Targeting Bin Laden
Friday 13 September at 8:35pm
Featuring an exclusive interview with former President Barack Obama, this thrilling drama documentary reveals the detail behind the US mission that successfully found and killed Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.
Obama and key players in the US Government including America’s National Security Advisor and the White House Chief Counter Terrorism Advisor discuss the mission in vivid detail, revealing what really happened along the corridors of power in the nerve wracking days and hours leading up to the event. Rigorously researched and based on high level CIA and White House background briefings, Targeting Bin Laden travels from the US Navy SEALS landing in Bin Laden’s home town of Abbottabad, Pakistan to the meeting rooms in Washington and the army bases in Afghanistan, offering the most complete picture of this top secret mission currently available.
Backtrack Boys
Sunday 15 September at 8:35pm
A group of troubled boys are on a perilous course towards jail, until they meet up with the rough talking, free-wheeling jackaroo, Bernie Shakeshaft, and hit the road with his legendary dog jumping team.
This observational documentary, filmed over two years, follows boys in a youth program that 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.
With their survival and futures at stake, they must constantly step up, push themselves, and support each other - and some days can be hard. This inspiring coming of age story reveals the challenges and triumphs these boys face as they try to find their place in the world, and the dogs that help tame their wild ways.
Whiskey Cavalier
From Wednesday 18 September at 10:25pm
FBI agent Will Chase (Scott Foley) and CIA operative Francesca ‘Frankie’ Trowbridge (Lauren Cohan) share custody of an inter agency team of international superspies
Whether it’s defusing a suitcase nuke on the subway, flipping a foreign agent or recovering priceless artefacts, this one of a kind team provides a mashup of visceral espionage action, romance, comedy and intrigue in a globe trotting one hour action dramedy with international flair.
The Twinning Reaction
Friday 20 September at 8:40pm
The Twinning Reaction gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an infamous American scientific experiment the 1960s Neubauer Bernard study of separated twins.
Told from the perspective of the identical twins and triplets who were secretly split up in infancy and studied by psychoanalysis for decades, the documentary examines the traumatic, long term effects of the separations and continuing deception on the twins and their adoptive families. The film tracks one set of twins as they obtain their own twin study data, which facilitates important revelations and new discoveries.