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Long Way Down

30 November 2008 | 0:00 - By Documentaries @ SBS

Starts Wednesday, 3rd December 8:30PM AEDT (10 Part Series)
Ewan and Charley are back on their motorcycles and ready to take the Long Way Down. This ten part series follows the pair on an intrepid motorcycle journey from the northern-most tip of Scotland, down to the southern-most tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas.


Long Way Down tracks the pair’s expedition through nine months of planning and the three month trip itself. It shows the challenges of securing visas and equipment, training for possible medical crises or hostage situations - before traversing some of the most beautiful and, at times, dangerous terrain on earth.

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The Biggest Chinese Resturant in the World

30 November 2008 | 0:00 - By Documentaries @ SBS

Starts Wednesday, 3rd December 8:00PM AEDT (4 Part Series)
This four part documentary series explores the inner workings of the five-thousand-seater West Lake Restaurant in the Chinese city of Changsha. With a service of more then 1000 waiting staff and serving up 1000 ducks, 2000kg of rice and 1100kg of chilli each week it is easy to see how this massive eatery has earned its place in the Guinness Book of Records as The Biggest Restaurant in the World, a plaque that hangs proudly on its inner walls.


West Lake is a combination of a mini-theme park and eatery, featuring live entertainment, landscape pools and pavilions. At the top of the huge enterprise is the unstoppable Mrs. Qin Linzi. Mrs Qin, like many Chinese families of her time, had a hard upbringing which required her to work in a quarry to help out her family when she was twelve years old. Today she is committed to building her empire, and ensuring it operates as a well oiled machine with rituals that include the united chanting of “

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Wall Street Warriors

30 November 2008 | 0:00 - By Documentaries @ SBS

Starts Friday, 5th December 7:30PM
“Wall St takes the brightest people and smashes them into the pavement on a regular basis.” Guy de Chimay – a Wall Street Portfolio Manager.

Wall St Warriors takes a timely and riveting look at the lives of those who work on the world’s most famous stock exchange. The forces that drive these diverse people during their stressful hunt for riches are laid bare in insightful, behind-the-scene glimpses of the beating hearts and minds of Wall Street.


Stress is a big part of life on Wall Street - including for Bob Nunn. Bob is a former marine, now the managing director of floor operations for an equity specialist firm on Wall Street. He compares his working life to being in a fox hole with enemies surrounding him all day. “There is a high level of emotion, there’s a high level of stress.”

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Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

30 November 2008 | 0:00 - By Documentaries @ SBS

Starts Sunday, 30th November 8:30PM AEDT (2 Part Series)
In 2004, the board of the public school in Dover, Pennsylvania ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students suggesting that that is an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution called intelligent design – the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply. Later, parents opposed to intelligent design filed a lawsuit in US federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state.


Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial follows the federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District and features trial re-enactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials.

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Counter Culture

30 November 2008 | 0:00 - By Documentaries @ SBS

Starts Friday, 5th December 8:00PM AEDT (6 Part Series)
In the six-part series Counter Culture, Canadian journalist Tyler Brûlé explores how the business of buying and selling, of branding and re-branding reveals the true culture of six very different countries.


Brûlé argues that although the march of globalisation has rendered shopping areas around the world indistinguishable from one another, the way that consumers behave in different countries is as diverse as ever.

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