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- As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
- 1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.
- A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
- TV SeriesZac Efron is the executive producer of this adventure series in which he stars venturing "deep into the jungles of a remote, dangerous island to carve his own name in expedition history."
- A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- Consul's wife, Viviane took part in an expedition to New Guinea. She falls in love with Gaetan, the leader of a group of explorers, whose objective is to reach a mysterious valley.
- The missing-link is found on a safari in New Guinea. Is it human or animal?
- Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the world as they push the limits of their craft.
- Documentary about the 1961 disappearance of Michael Rockefeller, the young scion of the Rockefeller family, in the waters of Papua New Guinea and the 1969 attempt of journalist Milt Machlin to locate him in case he might still be alive.
- An underwater look at the diverse coastal regions of Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific areas and the impact of global warming on the oceans.
- Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.
- Biosphere is a groundbreaking non narrative documentary filmed in 4K around the globe in remote areas and dense cities showcasing our planet and its inhabitants in their daily lives.
- An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out to be far from the imagined romantic ideal.
- A military historian and a technology wizard explore the hidden secrets of the bloodiest war in human history, using 21st century gadgets to peel away the present, so they can study the past.
- Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.
- Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.
- Rising PNG Rugby League star, Rex, faces a race against time as his wife becomes gravely ill from birth complications and must find emergency help.
- Eric Hanson travels to around the globe to backpack the world's most epic trails. The show also showcases the people, culture and experiences to be had in the regions he visits.
- The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha'i faith) that they don't know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith's birth - Iran.
- An exciting and inspiring TV series that follows top paddlers as they explore the people, places, and adventures of the world's top paddling destinations.
- Ophir tells the story of an extraordinary indigenous revolution for life, land and culture, leading up to the potential creation of the newest nation in the world, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of a people for freedom, culture and sovereignty, the film sheds light on the biggest conflict of the Pacific since Second World War, revealing the visible and invisible chains of colonization and its enduring cycles of physical and psychological warfare.
- An island nation faces the reality of rising seas wiping them off the map.
- Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing questions today. This is a look at his legacy and the imprints it has made on the generations that followed.
- Tells the story of a university drop out who returns to his village in Buka Passage, Bougainville. He drifts into rootlessness among bad companions, becoming progressively alienated from his parents and village life, with tragic results.
- A documentary with David Beckham, when he travels to seven continents and plays seven different kinds of soccer/football.
- Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, and record the lives of the various natives they encounter there.
- One of the most brutal conflicts in Australian war history, the Kokoda Campaign was a powerful victory that directly saved Australia from the threat of Japanese occupation. These are the harrowing personal stories from the Kokoda Trail.
- KURU: THE SCIENCE AND THE SORCERY follows Australian scientist, Michael Alpers, deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea; into a mysterious world of sorcery, cannibalism and tribal conflict.
- Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has successfully managed to get them to agree to open a second plantation in partnership with him. Things are looking up until the international coffee market hits rough times and conflict seems imminent between the Ganiga and their neighbouring traditional enemies.
- This is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade.
- A documentary focused on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.
- Deep in the heart of Papua New Guinea lies a species-rich rainforest, while its coast is fringed with rare unspoilt coral reef. Both areas provide habitat for some extraordinary creatures who face an uncertain and bleak future -extinction. For centuries this forgotten paradise has been hidden from the eyes of the industries that have left such a devastating mark on similar treasures, but that is no longer the case. Pollution, hunting, mining and logging pose real and immediate threats to these habitats. We take a look at what is being done to save these creatures and the world they have inhabited for so long. It is a rare opportunity to see some of nature's best-kept and most enchanting secrets, including the tree kangaroo, the long-beaked echidna, the cassowary as well as the rich marine life. Watch as we meet the remarkable individuals and organisations dedicated to giving the species of Papua New Guinea a fighting chance at survival... before it's too late.
- Sun Come Up tells the story of some of the world's first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders. The film follows relocation leader Ursula Rakova and a group of young families as they search for new homes in war torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
- Documentary that shows different animal species from all over the world courting and mating.
