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Tales of the Unexpected is a new strand of provocative, confronting and thoroughly entertaining science documentaries. Each episode reveals a fascinating, sometimes awkward, and frequently unsettling world where peculiar ideas are put to the test. Come with us to where nothing is quite as it seems, where diseases are diagnosed by palm-readers, where paternity uncertainty drives the mating game, and where breasts are a toxic health hazard.

Follows a team of Australian doctors as they work to provide lifesaving surgery to those in need on the hospital ship Africa Mercy.

Julia Bradbury explores the immense and enchanting charms of Australia. Travelling by propeller plane, helicopter, camel, golf buggy, bicycle, boats, 4x4s and and on foot, Julia embarks on an epic journey to discover modern Australia and the people who live there.

An exploration of the struggles and triumphs of various enforcement officers who patrol Sydney Harbour.

Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? is an Australian documentary film about the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler in Sydney, Australia in 1963. Although it was assumed the couple were murdered, police investigators could find or produce no evidence that it was actually murder. The documentary, directed and written by Australian documentary film maker Peter Butt, presents unique evidence to suggest the couple died from hydrogen sulphide poisoning emanating from a river.

The ABC's award-winning You Can't Ask That asks the tough questions to former and current members of the Australian Invictus Games team.

A behind-the-scenes look at IKEA, one of the world's most successful, enigmatic and recognisable global brands. IKEA is not like any other company. We see how they are starting to open up their design headquarters to outside influences and follow the production of their catalogue.

Six-part documentary series following HMAS Rankin, an Australian Collins-class submarine. The series gives insight into life on board an Australian submarine and the series gives great insight into the cramped, noisy and claustrophobic conditions of submarine life.

Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta is a three-part Australian documentary television series. It began screening on SBS One on 8 January 2012. It was also simulcast on SBS Two with Vietnamese subtitles. The mini-series tells the turbulent story of Cabramatta, a suburb of southwest Sydney, whose ethnic blend eventually changed Australia's attitude to multiculturalism. The series was released on DVD on 4 April 2012. The first episode attracted 626,000 viewers, coming in 9th for the night and 2nd in its timeslot.

Australia's creatures adapt to life within varied and often hostile environments.

Swing and soft voters decide elections, and there are more of them than ever. Casey Briggs charts how the tectonic plates of Australian politics are shifting and what it means for who wins the Federal Election in 2025.

Daryl Somers presents Hey Hey It's Saturday's most popular, funny and weird Red Faces acts of all time. Also discover where some big names got their break, and what it was like to be a judge.

Dive into the murky world of spies, lies and secrets surrounding the most secretive place in Australia. Pine Gap has been called a space base, a spy base, an obscenity hidden on the fringe of an outback Australian town.

Award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and the events that laid the foundation for Australia in the 21st Century. In Australian mythology nationhood was forged in the slaughter of Gallipoli in 1915. But in this documentary series, Chris Masters introduces a very different proposition. Far from bringing the nation together, the First World War tore the country apart and threatened to destroy the Federation Dream. The Great Depression wrecked a struggling recovery and just when light appeared on the horizon, the gates of hell reopened with the Second World War. This is the story of how the parents, grandparents and great grandparents of today’s Australians survived crisis after crisis and laid the groundwork for the nation we know today. Through the prism of his own working class family, Chris provides extra life, light and shade to the politics and economics of rapid change.

Hello Stranger is a contemporary snapshot of the people of Australia. We talk to people in the street, then follow one story home. It turns out that we are more complex, remarkable and much stranger than you've ever imagined.

This series explores the harshest yet most beautiful regions on Earth - The Poles. The human stories, the natural history and the science are woven to tell a rich tale of an unknown world.

This Is Your Life is an Australian television documentary show based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family.

Big Australia tells the stories of the people behind big business - Aussie characters working in unique or unusual jobs in some of the country's most remote locations. The series also displays the passion and ingenuity of Australian workers. Each episode takes the viewer on a journey into Australia's most spectacular regions. From Port Hedland in the West to Queensland's Gulf country, this series not only showcases our country but highlights the magnitude of projects underway in Australia.

A chronological archive of events in Ukraine from the beginning of the Euromaidan protests in November 2013 to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014. Hundreds of various sources are presented without commentary and in context, allowing the viewer to adequately interpret the information themselves.

Popular cook, author and TV presenter Adam Liaw visits the bushfire-affected regions as they spring back to life. Over four episodes, Adam unearths some of the best food Australia has to offer, making mouth-watering Asian-inspired dishes with the produce he collects along the way.

This series follows legendary coach Wayne Bennett as he prepares the Queensland-based Dolphins for their inaugural NRL season.

Eight ordinary people from one of Australia's most miserable areas embark on a search for happiness. Over eight weeks they work with an elite team of experts to see if we really can learn to be happier.

A show for young people in our community whose voices, stories and perspectives aren't often seen or heard. We hear from kids with same-sex parents, refugees, young people who experience a disability, and more.

This is the untold story of a year in Kakadu, Australia's largest terrestrial national park. Through the rangers' eyes, and the scientists and traditional owners, this documentary series will take the viewer on a first time journey behind the scenes of a natural universe.

Maeve O'Meara showcases the diverse range of seafood dishes available across the globe, and delves into the customs of catching and preserving fish and all sea life.

What does it take to create something from nothing? Founder goes behind the scenes, profiling Australian tech startup founders Melanie Perkins (Canva), Luke Anear (SafetyCulture), Katherine McConnell (Brighte), and Fred Schebesta (Finder).

