Utopia (2013)

Utopia is a feature-length documentary created by John Pilger. He takes a look at the story of the first Australians, the Aboriginal people, against a background of the country’s economic boom built significantly on a wealth of natural minerals.

* Utopia (2013)

Utopia is a feature-length documentary created by John Pilger. He takes a look at the story of the first Australians, the Aboriginal people, against a background of the country's economic boom built significantly on a wealth of natural minerals.

* Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)

Australian scientist Michael Alpers dedicated over 50 years to researching Kuru, an obscure and incurable brain disease unique to the Fore people of New Guinea. Kuru was once thought to be a psychosomatic illness, an infection, a genetic disorder, even a sorcerer's curse, but Alpers' findings pointed to cannibalism as the culprit. Yet a recent discovery has proven to be even more disturbing: the malady is linked to mad cow disease and its human equivalent, variant CJD. With a decades-long incubation period, could a larger outbreak be on its way?

* Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening (2013)

Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of Earth's birth, how life arose and how it transformed the planet into the world we now live in. Experts unveil the earliest forms of life: an odd assortment of bacterial slime. Life like this would flood the atmosphere with oxygen and spark the biological revolution that conquered the planet. Travel with NOVA and host Dr. Richard Smith to meet the cast in the first scenes of the great drama of life on earth.