http://www.enhancetv.com.au Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:30:26 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In this reality series the lenses are turned on four NYU film students who are constantly on the edge of disaster as they try to organise and complete their own films, the renowned NYU graduation film. The four students include Leah - an eccentric 24 year old, Vincenzo - a high energy 35 year old from Italy, Alrick - a politically minded 28 year old and Barbara - a 28 year old who is faced with a family emergency days before her shoot. These students are all very driven, passionate and ambitious. Leah is working on a deeply personal story and dealing with her own issues for her movie, which will star her own wheelchair-using mother. Vincenzo is trying to tell a lighthearted comedy and hopefully use the film as a calling card to his dream job once he finishes the film. Alrick is trying to tell the story of Amadou Diallo and his death by police gunfire - a political story with a comic-book style and sensibility. And Barbara is trying to tell a story of how people relate with each other, but may be more content with their pets. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In 2006, Opera Australia celebrated fifty years of opera in Australia - fifty years of music, emotion and showmanship. Everyone who has been part of this adventure - whether on stage, in the theatre or listening on the airwaves - was invited to celebrate this momentous occasion. The Opera Australia 50th Birthday Gala Concert features some of opera's greatest moments from Mozart through to the present day. It honours the extraordinary artists who have contributed to Australian opera including its best loved leading lady and special guest, Dame Joan Sutherland. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Two teenage prom queens are promised a luxury holiday in Peru. Instead, they find themselves facing six years in one of the world's worst prisons. Jennifer Davis, a prom queen from a strict religious family in Illinois, is just 19 when she moves to California, dreaming of a modelling career. She meets 18 year old Krista Barnes on her first day there, and they instantly became best friends. They look forward to a fun-packed year living together in their Californian beach house, away from the overbearing presence of their strict dads for the first time (one was a prison warden, the other a police officer). They've only been roommates for three weeks when their landlord introduces them to a couple of good looking Peruvian lads who make them a life-changing proposition: an exotic, all-expense paid holiday to Peru in exchange for bringing back a bit of cocaine. The Peruvians assure the squeaky clean girls - who didn't have so much as a parking ticket between them - there is no chance of getting caught, and that they'd each receive US$5,000 on their return. The girls think about it for a while, before agreeing. Setting out with guide books and sun-block, they couldn't imagine the nightmare ahead of them. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In some societies around the world, snacking on cockroaches, dining on worms and swallowing the still-beating heart of a snake are traditions and even considered delicacies. Travel across borders to explore extreme food customs that are acceptable in some cultures, but forbidden or reviled in others. In Hanoi, Vietnam, deadly serpents are a specialty item prized for their curative properties and are sliced live at the table. In rural Vietnam, it's traditional to eat insects, such as a six-course meal of bee larvae, locusts, fried scorpions, silkworms, crickets and stink bugs. In Japan, diners pay several hundred dollars and risk death to savour the delicate but lethal blowfish called fugu, responsible for an estimated 50 deaths a year. Once a year, members of an elite club in Manhattan feast on haute cuisine, including bear claws, tarantula, pork testicles cooked in blood and, for dessert - succulent strawberries dipped in rich chocolate and live maggots. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Two teenage prom queens are promised a luxury holiday in Peru. Instead, they find themselves facing six years in one of the world's worst prisons. Jennifer Davis, a prom queen from a strict religious family in Illinois, is just 19 when she moves to California, dreaming of a modelling career. She meets 18 year old Krista Barnes on her first day there, and they instantly became best friends. They look forward to a fun-packed year living together in their Californian beach house, away from the overbearing presence of their strict dads for the first time (one was a prison warden, the other a police officer). They've only been roommates for three weeks when their landlord introduces them to a couple of good looking Peruvian lads who make them a life-changing proposition: an exotic, all-expense paid holiday to Peru in exchange for bringing back a bit of cocaine. The Peruvians assure the squeaky clean girls - who didn't have so much as a parking ticket between them - there is no chance of getting caught, and that they'd each receive US$5,000 on their return. The girls think about it for a while, before agreeing. Setting out with guide books and sun-block, they couldn't imagine the nightmare ahead of them. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Powerful, harrowing and utterly compelling, the story of a young girl forced to disguise herself as a boy to save her family. