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Recent Programs
These items have been recently added to the Programs section of the Screen Australia website. To find out more about a particular program or to place an order, click on the title. Become an online member and we’ll send you details about new releases, screening dates and teachers notes in our regular email updates. Take a voyage of discovery with Chris Taylor as he reveals the secrets behind a fascinating mix of treasures from Australia's National Heritage List. (10 x 5 Minutes) Two filmmakers-in-residence work in partnership with the community of Port Augusta to tell stories about extraordinary characters dedicated to caring for others. () A definitive history of surfing in Australia as told by our surfing champions, writers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, mavericks, legends, drop-outs and drop-ins. (2 x 55 minute episodes) On one of the toughest beats in town, a cop lays down his gun and takes up a new style of policing. (51 Minutes) Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere - Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace - revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. (3 x 54 minute episodes) This is the shocking inside story of a family's fight to free their 15-year-old son after he is wrongly accused of rape. (52 Minutes) 7. Feral Peril Tasmania is one of the world's last great wildlife havens but its struggling native species are under threat from a feral fox invasion. Or are they? (55 Minutes) Honeybee Blues tells the story of the world's disappearing honeybees and the efforts of Australian scientist Dr Denis Anderson to save them from annihilation. (52 Minutes) Refugee families from Burma and Sudan discover the joys and challenges of their new Australian home. (54 Minutes) This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. (55 Minutes) 11. Life at 3 The story continues for the children of The Life Series–now they are three–as they reveal what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. (2 x 55 Minutes) 12. Life at 3 : Bad Behaviour Investigates toddlers' ability to control their behaviour as science reveals that this has a significant impact on their success at school. (55 Minutes) 13. Life at 3 : Fighting Fat Discover why one in four toddlers is getting too fat and what it takes to keep a child a healthy weight. (55 Minutes) 14. Lost in Flanders Ninety years after the last shots were fired, two young Australian historians embark on an emotional journey to the First World War battlefields on the infamous Western Front. (52.5 Minutes) Using Robert Menzies' World War II diaries and remarkable 16mm film, Menzies and Churchill at War lifts the lid on a bitter behind-the-scenes battle between Winston Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister as the fate of Australia hangs in the balance. (55 Minutes) Last updated: Friday 5 February 2010 |