkable ideas, momentous events, and extraordinary people. Read more

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Jungle War

An investigation into the many elements that contribute to jungle warfare from WWII to the end of the 20th century. Read more

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  • Science & Engineering

How To Build A City

Cities are the future of humanity. The only viable way to accommodate - and sustain - a global population trending towards ten billion by the turn of the century. As we inevitably race towards a more urbanised future, there is much to learn from the present and the past; from the ‘HOW, the NOW and the WOW’ of building the greatest cities in the world. Read more

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  • Science & Engineering

Guns That Changed The Game

As each new century unfolded, guns increasingly shaped the way battles were fought and borders were drawn. The quest to create more innovative and lethal weapons became more and more contested. These are the Guns the Changed the Game. Read more

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Road to Now

This six-part series unpacks key events that changed the world over 30 years: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of eastern Europe; the rise of China; the revival of Russia; and the decline of the United States as the world’s sole superpower. Read more

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Hell On Earth

Hell on Earth tells how 67 months of war were experienced by civilians, innocent bystanders, their political leaders and those in uniform. Read more

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As It Happened

As It Happened pulls back the curtain on some of the most shocking, notorious and captivating news stories of the past century. Stories that broke around the world, with new details unfolding day after day. Read more

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Iconic Australia

Iconic Australia is a compelling visual and social history of Australia’s distinctive icons, how they rose to that status and why they still matter. Through those we tell the fascinating stories of the making of modern Australia from the end of World War II to the present day. Read more

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Fatal Shot

From the religious zealot to the political extremist, the deluded misfit or the state sponsored saboteur, Fatal Shot is an exploration into the motives, methods and minds of assassins. Read more

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Stuff The British Stole

The British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today, those objects are often housed in museums and galleries across the UK and the world. Marc Fennell peels back the mysterious true histories behind those objects - and meets those who want them back. Read more

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  • WildBear International

Bomber: Terror of WWII

In the history of warfare, many weapons have changed the way battles are fought, but one weapon changed not only the battlefield but war itself - That weapon was The Bomber. Read more

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  • WildBear International

The 100 Days

One hundred days is more than enough time to change a life, or to change history. Read more

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  • People & Places

Hating Peter Tatchell

The profound life story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the British establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed tyrants in the fight for equality. Read more

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  • History

And We Danced

For over half a century, The Australian Ballet has evolved to become our nations most treasured performing arts company and an international icon of dance. And We Danced is a landmark 3 x 1 hour series, which looks back to reveal what has shaped this world-class institution and made it uniquely ours. Read more

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  • People & Places

Winston Churchill's War

Winston Churchill's War is a four part series that illuminates the life and decisions made by a once unpopular premiere, and how the war turned him into a giant. Read more

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  • People & Places

Living With Hitler

Over three one hour episodes, we follow this story of how the high and low placed German population and the people of the occupied countries lived through the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945. Read more

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Australia Come Fly with Me

Over three episodes Justine Clarke uncovers the secrets of more than 100 years of aviation - and discovers that what happened in the air shaped Australia on the ground. Read more

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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks explores the influence of Hong Kong’s martial arts cinema and how it shaped filmmaking from Hollywood to Uganda. Read more

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Barrenjoey Road

Who killed teenager Trudie Adams and why has justice eluded her and her family for 40 years? Read more

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Hitler's Propaganda Machine

Power, terror, performance. These notions define our perception of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party at the height of the Third Reich. But behind this was an ordinary man. Read more

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Supernatural Nazis

This series explores the extraordinary story of Hitler and the Nazi Party’s plans to win World War II by using an array of supernatural and occult super powers. Read more

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  • Science & Engineering

Killing Machines

Be they simple tools or feats of engineering and science, killing machines have always been at the forefront of engineering and innovation. Read more

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The 101 Who Made the 20th Century

A decade and a half since the close of the twentieth century we take a considered look at the people most responsible for the events that shaped the hundred years which transformed our world from horses and carts, homemade toys, and empires to the one we know today. Read more

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Supersize Structures

Many of mankind's ideas to build big seem impossible. In Supersize Structures we look at when the impossible became the inevitable, from ancient temples to skyscrapers and spacecraft. Read more

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The War That Changed the World

Using archive material from the conflict, including Chinese footage not previously seen, this program tells the story of the Sino-Japanese War, a major theatre of war whose story is little known internationally. Read more

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M.A.D. World

‘M.A.D. World’ explores how the world was changed forever by the Cold War. Over eight episodes, remarkable archival film shows how the build up of nuclear arms and the mistrust between West and East instilled terror across the globe. Read more

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  • Natural History

Animals That Changed History

Animals That Changed History is a six part documentary series that details the contributions of animals to human development throughout history. Read more

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Changed Forever

Presented and narrated by Colin Friels, “Changed Forever” vividly recreates the story of Australia and Australians during the years of the First World War. Read more

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  • People & Places

Stranded

New York had the Ramones. London had the Sex Pistols. But Brisbane had The Saints- the band that changed the face of rock as we know it. Read more

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World War II: The Price of Empire

Told in 13 episodes through the unparalleled resources of one of the world’s great film archives, and brought to life by the testimony, recorded exclusively for the series, of more than fifty eyewitnesses to the war, this is the story of the greatest man made event in history. Read more

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ANZAC Battlefields

In the First World War more than 80% of Australian fatalities occurred on the main battlefield, facing the main force of the enemy. Read more

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Comic Book Heroes

Best friends Wolfgang Bylsma and Skye Walker Ogden have a dream. For the last six years, these Perth men have devoted their time and talents to producing unique Australian comic books through their company Gestalt Publishing. Read more

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  • People & Places

Blessed Mary

Coinciding with the canonisation of Australia’s first saint, this documentary explores the remarkable life of Sister Mary MacKillop. Read more

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The Digger

On international battlefields, through archive and re-enactment we search for the greatest Australian icon: The Digger. Read more

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For Valour

A one hour special which brings to life the heroic stories that are marked along the Remembrance Driveway between Sydney and Canberra’s Australian War Memorial. Read more

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  • People & Places

As Australian As

In ten half hour episodes ten eminent Australians amusingly, movingly and provocatively give their thoughts on what it means to be “As Australian As”. Read more