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Kicking Off 2021 with the Best of World Cinema

Ring in the New Year with some of the best documentary films from around the world. In these selected documentaries, we explore stories about hope, loss, superstition, humanity, and much more. From the iwonder documentaries newsletter.

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2020, Part 2: Is it nearly over yet?

Throughout 2020, political strife began to take over the headlines, both close to home and further away. Watch these great documentaries for more context

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2020, Part 1: Who knew...?

Remember in January when COVID-19 was just a whisper and the biggest thing happening was the start of Harvey Weinstein’s trial in New York?

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iwonder reveals Australia's first annual update to the ‘Doco Streaming Study’

We reveal a changing appetite for factual films in 2020. COVID-19 creates surge in demand for Culture, Society and Health & Wellness content. Australian documentary viewing is up 135% since the start of the pandemic.

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In Case You Missed It: Popular stories on iwonder this year

Check out some of our top titles that joined iwonder this year, telling stories from all over the world, from China to the United States, featuring a medical breakthrough, a retro throwback to the console wars of the 90s, and much more.

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Documentary streamer iwonder launches today on Telstra TV

Asia-Pacific’s fast-growing documentary streaming service adds Telstra to existing partners including Seven West Media, Qantas and the ABC. 1,000+ factual films and TV series from iwonder now available* to Telstra TV customers.

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Selected podcasts

Highlighting a few selected podcasts to The Kleptocrats, streaming on iwonder.

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Celebrating the Dreamers, the Doers, and the Dreamers Who Do

As this difficult year draws to a close, we invite you to check out our featured documentaries about those who dare to chase their dreams, even in the face of adversity.

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Working towards justice for women

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, another hidden "Shadow Pandemic" grew behind closed doors, with reports showing that violence against women and girls, especially domestic violence, has increased.

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“The true character of society is revealed in how it treats its children” – Nelson Mandela

In this week’s featured documentaries, we meet children in different parts of the world who turn to the oceans to seek adventure, solve mysteries, and dare to go against the flow in their own ways.

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Which streaming app is right for you?

iwonder getting featured on the Apple Appstore as the app to watch for edu-tainment.

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World Cities Day 2020: Valuing our Communities and Cities

World Cities Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as a way to promote international interest in global urbanisation and contribute to sustainable urban development around the world.

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Living in a Surveillance Society: Is Big Brother watching you?

“Big Brother” was first introduced as a character and symbol in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as the leader of a totalitarian state where citizens are under constant surveillance by the authorities, and has since become a byword to describe abuse of government power and mass surveillance. This

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iwonder is Apple's App of the Day

Discover the world through iwonder.

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From anonymity to the Nobel Prize: Jim Allison: Breakthrough

The story of one man’s decades’ long pursuit in the cure for cancer now streaming exclusively on iwonder.

society documentaries

Exposing the dark underbelly of the pickup industry in ‘The Pickup Game’

THE PICKUP GAME, offers an inside look at the emergence of the ‘pickup’ industry.

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Seduced by terrorism: meet Jihad Jane

Jihad Jane, the captivating tale of two American women’s descent into terrorism, the dark and damaged pasts that paved their way to radicalisation and the trail of shock and disbelief they left in their wake.

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iwonder Q&A with Jason van Genderen

Our iwonder CEO, Jason Bridges, sits down for a chat with filmmaker, contributor to iwonder original Coronavirus & Me, and now viral star, Jason van Genderen of @OmasApplesauce and Treehouse Creative (www.treehousecreative.com).

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Green Light: black-market medicinal cannabis in Australia

Green Light tells the story of two selfless and compassionate Australians and the journey they set out on each day to supply people suffering from chronic pain and terminal illness with black market medicinal cannabis, as the constant threat of prosecution looms.

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2020 Academy Award nominee 'For Sama' documentary now streaming only on iwonder

FOR SAMA, the 2020 Academy Awards ‘Best Documentary’ nominee, telling the story of life, love and family through the eyes of a new mother living through the darkest days of the uprising in Aleppo, is now live to stream exclusively on iwonder.

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2020 Oscars nominee 'Honeyland' documentary on iwonder

“Stunningly beautiful and quietly powerful, this is a portrait of a vanishing way of life and of a determined woman who’s just trying to make her way in the world” (Empire)

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iwonder is now available in Hong Kong

iwonder's award-winning and thought-provoking films are now available in Hong Kong

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The Weekly: A hard-hitting weekly docuseries on iwonder

With 1600 journalists producing stories from 160 countries, The Weekly follows the NY Times’ journalists in their daily battle to deliver the truth.

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Eating Animals – “one of the key documentaries of our time”

Natalie Portman produced documentary on consequences of factory farming. Topics include animal rights, pollution and the use of antibiotics and hormones.

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Be part of iwonder’s first original series “Coronavirus & Me”

iwonder's first original production about Coronavirus in Australia