Meet real Australian Preppers bunkering down for an uncertain future. With unprecedented access into this growing community, Prepping Australia explores why people prep and how to survive some of Australias greatest threats.

An exploration of an endless array of farm projects, including renovations and the creation of delicious food.

Embark on a creative, cultural journey across Asia and meet the creative visionaries shaping the future of design in this exciting new series, hosted by Professor of Architecture, Anthony Burke.

Immersing herself in some of Australia's most controversial workplaces, an abortion clinic, a brothel & Tassies unique forests, Maddie Parry must battle her own prejudices while searching for the truth behind the stereotypes.

If you were relying on welfare to survive, what would you use it for? Rent? Food? Medicine? Bills? In 2020, over three million Australians were recorded as living below the poverty line. In new SBS three-part documentary series, Could You Survive on the Breadline?, three prominent Australians are about to discover what life is like for millions of people living on the welfare system.

Candid interview series with Kerry O'Brien revealing the forces that shaped Paul Keating's ambitions, and some of the inside stories from Australian political history

A team trek onto the second largest ice sheet in the world to investigate the impact of a warming climate.

The intriguing stories behind rare treasures and curious collectables are revealed on Antiques DownUnder. Everyone loves the story behind an interesting old item. Where it came from, why it was made, its value and its journey through life. In this new 10-part series, antiques dealer Gregory Bickford and collector Claudia Chan Shaw, alongside the Antiques DownUnder team, will visit incredible and quirky collections around the country. From private collections, historic homes and backyard sheds to the best museums and galleries, they'll be talking to the experts, the custodians, and the passionate collectors.

An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known for millennia to take up a completely new way of life – the decisive move to farming and herding the ration of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals setting the stage for the arrival of the world’s first civilisation. Explains why and how humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering and take up a completely new way of life - the decisive move to farming.

After years of secrecy, veterans of the legendary Z Special reveal their extraordinary WW2 exploits as six of their descendants recreate the training.

Tells the inside story of the challenges the Lebanese Australian community has faced in Australia and how they have fought to overcome them. This landmark documentary series hears from community leaders, police, families and individuals, as they combine to tell the compelling and dramatic story of a proud and resilient community, under intense pressure and scrutiny. The story begins in the 1970s when large numbers of Lebanese migrants flooded into Australia. Many were Muslim, most were traumatised by civil war, all were desperate to build a better future. Over the coming decades, these new Australians struggled to establish a new life in their adopted country.

Journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four Indians on a road trip around Australia to examine our worst stereotypes – are we really beer-swilling, racist bogans, or are we simply misunderstood?

Chef Alejandro Saravia is on a food treasure hunt, travelling up and down his adopted home state of Victoria, seeking out the best local ingredients for his Melbourne restaurant.

A top-ten list of various animals categorised according to characteristics like weirdness, toughness, strength, speed and behaviour.

Can a team of elite psychologists help four Australian families to overcome their deep-seated difficulties and conflicts, and move forward as a cohesive, thriving family unit?

An extraordinary story of the hard-fought rise and dramatic fall of a visionary Australian Prime Minister during one of the country's most turbulent eras.

Addicted Australia is a bold, brave and innovative Australian television first that shines a light on a growing crisis affecting millions of Australians – addicts as well as their families and loved ones - in a deeply powerful and personal way. Extraordinary, never-before seen access, is gained to the lives of a group of Australians and their families as they confront their addiction head on. Signed up to a unique holistic six-month treatment program, this series follows the heart-wrenching journey of 10 participants and their families from despair to hope and possible recovery.

You Saved My Life is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by Tara Brown. You Saved My Life follows the stories of people who have been rescued in an emergency situation and reunited with their rescuers. It has a similar premise to the successful Seven Network factual television series Triple Zero Heroes.

Every animal on the planet is armed with a weapon of some kind. Crocodiles have teeth, jaguars have claws and cheetahs rely on their speed. Predators are the most well-armed, but surprisingly they're the ones who usually lose.

A Few Good Blokes follows the stories of three Australian men who explore what it means to be a good role model today through the work they do supporting men in their communities.

This observational documentary series follows a genuine beginners’ class in stand-up comedy, taught by veteran comedian Rob McHugh. Ten students embark on a life-changing and hilarious quest to transform from curious novice to emerging comedian.

Shitsville Express is an Australian factual television series, produced by Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder Productions and broadcast in 2013 on ABC2. The six-part series examines political issues such as the explosion of alcohol fuelled violence, the gambling epidemic, substandard transport systems, the current housing crisis and the pros and cons of coal seam gas mining. Journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four budding politicians on a confronting and thought-provoking journey into some of Australia's thorniest issues. At the end, all four will put their ideas to a former Prime Minister who has dealt with many issues and who knows the difficulty of making change happen.

An exhilarating, chilly but heartwarming journey through breathtaking landscapes and their incredible animal species that have not only adapted to survive, but in many cases, thrive in the inhospitable sub-zero climates.

This three-part series presented by ABC reporter Tracy Bowden explores three unique Australian islands from the Sub Antarctic to the Sub Tropics and to the South Pacific.

Not Quite Art is an Australian TV series that documents the many media of present-day art and culture in Australia. Two series of the series have been produced and aired on ABC1, both with 3 episodes each, the second series also aired on ABC2. The series is created and hosted by Marcus Westbury.

70 years after a body is found floating in a Sydney river, middle aged doctor Jack learns his father, a Holocaust survivor, is allegedly responsible for the unsolved murder of a Nazi and sets out on a quest to find the truth.

Four resilient women empower each other while rivalling to become Australia's strongest woman. From across the country these daughters, mothers and wives share how they have rebuilt themselves inside and out.