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The Gospel of Wealth - A Story of Capitalism Season 1 Culture, advertising, public relations and above all philanthropy are the weapons of a true gospel of wealth, which, despite the inequalities, continues to feed the American psyche. But for how long?
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon Paul Simon inside the studio making his new album Seven Psalms while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds of Silence to Graceland.
Poison(s) Season 1 This series tells how for twenty years, at the cost of a few grams of lethal poison, the Kremlin has entrenched its positions in the world game.
Apolonia Apolonia A fascinating portrait, spanning 13 years, of a young woman trying to find her place in the art world. Apolonia is confident in her talent, but her path is not always an easy one.
Second to None Season 1 It’s been a long road into the spotlight for women’s cycling after decades of exclusion. At last, women cyclists have the chance to race the pinnacle of cycling, the mother of all races, the Tour de France Femmes. For the top female riders of this generation, this remains the greatest opportunity of...
Italy Artisans Season 1 A poetic journey through the incomparable beauty of Italy's cities, which are told through the peculiar handcrafting skills known worldwide as Made in Italy.
Caravaggio - The Soul and the Blood An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art. A narrative and visual excursus, filmed in Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Malta.
The Vietnam War (Director's Cut) Season 1 In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Ken Burns tells the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants an...
Hezbollah Inc. Season 1 This three-part series helps to explain the history and rise of Hezbollah, making a complex geopolitical story accessible to a larger audience.
Botticelli - Inferno The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through hell with fascinating and exciting insights into Botticelli's art and its hidden story.
20 Days in Mariupol On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a team of Ukrainian journalists enter the strategic eastern port city of Mariupol. During the subsequent siege and assault, as bombs fall, the team — the only international journalists left — struggles to cover the war atrocities and to transmit their foot...
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Season 12 The iconic lifestyle series follows world-renowned chef, bestselling author and Emmy winning television personality Anthony Bourdain as he travels the across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals.
Circle of Silence Season 1 Circle of Silence is a powerful human drama, a cold case investigation and a politically explosive story. It is inspired by Shirley Shackleton’s Walkley Award winning book of the same name. It uncovers new evidence about the notorious 1975 murders of five Australian based journalists, the Balibó Fiv...
The Day the Rockstar Died Season 1 This illuminating series will focus on the death and subsequent mourning of some of the greatest music legends. We’ll explore the days leading up to the artist's death, and the unique impact these events have on fans and media. Each episode will include career highlights that lead them to legendary...
Hitler's Evil Science Season 1 The story of Ahnenerbe, the scientific research organisation the Third Reich used to justify its conquests and racial crimes.
Triads: The Chinese Mafia Season 1 Thanks to exclusive interviews with key protagonists, this in-depth thriller investigation takes us right into the heart of the world’s most powerful criminal organization, to reveal its far-reaching influence on geopolitics and the economy.
Aurora's Sunrise Losing her family, escaping slavery, enduring trauma, and Hollywood greed, Aurora travels a very long way to tell the world about her people's tragedy. Her courage long forgotten, Aurora's odyssey is revived through this unique testimony, archive footage, and the magic of animation.
Magellan's Extraordinary Odyssey Season 1 In 1519, Fernando Magellan put together a crazy expedition that was to take 237 men to the Indies via the western route. In doing so, Magellan wished to bring to life Christopher Columbus’ dreams.
Country Music (Director's Cut) Season 1 Step back in time and journey through the compelling history of a musical art form with Country Music, a new eight-part film directed by Ken Burns, and produced by Burns and his long-time collaborators Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey. Much like the music itself, the film tells unforgettable stories o...
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.
Helicopter Warfare Season 1 Helicopter Warfare takes four extreme helicopter missions from four different theatres of war and looks at what happens when helicopter pilots push their machines to the limit. Each mission showcases extraordinary personal bravery, nail-biting flying and intense jeopardy. Featuring stories from the...
Bromley: Light After Dark David Bromley found that art appeased the voices in his head and helped him find beauty in the world, so he made the life-changing decision to commit his whole being to something meaningful. With intimate access, we peel away the layers of anxiety, phobias and suicide survival, whilst embracing the...
Ken Burns: Baseball Season 1 Ken Burns’ epic documentary miniseries. Like Burns’s previous masterpiece (The Civil War), this film is more than just the history of baseball. It is a reflection of the American experience.
Mawson - Life and Death in Antarctica The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, pr...
Munich '72 Season 1 The event that gave birth to modern terrorism. The chilling story of the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attack told as it has never been told before. Blending documentary and fiction and supported by newly declassified protocols, this three-part series presents a close-up and dramatic representation of...
The War Season 1 THE WAR tells the story of WWII through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history–a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every to...
