Wire Through The Heart
1x55 min Drama Doc
09/05/2007
WIRE THROUGH THE HEART is the story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia.
In the mid 1800s John McDouall Stuart, a migrant from Scotland, was determined to cross the centre of Australia and reach the north coast.
Charles Todd had dreamt of constructing a telegraph line through the heart of the continent and in Stuart he found the man who could prove the inhospitable centre could be crossed.
It made Todd a hero, but Stuart, the man who made it possible, died in obscurity.
Opal Fever
4 x 30 min, 1 x 52 min
1/1/05
OPAL FEVER is a series about untold wealth waiting to be uncovered and those obsessed with the feverish hope of riches beyond imagination. OPAL FEVER can be contagious especially in Coober Pedy, the Opal capital of the world where OPAL FEVER is rife. The miners, the buyers, the sellers, maniacally scramble for a fortune in precious opal and possibly one of the rarest opals ever found.
Seeking Asylum
1 x 52 min
1/1/03
This television Documentary explores some of the issues surrounding the greatest migration of people in the history of the planet set against the Australian Governments policy of mandatory detention of the unauthorized arrival of asylum seekers.
Red Crabs Crazy Ants
(A Piper Films/Natural History New Zealand Co-Production)
1 x 52 min
1/1/00
Australias Christmas Island is home to one of natures greatest, most colourful and spectacular mass migrations. Each year this pristine islands shoreline is covered with an ankle-deep carpet of red crabs. Yet while the frenzy of spawning that ensures should be increasing their number, they are actually dropping, as many of the crabs fall victim to the alien crazy yellow ants.
Suburban Stripper & Outback Stripper
2 x 52 min
1/1/99
SUBURBAN STRIPPER is a one-hour television documentary exploring the lives of a number of people who take their clothes off for money. Its a revealing, amusing, and a little shocking, as we find out what motivates them and how far they are prepared to go! Fun and Mayhem prevail as our popular stripper characters embark on a rollicking trave-adventure-striptease tour of the Australian outback in the high rating sequel OUTBACK STRIPPER.
Paul Davies, The Big Questions
& More Big Questions
12 x 27 min
1/1/95
For millennia human beings have wondered at their own existence and have sought to find a meaning to their lives. Answers have come from priests and prophets, from mythology and theology, More recently powerful answers have been provided by mathematics and science. Wily interrogator and skeptic Philip Adams talks to acclaimed scientist and author Professor Paul Davies.