Global Village ‘South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal’

SBS HD

Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

With its wide open spaces and pristine coastline, KwaZulu-Natal has become one of South Africa's eco-tourism havens.

Global Village ‘South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal’

SBS ONE

Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

With its wide open spaces and pristine coastline, KwaZulu-Natal has become one of South Africa's eco-tourism havens.

Global Village ‘Egypt: The Siwa Oasis’

SBS TWO

Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Looks at Siwa, an island in the middle of the Egyptian desert. This large oasis, bordered by two turquoise lakes, is unique in Egypt. The most westerly of the oases of the Libyan Desert, it is inhabited by the country's only Berber community.

Global Village ‘Liverpool / The Koguryo Tombs’

SBS HD

Tue, 7 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The city of Liverpool, England, once the major port of the British Empire, and home of the Beatles. / The burial mounds of North Korea are over 1500 years old and tell of an empire called Koguryo which stretched from Manchuria to present-day South Korea.

Global Village ‘Liverpool / The Koguryo Tombs’

SBS ONE

Tue, 7 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The city of Liverpool, England, once the major port of the British Empire, and home of the Beatles. / The burial mounds of North Korea are over 1500 years old and tell of an empire called Koguryo which stretched from Manchuria to present-day South Korea.

Global Village ‘The Irrigation System of Oman / Hawaii: Home of...’

SBS TWO

Tue, 7 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Oman's aflaj irrigation system, which dates back to 500 AD, allows towns to thrive in the desert / Pele is the Goddess of Fire in Hawaiian mythology. Her tales spring forth in conjunction with the eruptions of the most active volcano in the world, Mount Kilauea.

Global Village ‘Desert Towns of the Negev / The Plantin-Moretus...’

SBS HD

Wed, 8 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The Nabataeans controlled the Incense Route through the desert of the Negev for some 500 years before being integrated into the Roman Empire. / The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is the only fully equipped printing workshop dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Global Village ‘Desert Towns of the Negev / The Plantin-Moretus...’

SBS ONE

Wed, 8 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The Nabataeans controlled the Incense Route through the desert of the Negev for some 500 years before being integrated into the Roman Empire. / The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is the only fully equipped printing workshop dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Global Village ‘Valparaiso, the Rainbow City / Jebel Barkal:...’

SBS TWO

Wed, 8 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Valparaiso in Chile is a World Heritage site because of its colourfully painted neighbourhoods and cosmopolitanism. / Gebel Barkal in Sudan is a small mountain in the Nile Valley surrounded by rich archaeological sites.

Global Village ‘Le Havre / The Bridge at Mostar’

SBS HD

Thu, 9 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The rebuilding of the French city of Le Havre as a modern urban unit after being nearly bombed out of existence in 1944 / The Bridge over the River Neretva in Mostar was destroyed during the civil war in Bosnia in 1993. It has since been rebuilt and is now a World Heritage site.

Global Village ‘Le Havre / The Bridge at Mostar’

SBS ONE

Thu, 9 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

The rebuilding of the French city of Le Havre as a modern urban unit after being nearly bombed out of existence in 1944 / The Bridge over the River Neretva in Mostar was destroyed during the civil war in Bosnia in 1993. It has since been rebuilt and is now a World Heritage site.

Global Village ‘The Orkhon Valley / Humberstone: Ghost Town in...’

SBS TWO

Thu, 9 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

A look at the Orkhon Valley in the middle of the vast mountain steppes of Mongolia - its history, its landscape and its people. / Humberstone, a mining town in Chile founded in 1872, is now a deserted industrial settlement.

Global Village ‘The Santa Laura Saltpetre Mine / Thingvellir...’

SBS HD

Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Lying just below the sandy and stony surface of the Chilean high plateau are the world's richest deposits of sodium nitrate: saltpetre. / Looks at Iceland, its landscape and landmarks, notably its first parliament, the Althing, now in the Thingvellir National Park.

Global Village ‘The Santa Laura Saltpetre Mine / Thingvellir...’

SBS ONE

Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Lying just below the sandy and stony surface of the Chilean high plateau are the world's richest deposits of sodium nitrate: saltpetre. / Looks at Iceland, its landscape and landmarks, notably its first parliament, the Althing, now in the Thingvellir National Park.

Global Village ‘The Geiranger Fjord / Merv: Ruined City of the...’

SBS TWO

Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, G, Documentary, CC, Series, Repeat

Norway has a landscape that is without parallel. Of all Norway's fjords, Geiranger is the most famous. / For the caravans that travelled the Silk Road, the city of Merv, in present-day Turkmenistan, was like an oasis in the desert.