Kokoda Season 2 Kokoda tells the story of the brutal World War II campaign fought between Australia and Japan in the green hell of the mountains of Papua New Guinea. Told from both the Japanese and Australian perspectives the series also explores the impact of the decisions of high command on the soldiers at the fr...
Raphael - Lord of the Arts This visually stunning film combines in-depth explorations of Raphael’s astonishing art, and immersive historical reconstructions inspired by 18th Century paintings depicting fragments of the Raphael’s life.
#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump An eye-opening and shattering analysis of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of Donald J. Trump.
Capturing the Friedmans The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family - until one Thanksgiving, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush into the house searching every corner and seizing boxes of the family’s possessions. Arnold and his 18-year old son Jesse are both arrested.
Beyond Utopia Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimately revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Lygon Street: Si Parla Italiano After the disaster of WW2, a wave of Italian immigrants found their way to Melbourne - a strange place, suspicious of outsiders and completely devoid of a good cup of espresso. Congregating in a then run-down stretch of Carlton known as Lygon St, these irrepressible restaurateurs, enterpeneurs and s...
For Sama FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
Machine Director Justin Krook unpacks the most radical new technology of our time in MACHINE, a hard-hitting, wide-ranging and eye-opening documentary. Infiltrating everything from transport, to military to healthcare – artificial intelligence is no longer merely the realm of science fiction.
Casino Jack and the United States of Money This portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff—from his early years as a gung-ho member of the GOP political machine to his final reckoning as a disgraced, imprisoned pariah—confirms the adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. A tale of international intrigue with Indian casinos,...
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Citizen K Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a wealthy man in Russia, rocketed to prosperity in the 1990s and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Mabo: Life of an Island Man Mabo - Life of an Island Man is the story of a small island and an extraordinary man. Eddie Koiki Mabo changed the legal and political landscape of Australia.
My Father, The Spy As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed From Academy Award winner Laura Poitras comes an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family acc...
A Storm Foretold: In Conversation with Director, Christoffer Guldbrandsen DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Christoffer Guldbrandsen, the director of A Storm Foretold. Guldbrandsen reflects on the genesis of the film project; his tumultuous relationship with Roger Stone; and the experience of bearing witness to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Rachel's Farm: In Conversation with Rachel Ward DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Rachel Ward, the director of Rachel's Farm. Ward reflects on the genesis of both the film and her regenerative farming practice, and celebrates the essential collaborations that brought the project to fruition.
Is There Anybody Out There? My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own. ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ is a personal documentary following my search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as me.
On the Adamant The Adamant is moored on the Seine in the center of Paris. An unusual setting for a health centre, but perhaps one that suits its distinctive approach. Visitors to the light-filled vessel will find a respectful and compassionate environment, a place to sing or discuss movies, and everyone has a say...
All Town Aren't We Season 1 Grimsby Town FC, once a high-flying football club with a proud history, is now on the brink of relegation from the Football League. The impending threat of semi-professional football looms on for not just the club, but an entire community. Witness one of the most breathtaking sporting stories of all...
Rachel's Farm Film director and actress Rachel Ward is not the first person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, Rachel voyages from wilful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on her own rural property, to embracing a movement to restore the health of...
Bigger Than Me Bigger Than Me is a female coming-of-age film about the complexity of being a girl and the challenges that drive you as a woman to take on the elemental power of big waves.
A Storm Foretold A jaw-dropping, no-holds-barred portrait of Donald Trump’s former adviser, Roger Stone, filmed over three years in the lead-up to the 6 January storming of the US Capitol.
Anselm Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
Crimes That Changed the World Season 1 CRIMES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD shows spectacular criminal cases that held the world in suspense and changed it forever. They include major judicial scandals, gruesome serial murders and historic assassinations.
In the Mood for Art A rare foray into the art world of Hong Kong since the city’s return to China, delving into the opening of the M+ Museum.
Hotline In Western Sydney a group of conservative Christians have joined forces to put an end to abortion in Australia forever. Together Nadia, Christine and Cynthia have established Hope House, a 24/7 support hotline for pregnant women in trouble.
One in a Million One in a Million tells the story of local legend and CPR instructor Dave Winner, who was brought back to life with CPR after suffering a surfing accident. Sustaining a spinal cord injury Dave spent many months on the road to recovery. Once a fit and healthy Surf Life Saver, Dave was now faced with t...