- The film celebrates Papua New Guinea's rich cultural and environmental tapestry through the reenacted stories and present challenges of a handful of indigenous tribes from the island nation. According to Sacred Ecology in the Pacific Islands, the 'ethnosphere' and the biosphere are a single integrated whole. 'Remembering Papua New Guinea' wants to offer a singular vision of the web of life that encompasses nature, wildlife, and people, both past and present, across the country. This celebration of the island's unique diversity is ultimately juxtaposed with a report, made by Global Witness and producer Alessio Bariviera, on environmental and human rights abuses fueled by demand for raw timber and agricultural commodities.
- During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
- A story about Sam Johnson reconnecting with his late father. Sam is the fourth generation leader of SC Johnson. In 1935, Sam's father flew from Racine, Wisconsin, to Fortaleza, Brazil in a now nonexistent water plane. Starting in 1998, Sam had the plane rebuilt, and in 2000 recreated the journey. Along the way, Sam shares deeply personal stories about himself and his family.
- A story that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that span the earth from powerful nations and multinational corporations to tribal and village leaders. This documentary offers unique insights into a multi-billion dollar world by investigating how aid dollars are spent.
- Filmed in the unspoiled jungles of the Southwest Pacific, Peace Child dramatically portrays the startling reaction of stone-age people to the Gospel.
- Gianluca Grimalda is the first worker ever fired for having refused to catch a plane for environmental reasons. He did an act of civil disobedience to save 5 tons of CO2 and raise awareness on the causes of climate change. Was it worth it?
- Documents an indigenous people who fight against a multinational mining company (Panguna copper mine) and government forces (PNG). The guerrillas relay the belief that they fight to defend their independence and preserve the local environment on the island of Bougainville.
- Danish explorer and director Jensen and three Papuan sailors embark on their world-first attempt to circumnavigate the island of New Guinea, all in a traditional Papuan sailing canoe.
- The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as twenty previously unknown stone-age peoples and languages. From the late 1940's and onwards he commuted the world, focusing on the most isolated peoples still remaining on the globe. He adopted 57 children to his commune at the National Institutes of Health, MA, USA -most of them boys. In the late 90's he was charged with having abused one of the boys in his care - a then 16-year old boy from Micronesia. The film reveals how Gajdusek in fact was a self-proclaimed pedophile, who admitted to having had sex with numerous other children as well. One man who was abused in childhood is interviewed in the film, as well as several legendary scientists who were friends of Gajdusek and deemed the sexual parts of his character as of less importance.
- Power Meri follows Papua New Guinea's first national women's rugby league team, the PNG Orchids, on their journey to the 2017 World Cup in Australia. These trailblazers must beat not only the sporting competition, but also intense sexism, a lack of funding, and national prejudice to reach their biggest stage yet. Proud, strong and hopeful, the pioneering women in the PNG Orchids team have overcome more challenges than most to play their much-loved national sport. But after years at grassroots level, they have just three months to transform themselves into a competitive national team. Power Meri takes audiences on a journey through rarely-seen corners of PNG and behind the scenes of women's sport. It follows the Orchids through selection trials, arduous training with a fly-in-fly-out Australian coaching mentor, and diverse personal struggles as they face the world champion Australian Jillaroos and compete at the world cup. But their mission is greater than winning. In a country with appalling rates of domestic violence, sport is one of the few arenas in which PNG women can show their strength. If they can perform like men on the rugby field, can they change attitudes about the treatment and status of women back home?
- The riveting journey of coalition soldiers as they land unarmed into the heat of a 10 year civil war using only the weapons of Music, Maori Culture and Love to create peace.
- Melissa and John are worlds apart and when they meet, John's controversial ideas mean their conversations erupt in a fiery clash of minds.
- Aussie travellers Tim Doyle and Tim Charody uncover incredible destinations and experiences not found in your average guidebook in this ten-part series. The cheeky duo uncover their inner cartoon characters while dabbling in cosplay, step back in time in Tokyos historic Golden-gai district. Watch them let loose amid the colour and mayhem of life in Mexico and follow them on their amazing adventures to Rwanda, Peru and Papua New Guinea.