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SBS Documentaries

Season 2006 2006
TV-MA

  • SBS
  • 52m
  • 1h 44m (2 episodes)
  • Australia
  • Documentary
Documentaries broadcast on SBS, an Australian broadcaster.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

2006x01 The Book That Shook The World

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We’re in the middle of a climate of religious groups seeking to influence our airwaves. The Festival of Light has claimed victory over a review of Californication by the Australian Media and Communications Authority. And Hillsong is supposedly pulling the strings behind Australian Idol’s finalists. So have we really come much further than in 1971 when conservatives were outraged over the publication of “The Little Red Schoolbook?”

Starting and ending in Lebanon, August 2006, this film takes us through the bloody terrain of the Middle East over the past six years. In May 2000 Israel withdrew from Lebanon. In October 2000 the 2nd Intifadah broke out, after the complete failure of peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. This film follows, analyzes and tells the events from that time up until today. Speaking with politicians, decision makers, and leading players involved in the making of our history, this film reaches behind doors into the arena of the making of policies. Among others the film follows the radicalization in the West Bank and Gaza, and the death of the Israeli Peace Camp, the Disengagement of the Gaza strip and the rise of the Hamas to government, it chronicles the process, and explains it, it goes back in time, but is poignantly timely. Emmy Award winner Dan Setton manages to clarify and introduce a new understanding to the infamous bloody labyrinth of the Middle East.

2006x04 Google - Behind The Screen

  • 2006-07-03T13:30:00Z52m

This documentary provides an in-depth look into the world of Google and how it is achieving its goals. However, it also investigates whether Google is aware of the responsibility it has, being the guardian to the entire world’s information, including personal information about its users.

The program also visits the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and its London offices and Vint Cerf, named ‘the father’ of the Internet, explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. This documentary reveals Cerf’s view on the development of the Internet and on the role Google plays in today’s world.

2006-03-13T13:00:00Z

2006x05 Yamakasi

2006x05 Yamakasi

  • 2006-03-13T13:00:00Z52m

For more than 10 years they have defied the laws of gravity; climbing walls, leaping between buildings and creating a new athletic code rooted in discipline, self sacrifice and physical endurance. They are the Yamakasi, seven young men from different ethnic backgrounds, who grew up in the poor housing projects of Paris and created "the Moving Style", a style of free-form athletics that transforms their oppressive, concrete environment into a place of fantasy, possibility and play.

Taken from the Congolese dialect Lingala, Yamakasi means "strong spirit, strong body, and strong man". The men who have adopted it share the values of friendship, honesty, humility and courage as they discover their weaknesses and learn to overcome them.

The Yamakasi are Charles Perriere, from Central Africa, Vietnam-born Chau Belle Dinh, Chau's brother, Williams Belle, Guylain N'Guba-Boyeke, from Zaire, Malik Diouf, from Senegal, Italian-Frenchman Laurent Piemontesi, and Yann Hnautra, whose mixed ancestry includes parents from Melanesia and Reunion.

Yamakasi follows the lives and dreams of the men as they negotiate a new challenge, a period of profound change and conflict. The skill and daring of the Yamakasi have won them success and a lucrative place in the entertainment world, but they did not develop as a showbiz act. Their message and their sport are rooted in the hard realities of the projects and conflicts arising from their success have a deep emotional impact on the members

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