Daniel Richter Three years with Daniel Richter: Pepe Danquart opens the door to the famous painter’s studio for us and draws a multifaceted and knowledgeable portrait of the political artist.
Game of Minds Season 1 Game of Minds is a behind-the-scenes look at the demanding realities of professional esports. The series follows young professionals as they try to excel not only in their game but also in everything around it, such as the expectations of sponsors and fans towards players.
Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini Sara has spent three years rescuing refugees but is suddenly arrested in August 2018, accused by Greek authorities of running a criminal enterprise and charged with “international espionage and people smuggling”. If convicted, she faces up to 25 years in prison and the end of her humanitarian career...
Last Goal Wins Feeling the impact of Australia’s refugee policy, a group of Tamils form a community as they organise weekly football matches in Western Sydney and support each other through life’s challenges.
Knowing the Score Knowing the Score is a biopic of Australian conductor Simone Young, an inspiring, brilliant woman who made it to the top in a man's world wielding her wit, determination, sense of humour and baton.
Nuclear Now With unprecedented access to the global nuclear industry, iconic director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy - an option that may become a vital way to ensure our co...
Director Gus Berger - In Conversation DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Gus Berger, the director of The Lost City of Melbourne. Reflecting on the genesis and journey of the project, Berger speaks to his collaborative filmmaking process, the challenges and surprises associated with archive-heavy filmmaking, and the appli...
Franklin When Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, the Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it, sparking a now-infamous, and ultimately victorious, campaign of blockades, protests, lawsuits and political wrangling – a campaign that was a key part of the develo...
Corners of the Earth - Kamchatka Follow filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell as they journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia in search of new waves along the frozen, unexplored coastline.
Innocent Behind Bars Season 1 In an intimate portrayal of injustice, this series reveals the true experience of being wrongfully convicted and the impact that lasts well beyond the prison bars.
Lancaster From the team behind SPITFIRE comes LANCASTER. Using re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF's last airworthy Lancaster, we follow 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly and go to war.
Chasing 400 As an avid endurance athlete and someone who is always seeking the next challenge, Justin Kinner was naturally drawn to the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning.
Murky Skies Season 1 The 1992 crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 into an apartment building in Amsterdam remains a three decades mystery, fueled by unexplained illnesses, lost evidence, mysterious cargo, and one missing black box. An international thriller that uncovers the hidden threads between business, politics and the...
Mussolini's Legacy Over 75 years since the fall of fascism, and a hundred since the march to Rome, the documentary investigates the spread of historical lies regarding Fascism and Mussolini, a narrative that Italy, especially its younger generations, is still swayed by.
2nd Chance In 1969 a bankrupt pizzeria owner, Richard Davis, invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point blank — 192 times. Davis then launched Second Chance, which became one of the largest body armor companies in the world.
Loving Highsmith Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.
Juice The crew are very much on the beaten track, gargantuan Californian landmarks are dotted along the way… but that doesn’t mean they aren’t Searching with a capital S.
A House Made of Splinters The Lysychansk Centre in Eastern Ukraine houses the kids of unfit parents while they await court proceedings determining their future – young cast-offs of alcoholism, addiction, violence and the social trauma of the nearby Russia conflict that has disturbed the region since 2014.
Medical Pioneers - Curing the Incurable Season 1 Their projects are very concrete, sometimes confidential, often breathtaking, always optimistic and will revolutionize our health.
Preparing To Give Journalist & best-selling author, turned ultra-endurance cyclist, Rupert Guinness embarks on his final training camp (commonly known as “Hell Week”) in preparation for the world’s toughest bike race: Race Across America.
The U.S. and the Holocaust Season 1 Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people responded to this catastrophe and how it challenged the very ideals of western democracy.
A Compassionate Spy Recruited in 1944 to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned about a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon, he decided to start passing key in...
Art Crimes Season 1 Art Crimes will take us inside the most unbelievable and intriguing international art robberies of the century. From dodgy art dealers in Amsterdam to undercover Scotland Yard investigators, from small town thieves to the most well planned actions, discover six unbelievable stories with plot twists...
New Zealand by Train Season 1 Following three iconic train journeys from the air and on the ground, we discover the iconic landscapes of New Zealand, a country with the geographic diversity of an entire continent. On the way we learn about the extra-ordinary construction challenges of the 4,000 kilometre network.
Titans: The Rise of Hollywood Season 1 Titans: The Rise of Hollywood tells the story of future moguls like The Warner Brothers, Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures), William Fox, Louis B. Mayer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount) and Mary Pickford (United Artists) as they battled each other for dominance of a brand new industry taking the world...
