Sbs Movies

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a...

This iconic statue was a gift from France to the new-born American Republic and was the first crowd-funded monument of all time. A symbol of...

Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman,...

Witnesses, survivors and front-line heroes recall the first days of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Featuring rare archive footage of the...

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished...

Heritier Lumumba, formerly known as Harry O'Brien, was in the middle of his best season of AFL when his club president, Eddie McGuire, made a racist...

This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia...

In 1988, 20-year-old Céline Dion won Eurovision for Switzerland with the song ‘Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi’, a moment that kickstarted...

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this...

Explores the latest archaeology and science on one of history's most enduring mysteries - did the Trojan War really happen? In 1874 Heinrich...

An all singing, all dancing fever dream musical about the Australian property market. Featuring first home buyers, boomer investors, predatory...

The Colosseum: the jewel of Ancient Rome. It wowed vast crowds with extraordinary battles. It pushed the boundaries of technology. It exhibited...

Chernobyl after 30 years captures imagination people all over the world. It is mysterious place with many myths and legends. After failure in...

In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning...

Aftershocks is a 1998 Australian TV film based on the theatre production of the same name about the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, focusing on the...

Diseases that were largely eradicated forty years ago are returning. Across the world children are dying from preventable conditions, because nervous...

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the...

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in...

In 2018, 25-year-old overseas student Kamer Nizamdeen was arrested and held in solitary confinement for a month on terrorism charges, only to be...

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.