PLAY TRAILER The highs and lows of Aussie Gold prospectors as they search for that big nugget! In Aussie Gold Hunters we join hard-core teams of gold prospectors as they take the gamble of a lifetime and battle to strike it rich, deep in the wild west of outback Australia. Share in the soaring highs and crushing lows of the gold season, as our teams pursue their all-important targets, braving brutal heat, punishing conditions, mechanical breakdowns, and constant pressure.

PLAY TRAILER How the Gold Experts turn around the operations and fortunes of six struggling Gold Miners In Aussie Gold Hunters Mine SOS the straight-shooting gold guru Paul Mackie is joined by master geologist, Aaron Raddock and expert trouble-shooter Mel Wood. Together the team travel to Australia’s wildest frontiers to help rescue six failing gold mining operations from disaster. With just six days to make mechanical fixes, locate new gold deposits, upgrade skills and overhaul broken down camp facilities, the team must transform the fortunes of struggling goldminers and save their broken-down dreams from ruin.

PLAY TRAILER Allied Generals work together in the last 100 Days of the First World War to find a radical new way to fight and win From command headquarters to the frontlines, 100 Days to Victory  from Electric Pictures and Bristow Global Media Inc. vividly tells the story behind WWI’s finest multinational feat of arms, revealing how a war that had ground on for 1,000 days was won in just 100. Told in an accessible, popular style, this inspiring drama documentary reveals how visionary Allied leadership, revolutionary tactics, new technology and the indomitable bravery and skill of the Australian, Canadian, French, New Zealand, Scottish and other British forces, turned the tide to win the Great War. 100 Days to Victory offers a fresh and appealing approach: one that is focused read more...

PLAY TRAILER A dramatic thriller based on the devastating terrorist attacks in Mumbai 2008 This suspenseful narrative follows events inside the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel as hotel guests and staff try to hide from the four gunman. Dev Patel plays a Hotel waiter caught up in events as the attacks breakout, and along with Chef Oberoi, played by Anupam Kher, is pivotal in helping the frightened guests. These include Armie Hammer as the all-American husband of Nazanin Boniadi, both trapped in the hotel dining room as the shooting begins. Upstairs in a hotel room their Nanny, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, is caring for the couple’s baby, and unaware of the unfolding horror. An arrogant and wealthy Russian businessman, played by Jason Isaacs, remains defiant; and we witness the read more...

PLAY TRAILER Secrets and Mysteries are revealed as we draw back the world's oceans using cutting edge CGI and stunning photography In Drain The Oceans Season One, the globe’s waters are drained away to reveal natural wonders, explore legends and mysteries, and tell the stories of sunken vessels and lost treasures. We find the resting place of Nazi secrets, and evidence of trade, slavery and war. We find clues to the ancient Egyptian’s obsession with the afterlife, and ask why it is that so many today want to believe in the legendary Atlantis? We look inside the longest, most costly search in aviation history, and how it is that we can lose a jetliner with 239 people on board – the MH370. Amazing CGI and photography, read more...

PLAY TRAILER The Aboriginal warrior who led a rebellion against European colonisation in North West Australia, 1894 In Jandamarra’s War we learn how in the 1890’s European settlers arrive in the Kimberley, North West Australia, with vast herds of sheep and cattle, determined to make their fortune by feeding a rapidly growing population in the South. But the settlers soon discover they are amongst indigenous tribes, ready to fight the red-faced invaders who are occupying their land. This is the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal warrior, a Bunuba man, who led one of the most effective rebellions in the history of indigenous peoples’ resistance to European colonisation.  Following banishment from Bunuba society for breaking kinship rules, Jandamarra’s attempts to assimilate into settler culture fail – he cannot accept read more...

PLAY TRAILER The impact of the First World War on the new nation of Australia as revealed through the lives and experience of six Australians Driven by human stories, rather than the detail of military history, the series offers an opportunity to get close to the actual experience of war, and to learn how it changed the lives of those involved. As a result the political becomes personal and the epic everyday. We watch the series protagonists struggle with the opposing influences of imperialism and independence, militarism and pacifism, Old World enmities and New World utopian ideals. The War That Changed Us uses dramatic reconstruction, location filming, expert analysis and colourised black and white archive to tell a gripping tale spanning three continents over four brutal years. read more...

