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- History
The Homes That Built Australia
This four-part history series looks at how Australia has been shaped by its many definitions of home. Read more
- History
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
- Arts & Culture
- History
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
- History
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
- History
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
- History
- WildBear International
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
- History
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
- History
The 101 Events That Made The 20th Century
The history of mankind is a never-ending story of change but no span of 100 years can claim to have changed the world so much. Read more
- History
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
- History
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
- History
- Science & Engineering
Cold War: The Tech Race
How the Cold War realized the technology of today. Read more
- History
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
- History
Jungle War
An investigation into the many elements that contribute to jungle warfare from WWII to the end of the 20th century. Read more
- History
- 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
- History
- 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
- History
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
- History
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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- History
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
- Arts & Culture
- History
- People & Places
- WildBear International
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
- History
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
- Arts & Culture
- History
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
- History
- 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
- History
- WildBear International
The 100 Days
One hundred days is more than enough time to change a life, or to change history. Read more
- Feature
- History
- 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
- Arts & Culture
- 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
- History
- 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
- History
- People & Places
How Factories Changed the World
No technological innovation has changed our world more than the factory. Read more
- History
- 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
- History
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
- Arts & Culture
- Feature
- History
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
- History
- People & Places
Barrenjoey Road
Who killed teenager Trudie Adams and why has justice eluded her and her family for 40 years? Read more
- History
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
- History
Mateship - Australia & USA: A Century Together
For a century, the United States of America and Australia have fought side by side in every major conflict. Read more
- History
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
- History
WWII: Battles Won and Lost
Every battle is both a victory and a defeat – it depends which flag you fly. Read more
- History
Impossible Peace
The First World War claimed a life every twenty-five seconds – for four years. Read more
- History
- 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
- History
- People & Places
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
- History
- Science & Engineering
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
- History
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
- History
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
- History
- 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
- History
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
- History
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
- History
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
- History
- People & Places
The Story of Australia
A six part documentary series about a land like no other. Read more
- Arts & Culture
- History
The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony
Said to be cursed, for over 80 years the immense ‘Gothic Symphony' has remained unperformed in its entirety. Read more
- Arts & Culture
- History
- Science & Engineering
Building Australia
John Doyle explores the hidden history of our houses. Read more
- History
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
- History
- 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
- History
The Digger
On international battlefields, through archive and re-enactment we search for the greatest Australian icon: The Digger. Read more
- History
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
- History
- 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
- History
- People & Places
The Irish in Australia
Comedian Fiona O’Loughlin asks what have the Irish ever done for us? Read more