Music

Ethical understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This program explores the way in which Benjamin Britten's pacifist beliefs developed and informed so many of his compositions from the mid-1940s onwards, culminating in the War Requiem.

Indigenous Australians

Civics and citizenship

11-12

Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)

Walkley award-winning writer Stan Grant tells the remarkable story of indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. Through the backdrop of Goodes' journey, the film explores race, identity, and belonging in Australia today.

Music

Media arts

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

The film follows the rise, fall and reunion of the Stooges, formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, bassist Dave Alexander, and brothers Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton on guitar and drums respectively. Guitarist James Williamson eventually joined the band, with Ron Asheton switching to bass after Alexander quit.

Business and economics

Civics and citizenship

Ethical understanding

Critical thinking

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This Oscar-winning documentary from Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight), is first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Ferguson traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Media arts

Literature

Ethical understanding

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

AFI-winner Anna Broinowski directs this riveting documentary on Norma Khouri who won fame and fortune with her 'true story' Forbidden Love, about a shocking honour killing in Jordan, until July 2004, when Sydney Morning Herald journalist Malcolm Knox exposed her book as a work of fiction. Alternative title: Forbidden Lies.

Music

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This feature focuses on Elvis Presley, the musical artist, taking the audience on a comprehensive creative journey from his childhood through to the final 1976 Jungle Room recording sessions. This first part takes a look at Elvis' early life in Tupelo, Mississippi and his unprecedented rise to fame over a single year.

Music

History

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

An absorbing documentary on the Funk Brothers, the band who put the backbeat into the countless hits of Motown Records.

Music

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

Legendary pop music genius, record producer Phil Spector created the 'wall of sound' behind some of the greatest hits of the '60s: Be My Baby, He's a Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, to name just a few. Today he is imprisoned serving 19 years-to-life for the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. During his first trial (a hung jury), Spector gives a rare freewheeling interview to Vikram Jayanti, filmed at his castle, seated before the white piano which he bought with John Lennon, for Imagine. Broadcast as part of ABC's Sunday Best.

Music

History

11-12

Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)

DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed friends and bitter rivals. From the moment they met, The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet, the bands' choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds.

Personal and social capability

Civics and citizenship

Ethical understanding

Religious studies

11-12

Classification: Mature

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks) exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church and a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee Wisconsin, through the bare ruined choirs of Ireland's churches all the way to the highest office of the Vatican.

Media arts

History

11-12

Classification: Mature

Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, this documentary features remarkable footage and audiotapes along with Marilyn's own handwritten letters, diaries, notes, poems, journals and notebooks, which document her private life against the backdrop of her very public life and loves.

Music

History

11-12

Classification: Mature

The background of the punk era, from its anarchic beginnings in the litter-stacked back streets of London in the 70s, is traced in this uncut, unseen and unbelievable film by Julien Temple, charting the rise and fall of the band, the Sex Pistols.

Media arts

11-12

Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)

Set against the backdrop of Melbourne's late 70s punk rock scene, Dogs in Space chronicles life in a chaotic, squalid share house. Hippies, addicts, students and radicals fill their days and nights with sex, drugs, parties and television. A series of chaotic vignettes are balanced with the central romance between Sam (Michael Hutchence), the lead singer of the band, Dogs in Space and his lover Anna (Saskia Post) as the house spirals out of control.

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

Camp 14: Total Control Zone is the story of a man who was born and grew up in a Gulag-style North Korean camp. After his escape at the age of 23, he discovered the 'outside world' for the first time. The film relates his incredible story, as well as those of his fellow inmates and prison guards.

Geography

Business and economics

Earth and environment

Sustainability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

It is happening all across America - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the 'Saudi Arabia of natural gas'. Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground by a hydraulic drilling process called 'fracking', but is fracking safe? Josh Fox set out on a journey across America's heartland to find out. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Movie Festival.

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog turns a keen and understanding eye to the fates of two men on Texas' death row who destroyed their lives, and those of others, by a senseless triple murder. He gazes into the abyss of the human soul as he lets the two - one of whom will be executed eight days after the interview - sketch their version of the events.

Drama

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

Three years in the making, American: The Bill Hicks Story brings the tale of one of modern culture's most iconic heroes to the big screen. Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. But his unique gift was to tease apart the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards inherent in much of modern society, using nothing but his hilarious ideas and the uncompromising observational style that continues to resonate with successive generations.

Media arts

Music

English

Literature

Personal and social capability

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

An intimate look at the late musician's songs, poetry, personal photographs, his colourful past and the creative process that made him a legend.