PLAY TRAILER Scientists discover mysterious ancient human remains in South West China which challenge what we understand about human evolution A team of Australian and Chinese scientists discover mysterious ancient human remains from a remote cave in South West China. The bones are unlike any living human or any ancient human known to science, yet they were alive at the same time as humans of our own kind. Could they represent a new human species? And if so, what happened to these people? Join the investigation to unravel the mystery and travel back in time into the stone age world of the Enigma Man. These ancient bones challenge everything we think we know about human evolution and raise possibly the biggest question of all – what read more...

PLAY TRAILER The 'boom and bust' state of Western Australia proudly claims a rich diversity of entrepreneurs when it comes to business success Perth likes to boast the highest proportion of self made millionaires of any capital city in the world, usually a result of the boom and bust of the State's resource sector. Yet Western Australia proudly claims a rich diversity when it comes to business success. Three of the last five Australian Entrepreneurs of the Year are from WA, and none were from mining. In this series we spend a year in Boomtown following seven high flyers from a rich mix of industries. We watch as iiNet founder Michael Malone takes his billion dollar company in a brave new direction; we accompany fashion icon read more...

PLAY TRAILER An Australian refugee returns to Somalia with the dream of leading and building a modern African State Twenty years of civil war and crippling drought have torn the once-prosperous East African nation of Somalia to shreds. And now pirates and terrorists are destroying what remains of civil society. As the turmoil continues fears are raised that it is breeding extremism and unending clan warfare. Enter Abdirahman Farole, one man with the eyes of the world on him, who could make a difference. Farole is a Somali-Australian, and former refugee from Melbourne, who has returned to Somalia to become the President of the semi-autonomous State of Puntland, home to one third of Somalia’s population. Under President Farole Puntland has enjoyed relative peace and prosperity. The read more...

PLAY TRAILER The life and times of Rupert Murdoch, the most talked about media mogul on the planet Murdoch is a major two-part series that tells the inside story of one of the most powerful and controversial media moguls on the planet. Friends, rivals, colleagues past and present – and the odd former Prime Minister – reveal how Rupert Murdoch built his global empire, starting with a single newspaper in 1950s Australia. This series explores his ruthless expansion and deal-making, the billions he made and lost, and the reputations he built and destroyed in his never-ending quest to become the undisputed king of newspapers, Hollywood films, and global television. A light is also cast on Murdoch the private man – relationships, marriages, king-making, strengths and very human read more...

PLAY TRAILER We peel back the official Desert War history to reveal stories from the frontline, with a subtle revisionist twist In the deserts of North Africa in 1941 and 1942, two legendary fighting forces were born: the Australian and British ‘Rats of Tobruk’ and General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. This is their story where we witness the day-to-day life of soldiers from both sides fighting in a desolate, unforgiving landscape, trying to survive poor rations, brutal heat and the constant threat of disease. Centered on the siege of Tobruk and the battle for El Alamein, this 2-part series peels back the official history to reveal not only the personal stories from the front lines but provide an exciting, insightful and subtly revisionist account of one read more...

PLAY TRAILER How a small group of enterprising Australian wine makers challenged the traditions of the world of wine, and won! It’s the 1970s and Australian wine is a joke – not for drinking, as Monty Python put it, but for ‘laying down and avoiding’.  The idea that a wine made ‘Down Under’ could ever challenge the august products of Burgundy or Tuscany has wine buffs and snobby sommeliers sniggering into their tasting spoons. But little more than 40 years later, Australian winemaking is leading the world. London merchants sell more wine from Australia than any other country, while the chastened French wine industry reluctantly take note of how modern winemaking – and wine marketing – is really done. Chateau Chunder is both a social history read more...

PLAY TRAILER The fall of Singapore in 1942 brought an empire to its knees, shattered myths, and saw the emergence of new global alignments Singapore 1942 End of Empire tells the story of those early shocking days of the Pacific War when belief in security and comfort from empire collapsed. The momentous 20th century battle, and its equally dramatic aftermath, is told from a multi-national perspective, revealing new and challenging insights into a battle that turned our world upside down. Whilst the Japanese victory confirmed how useless it was for Australians to rely on Britain for their defence, post-war Australians looked to another great protective power – the United States – to align itself with. And Asian nations would rapidly determine their own destiny and seek read more...

