SBS Documentaries

The world is fascinated by the Pyramids of Giza. Even today, Egyptologists are still working hard to reveal the mysteries behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years ago. The master builders of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure surely had a certain level of understanding and expertise. Were they inspired by the world around them, Nature, the sun, even the stars? This documentary explores various theories and recent global advances in Archaeology and Egyptology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, deciphering the clues left behind on the Giza Plateau by the Ancient Egyptians in order to prove that they left nothing to chance and that these three pyramids are in fact deeply connected to the cosmos.

A Jewish boy witnesses the murder of his family and survives the Holocaust by becoming Hitler's youngest soldier. He has had four false names, and is now on the cusp of discovering his true identity after 30 years of searching. During the Second World War, Alex Kurzem says he recalls watching from a tree as his entire village, including his family, were murdered by an execution squad. Having escaped certain death by fleeing into the frozen woods of Belorussia, Alex says he survived for several months before being captured and taken in by a Latvian battalion that was later incorporated into the SS.

Dr Paul Liknaitzky, head of Australia's first clinical psychedelic laboratory, investigates if psychedelic-assisted therapy can effectively treat General Anxiety Disorder in a two-year-long clinical trial.