Jazz: Disc 1 (Episodes 1-3)
(2002) [E]

Episodes 1-3 in the twelve episode series. Episode One – Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917: Jazz begins in New Orleans, a city with a richly diverse musical culture. Here in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music by mixing ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues....  More

Into The Arms Of Strangers
(2000) [PG]

In 1938 and 1939, about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, were sent by their parents from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England where foster families took most of them in for the duration of the war. Years later, eleven kinder, one child's mother, an English foster...  More

December 7th: The Pearl Harbour Story
(1943) [PG]

Documentary about the bombing of Pearl Harbour on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese enforcements. The restored director's cut.  More

The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994
(1994) [G]

On July 16, 1994, the moon shines down on Los Angeles to reveal an astounding sight: Dodger Stadium is transformed from ballpark to concert hall, where some of the most gifted artists of our time gather to enthrall an audience. The conjunction of these stellar performers in concert creates a kind...  More

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
(1967) [PG]

Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan...  More

Flamenco
(1995) [G]

As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song,...  More

Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures
(2001) [MA]

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, old home movies and comments from his colleagues. Narrated by Tom Cruise.  More

Walking With Dinosaurs (2 disc set)
(2000) [E]

Walking With Dinosaurs traces the 160 million year history of dinosaurs from their first appearance to their abrupt demise. This groundbreaking series explores the plants, insects and geography of the period as well as the dominant reptiles, evoking the mystery and excitement of the age when...  More

Ambient Waterfalls
(2000) [G]

Sit back relax and enjoy the unique visual and audio experience of the magnificent waterfalls of far North Queensland, Australia. A dreamlike panorama of slow moving waterfalls in the wet tropics and Atherton Tablelands, Kuranda and spectacular Mossman Gorge. Waterfalls in Cairns Region. The...  More

Wild Rhapsody
(1996) [E]

From the award winning ABC Natural History Unit comes Wild Rhapsody, a delightful musical journey through the Australian region. Share in the delights of the playful young animals, experience their daily struggles, immerse yourself in the joy of loving, the pleasures of eating and the fun of...  More

Elvis: That's The Way It Is
(1970) [G]

Elvis Presley, wearing a flashy new jumpsuit, has pre-show jitters. "If the songs don't go over," he quips, "we can do a medley of costumes." The songs go over big - thanks to a remastered picture and remixed Dolby Digital from restored elements - in this Special Edition of the legendary Las...  More

The Dream Is Alive (IMAX)
(1985) [E]

Shot in space by the astronauts themselves, the film provides a close-up look at several space shuttle missions, including the Challenger's 1984 mission to repair a damaged satellite.  More

Blue Planet (Imax, 1990)
(1990) [G]

Blue Planet reveals the Earth to us as only few people have ever seen it: from space. Orbiting 200 miles above Earth's surface, we can see familiar landforms, the majestic Himalayas, giant Namib desert sand dunes, jewel-like Caribbean islands. From this unique vantage point we see how natural...  More

Nature's Landscapes
[G]

From the award winning ABC Natural History Unit, Nature's Landscapes is a stunning visual journey through Australia's natural environment, accompanied by evocative and beautiful classical music with natural sound effects. Soar across harsh and unforgiving deserts, plunge into turbulent seas...  More

Buena Vista Social Club
(1999) [G]

"The Buena Vista Social Club," guitarist Ry Cooder's celebrated album featuring the recently re-discovered talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, sold millions of copies and earned a Grammy Award. Now, Cooder teams up with acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) to reveal the...  More

Triumph Of The Will
(1934) [PG]

The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War II this film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi Party.

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the President of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the...  More

The Corporation (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [PG]

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But...  More

7 Up & 14 Up (aka Seven Up! & Seven Plus Seven )
(1970) [G]

Originally shown as part of the World In Action television series, 7 Up broke new ground in British documentary filmmaking when it aired in 1964. Seen as a snapshot of the nation's future, a group of 7-year-old children, all from different walk of life, were asked about their attitudes towards...  More

The Killing of America
(1981) [R]

A hard hitting shock-u-mentary about the rise of violence in the home of the brave. From the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy to the violent protests against the Vietnam war. From the ritual murders of the Manson Family, to the terrifying violence of serial...  More

My Flesh and Blood
(2004) [M]

MY FLESH AND BLOOD documents one year in the life of divorced, 53-year-old Fairfield, California mother Susan Tom and her 11 adopted children--ten of which are physically or mentally disabled. After a 13-year marriage that produced two children of her own and her first adopted child, she...  More

Touching the Void
(2003) [M]

May, 1985 - Peru. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ambitious young mountaineers, set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their...  More

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
(2004) [PG]

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the publics right to know. The film explores...  More

Judy Garland Collection (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc set)
(1963) [E]

The Judy Garland Collection includes four fabulous DVD's, 1. Judy, Frank & Dean Once in a Lifetime 2. Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special 3. Judy Garland Live at the London Palladium with Liza Minnelli and 4. Judy Garland - The Concert years, each DVD celebrating the life and...  More

Pulp Cinema
(2001) [M]

The birth of so-called "hard-boiled" cinema, with is pulp plot and dark, sombre mood, is documented here in this exciting collection of theatrical trailers from some of pulp cinema/film noir's greatest hits. Featuring the gritty portrayal of down-and-outs on all sides of the law, film noir was...  More

Letters to Ali
(2004) [PG]

Clara Law's LETTERS TO ALI is at once a personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia’s growing public concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in Australian detention centres. The documentary chronicles one exceptional ‘average’ Australian family the...  More

Kurosawa: A Documentary
(2001) [PG]

From Rashomon (1950) to Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa set new boundaries for world cinema. His extraordinary career spanned one of Japan's most dramatic centuries and produced a string of masterpieces unrivalled in motion picture history. In the first major documentary to be made since his death in...  More

South: Sir Earnest Shackleton
(1919) [E]

When the Endurance was trapped by pack ice, the crew drifted on ice floes for months before Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a miraculous 850-mile boat journey to safety. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and...  More

90 Degrees South: Captain Robert Scott
(1933) [E]

Captain Scott described photographer Herbert Ponting as 'an artist in love with his work' and, after the tragic outcome of the 1910 expedition which cost Scott and four of his companions their lives, Ponting resolved that the grandeur of the Antarctic and Scott's heroism should not be forgotten....  More

The Party's Over
(2001) [M]

Philip Seymour Hoffman hosts this compelling exploration of the state of democracy in America. The Party's Over chronicles the scandalous 2000 Presidential Elections and journeys deep into the belly of the beast that is American politics.  More