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film and critically acclaimed around the world, Osama was the first film to be made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The Red Army's assault on Berlin begins. Meanwhile, Hitler, sealed away in his bunker, marks his 56th birthday. US General Alexander Patch's 7th Army captures the city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. In the East, the Soviet Government and the Provisional Communist Government of Poland conclude a treaty of mutual assistance. In the Pacific, fierce fighting continues on Okinawa. American soldiers are finding the Japanese to be a savvy and tenacious enemy. Ernie Pyle, one of World War II's most distinguished and revered correspondents, is fatally wounded on Okinawa. US forces complete the capture of the islands in Manila Bay. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The classic archive based military history series. Includes Occult History of the Third Reich, Gestapo, Vietnam: chopper War and Special Forces. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This special takes an in-depth look at the ANZAC contribution to the western front victories battle by battle. Although the loss of life was greater, unlike Gallipoli the ANZACS were a key component in the allied success story. To mark the 90th anniversary of the Western front the Australian story is told for the first time. Unlike the defeat at Gallipoli, Australians were very effective and largely responsible for Winning World War I on the Western Front. Five times more Australians were also killed on the western Front than in Gallipoli. Based on the book by Author, Brand Ambassador and SMH History Writer Dr Jonathon King. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ For Churchill, D-Day was one of the crowning triumphs of the Second World War, but almost 30 years earlier in 1915 on the peninsula of Gallipoli, there was a lesser-known D-Day which would all but end his career. Underwater archaeology reveals how the events of 1915 turned into stalemate and slaughter. Historians and relatives of the boy soldiers of Gallipoli tell the emotional story and its tragic consequences. But Churchill and the British would learn valuable lessons from these mistakes, which would enable them to engineer the successful invasion of Normandy of sixty years ago. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This moving documentary shows the violent and savagery experiences shared between Australian and Japanese soldiers forged in the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea. The Kokoda Campaign was a war without mercy, the scene of one of the most brutal conflicts in Australian History. This 2-hour special shows the story of men caught in the war and how they reconcile their shared history over sixty years later by interviews with Australian soldiers and for the first time show extensive interviews with Japanese soldiers and airmen to gain a unique and almost lost perspective of the Kokoda Campaign. The battle was a decisive Australian victory, a victory that delivered Australia from Japanese encirclement and possible occupation. The film provides Australian and Japanese audiences with poignant statements about the bloody nature of war and how this has scarred the young men who fought it. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Berlin is reduced to rubble, setting the stage the for the Red Army's entry into the beleaguered city. News reaches Hitler that some of his key advisors are now negotiating surrender deals with the enemy and, with the brutal execution of his cohort, Benitio Mussolini, he is forced to face reality and the demise of the Third Reich. Allies from the East and West meet for the fist time on the West on the Elbe River. Just three days before the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, SS soldiers force about 7000 prisoners on a death march. In the Pacific, action on Okinawa come to a boil as American forces are inching closer to penetrating the barrier that sits between them and the enemy's main base - the Shuri region. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This special takes an in-depth look at the ANZAC contribution to the western front victories battle by battle. Although the loss of life was greater, unlike Gallipoli the ANZACS were a key component in the allied success story. To mark the 90th anniversary of the Western front the Australian story is told for the first time. Unlike the defeat at Gallipoli, Australians were very effective and largely responsible for Winning World War I on the Western Front. Five times more Australians were also killed on the western Front than in Gallipoli. Based on the book by Author, Brand Ambassador and SMH History Writer Dr Jonathon King. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ An Academy Award winning documentary film by Errol Morris, The Fog of War is a 20th century fable, a story of an American dreamer, the life and times of former United States Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power. Robert S. McNamara was both witness to and participant in many of the crucial events of the 20th century: the crippling Depression of the 1930s; the industrialisation of the war years; the development of a different kind of warfare based on air power and the creation of a new American meritocracy. He was also an idealist who saw his dreams and ideals challenged by the role he played in history. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Science meets hope in this episode of Catalyst, as some of the world's leading minds take us on their race for the ageing "cure." Can we really stay young through diet, or is the way we get old all in the mind? Science is chasing a longevity pill - but should we be tampering with the cycle of life and death? In this, the second part of Catalyst's special on ageing, we'll see how close we are to living healthier, longer lives. We also ask whether the human brain, and its ability to extend our life expectancy, could achieve more than is good for us. