Sagrada Familia: Gaudi’s Challenge
Sunday 29 September 08:25 PM
Construction of the Basilica in Barcelona started in 1882. To this day, it has not been completed. A team of architects hope to complete the masterpiece by 2026, Antoni Gaudi’s 100 year anniversary.
Concorde: Chasing A Dream
Monday 30 September 07:30 PM
The Concorde is the only commercial aircraft to break the sound barrier. Meeting that extraordinary challenge was the culmination of one of the greatest aeronautical programs of the 20th century.
Portillo’s Andalucia
Wednesday 2 October 07:35 PM
Join Michael Portillo as he celebrates Andalucia, one of Spain’s most interesting and diverse regions. It’s an area Michael knows and loves, as well as one where he lives for part of his year.
Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar
Wednesday 2 October 08:25 PM
Actor, feminist, business mogul, activist: Elizabeth Taylor broke the mould and re-wrote the rules of celebrity. Told through unheard tapes and by close family and friends, including Kim Kardashian and Dame Joan Collins, this is her story as never heard before.
Season One, Episode One: As a young actor, Elizabeth lands the starring role in MGM’s smash hit film National Velvet -but as she gets older her life is tightly controlled by the studio, who dictate everything from what she eats to who she dates - stage-managing her first marriage to Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton as a publicity stunt to promote her starring role in Father Of The Bride. But the marriage is a disaster and Elizabeth decides to live life on her own terms, marrying British actor and producer Michael Wilding, father of her children Michael and Chris, and producing some of her best work - including Giant with James Dean and Rock Hudson, who would become two of her closest and most important friends.
Divorcing Michael, in 1957 Elizabeth marries Mike Todd, a brash, charismatic film producer. But just two weeks into filming Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which was to earn her critical acclaim, Elizabeth receives devastating news, which changes everything… With insights from Elizabeth’s son Chris Wilding, her granddaughter Naomi Wilding, god-daughter Paris Jackson, friends Sharon Stone, Dame Joan Collins, George Hamilton and fellow child star Margaret O’Brien.
Four Years Later
Wednesday 2 October 09:20 PM Double episode
Can you find your way back to someone you love after being apart for so long? From Easy Tiger, the producers of The Twelve and Colin from Accounts, and created by Mithila Gupta comes Four Years Later. Double episodes to air at 9.20pm on SBS each Wednesday.
Set across the two vastly different worlds of India and Australia, this intimate and compelling eight-part series delves into the complex ways love can change over time and distance.
Episode 1 Sridevi and Yash meet, fall in love and get married. But when Yash discovers he has been granted a medical traineeship in Australia, they are forced to live apart.
Episode 2 As Yash leaves India for his medial traineeship in Australia, Sridevi is left at home with his family and the hopes for her future on hold. Four years later, Sridevi arrives in Australia.
Great Australian Concerts: Cold Chisel
Friday 4 October 07:30 PM
To mark the start of iconic Australian band Cold Chisel’s 50th anniversary tour SBS are pleased to present one of their most famous concerts ever!
After 10 years, Cold Chisel are calling it quits. They embark on a farewell tour called The Last Stand, culminating in a final show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre just before Christmas, 1983. As front man Jimmy Barnes explains, “I think it might have been me, I said, ‘I’m leaving the band”. Jimmy was determined to pursue a new path, with a new band. Guitarist Ian Moss still remembers his shock and disappointment at the announcement. But if this was to be their last show, Mossy was determined to go out with a flourish. Thousands of the band’s die-hard fans gather to watch a remarkable bunch of musicians playing many of their greatest hits. It’s a bitter-sweet evening, and certainly an extraordinary show. As Jimmy observes, “I didn’t want it to end, it was like, man, how am I gonna top this? How am I gonna get better than this?”
You Can Call Me Bill
Friday 4 October 08:30 PM
Captain Kirk. T.J. Hooker. Denny Crane. Big Giant Head. Alexander the Great. Henry V. Priceline’s Negotiator. These are but a handful of the innumerable masks worn by William Shatner over seven extraordinary decades onstage and in front of the camera. A peerless maverick thespian, electrifying performer and international cultural treasure, Bill (as he prefers to be called), now 91 years young, is the living embodiment of his classic line “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Bill rides horses every morning, ran atop a speeding train, stood alone on a rumbling 14,000-foot glacier, fearlessly drove racing cars and motorcycles, swam with sharks on his 90th birthday, and is now the oldest man to have ever ventured into space. He is the incarnation of a life fully lived. You Can Call Me Bill is dedicated to his life, career and philosophy, and delves into his most fervent passions, hopes and concerns, through a thematic distillation of his most recent autobiographical songs and a kaleidoscopic deep dive into the farthest reaches of his filmography, to deliver an up-close, intimate portrait of his personal journey.
The Allegation
Friday 4 October 11:40 PM
A paediatrician in a small German town concludes that a girl has been abused, triggering a scandal that will rock the nation.
Inside Windsor Castle
Saturday 5 October 07:30 PM
From humble beginnings as a defensive tower, Windsor Castle transforms to become the party palace of one of the most indulgent monarchs in history – Henry VIII.
2:00 AM Daylight Saving starts in NSW, VIC, TAS, ACT and SA. Clocks move forward one hour to 3am AEDT.
