SBS Documentaries

A mesmerising journey around Australia, raising questions about the Tasmanian Tiger’s 25-million-year-old past, when Thylacines lived across the continent and showing how Australia’s largest surviving marsupial predator co-existed with Australia’s First Peoples for many thousands of years.

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.

For the first time, with rare photo archives and compelling personal accounts, this unique documentary explores a little-known setting during Australia’s first war that was crucial in the shaping of Australia’s modern identity, with fascinating new themes.

If Central America is the cradle of Mayan civilisation, the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico can be considered the receptacle of its final hours. At the tip of this peninsula, three cities witnessed the end of the Mayan era. Renowned for their skills and knowledge in fields as varied as astronomy, mathematics, agriculture and art in all its forms, the Maya people disappeared, taking many of their secrets with them.

After decades of inaccessibility due to unrest and wars, teams of archaeologists from around the globe return to the greatest sites in Mesopotamia in a bid to save what can still be saved.