Loading Docs Season 9 Loading Docs is an award-winning initiative producing short documentaries that captivate and inspire audiences locally and internationally, while developing and promoting New Zealand filmmaking talent.
Merkel For years, Angela Merkel, the first woman Chancellor of Germany, was Western Europe’s most powerful leader. Nonetheless, she remains something of an enigma. The film reminds us how Merkel’s success came despite the double standards facing women leaders – the hard judgment and incessant scrutiny – an...
Inside Maximum Security Season 1 Singapore’s Changi Prison is a concrete purgatory, spartan to the extreme. There are no beds, no pillows and no chairs in the cells.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The feature documentary, the first of its kind on Vonnegut, is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s life and work, as well as the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. It spans his childhood, marriage and family, early careers and his years as a struggling writer, lea...
Muse MUSE: The Love Stories. Legendary photographer Dean Fidelman (Stone Masters, Yosemite in the Fifties, Valley Uprising, Stone Nudes) opens the vault and shares the very personal stories behind some of his iconic photographs.
Titans: The Rise of Wall Street Season 1 For the last century America’s riches have been controlled by the titans of Wall Street. J.P. Morgan; Teddy Roosevelt: Henry Goldman & Samuel Sachs; Charles Merrill & Edmund Lynch; Franklin Roosevelt; Ivan Boesky; Michael Milken. Before their names were institutions, they made fortunes, created enti...
Adam Ondra: Pushing The Limits dam Ondra is one of the best climbers today and a true virtuoso, who has tackled the world’s most difficult rocks and walls. A shy introvert-turned-famous-sports-icon, his desire to climb has changed into the obligation to win.
United Season 1 United is a 6 part series with each episode progressing the story within the 2021/22 A-league season around the performance of the Western United FC team, management of the club and the building of a $100m stadium, training, and residential precinct.
Kash Kash Above Beirut flies an unexpected bearer of hope: the pigeon game "Kash Hamam".
Dancing on Water Dancing on Water is a 12-minute Short Documentary that dives deep into the paternal bond between Warrick and Felicity Palmateer. Despite all the obstacles and challenges they have come to face in life, the ocean has always kept them grounded, and most importantly a place of healing.
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV Who was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history? Director Amanda Kim tells, for the first time, the story of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which...
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
The Australian Wars Season 1 Over three parts this groundbreaking documentary series gives voice to the story of The Australian Wars, fought on our home soil, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations people resisted. This is our longest and perhaps most defining war that established the Australian nation.
Everybody's Oma Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is obsessed with making home videos about his elderly mother and, when he creates a supermarket at home during lockdown, he accidentally turns ‘Oma’ into an internet celebrity. Their heart-warming home movies quickly attract a worldwide audience of over 100,000,000 peopl...
Utopias Season 1 Across the world, human communities are reviving the power of storytelling, guided by the idea that everything that should exist simply has not been tried somewhere, that what is lacking in our societies — in order to hope again — can be summed up in one word that combines idea, place and movement:...
Missing Kenley Season 1 On 21 September 1992, Kenley Matheson-a 20-year-old first-year Acadia University student-disappeared from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, without a trace. No eyewitnesses came forward. No body was found. No suspects emerged, and no leads surfaced. For three decades, investigators and private detectives hire...
Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century This drama-doc takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. Our presenter, Nicholas Day, guides us into into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.
Britain from the Air Season 1 From awe-inspiring castles dating back thousands of years to lavish royal palaces and diverse, idyllic landscapes, see Britain as never before. Each episode focuses on a unique aspect of British life, past and present.
Fritz Bauer's Legacy Probably for the last time former SS-guards recently faced trial for their role in German concentration camps, as for many decades Germany’s justice system had difficulty dealing with its countless unpunished Nazi crimes.
Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him. Journey through Munch's Norway, in search of the roots and identity of a universal artist, and question the main theme of his multifaceted work: his idea of Time.
The Corridors of Power Season 1 Oscar® nominated director Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers) returns with an examination of US foreign policy of the past 40 years in this striking documentary filled with insights of more than 30 political heavyweights including Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice.
Sacred Paths Season 1 Everywhere, through all eras and all civilizations, human beings have questioned the enigma of their lives, trying to understand a reality that eluded them.
Because We Have Each Other Made over five years, Because We Have Each Other is a delightfully hyper-intimate feature from award-winning Australian Director Sari Braithwaite. A masterclass in slice-of-life documentary, the film embeds its audience in the life of a neuro-diverse family in the forgotten working-class suburb of L...
Magic Money What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time in history money is no longer controlled by banks or governments, but by the people who use it. But where did this currency come from? How does it work? And is it truly the way forward, or just a flas...

