Browse documentary series in Australia
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Three Australian icons take a deep dive into a public hospital's frontline to find out how healthy the country's health system really is.
The Hospital: In the Deep End (2024 )
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This summer, prepare to see Donald Trump as you’ve never seen him before. Enter the world of Trump’s 2024 campaign and witness firsthand moments the American media will never show you.
Art of the Surge (2024 )
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From Idris Elba, whose grandfather fought in WW2, this landmark series reveals the untold stories of soldiers of color in the war. By mixing war sequences with character portraits, this series restores the role of these soldiers and their units to their rightful place in the narrative of WW2 and reveals how these heroes inspired Civil Rights Movements in America and across the world.
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color (2024 )
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William Shatner explores our earth, and beyond, in search of the universe’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features contributions from scientists, historians, astronauts and other experts—each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible actually can happen. Seeking answers to age-old questions that have mystified mankind for centuries. Things like, how was our earth born? Will we go back to the moon—or venture even farther? What dangers might lurk in the deep expanse of outer space? And perhaps the biggest of all—are we alone?
The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe (2024 )
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Q2Q features intergenerational conversations between LGBTQIA+ youth and elder activists.
Queer2Queer (2024 )
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The "Shark Attack 360" team of experts hunt for clues to investigate why sharks bite humans. Hosted by marine biologist Diva Amon, the series seeks to unravel the surprising threads that link each shark encounter. As the evidence mounts, the team analyze the data in their cutting-edge VFX shark lab and face life-size virtual sharks.
Shark Attack 360 (2024 )
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From the rhythm of dancing to the flow of painting, this three-part documentary explores different forms of meditation in a fast-changing world.
Watch Mindfulness Manual (Duplicated) (2024 )
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Mark Wiens explores the abundant culinary treasures of Singapore with guests from fine dining chefs to hawker heroes. Mark has his work cut out for him since the city is home to more than 50 Michelin-starred establishments and over 60 Bib Gourmand entries, not to mention the abundant street food and hawker stalls that many frequent.
Food Affair with Mark Wiens (2022 )
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Tony Armstrong takes us into the incredible world of our four-legged friends, revealing the fascinating evolutionary journey of dogs, their amazing super senses, and the science behind their well-being.
A Dog's World with Tony Armstrong (2022 )
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Follows Australian and New Zealand hardcore towing companies as they battle it out to win the toughest and most lucrative tow contracts in the Southern Hemisphere. Armed with monster machines and million-dollar hardware, teams winch and tow their way through epic piles of high-risk recovery missions.
Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under (2022 )
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London's network of frontline trauma hospitals treat critically injured patients through the busiest month of the year in this ground-breaking series
Emergency (2022 )
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Comedian Jimmy Rees and tiny craft artist JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick unite with the extraordinary crafts people of Australia to re-create remarkable moments from our nation's history, in glorious miniature.
Tiny Oz (2022 )
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Celebrating WWE's awesome history; reliving the moments that made fans go, "This is awesome!"
WWE This Is Awesome (2022 )
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An intriguing history of Yugoslav nuclear program that proposed to build an atomic bomb and 16 nuclear facilities on Yugoslav soil. Only one project came to fruition, the nuclear power plant in Krsko, Slovenia.
The One and Only (2022 )
L'Incroyable Périple de Magellan (2022 )
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The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a one-party state, governed, controlled, and tormented by a single party rule. That of the Communist Party. Complicated, contradictory figureheads would come and go, men who held this impossible country it seemed by sheer will. Stalin the despot-hero whose cruelty knew few bounds who united a nation to defeat Hitler. Khrushchev the crafty libertarian, who preached reform yet allowed an arms race to escalate. Brezhnev, that unreadable member to the old guard, sending history backwards. And of course Gorbachev, who brought vast change, modernisation, and détente, yet saw the Soviet Union collapse under his rule – the untenable nation. The 20th century was shaped by its convulsions, its purges, its wars, and its leaders.
The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922 (2022 )
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The story of Britain's most infamous child murders, including never-previously-seen prison letters. Why do serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley continue to haunt us as icons of pure evil?
Moors Murders (2022 )
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In a compelling new intergenerational experiment, older adults are brought together with teenagers to see if the power of this intergenerational program can transform the lives of older people and teenagers amid an epidemic of loneliness.
Old People's Home for Teenagers (2022 )
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Get closer than ever before to some of the world's most stunning natural phenomena.
Spectacular Earth (2022 )
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“The Fast History Of..." is a super-charged romp through the histories of anything from iconic brands to enthralling topics.
The Fast History Of... (2022 )
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Would you let a convicted criminal stay in your home? Presented by Danielle Cormack, this ground-breaking new series follows a unique initiative to tackle recidivism - a person's relapse into criminal behaviour. Follow four Australian households that are prepared to offer their spare room to a formerly incarcerated person for 100 days.
Life on the Outside (2022 )
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Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Lasting just over four days, the Great Smog plunged London into a terrifyingly murky gloom - the acrid pollution seeping into homes, leaving Londoners gasping for breath, shutting down transport and emergency services, and overwhelming hospitals and undertakers alike.
The Great Smog: Winter of '52 (2022 )
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After the Grand Final siren, the real business of footy begins. Players, agents and clubs let us in for an unprecedented look inside the deal-making and drama of the AFL off-season.
Show Me the Money (2022 )
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Follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar. Wrestling with their conflicting identities as students move between boarding life and home life, it creates a historic record of one of Australia's key Indigenous education pathways and a complex portrait of what it is to be an Indigenous child in Australia today.
Off Country (2022 )
Art Crimes (2022 )
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Life at the Rio Park hotel in the Spanish resort
Hotel Benidorm: Sun, Sea & Sangria (2022 )
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People searching for answers, healing, or human connection end up joining some of the strangest organizations.
True Believers (2022 )
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As a bill allowing extradition to China sparks anger in Hong Kong, four young protesters take drastic action when they realise how far the authorities will go to silence them.
Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom (2022 )
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Enter two legendary castles built on mountaintops and go behind the scenes of their construction, as computer-generated imagery, aerial footage, and the best experts will reveal the secrets of two architectural wonders that have left an imprint on our imagination as well as History.
Legendary Castles (2022 )
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Chris "Brolga" Barns raises a brood of almost 30 kangaroos in his outback sanctuary. Dedicating his life to rescuing kangaroos and orphan joeys, his experiences and adventures are explored as he cares for his kangaroo clan.
Kangaroo Dundee (2021 )
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Go Back To Where You Came From is a Logie Award-winning Australian TV documentary series, produced by Cordell Jigsaw Productions and broadcast in 2011 and 2012 on SBS. The series followed two parties, each of six Australians, all members having differing opinions on Australia's asylum seeker debate, being taken on a journey in reverse to that which refugees have taken to reach Australia.
Go Back To Where You Came From (2011 )
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Alaska Wing Men is an American documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel. The show primarily follows the daily lives of bush pilots that fly to and from various small rural villages throughout Alaska. The series premiered on January 10, 2011
Alaska Wing Men (2011 )