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300 Spartans-The Real Story. Putting aside the myths and legends, this documentary takes a detailed look at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC Greece leading to the last stand of the 300 Spartans and Spartan King Leonidas. On the 3rd day of the battle, when Leonidas was being surrounded, he sent most of his troops away and covered their retreat with a last stand because Spartans never retreated.
How can there be so much fun and learning in just 75 minutes? Seriously? You'll Discover everything there is to know about dating a "pleeceman". Learn how to keep a straight face when doctors use proper words like anus and areola. Find out why dog people are the new cat people, why old people love salt so much and why it's time newsreaders gave up and let Kitty Flanagan read the nightly news. Plus special guest star Penny Flanagan joins to pay musical tribute to the demographic most often overlooked by songwriters - the formidable middle age lady.
Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.
Roller derby dames go up against supernatural evil.
A distressed Lizzy hopes she can ask out the girl of her dreams, a gorgeous retail worker, before she buys an entire stores worth of novelty candles.
The unspoken fears 16-year-old Sarah has about losing her mother to cancer are heightened when unexplainable and disturbing occurrences happen on the family farm.
Two doctors are observing a very "special patient" through the small window of her cell in the deep, dark corners of a mental asylum. Each morning, at exactly the same time, she performs the exact same extraordinary routine.
'Hollow' is a dramatic film about 'Luke' a teen in his senior years of high school. He loves swimming, hanging with his mates and being like an ordinary 17 year old kid. However, Luke has a secret - he is suffering in silence from anorexia.
Travel to the underwater lands of ice and corals to discover the birth of a movement to protect the sea. Through the eyes of a prince, a president, a pirate and even an island chief, see how a bountiful underwater paradise can thrive once more; paradise it is more than just a dream.
A young man flees for his life when the beloved grandmother he attempted to put in a home goes on a murderous rampage.
From space, our planet appears as a tiny blue dot in the vastness of space. Blue, because 99% of all living space on Earth occurs in the Ocean. But the seas are under threat. The industrialization that has occurred in the oceans over the last century mirrors the events that triggered mass extinctions on land. As we learn of the ecological crimes occurring worldwide, we also uncover the shocking truths happening on our own shorelines.
Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles is now available on DVD. This highly anticipated ‘best of’ collection features Hot Potato, Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?), Rock-A-Bye Your Bear, Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car, Wake Up Jeff!, Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack), The Monkey Dance, Get Ready to Wiggle, Go Santa Go!, Dorothy (Would you Like to Dance?), Ooh It's Captain Feathersword, Dressing Up, Move Your Arms Like Henry, Lights Camera Action Wiggles!, Do the Owl, Play Your Guitar With Murray, Rockin' Santa, Getting Strong!, I'm Dorothy the Dinosaur, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, Monkey Man, Hot Poppin Popcorn, Do the Propeller, Ready, Steady, Wiggle!, Simon Says and 10 other songs
Malcolm is on the verge of marriage and he wants Duncan to be his Best Man, but what is Duncan hiding? In this tale of deception, three of Australia's up and coming talents explore the question: How well do we know our friends?
A simple interrogation takes an unexpected turn when the hostage becomes a werewolf.
Documentary from Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht on the most successful haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, Auckland’s Spookers.
A teenage girl discovers her male friends’ secret group chat, forcing her to question her friendship with them.
A middle-aged man, named Ziv, finds it difficult to understand the today's society. The film illustrates his wild views and concerns, as his imagination flashes through various times in history.
A collage of an American poem, exploring the universality of womanhood.
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage - a short devoted to the exploration and learnig through travel.
It's the beginning of the 1980s boom in Western Australia. Larrikin brothers Ray, Brian and Peter Mickelberg spend their days abalone fishing...
A profile of two men who go to exceptional lengths to improve – and in some cases, save – the lives of those with nowhere else to turn. They risk their freedom by supplying black market medicinal cannabis to thousands suffering from chronic and terminal illnesses.
A desperate mother searches for her daughter in the chaos of a zombie outbreak.
In the present time, a now broken up Xavier and Carlie remain friends; however, Carlie announces that she will be leaving the country, which causes both to rethink their feelings for one another.
A broken Man awakes to be confronted with his life, and the choices he's made. His past, present and future collide as he faces the inevitable.
Relishing humiliation and despair in the most comedic of ways, Aussie Anne's bawdy, self deprecating hour is punctuated with visual punchlines and satirical stories. From sex and dating to her time working in the mental health sector, (via her rubber-faced, triple chinned alter ego "Bernadette"), this is a right eddo-taining ride.
A revolutionary film about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jung-IL, with a groundbreaking experiment at its heart - a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 manifesto. Through the shared love of cinema, AIM HIGH IN CREATION! forges an astonishing new bond between the hidden filmmakers of North Korea and their Free World collaborators. Revealing an unexpected truth about the most isolated nation on earth: filmmakers, no matter where they live, are family.
After heading to the country to sell his childhood home, Kevin finds himself caught in the middle of a missing persons case while he also begins developing visions of a wolf.
Ashburn Waters Campgrounds is forced to close its gates when a series of unexplained deaths occurs, but some campers sneak in when they fail to book a campsite elsewhere.
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
Phil must face his biggest fear after being left alone in a grocery store during his night shift.
Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.
Set inside an automaton clock, Little Darling tells the story of the enduring love between the clock's two characters and their frustrations with being unable to embrace after the clock becomes old and broken. When the boy stumbles upon a method to free himself from the clock's mechanism, he must go on a dangerous adventure to save the one he loves.