What's New

The Gospel of Wealth - A Story of Capitalism

Season 1

Culture, advertising, public relations and above all philanthropy are the weapons of a true gospel of wealth, which, despite the inequalities, continues to feed the American psyche. But for how long?

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

Paul Simon inside the studio making his new album Seven Psalms while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds of Silence to Graceland.

Poison(s)

Season 1

This series tells how for twenty years, at the cost of a few grams of lethal poison, the Kremlin has entrenched its positions in the world game.

Apolonia Apolonia

A fascinating portrait, spanning 13 years, of a young woman trying to find her place in the art world. Apolonia is confident in her talent, but her path is not always an easy one.

It’s been a long road into the spotlight for women’s cycling after decades of exclusion. At last, women cyclists have the chance to race the pinnacle of cycling, the mother of all races, the Tour de France Femmes. For the top female riders of this generation, this remains the greatest opportunity of...

Italy Artisans

Season 1

A poetic journey through the incomparable beauty of Italy's cities, which are told through the peculiar handcrafting skills known worldwide as Made in Italy.

Caravaggio - The Soul and the Blood

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art. A narrative and visual excursus, filmed in Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Malta.

The Vietnam War (Director's Cut)

Season 1

In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Ken Burns tells the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants an...

Hezbollah Inc.

Season 1

This three-part series helps to explain the history and rise of Hezbollah, making a complex geopolitical story accessible to a larger audience.

Botticelli - Inferno

The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through hell with fascinating and exciting insights into Botticelli's art and its hidden story.

20 Days in Mariupol

On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a team of Ukrainian journalists enter the strategic eastern port city of Mariupol. During the subsequent siege and assault, as bombs fall, the team — the only international journalists left — struggles to cover the war atrocities and to transmit their foot...

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Season 12

The iconic lifestyle series follows world-renowned chef, bestselling author and Emmy winning television personality Anthony Bourdain as he travels the across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals.

Circle of Silence

Season 1

Circle of Silence is a powerful human drama, a cold case investigation and a politically explosive story. It is inspired by Shirley Shackleton’s Walkley Award winning book of the same name. It uncovers new evidence about the notorious 1975 murders of five Australian based journalists, the Balibó Fiv...

The Day the Rockstar Died

Season 1

This illuminating series will focus on the death and subsequent mourning of some of the greatest music legends. We’ll explore the days leading up to the artist's death, and the unique impact these events have on fans and media. Each episode will include career highlights that lead them to legendary...

Hitler's Evil Science

Season 1

The story of Ahnenerbe, the scientific research organisation the Third Reich used to justify its conquests and racial crimes.

Triads: The Chinese Mafia

Season 1

Thanks to exclusive interviews with key protagonists, this in-depth thriller investigation takes us right into the heart of the world’s most powerful criminal organization, to reveal its far-reaching influence on geopolitics and the economy.

Aurora's Sunrise

Losing her family, escaping slavery, enduring trauma, and Hollywood greed, Aurora travels a very long way to tell the world about her people's tragedy. Her courage long forgotten, Aurora's odyssey is revived through this unique testimony, archive footage, and the magic of animation.

Magellan's Extraordinary Odyssey

Season 1

In 1519, Fernando Magellan put together a crazy expedition that was to take 237 men to the Indies via the western route. In doing so, Magellan wished to bring to life Christopher Columbus’ dreams.

Country Music (Director's Cut)

Season 1

Step back in time and journey through the compelling history of a musical art form with Country Music, a new eight-part film directed by Ken Burns, and produced by Burns and his long-time collaborators Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey. Much like the music itself, the film tells unforgettable stories o...

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.

Helicopter Warfare

Season 1

Helicopter Warfare takes four extreme helicopter missions from four different theatres of war and looks at what happens when helicopter pilots push their machines to the limit. Each mission showcases extraordinary personal bravery, nail-biting flying and intense jeopardy. Featuring stories from the...

Bromley: Light After Dark

David Bromley found that art appeased the voices in his head and helped him find beauty in the world, so he made the life-changing decision to commit his whole being to something meaningful. With intimate access, we peel away the layers of anxiety, phobias and suicide survival, whilst embracing the...

Ken Burns: Baseball

Season 1

Ken Burns’ epic documentary miniseries. Like Burns’s previous masterpiece (The Civil War), this film is more than just the history of baseball. It is a reflection of the American experience.

Mawson - Life and Death in Antarctica

The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, pr...

Munich '72

Season 1

The event that gave birth to modern terrorism. The chilling story of the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attack told as it has never been told before. Blending documentary and fiction and supported by newly declassified protocols, this three-part series presents a close-up and dramatic representation of...

The War

Season 1

THE WAR tells the story of WWII through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history–a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every to...