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Australia has more inventors, innovators and designers than anywhere else in the world. This program is a fascinating search for Australia's most amazing inventions and trend-setting designs. Hosted by radio broadcaster and comedian James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors presents the latest contemporary creations from the new generation of inventors, innovators and designers. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom and first time feature director Mat Whitecross chronicle the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three", in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance towards the US and British governments. Part documentary, part dramatisation, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the US began their invasion, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo. Trivia: Two of the actors (Riz Ahmed and Farhad Harun) and two of the ex-detainees were detained temporarily and interrogated at the airport by British police returning from the Berlinale-festival after winning the Silver Bear. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This thought-provoking documentary directed by Godfrey Reggio, and the second in his trilogy, focuses on natives of the Third World - the emerging, land-based cultures of Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East and South America - and of how they express themselves through work and traditions beginning with the opening images of the Serra Pelada goldmines in Brazil. Depicting the contrasting ways of life, and in part how the lure of mechanisation and technology and the growth of mega-cities are having a negative effect on small-scale cultures, this is a celebration of the human-scale endeavour the craftsmanship, spiritual worship, labour and creativity that defines a particular culture. It's also a celebration of rareness; the delicate beauty in the eyes of an Indian child, the richnes of a tapestry woven in Kathmandu and yet an observation of how these societies move to a universal drumbeat. Director Reggio "It's an impression, an examination of how life is changing. That's all it is. There is good and there is bad. What we sought to capture is our unanimity as a global culture. Most of us tend to forget about this, caught up as we are in our separate trajectories. It was fascinating to blend these different existences together in one film." http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Abandoned by Jefferson for retaining Washington's cabinet, President Adams holds firm on keeping the nation out of war, despite French aggression and pro-war sentiment among his advisors. Abigail urges him to sign the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, seeing them as a way to preserve domestic security. Meanwhile, Adams faces a crisis at home when he disowns his alcoholic son Charles. Drained by politics and family tragedy, Adams exits the new capital, Washington City, having only recently moved in to the still unfinished White House. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Many believe that Bruegel's 'Census' is an attack on Spanish economic repression, and evidence of Bruegel's political engagement. When Bruegel was dying he mysteriously asked his wife to destroy some of his work. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Alistair has always wondered about his dark colouring which often leads him to be mistaken for French or Italian; Or does he have Indian blood? Thus the scene is set for a true voyage of discovery. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Beginning in Kerala, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood journeys on an old wooden sailing boat plying its trade from South India to the Gulf, and tells how the spice trade with Rome opened India up to the world. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Many believe that Bruegel's 'Census' is an attack on Spanish economic repression, and evidence of Bruegel's political engagement. When Bruegel was dying he mysteriously asked his wife to destroy some of his work. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Alistair has always wondered about his dark colouring which often leads him to be mistaken for French or Italian; Or does he have Indian blood? Thus the scene is set for a true voyage of discovery. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Beginning in Kerala, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood journeys on an old wooden sailing boat plying its trade from South India to the Gulf, and tells how the spice trade with Rome opened India up to the world. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Alistair has always wondered about his dark colouring which often leads him to be mistaken for French or Italian; Or does he have Indian blood? Thus the scene is set for a true voyage of discovery. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Beginning in Kerala, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood journeys on an old wooden sailing boat plying its trade from South India to the Gulf, and tells how the spice trade with Rome opened India up to the world. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This episode follows rivers from their mountain sources to the sea and shows the unique wildlife found in their waters. Follow the journey from the Iguacu Falls to the Grand Canyon, from the Nile River to the Amazon. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE) http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Alistair has always wondered about his dark colouring which often leads him to be mistaken for French or Italian; Or does he have Indian blood? Thus the scene is set for a true voyage of discovery. