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In a futuristic Australia, a scheme to blow up the Sydney Opera House is discovered. The only way to stop it is to send an agent back in time to prevent the plotters from hatching it.

Andrew's alternative video store will close unless he can find an investor and move to bigger premises. But will this mean selling his soul to the corporate devil? Reality and fantasy crash head on in this innovative documentary about Andrew Leavold, Australia's leading video collector and his desperate attempt to save his life's work.

For three days each year, Parkes, in central NSW, hosts the Elvis Revival Festival - by far and away the biggest of its kind in Australia. This is despite the fact that the King probably never even heard of the tiny rural town. But that was no excuse for the motley crew that made up the festival committee. Indeed, the threat of bushfires, floods, public ridicule, community indifference, financial loss, theft, incompetence and outright exhaustion were never going to overcome this band of devotees. They were determined to build the best bloody birthday celebration for Elvis this country has ever seen. After 13 difficult years it seems they've done it. None other than Elvis Aaron Presley (or at least someone who looks a lot like him) takes us back through the years of struggle to relive, with the key players, the events that made this unlikely festival possible.

In World War Two as part of a segregated army, black American soldiers traveled to the Pacific and Australia where their experiences ranged from unforgettable love affairs with white women to being summarily shot by their own white MP's.

After her divorce, twenty five year old mother of two, Sharon Carter decided to do do something extraordinaary by joining a Roman re-enactment group and enter the arena to fight as "Amazonia" a 1st century Celtic warrior-women from Britain. But Sharon's desire to fight in the arena is tempered when she is told she must use a double headed axe and fight against the male gladiators to be truly authentic. This is a story of Sharon's struggle to win the respect of her peers and fight for the honour of the wooden sword of freedom. Along the journey Sharon learns something about herself and being a single mum in 21st century Brisbane.

A family overcomes the tragic loss of their gifted daughter by turning her imaginary world into reality via an interactive and therapeutic web site.

The crime scene is not in a high-rise building in the Bronx or a hotel room in Las Vegas. This crime scene is thousands of kilometres of land scattered with livestock and eucalyptus trees. The evidence is not lipstick on a glass or a nine-millimetre gun conveniently left in a garbage bin but a discarded Benson & Hedges cigarette butt and a Landrover tyre tread mark left in the red earth. In remote properties across Queensland crime is as rife as it is in the inner city. The land is harsh. Graziers have to survive extended droughts and sudden floods all within a year, all potentially crippling. But if that is not enough they also fall victim to cattle theft; thefts that can make the difference between staying on the land or going bust; thefts that are difficult to police, hard to prove and sometimes impossible to prosecute. The team that are faced with this daunting task is the Queensland Stock Squad. Their patch is six times the size of England. They have learnt the skills specific to policing the outback - horseback riding, bush survival, a sharp eye for evidence hidden in the dust and an unswerving sense of loyalty to their workmates and the law. Cattle theft is now a highly organized crime; modern criminals use helicopters to muster thousands of dollars worth of cattle away from a property. Using huge road trains thieves quickly transport their stolen booty across state borders or turn them into steaks overnight with mobile abattoirs. Satellite phones and the Internet are tools that ensure the crooks a quick sale or a fast getaway. These crimes are siphoning a staggering $47 million out of an already stretched rural economy. But there is also the mundane and quirky, which can include sifting through years of faded receipts or trying to find a lost chook's owner. "Stock Squad" follows a team of detectives, whose beat is 1.7 million square kilometres of rugged country, as they bring justice to the outback and solve seemingly impossible crimes.