SBS’s ground-breaking new documentary series 'Australia in Colour' relives modern Australia’s history for the very first time in colour. Told through a unique collection of iconic archival footage brought to life in stunning colour, it tells the story of how Australia came to be what it is today. Narrated by Hugo Weaving, the series is a reflection on our nation's character, its attitudes, its politics and its struggle to value its Indigenous and multicultural past. 'Australia in Colour' gives us a chance to look at Australia’s history from a fresh perspective.
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In 1964, the gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher is rocketed from a lonely, dissatisfying small-town life into a career as a fearless investigator, supported by a coterie of remarkable women who help her follow in the footsteps of her famous Aunt Phryne.
This heartwarming romantic comedy tells the story of successful Sydney lawyer Lauren (Tapsell) and her fiancé Ned (Lee). Engaged and in love, they have just ten days to pull off their dream Top End Wedding. First though, they need track down Lauren's mother, who has gone AWOL somewhere in the Northern Territory.
Celeste was once Australia’s most beloved opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to follow the man she loved to live on a crumbling property deep in the rainforests of Tropical North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic death, Celeste is ready to make one final return to the stage. But her stepson Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives at her behest amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. But when she asks Jack for an impossible favour, the secrets that drove them apart explode back into rhapsodic life.
'Secret City: Under the Eagle' picks up with Harriet Dunkley (Torv), not long out of prison and unwittingly ensnared in a military and political cover-up with Catriona Bailey’s (Weaver) fingerprints all over it. Harriet’s search for the truth leads her back into Canberra’s corridors of power, this time working for a maverick Independent MP (Cormack). What she unearths is a military program so secret not even the Prime Minister (Hany) is aware of it and begs the question of who is really running the country?
'That's Not A Knife' is a documentary about the hard and often unglamorous life of an actor.
Young couple Joanna and Alistair travel with their baby from Scotland to Australia to see Alistair’s mother, Elizabeth and to fight for custody of Alistair’s daughter Chloe against his Australian ex-wife Alexandra.
'Lost & Found' is a stop motion short film that tugs at the heartstrings. A knitted toy dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life.