Music

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

Neil Finn reveals how playing at house parties established the way Crowded House wanted to connect with their audience.

Media arts

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)

Following much preparation, Peter and Lorna are given an address. In the dead of night, they pull off the lonely road and await further instructions. Soon they part with their clothes and belongings. After they shower and clean themselves thoroughly, they are blindfolded and whisked to an undisclosed location, where they descend into a basement. Once downstairs, they perform the complicated handshake and are able to gain entry into the group. With that, the young couple, who have been posing as believers, successfully infiltrate the cult's inner sanctum and meet enigmatic leader Maggie. What follows is a delicately paced and riveting plunge into a psychological maelstrom of uncertainty and danger.

Drama

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

Filmed at the legendary Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Tim Minchin's live show contains new songs, new rants, a 9-minute beat poem about a hippy, and just enough of his acclaimed stuff to keep the old fans from rioting.

Intercultural understanding

History

Ethical understanding

Civics and citizenship

Religious studies

English

Drama

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

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Mere Hahunga has problems with her youngest son, Sam, and enlists the help of Detective Sonny Koa. Sam is going off the rails and Mere pleads with Koa to help save him. However, stopping a youth on a mission of self-destruction is a very difficult task.

Indigenous Australians

Music

Civics and citizenship

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

A feature-length musical documentary film that follows the award-winning Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of resistance and freedom.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Explores creative fields that fall outside the traditional definition of art. Each week, a new artistic medium is explored through profiles of boundary-pushing artists. Focusing on the celebrated as well as the undiscovered, this series explores the creative process behind each featured art form and uncovers how and why these artists do what they do.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: General

In this episode take a look at the artists who play with the culinary palate.

Media arts

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

Californian hip hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. What Sony didn't know was the pair were students from Scotland with fake American accents and made up identities. The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.

Drama

Music

Dance

Media arts

Health and PE

11-12

Classification: Mature

Put on your dancing shoes, frock up and get ready to laugh when you join us for a wonderful evening of entertainment coinciding with World Mental Health Day on October 10. Our two hour live-to-air variety show, Friday Night Crack Up, will bring you singing, dancing, comedy and personalities - from across all the Australian TV networks - doing things you never expected they could, or would! Broadcast live in front of a studio audience, Friday Night Crack Up is the main event in a week of compelling programming for Mental Health Week as ABC goes Mental As...

Civics and citizenship

Drama

Music

Dance

11-12

Classification: Mature

Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre was a landmark in children's entertainment until it was closed in 2012. Meet the eccentric couple who fought the greedy property developers that threatened their magical world, in a battle to remain open.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: General

Take a walk down the aisle of design to look at the engaging artists and creations that make wedding dreams come true.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: General

Set sail with adventure-seeking artists who build magnificent boats, hone their designs on deck and show off their style at sea.

Visual arts

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

Before Leibovitz, there was Jini ... Her Aim Is True brings together musicians and rock photographers in an inspiring and unforgettable journey revealing unlikely rock 'n' roll photographer, Jini Dellaccio who visualised punk before it had a name and embodied indie before it was cool.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Explores creative fields that fall outside the traditional definition of art. Each week, a new artistic medium is explored through profiles of boundary-pushing artists. Focusing on the celebrated as well as the undiscovered, this series explores the creative process behind each featured art form and uncovers how and why these artists do what they do. From burlesque dancers to hair sculptors and dessert denizens, this program reveals the passion that keeps these artists motivated and inspired.

Media arts

Design and technologies

Music

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Go behind the lens of some of the most intriguing photographers to discover how they tell the stories that define our world in a single shot.

History

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

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The story of three tumultuous weeks in June 1964 when Beatle-mania came Down Under and changed the social fabric of Australian society forever.

Personal and social capability

Music

11-12

Classification: Mature

Elena Kats-Chernin was born in the USSR where her musical talent was discovered and first nurtured. She and her family eventually migrated to Australia where she studied piano and composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. After further studies in Germany she began to discover her own unique voice, a combination of modernism and the tonal music that springs from her Russian roots. Today she is considered one of Australia's most intriguing and creative composers.

Media arts

Music

Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

Part two sees the story turn dark. At 23, Bob Dylan is already a newsworthy phenomenon, capable of filling Carnegie Hall without ever having a hit song on the radio. And with success comes expectations: expectations from the old left to become a political activist, expectations from the media to articulate the concerns of America's youth. It's a role in which Dylan is completely uninterested.