Kokoda

Season 2

Kokoda tells the story of the brutal World War II campaign fought between Australia and Japan in the green hell of the mountains of Papua New Guinea. Told from both the Japanese and Australian perspectives the series also explores the impact of the decisions of high command on the soldiers at the fr...

Raphael - Lord of the Arts

This visually stunning film combines in-depth explorations of Raphael’s astonishing art, and immersive historical reconstructions inspired by 18th Century paintings depicting fragments of the Raphael’s life.

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

An eye-opening and shattering analysis of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of Donald J. Trump.

Capturing the Friedmans

The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family - until one Thanksgiving, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush into the house searching every corner and seizing boxes of the family’s possessions. Arnold and his 18-year old son Jesse are both arrested.

Beyond Utopia

Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimately revealing a world most of us have never seen.

Lygon Street: Si Parla Italiano

After the disaster of WW2, a wave of Italian immigrants found their way to Melbourne - a strange place, suspicious of outsiders and completely devoid of a good cup of espresso. Congregating in a then run-down stretch of Carlton known as Lygon St, these irrepressible restaurateurs, enterpeneurs and s...

For Sama

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

Machine

Director Justin Krook unpacks the most radical new technology of our time in MACHINE, a hard-hitting, wide-ranging and eye-opening documentary. Infiltrating everything from transport, to military to healthcare – artificial intelligence is no longer merely the realm of science fiction.

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

This portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff—from his early years as a gung-ho member of the GOP political machine to his final reckoning as a disgraced, imprisoned pariah—confirms the adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. A tale of international intrigue with Indian casinos,...

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Citizen K

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a wealthy man in Russia, rocketed to prosperity in the 1990s and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

Mabo - Life of an Island Man is the story of a small island and an extraordinary man. Eddie Koiki Mabo changed the legal and political landscape of Australia.

My Father, The Spy

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

From Academy Award winner Laura Poitras comes an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family acc...

A Storm Foretold: In Conversation with Director, Christoffer Guldbrandsen

DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Christoffer Guldbrandsen, the director of A Storm Foretold. Guldbrandsen reflects on the genesis of the film project; his tumultuous relationship with Roger Stone; and the experience of bearing witness to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Rachel's Farm: In Conversation with Rachel Ward

DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Rachel Ward, the director of Rachel's Farm. Ward reflects on the genesis of both the film and her regenerative farming practice, and celebrates the essential collaborations that brought the project to fruition.

Is There Anybody Out There?

My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own. ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ is a personal documentary following my search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as me.

On the Adamant

The Adamant is moored on the Seine in the center of Paris. An unusual setting for a health centre, but perhaps one that suits its distinctive approach. Visitors to the light-filled vessel will find a respectful and compassionate environment, a place to sing or discuss movies, and everyone has a say...

All Town Aren't We

Season 1

Grimsby Town FC, once a high-flying football club with a proud history, is now on the brink of relegation from the Football League. The impending threat of semi-professional football looms on for not just the club, but an entire community. Witness one of the most breathtaking sporting stories of all...

Rachel's Farm

Film director and actress Rachel Ward is not the first person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, Rachel voyages from wilful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on her own rural property, to embracing a movement to restore the health of...

Bigger Than Me

Bigger Than Me is a female coming-of-age film about the complexity of being a girl and the challenges that drive you as a woman to take on the elemental power of big waves.

A Storm Foretold

A jaw-dropping, no-holds-barred portrait of Donald Trump’s former adviser, Roger Stone, filmed over three years in the lead-up to the 6 January storming of the US Capitol.

Anselm

Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.

Crimes That Changed the World

Season 1

CRIMES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD shows spectacular criminal cases that held the world in suspense and changed it forever. They include major judicial scandals, gruesome serial murders and historic assassinations.

In the Mood for Art

A rare foray into the art world of Hong Kong since the city’s return to China, delving into the opening of the M+ Museum.

Hotline

In Western Sydney a group of conservative Christians have joined forces to put an end to abortion in Australia forever. Together Nadia, Christine and Cynthia have established Hope House, a 24/7 support hotline for pregnant women in trouble.

One in a Million

One in a Million tells the story of local legend and CPR instructor Dave Winner, who was brought back to life with CPR after suffering a surfing accident. Sustaining a spinal cord injury Dave spent many months on the road to recovery. Once a fit and healthy Surf Life Saver, Dave was now faced with t...

Daniel Richter

Three years with Daniel Richter: Pepe Danquart opens the door to the famous painter’s studio for us and draws a multifaceted and knowledgeable portrait of the political artist.

