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America’s Secret War

As the United States publicly engaged in the Vietnam War, there was a secret conflict raging right next door in the country of Laos. Under the direction of the CIA, a full-blown military operation took hold of Laos, with just a select few of the U.S. Armed Forces participating.The CIA was actively training an army of allied guerilla fighters at Long Tieng, a secret airbase located in the hea

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The Gabby Petito Story: An American Tragedy

The Gabby Petito Story is one that has shocked a nation, it's a story that is filled with twists and turns at every junction along the way. Two young people set out on a trip of a lifetime but only one would return. Gabby would tragically never make it home but her fiance, Brian Laundrie, the man who claimed to love her but likely killed her would turn up at his home in Florida, in Gabby's van on

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Prehistoric Worlds

Earth's conditions are so perfect for life that it would seem to be a planet that exists for that one reason. A place to create life and nurture it, and yet of all the organisms that have ever lived on Earth 98.5% have gone extinct because our splendid sanctuary has been visited by the apocalypse five times in all.Everything we see alive on Earth today is the end survivor of at least one or m

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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web

In 2012, the filesharing site MegaUpload is taken offline, its owners accused of massive internet piracy. In 2016 the independent filmmakers of this documentary finally managed to secure an interview with the site's founder, Kim Dotcom. After some negotiation Dotcom also agrees to give them unprecedented access to his private archives.Kim Dotcom arrived in New Zealand with his circl

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The Trouble with Chicken

With more than 1 in 4 pieces of raw chicken carrying salmonella, it is responsible for sickening and killing more of us than any other foodborne pathogen. The strains of salmonella that show up on these chickens seem to be getting tougher, stronger and many are resistant to antibiotics.In this FRONTLINE special we see reporter David Hoffman investigate, the largest salmonella outbreak from po

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Nations At War: Pacific Raiders

1787, the Pacific Northwest has become a new frontier for international trade. Lured by the promise of riches American and European merchants were prepared to enter hostile waters, proud by a people who had built a great civilization by mastering the waves. These were the Haida, the greatest aboriginal naval power North America had ever seen.It's the end of the 18th Century and the world is m

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Nazi Hunters: Franz Stangl & Gustav Wagner

Simon Wiesenthal is the world's most famous Nazi hunter, in his office at the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre located in Vienna, Austria, he keeps files on hundreds of fugitive war criminals, it is solitary work. But on February 22, 1964, there was an unexpected visitor, a drunken man turns up at Wiesenthal's office and tells him that he will reveal the location of Nazi war criminal Franz

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Locked Up With the Lifers

In this film, we see British television presenter and journalist Stacey Dooley travel to Iowa where she pays a visit to one of the most radical women’s prisons in the United States. This new correctional institute for women cost around 110 million dollars to build and houses over 700 female prisoners, everything from drunk drivers to vicious murders. For the last three years the warden Sheryl Dah

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What Really Happened in Wuhan

In this Sky News Australia special investigation, we delve into the origins of COVID-19 in an attempt to reveal what it was that really happened in Wuhan at the start of the global pandemic. We hear from award-winning journalist Sharri Markson, who dedicated more than a year investigating the potential leak of the virus from a top-secret laboratory in Wuhan.During this time Markson managed to

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