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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 with David Beckham, when he travels to seven continents and plays seven different kinds of soccer/football.
- Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943.
- 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.
- 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.
- Filmed in the unspoiled jungles of the Southwest Pacific, Peace Child dramatically portrays the startling reaction of stone-age people to the Gospel.
- Although tribal fighting has long been present in the Papua New Guinea highlands, the influx of modern automatic weaponry in the 1990s turned local disputes into swift lethal exchanges which threatened to permanently reshape highlands culture. Bootlegged copies of the American film Rambo circulated in remote communities, becoming a crude tutorial on the use of such weaponry. The influence of the film was so pronounced that the term Rambo is now used in Papuan dialects to describe hired mercenaries who are paid to support local combatants in violent tribal disputes. The services of Rambos were suddenly in high demand as a variety of M16s and Indonesian military weaponry found its way down the Sepik River through swap-laden smuggling routes. The automatic machinery has had a chilling effect on dispute resolutions. Obtaining an automatic rifle can become the ultimate ticket to regional power and tribes are going to great lengths to buy into this new system. The cultural knowledge of tribal fighting, which had been proudly handed down for tens of thousands of years, has exceedingly been replaced by a handful of steel machinery. Lost Rambos explores the impact and evolution of fighting through the recent history of Kompiam, a town buried deep in the northern region of the PNG highlands in Enga Province, a region renowned for intense tribal disputes. In recent years Kompiam has experienced several tribal fights with around 80 recorded deaths, not to mention destruction of local infrastructure and hundreds of houses burnt to the ground. Two tribes remain in active dispute with the Tinalapin tribe still occupying the land of its enemy the Sambe. This film unpacks the conflict by featuring voices from both tribes, including alternate viewpoints within the leadership of the Tinalapins. Characters include the War Leader (Pyaren Pyato) who convinced the tribe to fight, the head Warrior (Goden Lapyale) who led the fighters into battle and a Peacemaker (Joseph Lakai) who returns for the first time since the fighting began with a message of peace for his tribe. We also experience an alternate view from a Sambe family who have been displaced by the war, and are struggling to survive in exile having lost their land and many young tribesman. The four viewpoints allow for a nuanced perspective on fighting pushing beyond the stated causes of tribal fighting which is often blamed on disputes over land, women and pigs. Instead this film subtly interrogates the deeper causes alongside the impact of the weaponry, exploring the lack of government intervention and security services, the profound cultural value given to family loyalty, and the vast gender imbalance in the traditional highlands hierarchy. Lost Rambos unpacks tribal conflict from all angles to explore the complexities of a traditional practice rapidly drawn into the modern day.
- 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 poignant exploration of one man's journey to break the violent chains of inter-generational trauma, set against the backdrop of a rural village in Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
- 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.
- Saki's brother was killed in a brutal tribal war in 2008. He held on to resentment for nearly a decade. When another war broke out in 2016 he took his revenge by murdering a man from his enemy's clan. Now, this man's brother-in-law comes to avenge the blood on Saki's hands. The stories of revenge and retribution in the tribal wars of Enga have been exacerbated in recent years by alcohol and modern weapons that have been introduced into the communities. The effects of long-standing violence between the tribes have ravaged the highlands and shattered societies and communities. But in this vicious cycle of war and revenge, Saki meets a man who will change everything.
- Seven expeditions penetrate the hidden far-out regions of four continents to bring from their depths the images of the ritual of love as practiced through the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- A documentary focused on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.
- An ace fighter pilot crashes in New Guinea, evades headhunters in the jungle, and is rescued. He attempts to return fifty years later to visit his downed plane, but meets opposition when he learns his story is still told among the locals.
- Melissa and John are worlds apart and when they meet, John's controversial ideas mean their conversations erupt in a fiery clash of minds.
- Documentary that shows different animal species from all over the world courting and mating.