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When it all goes horribly wrong, there is only one word that can adequately describe the horror: Fraught. A documentary animation exploring people's most awkward, embarrassing moments.

Frank Byrne was forcibly removed from his mother Maudie at the age of 5 and has been searching and yearning for her almost all of his life.

A romantic story about two strangers meeting in a cafe and how fun it can be when you think things about each other without knowing.

An attractive young man joins a cricket club and finds that the vice captain may have an unexpected vice...

Jesaulenko, Nicholls, Kernahan, Silvagni, Bradley and Doull...just some of the champions who have worn the Good Old Navy Blue of Carlton with pride and distinction. Men who have helped take this foundation member of the VFL to premiership glory and cemented the club's place at the very pinnacle of sporting greatness.

Join Colin Buchanan and his mate Nudge as together they sing, smash stuff and rip the wrapping off the most wonderful news of all – Jesus! Blast off with 10, 9, 8...God is Great, find out Ze Baddest Sickness in Ze World, hear the Global WarNing, take off with the Super Saviour and meet the crew of Are You Serving Cap’n Jesus?! Come and hear God’s Good News, wrapped up in over an hour of music and mayhem that will have you singing, dancing and laughing along. Special features include Behind the Scenes, Bloopers and a bonus song, Remember the Lord.

For almost a century the town of Grafton, NSW, has celebrated the magnificence of its jacaranda trees with an inspired festival.In the 1880s a German immigrant planted imported Jacaranda tree seeds along the avenues of Grafton in northern NSW. In 1935 the tree-lined avenues were of such splendour that the council of the day decided to hold a festival to celebrate the blossoming of the trees and the arrival of spring. This program shows how this festival has become an annual event that includes the crowing of The Jacaranda Queen.

Q1 The Journey documents the construction of the then world's tallest residential tower, developed by the Sunland Group.

Rhythm And Poetry is a documentary film that follows the change in the Hip Hop scene in Australia for three years from underground shows to wider popularity.

Trying to solve a crossword can be murder- literally!

Triple j, JTV and the John Butler Trio kicked off the 2007 Easter long weekend with a massive free concert in Melbourne's Federation Square. A celebration of the album Grand National, the John Butler Trio and a host of guest musicians mesmerized the huge crowd with hits including Better Than, Good Excuse and Funky Tonight. JTV were there with their cameras to capture it all.

Mamadrama combines film clips, cultural commentary, interviews with Hollywood and Israeli filmmakers and footage from Schwarz's earlier films in an exploration of the image of the Jewish mother in film beginning with early silent and Yiddish films up through contemporary movies.

We get a glimpse at one of the Tamil Tigers' most effective weapons - the camera teams shooting the Tigers' propaganda videos.

Anxious about their newborn's fragile health, Damian and Angela's relationship is put to the test.

Set in small-town Australia, this is a story of murder, revenge, power and denial that charts an individual's struggle for justice and respite from mental torment that has plagued him since he was a little boy.

WILLIGAN'S FITZROY takes us to the small Aboriginal community of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Through the eyes of the local Aboriginal Employment Coordinator, Joe Ross, we take an informal journey into the world of the Bunaba tribe, their lives, their culture and the modern infrastructures they are developing to make their community both financially and culturally viable. One thing that has long united the Bunuba people is the fight to stop their beloved Fitzroy River from becoming a massive dam project. We gain an inkling into the enormous spiritual and economic losses at stake for this remote Kimberley town.

A short film about trying.

Hi-5: Magical Treasures

On the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, victims and perpetrators are coming together in traditionally based reconciliation ceremonies after a decade long civil war left the community bitterly divided. In the largest reconciliation ceremony yet to take, BBA follows fighters who have killed each others families as they come together to break bows and arrows in a traditional gesture of peace. On a more personal journey Francis Boisivere retrieves the bones of a chief he killed, ceremonially returning them to the bereaved wife, Immaculate Atorevi . He seeks forgiveness , she a release from the hatred she harbours.

Australian band TISM ("This Is Serious Mum") are about to disband. With the aide of a telethon running on stage during their concert, their fans, unsuspecting callers and "special guests" attempt to raise $1,000,000 in order to keep the band together. Live at the Hi-Fi Bar, 26 September 2003

Eskimo Joe’s sophomore album, A SONG IS A CITY, debuted at number 2 on the National ARIA album chart, reached double-platinum sales, got huge critical acclaim and won two ARIA awards for the band for Best Producer and Best Engineer at the 2004 awards in Sydney. The Eskimo Joe self-titled DVD follows the band from the very beginning of their careers, including a retrospective of all 9 clips… from the young band featured in TURN UP YOUR STEREO to the most recently filmed LIFE IS BETTER WITH YOU. Other DVD features include a supergig consisting of the best live footage from both Homebake 2004 and the Big Day Out 2005, a fanography which will highlight photographs of fans with band members, a documentary filmed in Melbourne at various venues including Sing Sing Studios where the guys originally mixed ASIAC (A SONG IS A CITY) with Nick Launay and a secret, must find ‘easter eggs’ …….which may involve Eskimo Joe Karaoke style!

When someone is about to leave, what can you talk about with out saying what you really feel? Daylight Savings has always proved an interesting topic, sure to cause confusion.

A specially produced program celebrating the golden days of one of the NRLs most successful teams. This rare material covers one of the most astonishing runs of success in rugby league as the Eels took one Premiership after another!

A documentary exploring Brenda Hean's fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedder and her mysterious disappearance in 1972

In 2001, unemployed actor, Garth Petridis, was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform.

A fragmented portrait of an 84-year old man.

A documentary on bouncers manning the doors of nightclubs in Melbourne, Australia.

