Streaming on SBS On Demand – quick links
SBS On Demand: new this week
Australia’s Greatest Conman? – 24 February
Two-part docuseries. In the 1980s, John Friedrich led an elite sea and land rescue squad out of Victoria, winning an Order of Australia, top-secret government contracts and hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. But no one knew that John Friedrich was not who he made out to be, and his undoing revealed one of the most audacious scams in Australian history – netting an estimated $900 million in today’s value.
Walkley Award-winning journalist and presenter Marc Fennell sets out to uncover the truth behind the man who deceived a nation in Australia’s Greatest Conman? With exclusive interviews with Kerry O’Brien, Hugh Riminton and Richard Fidler, as well as Friedrich’s closest colleagues and fiercest rivals, Fennell reveals a story stranger than fiction in this gripping true-crime thriller that will keep audiences guessing until the very end. Watch the trailer.
House of Blak: Miss First Nation – 24 February
Docuseries. The fiercest Blak drag pageant in the country is back! Since 2017, Miss First Nation has been the stage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drag excellence. In this character-led docuseries, eight Indigenous drag performers compete for the title of Miss First Nation – celebrating pride, visibility and community.
This Is Ballroom – 25 February
Film (2024). In Rio de Janeiro City and its outskirts, LGBTQ+ youth of colour recreate Ballroom culture on their own terms. This engaging documentary is a portrait of the dramas, the voguing performances and the art of shade. Fifty years after Ballroom’s inception in New York, Rio is burning!
Marcella Season 3 – 28 February
Series. When the writer responsible for The Bridge pens a not-Nordic but definitely noir crime series set in London, with a detective who can’t trust her own mind, you can expect things to be twisty, unpredictable and dark. And so it is with screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt’s drama Marcella.
Now in its third series, Marcella is a multi-stranded crime drama starring Anna Friel (a Golden Globe nominee for Pushing Daisies). The end of Season 2 saw Marcella discover the dark cause of her destructive and terrifying fugue episodes. An opportunity to work in an undercover operation offered her the chance to leave that version of herself behind.
Marcella Backland is officially dead – and she buries her past with that old, broken identity. Now, Marcella is known as Keira, embedded in a duplicitous Belfast crime family, the Maguires, on a mission to infiltrate them and uncover information that could bring about their downfall.
SBS On Demand: recently added
Film Collection: The Oscar Goes To… – 21 February
Film collection. The Oscars are just around the corner, so cosy up with the best films The Academy have honoured over the last five decades.
Selections include The Zone of Interest, Apocalypse Now Redux, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, The Big Short, Adaptation, Michael Clayton, Parasite, Blood Diamond, Memoirs of a Geisha, Thelma And Louise, Gravity and The Hurt Locker.
The Oscar Goes To collection will be available to stream on SBS On Demand from 21 February, and a selection will air on SBS World Movies daily at 8.30pm.
A Spy Among Friends – 19 February
Series. Based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre, this six-episode series dramatises the true story of Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce), two British spies and lifelong friends.
Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet double agent in history. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery. Philby’s deeply personal betrayal, uncovered at the height of the Cold War, resulted in the gutting of British and American Intelligence.
Fallen Season 2 – 19 February
Series. Iris (Sofia Helen) has become increasingly comfortable in Malmö as head of the Cold Case Unit. They have a new case on their hands: a body has been found buried outside Ystad near a manor house. But just as the investigation gains momentum, Iris receives a message from a former colleague, with unexpected consequences.
The Danish Woman – 19 February
Series. She’s Rambo, Napoleon and Pippi Long Stocking all rolled into one – and she lives next door!
When Ditte Jensen (Trine Dyrholm) retires with honours from the Danish Secret Service, she moves into an apartment block in Reykjavik, where she plans to tend to her garden and live out her life in anonymity. But Ditte cannot stop being who she is: an elite soldier and a warrior.
Soon, the apartment building becomes a battlefield for a better world. With her deep-rooted sense of justice, she sees her neighbours’ problems and feels compelled to help – whether they want her help or not. And in her world, the end justifies the means. Always.
Written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson (Woman at War) and co-written by Ólafur Egill Egilsson.
Going Places with Ernie Dingo Season 7 – 20 February
Series. Ernie Dingo returns for a new season of the much-loved program Going Places. Travelling the length and breadth of Australia, Ernie will be joined this season by new host Brooke Blurton, while Mark Coles Smith and Rae Johnston return for more adventures, more beautiful places and more fascinating people to share a yarn with.
