Dateline (AU)

Season 2017

Dateline is an Australian television current affairs program broadcast on SBS One. Since its debut at 8:00 pm on Friday 19 October 1984, it has focused largely on international events, often in developing or warring nations. Since 2000, Dateline reporters have travelled by themselves without a camera crew or sound engineers. It remains the longest-running international current affairs program in Australia.

Where to Watch Season 2017

40 Episodes

  • India’s Wushu Warrior
    E1
    India’s Wushu WarriorWhat happens when cultural tradition clashes with a young person’s dream? Dateline meets a Muslim girl whose passion for martial arts is raising difficult questions for her family.
  • Lawyer For The Dead
    E2
    Lawyer For The DeadIn El Salvador, home of the bloodiest gang violence in the world, we follow one man’s gruesome struggle to bring dignity and closure to the families of the victims.
  • South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal
    E3
    South Africa's Skin Bleaching ScandalA shocking number of black South Africans are using dangerous skin bleaching products to whiten their skin. We talk to young people who believe being whiter will help them get ahead in life.
  • Daughter of Sierra Leone
    E4
    Daughter of Sierra LeoneShe survived months as a sex slave and escaped to Australia as a refugee. Aminata Conteh-Biger can’t change the past but now she’s ready to help the future of her homeland, which has become the world’s most dangerous place to give birth.
  • Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
    E5
    Coming Home to a Nuclear WastelandAfter a radioactive disaster destroys your hometown, when is the right time to return? We meet residents of Fukushima grappling with a choice; return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
  • India's Beautiful Minds
    E6
    India's Beautiful MindsIt’s believed 5 million children in India have genius IQs but are never discovered. We follow two children from the slums who are as smart as Neil Armstrong fighting to achieve their dreams.
  • Trump’s Big Fail
    E7
    Trump’s Big FailFollowing the weekend rejection of his healthcare plan, Donald Trump is licking his wounds after failing to deliver on his first big promise – to fix America’s health care system. Some are celebrating, but many Americans are now even more unsure about the future. (An SBS Production) CC
  • Haiti’s Prison from Hell
    E8
    Haiti’s Prison from HellGo inside one of the world’s most infamous prisons, where 80 per cent of inmates are locked up without a conviction, in conditions described as ‘sub-human’.
  • Robot Love in Japan
    E9
    Robot Love in JapanIn Japan, robots are used for companionship, household tasks, sex. But can they be the remedy for something deeper and more human; loneliness?
  • Europe Special: Will France Trump Brexit? - Part 1
    E10
    Europe Special: Will France Trump Brexit? - Part 1In part 1 of a special Europe investigation, Dateline looks at why French voters are shifting to the right and what hope the National Front party gives them of a new France.
  • Europe Special: Young Hip and Far Right - Part 2
    E11
    Europe Special: Young Hip and Far Right - Part 2In part 2 of our far right special in Europe, Dateline goes to Vienna to meet a secretive group of young hipsters, whose headline-grabbing stunts are appealing to a new breed of far right nationalists.
  • Peru's Monkey Business
    E12
    Peru's Monkey BusinessIn the Amazon jungle criminal groups are illegally trafficking thousands of endangered monkeys, crocodiles and big cats every year with impunity.
  • Putin’s Family Values
    E13
    Putin’s Family Values
  • Burma’s Broken Dream
    E14
    Burma’s Broken DreamA year into its fledgling democracy, many in Burma fear the political freedoms and peace Aung San Suu Kyi brought to the country are already under attack.
  • The Most Divided Town in Britain
    E15
    The Most Divided Town in BritainThe Brexit vote has driven a wedge between migrants and British-born citizens. In a small town that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, one Brexit voter is trying to bring these communities together.
  • Children of Chinese Prisoners: Part 1
    E16
    Children of Chinese Prisoners: Part 1When parents go to prison who takes care of their children? Part 1 of this story goes inside a unique orphanage in China, sheltering the kids of murderers and domestic violence victims and abusers.
  • Lost Children of China: Part 2
    E17
    Lost Children of China: Part 2When parents are in jail they don’t stop loving their children. In part 2 we look at how kids adapt to life at the orphanage when parents are locked away, and how their relationships are impacted by separation.
  • India's Slumdog Press
    E18
    India's Slumdog PressIn the slums of Delhi, a group of impoverished Indian children are making their voices heard and their stories told; by publishing their own newspaper, which is now being read from London to the USA.
  • Mums Selling Their Kids for Sex
    E19