PLAY TRAILER How to become a sheepherder for a summer season in the French Alps Audrey Douville left her suburban home at 16 to pursue farming. Now as a young woman, and accompanied by her boyfriend Maxime, she undertakes five months of isolated living high in the French Alps. Living is basic: Audrey and Maxime wash in buckets and heat water on gas stove tops. Whilst their first shepherd’s cabin has car access, which they use to journey down to the nearest town once in awhile for supplies, the other cabins are a long walk from the road. It’s a simple existence. Leading their flock of 1700 sheep over common pastures for a summer season, Audrey is largely unprepared for what happens. Her romantic sojourn in the mountains becomes read more...

PLAY TRAILER How a singing competition helped build a new Europe, sequin by sequin Everyone either loves or hates the cheesy tunes and outlandish costumes of the Eurovision Song Contest. But is there more to it than meets the eye? This program is the history of modern Europe told entirely through the story of its favourite television show. It shows how a singing competition reflected decades of political and cultural change. And it reveals that – now and again – Eurovision itself has made history. Mixing politics with pop and real international intrigue, this winning blend of humour and insight peers beyond the glitz and the sparkle to show that sometimes sequins and key changes can be as powerful as barbed wire and tanks. read more...

PLAY TRAILER What does human skin colour reveal about survival and reproduction? For hundreds of years human skin colour has been used as a marker of race. Now science is uncovering the intricate relationship between skin colour and environment.  When our ancient ancestors in Equatorial Africa lost their body hair and ventured out into the open savannah, their skin had to become dark to resist strong UV radiation. Perfectly adapted to the environment, the black skin of Africans is one of Nature’s greatest achievements for the survival of the human species. This may not sound new, but in 2000, Penn State University anthropologist Nina Jablonski proposed a startling new explanation as to why human skin has so many colours. Her study suggested that pigmentation did not read more...

PLAY TRAILER Candid accounts from the extraordinary survivors of the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai, 2008 On 26th November 2008, ten young Pakistani men sailed into Mumbai, India’s thriving financial heart and home of the Bollywood film industry. The men were armed with AK47s, grenades and plastic explosives, as well as satellite phones and global positioning systems connecting them to their controllers.  They spread out across the city. Quick fire strikes on the Victoria Station Railway Station, the busiest train terminus in India, the legendary Leopold Café and Cama Hospital saw more than a hundred dead in only an hour. But this was just the beginning. The gunmen had come for a longer engagement, in targets chosen to grab and hold the world’s attention: the historic read more...

PLAY TRAILER How a young Queen captured the heart of a nation - Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen of Australia In 1954 a young Queen Elizabeth captured the heart of a nation and since then, despite some rocky moments, the romance has endured for many Australians – albeit with an uncertain future for the monarchy after Elizabeth. Whether they voted for monarchy or president at the 1999 republic referendum, it seems most Australians do like their Queen. A Royal Romance explores our unique relationship to Queen Elizabeth via interviews with three former Australian Prime Ministers (republican and monarchist), ordinary Australians who cheered her on the streets of their cities and towns, and those close to the Queen in her royal household. There are read more...

PLAY TRAILER Fifty Allied Airmen who made 'The Great Escape' were murdered on Hitler's orders In March 1944, 76 Allied Airmen broke out of Stalag Luft III, a prison camp in central Germany, in an action made famous by a 1963 Hollywood movie The Great Escape. Seventy-three of the Great Escapers were recaptured and then fifty of them were murdered by the Gestapo – the Nazi secret police. In retribution an outraged British Government promised ‘exemplary justice’. Three months after the war ended, Squadron Leader Frank McKenna took a small band of RAF Police into the chaos of post-war Germany and began to hunt down the men responsible. The Great Escape: The Reckoning combines dramatic recreations of key moments in the investigation with revealing documentary commentary. Surviving Great read more...