Business and economics

Media arts

History

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

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A fascinating two-part series that tells the story of the department store - how it became the greatest innovation to emerge from the industrial revolution and ultimately changed the role of women in society forever.

Media arts

Business and economics

Personal and social capability

Critical thinking

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

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This is the definitive account of how one man took control of the media and became one of the wealthiest, most powerful and feared figures in the world.

Civics and citizenship

Geography

Intercultural Understanding

Business and economics

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Looks behind the headlines of the food riots which have occurred in the last few years around the world, attempting to find possible explanations and solutions through investigations in Senegal, Haiti, Thailand, Japan, Mexico and India. This film also shows how the major international decision makers are currently responding to the crisis. In early 2008 in Cameroun, three days of rioting left 40 people dead. Around the world, over 30 other countries have witnessed similar riots.

Asia and Australia

Intercultural Understanding

Sustainability

Business and economics

Civics and citizenship

Languages

Science

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

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As part of the Future Makers series, ABC1 presents this revolutionary documentary touted as the follow-up film to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Already making waves in environmental circles, The Burning Season is a story of contribution and hope; one that offers a solution to the frightening issue of global warming. Every year, there is a burning season in Indonesia. Rainforests are cut down and burnt every hour to clear land for crops such as palm oil, making Indonesia the third largest producer of carbon emissions in the world. Indonesian palm oil farmer Achmadi confronts the impact of his deliberately lit fires on climate change: what is he to do when this is the only income he knows?

Business and economics

Ethical understanding

Civics and citizenship

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

SBS One follows the screening of Million Dollar Traders, which looked inside the world of hedge fund trading, with an expose of what may be the largest investment fraud ever perpetrated by a single person - The Madoff Affair - where Bernie Madoff posed as a hedge fund trader but instead allegedly defrauded his clients of $65 billion dollars. The Madoff Affair, is the documentary where Frontline correspondent Martin Smith unravels the story behind the world's first truly global "Ponzi scheme" (fraudulent investment operation).

Business and economics

Civics and citizenship

Ethical understanding

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. This four-part series tells the inside story of the global financial crisis.

Business and economics

Civics and citizenship

Ethical understanding

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

The final episode probes a Wall Street culture that remains focused on risky trades. Bankers left an ugly trail of deals extending from small US cities to big European capitals.

Business and economics

History

Personal and social capability

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, a financial disaster that we hoped could never happen again.

Civics and citizenship

Business and economics

Ethical understanding

Health and PE

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

The story of Joe Harawira, a former Whakatane sawmill worker, who fought to seek the truth behind the workplace poisons that afflicted his community.

Business and economics

News and current affairs

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

In the midst of a summer of catastrophic bushfire devastation, Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor, is joining the recovery effort as a financial counsellor. A survivor of fire himself, and this country's best-selling money guy, Scott is uniquely placed to help people who've lost everything start to rebuild their lives from scratch.

Business and economics

News and current affairs

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

From the food we eat to the clothes we wear, this program explores technology's threat to the American worker and the ways we are responding.

History

Visual arts

Business and economics

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

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Marie Tussaud, a character rooted in the 18th revolutionary century, had a front row seat at two revolutions: a political revolution in France and the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Following in her footsteps, revisit the history of wax portraiture and popular entertainment in full bloom in the early 19th century when Great Britain was undergoing an unprecedented industrial and economic boom. Marie Tussaud was a talented wax artist, as well as an entrepreneur, but also a marketing pioneer. She toured Ireland, Scotland and England with a travelling museum, before ending her life in London at the head of a colossal empire, the Madame Tussaud's wax museum. How did a woman survive such dangerous times, and rise to the status of national treasure in a country whose language she could barely master?

Drama

Business and economics

Personal and social capability

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

Women have been omnipresent in Hollywood on the other side of the camera almost from the beginning. Think of the most successful actress, producer and business woman Mary Pickford or Frances Marion, to name but a few. Only with the arrival of the talkies the male influence in Hollywood became dominant for the next decades. With Women's Lib in the '70s and '80s the tide turned again. Well educated women with university degrees took Hollywood by storm. Paula Wagner, film producer of Tom Cruise who heads Cruise Wagner Productions, tells us about the new era in Hollywood. Other contributors include Robin Swicord, Linda Obst, Cari Beauchamps and Ally Acker, filmmaker and author of Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema. Plenty of film clips round off this interesting documentary.

Business and economics

Earth and environment

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

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This episode, Matt Damon takes viewers on an investigation into the impact of extreme heat on human health and mortality. With a focus on startling new research from leading scientists and researchers, Damon uncovers the ways in which climate change and rising temperatures are becoming a public health emergency locally, nationally and globally.

Business and economics

Earth and environment

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

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This episode, 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl travels to Greenland to investigate the effects of global warming in the Arctic. Meanwhile, Ian Somerhalder travels to North Carolina to listen in on both sides of the evangelical community's debate over climate change.

Business and economics

Sustainability

Civics and citizenship

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

End Of The Rainbow is an award winning documentary that explores the impact of large-scale industrial gold mining on a local community in a remote region of Guinea, West Africa. Guinea is a desperately poor community that ironically, has had a long association with gold. As a result, the remote village has had to make way for a large industrial gold mine run by an international enterprise looking to strike it lucky in the region.

Business and economics

Critical thinking

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

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In this episode, Alex is on the trail of the global food and drink superbrands. He travels the globe to find out how they became the global giants they are today and how they still want to double in size. From Heinz Baked Beans to Coca-Cola, he learns why they outsell their nearest rivals.

Visual arts

Media arts

Business and economics

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

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In the week prior to the SBS series premiere of the stylish cult hit Mad Men, the network will screen the documentary David Ogilvy: The First Mad Man. David Ogilvy is a man famous for leading a revolution in advertising, feeding dreams and shaping aspirations with famous campaigns, slogans and jingles. After an erratic education, a spell at Oxford and a year in France working as an apprentice chef, Ogilvy started selling cooking stoves door to door in Scotland. Although a natural salesman, Ogilvy turned his back on the profession at the end of World War Two, and retreated to the Amish community in Pennsylvania. Paradoxically, it was during this period that Ogilvy began to think about starting a career in Advertising.