Game of Minds

Season 1

Game of Minds is a behind-the-scenes look at the demanding realities of professional esports. The series follows young professionals as they try to excel not only in their game but also in everything around it, such as the expectations of sponsors and fans towards players.

Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini

Sara has spent three years rescuing refugees but is suddenly arrested in August 2018, accused by Greek authorities of running a criminal enterprise and charged with “international espionage and people smuggling”. If convicted, she faces up to 25 years in prison and the end of her humanitarian career...

Last Goal Wins

Feeling the impact of Australia’s refugee policy, a group of Tamils form a community as they organise weekly football matches in Western Sydney and support each other through life’s challenges.

Knowing the Score

Knowing the Score is a biopic of Australian conductor Simone Young, an inspiring, brilliant woman who made it to the top in a man's world wielding her wit, determination, sense of humour and baton.

Nuclear Now

With unprecedented access to the global nuclear industry, iconic director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy - an option that may become a vital way to ensure our co...

Director Gus Berger - In Conversation

DocPlay presents an exclusive in-conversation with Gus Berger, the director of The Lost City of Melbourne. Reflecting on the genesis and journey of the project, Berger speaks to his collaborative filmmaking process, the challenges and surprises associated with archive-heavy filmmaking, and the appli...

Franklin

When Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, the Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it, sparking a now-infamous, and ultimately victorious, campaign of blockades, protests, lawsuits and political wrangling – a campaign that was a key part of the develo...

Corners of the Earth - Kamchatka

Follow filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell as they journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia in search of new waves along the frozen, unexplored coastline.

Innocent Behind Bars

Season 1

In an intimate portrayal of injustice, this series reveals the true experience of being wrongfully convicted and the impact that lasts well beyond the prison bars.

Lancaster

From the team behind SPITFIRE comes LANCASTER. Using re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF's last airworthy Lancaster, we follow 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly and go to war.

Chasing 400

As an avid endurance athlete and someone who is always seeking the next challenge, Justin Kinner was naturally drawn to the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning.

Murky Skies

Season 1

The 1992 crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 into an apartment building in Amsterdam remains a three decades mystery, fueled by unexplained illnesses, lost evidence, mysterious cargo, and one missing black box. An international thriller that uncovers the hidden threads between business, politics and the...

Mussolini's Legacy

Over 75 years since the fall of fascism, and a hundred since the march to Rome, the documentary investigates the spread of historical lies regarding Fascism and Mussolini, a narrative that Italy, especially its younger generations, is still swayed by.

2nd Chance

In 1969 a bankrupt pizzeria owner, Richard Davis, invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point blank — 192 times. Davis then launched Second Chance, which became one of the largest body armor companies in the world.

Loving Highsmith

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Juice

The crew are very much on the beaten track, gargantuan Californian landmarks are dotted along the way… but that doesn’t mean they aren’t Searching with a capital S.

A House Made of Splinters

The Lysychansk Centre in Eastern Ukraine houses the kids of unfit parents while they await court proceedings determining their future – young cast-offs of alcoholism, addiction, violence and the social trauma of the nearby Russia conflict that has disturbed the region since 2014.

Medical Pioneers - Curing the Incurable

Season 1

Their projects are very concrete, sometimes confidential, often breathtaking, always optimistic and will revolutionize our health.

Preparing To Give

Journalist & best-selling author, turned ultra-endurance cyclist, Rupert Guinness embarks on his final training camp (commonly known as “Hell Week”) in preparation for the world’s toughest bike race: Race Across America.

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Season 1

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people responded to this catastrophe and how it challenged the very ideals of western democracy.

A Compassionate Spy

Recruited in 1944 to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned about a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon, he decided to start passing key in...

Art Crimes

Season 1

Art Crimes will take us inside the most unbelievable and intriguing international art robberies of the century. From dodgy art dealers in Amsterdam to undercover Scotland Yard investigators, from small town thieves to the most well planned actions, discover six unbelievable stories with plot twists...

New Zealand by Train

Season 1

Following three iconic train journeys from the air and on the ground, we discover the iconic landscapes of New Zealand, a country with the geographic diversity of an entire continent. On the way we learn about the extra-ordinary construction challenges of the 4,000 kilometre network.

Titans: The Rise of Hollywood

Season 1

Titans: The Rise of Hollywood tells the story of future moguls like The Warner Brothers, Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures), William Fox, Louis B. Mayer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount) and Mary Pickford (United Artists) as they battled each other for dominance of a brand new industry taking the world...

Loading Docs

Season 9

Loading Docs is an award-winning initiative producing short documentaries that captivate and inspire audiences locally and internationally, while developing and promoting New Zealand filmmaking talent.