THE FLYING BOOMERANGS follows a team of outstanding young Indigenous football players who travelled to South Africa to play a series of competitive games. The trip was part of the AFL's plan to expand the game into other countries and make it a more international sport. In the process, the young Indigenous squad learnt important lessons about culture, justice and themselves as young leaders.

A haunted soul in a beautiful world. A story of betrayal, the loss of innocence and the birth of insanity...

Exercise/Dance video from fitness instructor Luis Pinto.

A visualization of what the mind might see as it dies.

A lively romp though a century of Chapel Street's fashion history in an entertaining feature-length documentary.

A rural romance whose heroine braves love, longing, lust and loss. It draws on the beauty of the central west of NSW.

How 2 Give At Christmas With The Hooley Dooleys

Two women fight over a gay man's affections.

It details the rise to fame of the Puppetry of the Penis stage show.

An intimate portrait of the first year of a baby humpback whale's life.

THE PRODIGAL SON is the emotional story of a gay man in his forties who is reunited with his traditional Macedonian family after being estranged from his father for 15 years. The documentary explores how first-generation migrant parents have struggled to come to terms with their son's sexuality. When Ted came out as gay, his mother Ljubica insisted it was a passing phase and his father Alex refused to speak to him. Fifteen years passed with no communication between father and son - until Alex discovered he was suffering from a serious illness.

The Hooley Dooleys: Super Dooper

What if Jimmy Stewart peered out of his Rear Window and saw two men making out? The sight unwinds our hero’s tightly-wound 1950s world.

Brotherhood is the story of Syed and Ali, two Australian brothers of Middle Eastern background. Syed, passionate about music and street poetry, finds himself forced to take on the pain of those around him – his mum's suffering, his community's problems and Ali's heroin addiction.

In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a grassroots family makes a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's most widely used narcotics. This is the story of resilient people who have few material possessions but who face each day with dignity and quiet determination. As they go about their daily work, the film presents us with a vivid portrait of present-day life in Papua New Guinea.

A profile of one of the most commercially successful white blues bands of the 1960s. Fronted by the man-mountain that was Bob Hite, they enjoyed international success with hits such as 'On the Road Again' and 'Going Up the Country'. The story of their rise to fame is told here by the surviving band members and management.

Anoka feels deep emptiness in the world around her, until one day her heart starts glowing. She finds filling her heart can mean breaking it, when the one you love is possessed by something else.

In the pursuit of self-expression, Victoria and Marianne take their unique form of dance, and their frontbums, out of the studios and onto the streets of Sydney. Dressed in their red and yellow full body lycra suits they perform anywhere and everywhere - always drawing a crowd. Unfortunately, the public reaction is not always so positive - some people point, some laugh, and some take great offence to their lack of coordination. However, for Victoria and Marianne their love of dance makes it all worthwhile. That is until the pressure starts to escalate as they prepare for their first big gig at the Sly Fox nightclub. Creative and personal differences, not only places the Frontbum dance in jeopardy, but more importantly, their lifelong friendship may never be the same again.

Tnorala is the Aboriginal name for Gosse's Bluff, a dramatic meteorite impact crater set in a vast plain 175km west of Alice Springs. This significant dreaming site for Western Arrernte people is steeped in mystery and tragedy. The story of its creation and the events that occurred there are narrated to the camera by Aunty Mavis Malbunka, one of the traditional story-tellers for the place.

Houses, neat, some pretty, some with children playing in front, collide with sounds. Sounds remembered from so long ago, maybe from one of Beirut's many wars, maybe even from future wars. In this 6 minute video, the street scape of Broken Hill, 'the accessible outback' country town of Australia, is seen from the viewing platform of past realities, woven into a tapestry of morality, memory and experience. There, exponential repetition sets apathy on a collision course with fear and where displacement of the senses, synchronicity and loss accelerate at vertiginous speed. Mangled silences interrupt, but only to disrupt the remnants of illusion and safe living, to send eidetic shock waves through rose coloured lenses. The question of responsibility then emerges to demand if not an answer, then a pause for grief, for consideration due to the boundaries of the senses and the centrality of the body's, any-body's, pain and sorrow.

A moving ode to his dying father, Dik Jarman seeks and finds resolution to the strained relationship they shared by examining his father's love of clocks—overcoming in the end the specter of his long-lost brother.

The complete racing history.

A sensory journey into the world of ecstasy experienced through rhythm and dance.

A film about the Australian government's practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families.

In 1989, the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. It remains closed to this day. In response, a blockade was imposed around the island. From scratch, the Bougainvilleans built their own schools, they revived their traditional bush medicines, they used solar and hydro power to generate electricity, but the most fascinating invention was the use of fermented coconut oil as a substitute for fuel. "An Evergreen Island" is a story of courage, survival and persistence - of inventiveness, imagination and creativity on a little-known Pacific island.

On the Attack is a DVD of live recordings and videos of Australian band, The Cat Empire.

From VL to VE, a must-see history of Australia's premier niche performance car manufacturer; the cars, the people ... the passion that is HSV.

After 40 years in exile, Yulparitja elders take Daniel Walbidi, their most promising young artist, back to the desert heartland they left behind. In the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga a new art movement has emerged. At its helm is a young Aboriginal man who is well on the way to international fame and possible fortune. Daniel Walbidi paints the desert country that his parents walked out of 40 years ago. Now, with the rock holes, sandhills and salt lakes of their country revitalized through the creation of the paintings, they are determined to go back and show Daniel their desert country for the first time.

"Bodyline", the word coined to describe a method of attack that involved bowling fast rising deliveries aimed at the batsman's head and body with a ring of close in fieldsmen on the leg side poised for a catch. Used in the 1932-33 Ashes Test Series, that pitted Bradman against Jardine and soured Anglo-Australian relations for years.