Documentaries about Tasmania
Posted: Thu 18 Jul, 2013 3:59 pm
I have no idea if this topic has been done before, I thought SBS may have given it a go, but I can't find anything, and after tas-man's post on the Tassie Legends topic, I thought it would be a good idea. So here it is, let's list the (good) docs about Tassie. They can be free access or not.
-The SBS series "The First Australians" has a whole episode about Tasmanian aborigines, and some of their descendants give insights throughout the series. The whole series is brilliant, one of the best docs ever produced by Australian TV.
-In France, we have a low key series of documentaries called "Vu sur Terre" ("seen on Earth"). On the episode on Tasmania, I was expecting the usual : Cradle, Tassie Devils, Hobart. What a surprise when I saw it was about 3 blokes (well 2 blokes and 2 brothers) in the SW : one is a former ranger protecting Huon pines in the Franklin-Gordon area, another is Richard Bennett, a Bruny Island local who's a professional photographer, and 2 surfer brothers who hike the South-West for days just for waves and the loneliness of the bush. Totally the opposite of the classical mainstream documentary, here's a sample : http://www.evasion.tv/emissions/vu_sur_ ... anie_kj9rh
-Wild Down Under, by the BBC Natural History Unit, has a couple of sequences about Tasmania, with one showing competition between quolls and Tasmanian devils. It's been shot about 10 years ago, unfortunately before the first HD documentaries that the BBC NHU is today famous for, but it's still worth it.
-The SBS series "The First Australians" has a whole episode about Tasmanian aborigines, and some of their descendants give insights throughout the series. The whole series is brilliant, one of the best docs ever produced by Australian TV.
-In France, we have a low key series of documentaries called "Vu sur Terre" ("seen on Earth"). On the episode on Tasmania, I was expecting the usual : Cradle, Tassie Devils, Hobart. What a surprise when I saw it was about 3 blokes (well 2 blokes and 2 brothers) in the SW : one is a former ranger protecting Huon pines in the Franklin-Gordon area, another is Richard Bennett, a Bruny Island local who's a professional photographer, and 2 surfer brothers who hike the South-West for days just for waves and the loneliness of the bush. Totally the opposite of the classical mainstream documentary, here's a sample : http://www.evasion.tv/emissions/vu_sur_ ... anie_kj9rh
-Wild Down Under, by the BBC Natural History Unit, has a couple of sequences about Tasmania, with one showing competition between quolls and Tasmanian devils. It's been shot about 10 years ago, unfortunately before the first HD documentaries that the BBC NHU is today famous for, but it's still worth it.