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Drive
Drive
(56:19)
Genre: Documentary, Cars
In 1915 the biggest killer of young Australian males was Gallipoli. Today it's the road and Tasmania has Australia's highest fatality rate. Drive is a film about the darker side of an emerging Australian culture.
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Life In Movement
Life In Movement
(1:19:50)
Genre: Arts, Documentary
Dancer/choreographer Tanja Liedtke was on the brink of stardom as the new Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company when she was struck and killed by a truck during a midnight walk, but her short life and her legacy provides an inspiring insight into living creatively.
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Tough Nuts
Mr Death
Season 1, Episode 4 (51:37)
More: Tough Nuts | Genre: Crime, Series
In the latest of the season on Australia's hardest criminals, it is time for Mr Death, Dennis Allen. The oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch Kath Pettingill, he was a murderer, drug dealer and kidnapper and became known as the country's most sadistic crime lord before he died aged 38.
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That Mitchell and Webb Look
Why don't we call this...
Season 2, Episode 4 (29:26)
More: That Mitchell and Webb Look | Genre: Comedy, Series
Mitchell and Webb's take on how explorers named the new world. Plus we find out the correct etiquette around telling people you have cancer, visit the ever popular Flamingo World and discuss the perils of working from home.
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Engineering Connections
The Rion-Antirion Bridge
Season 3, Episode 2 (50:17)
More: Engineering Connections | Genre: Science, Series, Technology
Top Gear's Richard Hammond discovers that engineers solved the challenge of building a 3km bridge across one of the most active earthquake faults in Europe by taking inspiration from a fragrant Indian incense, the ring-pull in a soda can, a tobbogan, the hammock and some shiny steel chimneys.
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Mapping the World
Plunder and Possession
Season 1, Episode 3 (50:02)
More: Mapping the World | Genre: Science, History, Documentary, Series, Technology
Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps are snapshots of a moment in history and offer visions of distant lands, tempting explorers to plunder and conquer. Even today, a project to map the North Pole is the flashpoint for the so-called Cold Rush to exploit oil, gas and mineral reserves.
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Dateline
Looking For Love
(13:58)
More: Dateline | Genre: Interview, Current Affairs, Politics, Series
China's economic boom has created a generation of millionaire women, many of whom have been so busy to get married. Many of those unmarried by 28 are considered over the hill, known as the leftover women. Can a dating website help them find love?
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Paradox
Destiny Calls
Season 1, Episode 5 (52:21)
More: Paradox | Genre: Sci-Fi, Crime, Drama, Series
Season finale. Rebecca always suspected she was helping to cause the events they were supposed to stop. Now she is convinced of this and they receive images more intimate than anything they have previously dealt with.
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9/11 - The Falling Man
9/11 - The Falling Man
(1:12:16)
Genre: Documentary, Investigation
9/11 was a day that forever changed America. It was a day of many stories: stories of survivors, stories of heroes. But one simply disappeared. The story of the people who began to fall just minutes after the first plane hit.
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QI: The Best Bits
QI: The Best Bits
(57:45)
Genre: Comedy
QI is TV's cleverest comedy quiz. Asking the impossibly difficult questions is everybody's favourite polymath, Stephen Fry, who is harried and hampered at every turn by regular panellist Alan Davies along with Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Johnny Vegas, David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Clive Anderson and Jeremy Clarkson.
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Commando Chaplains
Commando Chaplains
(48:09)
Genre: Military, Documentary, Religion
The amazing story of the brave chaplains who risk their lives to offer ministry and a sympathetic ear to soldiers fighting in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Royal Navy has six chaplains permanently on the frontline, administering to a variety of faiths.
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Then The Wind Changed
Then The Wind Changed
(57:18)
Genre: Documentary
The February 7 2009 bushfires killed 173 people. Nowhere was hit harder than the Victorian hamlet of Strathewen, home to filmmaker Celeste Geer. Her Walkley-winning doco interweaves her family's story with those of her neighbours as they struggle to rebuild their lives.
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