DOCUMENTARY SPECIALS
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CROCODILES - THE DEADLY SURVIVORS
(1 x 46 minutes)
Crocodiles - the deadly survivors is a film about Australia's saltwater crocodile, crocodylus porosus one of the world's largest and most deadly predators. Throughout Australia's North live some of the largest crocodiles in the world and their numbers are increasing the threat to those who venture into their domain, the rivers and wetlands of the Northern Territory.




THE HIDDEN LAND
(1 x 46 minutes)
Hidden Land in the southwest of China is Xishuangbanna, which the Chinese say is the most fascinating of all in their vast land. It is inhabited by a unique race whose traditions and way of life stand as a challenge to the assumptions of western materialism and its values. The Hidden Land is about a part of China that covers 10,000 square miles in the country's far southwest with frontiers to Burma and Laos. It is the story of Xishuangbanna and the Dai people.


BEYOND THE WALL
(1 x 46 minutes)
Once only a country of nomadic wanderers carrying their homes across the vast grasslands of Mongolia, through education is slowly joining the technological world. Beyond the Wall takes us into a lifestyle so different to that which most of us know, it is like a glimpse of a lost and almost forgotten world.



EYE IN THE SKY
(1 x 46 minutes)
Never before in history has one country been able to accurately monitor almost everything that happens in another. It is achieved with the sophisticated technology of aerial surveillance. This film explores the history and development from the earliest days to the present.




SUN KOSI - RIVER OF GOLD
(1 x 46 minutes)
A drama of skill and tenacity, will power and all the emotions - upsets and capsizes...riding stretches of foaming rapids through narrowly spaced racks...rescues and swims in icy waters...and tense scene as the leader becomes trapped in his canoe as masses of falling water threaten to drown him. It is the story of the first attempt to kayak from the border with China to the plains of India on the Sun Kosi River.


SOME OF OUR AIRMEN ARE NO LONGER MISSING
(1 x 47 minutes)
The discovery of hundreds of missing aircraft from World War II flights over the Zuiderzee and North Sea is shown in this dramatic film. The fate of their airmen missing in action was unknown until modern technology revealed their watery graves.





A WALK IN THE SEA
(1 x 46 minutes)
Located in Townsville, Queensland headquarters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the on-land reef environment attracts up to 300,000 visitors a year. The huge reef complex is an exact replica of the Great Barrier Reef. Fish, coral and millions of litres of water have been transported from the Reef to the complex.




MONUMENTS TO MAN
(1 x 46 minutes
Man walks, drives and rides on it. He lands his aircraft on it. He uses it to cross rivers or go through mountains, he builds his playgrounds, offices, homes and factories...his schools, universities, churches and almost everything he needs - right down to swimming pools and garden gnomes. It is concrete and this special looks at this humble mineral that created our modern cities and how we work and live in them.



THE DESTROYERS
(1 x 46 minutes)
Profiling three feral animals (rabbit, pig and goat) that are some of the most destructive species ever introduced in Australia.






KILLERS IN THE BUSH
(1 x 46 minutes)
A film that explores the devastating impact the cat and fox have on Australia’s unique wildlife. The cat arrived with the First Fleet in 1788. It came as a pet and stayed as a hunter. The fox is also a successful killer, responsible for the decline in numbers of many native animals, birds and mammals.