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In this reality series the lenses are turned on four NYU film students who are constantly on the edge of disaster as they try to organise and complete their own films, the renowned NYU graduation film. The four students include Leah - an eccentric 24 year old, Vincenzo - a high energy 35 year old from Italy, Alrick - a politically minded 28 year old and Barbara - a 28 year old who is faced with a family emergency days before her shoot. These students are all very driven, passionate and ambitious. Leah is working on a deeply personal story and dealing with her own issues for her movie, which will star her own wheelchair-using mother. Vincenzo is trying to tell a lighthearted comedy and hopefully use the film as a calling card to his dream job once he finishes the film. Alrick is trying to tell the story of Amadou Diallo and his death by police gunfire - a political story with a comic-book style and sensibility. And Barbara is trying to tell a story of how people relate with each other, but may be more content with their pets. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In 2006, Opera Australia celebrated fifty years of opera in Australia - fifty years of music, emotion and showmanship. Everyone who has been part of this adventure - whether on stage, in the theatre or listening on the airwaves - was invited to celebrate this momentous occasion. The Opera Australia 50th Birthday Gala Concert features some of opera's greatest moments from Mozart through to the present day. It honours the extraordinary artists who have contributed to Australian opera including its best loved leading lady and special guest, Dame Joan Sutherland. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Two teenage prom queens are promised a luxury holiday in Peru. Instead, they find themselves facing six years in one of the world's worst prisons. Jennifer Davis, a prom queen from a strict religious family in Illinois, is just 19 when she moves to California, dreaming of a modelling career. She meets 18 year old Krista Barnes on her first day there, and they instantly became best friends. They look forward to a fun-packed year living together in their Californian beach house, away from the overbearing presence of their strict dads for the first time (one was a prison warden, the other a police officer). They've only been roommates for three weeks when their landlord introduces them to a couple of good looking Peruvian lads who make them a life-changing proposition: an exotic, all-expense paid holiday to Peru in exchange for bringing back a bit of cocaine. The Peruvians assure the squeaky clean girls - who didn't have so much as a parking ticket between them - there is no chance of getting caught, and that they'd each receive US$5,000 on their return. The girls think about it for a while, before agreeing. Setting out with guide books and sun-block, they couldn't imagine the nightmare ahead of them. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In some societies around the world, snacking on cockroaches, dining on worms and swallowing the still-beating heart of a snake are traditions and even considered delicacies. Travel across borders to explore extreme food customs that are acceptable in some cultures, but forbidden or reviled in others. In Hanoi, Vietnam, deadly serpents are a specialty item prized for their curative properties and are sliced live at the table. In rural Vietnam, it's traditional to eat insects, such as a six-course meal of bee larvae, locusts, fried scorpions, silkworms, crickets and stink bugs. In Japan, diners pay several hundred dollars and risk death to savour the delicate but lethal blowfish called fugu, responsible for an estimated 50 deaths a year. Once a year, members of an elite club in Manhattan feast on haute cuisine, including bear claws, tarantula, pork testicles cooked in blood and, for dessert - succulent strawberries dipped in rich chocolate and live maggots. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Two teenage prom queens are promised a luxury holiday in Peru. Instead, they find themselves facing six years in one of the world's worst prisons. Jennifer Davis, a prom queen from a strict religious family in Illinois, is just 19 when she moves to California, dreaming of a modelling career. She meets 18 year old Krista Barnes on her first day there, and they instantly became best friends. They look forward to a fun-packed year living together in their Californian beach house, away from the overbearing presence of their strict dads for the first time (one was a prison warden, the other a police officer). They've only been roommates for three weeks when their landlord introduces them to a couple of good looking Peruvian lads who make them a life-changing proposition: an exotic, all-expense paid holiday to Peru in exchange for bringing back a bit of cocaine. The Peruvians assure the squeaky clean girls - who didn't have so much as a parking ticket between them - there is no chance of getting caught, and that they'd each receive US$5,000 on their return. The girls think about it for a while, before agreeing. Setting out with guide books and sun-block, they couldn't imagine the nightmare ahead of them. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Powerful, harrowing and utterly compelling, the story of a young girl forced to disguise herself as a boy to save her family. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film and critically acclaimed around the world, Osama was the first film to be made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.