Taboo explores the extreme culture and practices of sub-cultures around the world. The range and diversity of human behaviour almost defies the imagination. The latest series of Taboo delves into the strange and sometimes disturbing practices of Touching Death, Supreme Devotion, Initiation, Crime & Punishment, Extreme Childhood, Tainted Love and Gender Benders. Shot in India, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and the Americas, Taboo takes you on a journey into the unknown. Every culture has its own rules and codes of practice, but what is acceptable to one can seem taboo to another.

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SERIES 4: 13 x 60 minute series
SERIES 5: 15 X 60 minute series

Produced by: Beyond Productions

Produced in High Definition

Four gamblers tell their stories of private hell and the losses they have suffered through their gambling addiction. Helen lost her marriage; Rob lost his freedom; Keith lost his family and Graham lost his business and home. Gambling addiction is not socio-economic. It affects one in four people.

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Running Time : 1 x 60 min
Year Of Production : 2001
Produced By : Raconteur Productions Ltd

The controversy over a person's right to die at a time and place of their own choosing has become focused on the Swiss organization Dignitas. Dignitas, in Zurich Switzerland, is the only place where a person seeking an assisted suicide can legally be helped to die, no matter where they are from - or what their state of health or what their state of health, as long their wish to die has been held for or over a significant period of time. Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old American with motor-neuron disease, has been a radical since his college days in the sixties, and is determined not to live through his steady deterioration until what he fears may be a horrific “natural” death. Should Craig Ewert be able to kill himself, even though it could be years before his disease would kill him? The Suicide Tourist helps you decide for yourself. For a year, Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky had exclusive access to Dignitas, and its clients. Through the intimate, compelling, and controversial stories of four lives - and one death - The Suicide Tourist will take the audience on a journey they could only have imagined, and won't forget.

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1x 1hr + 1 x 90 minute documentary



Produced by: Point Grey Pictures in association with CTV

The extraordinary, disturbing and inspirational true story of a woman who reclaimed her life after being kept as a sex slave by her father for 23 years. She eventually escapes to tell her story and put him behind bars.
Tanjas Darke retraces her life from her childhood in Vanuatu to her adulthood in Auckland to show "the ease with which abuse can start and the difficulties in ending abuse". The father has psychologically destroyed the young woman, and yet today Tanjas considers her escape a miracle.
Using documented evidence,Tanjas made this documentary to try to give others who may be trapped in a similar situation the courage and strength to break free.


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Running Time : 1 x 60 min (70 minute version also available)
Year Of Production : 2001
Produced By : Greenstone Pictures Ltd

Uncensored is an interview series profiling nine of the world's influential Thinkers. Each of the guests has achieved fame and respect in their fields - from Nobel prize winning author Toni Morrison and US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright; to President of the Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams; and former Spymaster Markus Wolf. An inspirational series canvassing attitudes and beliefs, reflecting on public life and personal achievements, Uncensored is conducted by Australia''s premier television presenter and interviewer, Jana Wendt.

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Running Time :9 x 30 min.
Produced By :Beyond Productions and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Year of Production: 1998