    Mums Selling Their Kids for SexFilipino kids as young as 7 are being sexually abused by their parents and sold for sex to paedophiles from the West. We follow an undercover team trying to infiltrate this murky world and stop the abuse of children.
  • Tiny Home Rebel
    E20
    Tiny Home RebelThe mayor of Los Angeles has declared a homelessness crisis. As the city struggles to respond, one man has his own unique solution. But can he evade authorities to get people off the streets?
  • Goodbye Pad Thai
    E21
    Goodbye Pad ThaiFood vendors have been a constant presence in Bangkok – but thousands of them are now being chased off the streets thanks to a move by Thailand’s military government to ‘clean up’ the country.
  • I.S. Kids
    E22
    I.S. KidsA shocking look inside the I.S. caliphate and its disturbing system of indoctrination and abuse that begins with children.
  • Outlaw Farmer
    E23
    Outlaw FarmerThis week we meet the French farmer rebelling against authorities to help refugees find a better life in Europe. Is he a good Samaritan helping those in desperate need, or a dangerous people smuggler?
  • Les Murray's Mission
    E24
    Les Murray's MissionSBS broadcaster Les Murray has passed away at the age of 71. In tribute Dateline is running a story from 2011, following Murray’s journey to Hungary to find the man who helped his family escape the communist nation.
  • Hug a Jihadi
    E25
    Hug a JihadiCan extremists be rehabilitated? In Denmark, a controversial new program is trying to change the minds of radicalised young people, by supporting rather than outcasting them – but does it work?
  • California’s Water Wars
    E26
    California’s Water WarsAfter 5 years of drought, California has finally had a deluge of rain. But with much of the state’s water supply being sent to LA, people in drought-affected areas feel they’ve been left high and dry.
  • Robbed of a Homeland
    E27
    Robbed of a HomelandWhy are so many Syrian refugees dying of treatable diseases? We hear shocking stories from Lebanon’s refugee camps where 1.5 million Syrians have little or no healthcare.
  • Speed Sisters of Palestine
    E28
    Speed Sisters of PalestineDateline meets the first all-women car racing team in the Middle East, as they swerve through the cities of the West Bank and break down cultural barriers.
  • Cheerleading Grannies / Not Dead Yet
    E29
    Cheerleading Grannies / Not Dead YetWhat is the secret to living large in old age? This week Dateline meets a squad of octogenerian Japanese cheerleaders and a famous TV writer challenging assumptions about people in their 90s.
  • Yes or No?
    E30
    Yes or No?As Australia decides which way to vote on same-sex marriage, we visit Ireland, where it was legalised by public vote two years ago. What lessons we can learn from their experience?
  • Obesity in Paradise
    E31
    Obesity in ParadiseAmerican Samoa has one of the highest obesity rates in the world and almost one third of the population has diabetes. This week we investigate this epidemic, and ask how it got so bad?
  • China's Web Celebs
    E32
    China's Web CelebsChina’s live streaming craze is creating a new kind of celebrity and challenging censored media. We go to China to meet these unlikely stars and ask; why are people watching?
  • Teachers Breaking Trust
    E33
    Teachers Breaking TrustWe meet girls in Mozambique, some as young as 13, who are being subjected to horrific sexual abuse and threats by their school teachers.
  • Sex, Lies and Soap Operas
    E34
    Sex, Lies and Soap OperasWe go behind the scenes of controversial Indian shows which are breaking down cultural barriers by tackling on some of the country’s biggest taboos.
  • Africa's European Dream
    E35
    Africa's European DreamAn inside look at the extraordinary scale of people smuggling in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been described by some as the new ‘slave trade’.
  • America’s First Climate Change Refugees
    E36
    America’s First Climate Change RefugeesAs the Trump administration pulls America out of international meetings on climate change, we visit communities who are already feeling its effects, and being forced to leave their homes.
  • Living with the Dead
    E37
    Living with the DeadCould you live and work with the dead? Dateline travels to the Philippines to meet the unique communities who live in cemeteries and care for its dead.
  • Race Against Trump’s Wall
    E38
    Race Against Trump’s WallAs Trump pushes forward with his Mexican wall, Dateline meets those still desperate to cross the border and chase the American dream. But what awaits them, if they make it through alive?
  • Mosul: Life After I.S.
    E39
    Mosul: Life After I.S.The city of Mosul is adjusting to life after I.S. rule. This week Dateline meets people trying to revive the city, its culture and its monuments, in a place that's faced so much devastation.
  • Vanished: Canada’s Missing Women
    E40
    Vanished: Canada’s Missing WomenCanada and Australia share a dark secret: in recent decades thousands of Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing. What can Australia learn from Canada’s attempts to address the problem?

 

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