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Australian True Crime Mysteries
In this collection of Australian unsolved true crime mysteries you'll discover bizarre, sinister and heartbreaking stories from Australia's criminal past. These clips show how the cases were reported...
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Mad Max: the original movie
It's hard to overstate the influence of Mad Max – on filmmakers, action cinema and the course of Australian movies. Made for a paltry AUD$380,000 by George Miller in 1979, the independently-funded...
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Newscaf: Walsh Street Police Shootings
As part of our Newscaf series, we look back at a chilling crime that devastated Victorian police 30 years ago.
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Daredevil motorcycle chariot races!
Inspired by the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur, two NSW police officers recreated the famous chariot race scene ... with motorcycles!
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Australian Biography: Ray Whitrod
Ray Whitrod (1915–2003) came to national prominence in 1976 when he resigned as Queensland's Commissioner of Police as a protest against corruption. His efforts to reform the state's police had met...
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Homicide: The Decimal Point - Teaser and title sequence
In this teaser, leading in to Homicide’s opening title sequence, convict Edgar Thompson (Roy Alexander) is on the run after escaping from the prison farm at Beechworth. He heads for a shack in the...
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Police call off search for Donald Mackay's remains
This clip is a brief excerpt from a Ten News at Five report from June 2013. After 36 years, the latest search for the remains of anti-drugs campaigner and aspiring politician Donald Mackay proves...
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Wanda Beach murders: Ian Ross interviews Detective
National Network News journalist Ian Ross reports on the ongoing investigation into the murder of two teenage girls who were found buried in shallow graves in the sand dunes at Wanda Beach in Sydney'...
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The Wanda Beach murders: 15 years on
This clip contains raw footage from a 1981 Ten Eyewitness News report by journalist Harry Potter on the murders of two 15-year-old girls, Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt, at Sydney's Wanda...
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Police review Terry Floyd Disappearance
This award-winning Newshour special is dedicated to the case of 12-year-old Terry Floyd's disappearance from the Victorian town of Maryborough in 1975.  The news report was made 11 years after Terry...
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