- Closed Captions (CC) available for Incarceration Nation, The Tracker, Policing the Police, Backtrack Boys, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The King’s Speech, Viceroy’s House, The Bookshop, Bruce Lee: Be Water and False Confessions
- Audio Description (AD) available for Incarceration Nation, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The King’s Speech and Viceroy’s House
MONDAY 30 AUGUST
Incarceration Nation
12:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 4 September, 8:40pm)
M, AD, CC
Australia, 2021
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Dean Gibson
What’s it about?
This documentary connects the relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experiences by Indigenous Australians – the two key drivers of incarceration.
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The Tracker
1:20pm, NITV
M, CC
Australia, 2002
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Language: English
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Grant Page, Damon Gameau
What’s it about?
Fanatic (Sweet) is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower (Gameau) a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran (Page), and the Tracker (Gulpilil, who won the AFI award for Best Actor in a Leading Role). Directed by Rolf de Heer, who would collaborate again with Gulpilil on Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Policing the Police
9:30pm, NITV (repeats Tuesday 31 August, 12:00pm)
M, CC
USA, 2016
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
What’s it about?
A look inside the Newark Police Department in New Jersey, one of many troubled forces in America. Writer and historian Jelani Cobb examines allegations of police abuses and the challenge of fixing a broken relationship with the community.
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Battle of Memories
12:20am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
China, 2017
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Language: Chinese
Director: Leste Chen
Starring: Huang Bo, Xu Jinglei, Duan Yihong, Yang Zishan, Tiffany Hsu, Eoin O’Brien
What’s it about?
When a famous writer (Huang Bo) decides to have his memories wiped to forget a divorce, he regrets it. Attempting to recover the memories, he becomes haunted by psychopathic thoughts, acting out in ways both he and those around him could never imagine.
TUESDAY 31 AUGUST
My Life As I Live It
1:00pm, NITV
G
Australia, 1993
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Essie Coffey
What’s it about?
Following 1978’s landmark My Survival As An Aboriginal, Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City where she and the A-Team are running in the shire elections. Inter-cutting between 1993 and 1978, the film presents the fascinating contrasts of a society in transition.
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After the Apology
8:30pm, NITV
M
Australia, 2017
Genre: Documentary, History
Language: English
Director: Larissa Behrendt
Featuring: Debra Swan, Aunty Hazel Collins, Karen Fusi, Suellyn Tighe
What’s it about?
The rate of Indigenous child removal has actually increased since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. This documentary follows four grandmothers find as they find each other and start a national movement to place extended families as a key solution to the rising number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care.
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Cat Ladies
9:25pm, SBS VICELAND
PG
Canada, 2009
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Christie Callan-Jones
What’s it about?
This documentary unravels the real story behind the oft-ridiculed ‘cat lady’ – a cultural stereotype and figure of ridicule for women of a certain age with too many furry companions. Through the intimate portrait of four unique ‘cat ladies’ we create a sensitive and emotionally honest portrait of women whose lives and self-worth have become intractably linked to cats.
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The Work
10:00pm, NITV (repeats Wednesday 1 September, 12:00pm)
PG
USA, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous
What’s it about?
Set entirely inside Folsom Prison, this acclaimed fly-on-the-wall documentary follows three men during four days of intensive group therapy with convicts, revealing an intimate and powerful portrait of authentic human transformation that transcends what we think of as rehabilitation.
THURSDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
Backtrack Boys
8:30pm, NITV (repeat Friday 3 September, 12:00pm)
M, CC
Australia, 2018
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Catherine Scott
What’s it about?
This observational documentary, filmed over two years, follows boys in a youth program that rough talking, free-wheeling Bernie runs from a shed on the outskirts of Armidale, a rural town in Australia. On the road, the boys find their voice, make great friendships, and the dogs become national champions. But as the boys sleep under the stars at night, the trauma is never too far away.
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FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
Rabbit-Proof Fence
7:45pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 4 September, 10:15am)
PG, CC
Australia, 2002
Genre: History, Adventure
Language: Walmajarri, English
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh, Deborah Mailman
What’s it about?
Based on the true story of three young Aboriginal girls, Molly (Sampi) and Daisy (Sansbury) and their cousin, Gracie (Monaghan), who in 1931, were forcibly removed from their mothers and their home in Jigalong and moved over fifteen hundred miles away, as a part of official ‘White Australia’ Government policy. Molly leads her younger sister and cousin on a brave escape and in a bid to find their way home, following, on foot, the rabbit-proof fence that cuts across the Gibson Desert and towards Jigalong.
Love and Sex in China
9:20pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
China, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Language: Mandarin
Director: Annamaria Gallone
What’s it about?
With an estimated 180 million singletons in China and people traditionally marrying early, the race to find a soulmate before surpassing the sell by date is frantic. Singles fairs, where CVs are passed around, speed-dating, and lessons in the art of seduction are all examples of a booming westernised market. However, there is a massive imbalance in the sexes due to the penchant for male offspring since the single-child policy was introduced in 1980. Future brides are in short supply, and the men most likely to find a wife are those in a strong financial position.
Map to Paradise
9:35pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 4 September, 11:55am)
PG
Australia, 2021
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Danielle Ryan, James Sherwood
What’s it about?
Filmed across six continents, the filmmakers have set out to challenge the narrative of hard-hitting documentaries with a ‘doom and gloom’ message and replace it with one of hope and courage.
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SATURDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M, AD
Belgium, UK, France, Portugal, Spain, 2018
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Sergi López
What’s it about?
Toby (Driver), a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote (Pryce). In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
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The King’s Speech
9:40pm, SBS
M, AD, CC
UK, 2010
Genre: Drama, History
Language: English
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle
What’s it about?
After the death of his father King George V and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII, Bertie (Firth), who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Rush). Winner of Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards.
NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
Coniston
10:00pm, NITV
M
Australia, 2012
Genre: Documentary, History
Language: English
Director: Francis Jupurrula Kelly, David Batty
Starring: Gregory J Fryer, Leslie McLaughlin
What’s it about?
In 1928, following the murder of a white dingo trapper, central Australia would witness the last known massacre of its Indigenous people. With over one hundred killed during a series of punitive expeditions, those who survived fled far and wide from the massacre sites. Denied a voice at the official inquiry and dislocated from their lands, the survivors passed down the story of this bloody episode to their children and grandchildren.
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Viceroy’s House
12:40am, SBS
PG, AD, CC
India, UK, 2017
Genre: Drama, History
Language: English, Hindi
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal
What’s it about?
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten (Bonneville) assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs. Directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham).
The Bookshop
2:40am, SBS
PG, CC
UK, 2017
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Hunter Tremayne, Julie Christie
What’s it about?
In 1959, Florence Green (Mortimer), a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop – the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. By exposing the narrow-minded local townsfolk to literature, she causes a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries. Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name. Directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy, My Life Without Me).
SUNDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Bruce Lee: Be Water
840pm, NITV
M, CC
UK, USA, 2020
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Bao Nguyen
What’s it about?
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.
False Confessions
1:10am, SBS
M, CC
Denmark, 2018
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Katrine Philp
Featuring: Jane Fisher-Byrialsen, Jason Flom, Saul Kassin, Renay Lynch, Korey Wise
What’s it about?
Defence attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen is determined to put an end to interrogation techniques that pressure innocent people into false confessions. The film follows four of her cases and examines the psychological aspect of how people end up confessing to crimes they have not committed and the consequences of these confessions – for those accused, for their families, and for society at large.
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