Merkel

For years, Angela Merkel, the first woman Chancellor of Germany, was Western Europe’s most powerful leader. Nonetheless, she remains something of an enigma. The film reminds us how Merkel’s success came despite the double standards facing women leaders – the hard judgment and incessant scrutiny – an...

Inside Maximum Security

Season 1

Singapore’s Changi Prison is a concrete purgatory, spartan to the extreme. There are no beds, no pillows and no chairs in the cells.

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

The feature documentary, the first of its kind on Vonnegut, is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s life and work, as well as the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. It spans his childhood, marriage and family, early careers and his years as a struggling writer, lea...

Muse

MUSE: The Love Stories. Legendary photographer Dean Fidelman (Stone Masters, Yosemite in the Fifties, Valley Uprising, Stone Nudes) opens the vault and shares the very personal stories behind some of his iconic photographs.

Titans: The Rise of Wall Street

Season 1

For the last century America’s riches have been controlled by the titans of Wall Street. J.P. Morgan; Teddy Roosevelt: Henry Goldman & Samuel Sachs; Charles Merrill & Edmund Lynch; Franklin Roosevelt; Ivan Boesky; Michael Milken. Before their names were institutions, they made fortunes, created enti...

Adam Ondra: Pushing The Limits

dam Ondra is one of the best climbers today and a true virtuoso, who has tackled the world’s most difficult rocks and walls. A shy introvert-turned-famous-sports-icon, his desire to climb has changed into the obligation to win.

United

Season 1

United is a 6 part series with each episode progressing the story within the 2021/22 A-league season around the performance of the Western United FC team, management of the club and the building of a $100m stadium, training, and residential precinct.

Kash Kash

Above Beirut flies an unexpected bearer of hope: the pigeon game "Kash Hamam".

Dancing on Water

Dancing on Water is a 12-minute Short Documentary that dives deep into the paternal bond between Warrick and Felicity Palmateer. Despite all the obstacles and challenges they have come to face in life, the ocean has always kept them grounded, and most importantly a place of healing.

Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV

Who was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history? Director Amanda Kim tells, for the first time, the story of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which...

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.

The Australian Wars

Season 1

Over three parts this groundbreaking documentary series gives voice to the story of The Australian Wars, fought on our home soil, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations people resisted. This is our longest and perhaps most defining war that established the Australian nation.

Everybody's Oma

Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is obsessed with making home videos about his elderly mother and, when he creates a supermarket at home during lockdown, he accidentally turns ‘Oma’ into an internet celebrity. Their heart-warming home movies quickly attract a worldwide audience of over 100,000,000 peopl...

Utopias

Season 1

Across the world, human communities are reviving the power of storytelling, guided by the idea that everything that should exist simply has not been tried somewhere, that what is lacking in our societies — in order to hope again — can be summed up in one word that combines idea, place and movement:...

Missing Kenley

Season 1

On 21 September 1992, Kenley Matheson-a 20-year-old first-year Acadia University student-disappeared from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, without a trace. No eyewitnesses came forward. No body was found. No suspects emerged, and no leads surfaced. For three decades, investigators and private detectives hire...

Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century

This drama-doc takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. Our presenter, Nicholas Day, guides us into into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.

Britain from the Air

Season 1

From awe-inspiring castles dating back thousands of years to lavish royal palaces and diverse, idyllic landscapes, see Britain as never before. Each episode focuses on a unique aspect of British life, past and present.

Fritz Bauer's Legacy

Probably for the last time former SS-guards recently faced trial for their role in German concentration camps, as for many decades Germany’s justice system had difficulty dealing with its countless unpunished Nazi crimes.

Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires

Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him. Journey through Munch's Norway, in search of the roots and identity of a universal artist, and question the main theme of his multifaceted work: his idea of Time.

The Corridors of Power

Season 1

Oscar® nominated director Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers) returns with an examination of US foreign policy of the past 40 years in this striking documentary filled with insights of more than 30 political heavyweights including Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice.

Sacred Paths

Season 1

Everywhere, through all eras and all civilizations, human beings have questioned the enigma of their lives, trying to understand a reality that eluded them.

Because We Have Each Other

Made over five years, Because We Have Each Other is a delightfully hyper-intimate feature from award-winning Australian Director Sari Braithwaite. A masterclass in slice-of-life documentary, the film embeds its audience in the life of a neuro-diverse family in the forgotten working-class suburb of L...

Magic Money

What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time in history money is no longer controlled by banks or governments, but by the people who use it. But where did this currency come from? How does it work? And is it truly the way forward, or just a flas...

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