Heidi Jones, Human Resources. Putting the conflict in conflict resolution.
A young boy wakes one morning to find his mother crying. He takes his father's rifle from the shed and sets off into the bush. "Pig" tells the story of a boy trying to make sense of the desolate world he lives in and captures a small moment in his life that leaves him changed forever.
An independent, unique and interesting feature on peak oil, climate change, permaculture and Gaia theory
It’s Valentine’s Day, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. A Vietnamese prostitute named Pisces is conned to her cocoon. She searches for true love, and the search which will define her.
A stylish look at the growing surfing scene and counterculture of the 1960s, this documentary explores whether Hawaii's Dick Brewer or Australia's Bob McTavish deserves credit for inventing controllable shortboards to replace bulky longboards. Narrated by actor Simon Baker, this wipeout-filled sports movie features interviews with surfing royalty such as Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Layne Beachley and Laird Hamilton.
A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he was executed by firing squad in Indonesia in April 2015.
Lonely hostess Kiyo spends her days propositioning men on the cold streets of Tokyo and being beaten by her violent pimp, Tetsuya. One day her luck seems to change when she meets a charming foreigner named Anchin and a romance blossoms but soon everything falls apart when she becomes pregnant. Upon hearing the news Anchin flees Tokyo. With nowhere left to go she turns to The Viper, a scorned spirit that has been with her since birth.
John "Gravitas" Clearwater's Moto GP ended prematurely after a near fatal accident. Years later he wants to break out of the monotony of his life by rekindling his riding career, much to the chagrin of his wife, Jean.
Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of fabric making.
After three long years away, a crippled World War II soldier excitedly returns home to his wife, only to discover her life now revolves around a sinister stray cat.
A toxic friendship between two teenage girls is brought to breaking point as they compete for the attention of their gym class teacher.
20 Years into the future, the fallout after the war has left the majority of the world suffering. Ash has turned to a life of drugs and sex while trying to escape his guilt he hides away from most of the world.
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
To save his daughter's life and restore his reputation, disgraced ex-detective Nick Mathers must catch the sadistic Grand Master killer before time runs out, and the final piece is taken in the deadly game of chess.
After her father dies in an eerie accident at the family's winery, Ellia returns home from the big city to tend to the remaining members of her disaffected family. The death is eventually ruled a homicide, with Ellia’s mother emerging as the prime suspect. Ellia takes matters into her own hands, compelled to discover the true story behind her father’s death. But the family and small-town secrets that emerge are more than she bargained for. Australia’s stunning wine country is the backdrop for this thrilling murder mystery from Director Megan Riakos.
After a conflicted teenager commits the unthinkable, he is forced to flee town.
During the 1940s, Nevil Shute had a steady job as an engineer in the British military but in his spare time, he wrote novels that were being well-received. Once the war was over, Shute choose to move to Australia and focus on writing, soon becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. His novel On The Beach, particularly hit a chord with the international community, depicting the impact of global nuclear destruction. This documentary studies Shute's career and the adaptation of his most famous novel into a feature film in Melbourne, as his predictions of a post-Hiroshima world seem to be foreboding in their accuracy.
In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.
Based on the short story 'Coffee, Coffee, Coffee,' Last Stop is a story about observation and contradictions. A surreal look into a young photographers world as she documents her daily commute through a train station.
When it becomes clear to a gay man that his disability has ruined his sex life with his boyfriend, he grapples with how the relationship can continue.
On her first day at a new school, a self conscious young girl learns that friendship can overcome difference.
In 1968, John Weiley shot 'Autopsy on a Dream' - a film about the Sydney Opera House detailing its construction process and the politics of Jorn Utzon's dismissal. Weiley's film was controversial; it was screened once and then he was told it had been destroyed. Forty five years later a copy was discovered in the BBC vaults by an ABC producer looking for archive footage of the Opera House. Weiley was contacted and told about a film that had no sound track. Weiley was overjoyed; for years he had kept the original sound. So began the painstaking process of restoring this record of a unique moment in Australian culture to its former glory, complete with updated voice-over from the original narrator, Bob Ellis. It is set in context by a 30 minute prologue entitled 'The Dream of Perfection'. Made by the same filmmaker, John Weiley, forty-five years on, 'Dream of Perfection' tells the story of the 1968 film - from commission to destruction, to surprise resurrection.
An obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon realises he underestimated his intended prey as the two engage in a night long tête-à-tête.
When a hotshot public servant is sent to a remote Aboriginal community to prepare for the Prime Minister’s visit, he quickly learns the true meaning of Welcome to Country.
Stuart Iredale was born with Fragile X during the 1950s; a time when the disability was little know. At 60 years old Stuart was correctly diagnosed.
The Show Must Go On is a personal journey behind the scenes that confronts the epidemic of mental health issues in the Australian entertainment industry.
There's always an irreparable gap left by the loss of someone you love. Calvin is constantly reminded of the gap Zoe created when she killed the only person he really had. For Zoe, Calvin is just a reminder of a past she wants to forget. But then again, maybe nothing's ever truly irreparable.
Atlantis Untold is the story of an unexpected journey by brother and sister Jack and Skye Noble, who are forced by circumstances to try to conquer the opposing forces of an inner world. Decending deeper and deeper into unknown spheres, the two travelers are guided by unexpected forces of light and hindered by relentless forces of darkness, until their struggle brings them to the legendary City of Atlantis.