Short Docs Media Piotr Malecki | Journeyman Pictures

For 12 days, the world held its breath as mortal enemies Israel and Iran traded blows. In the wake of this short war, ABC has been granted rare access to the Islamic Republic to find out whether Israel, the region and the world is any safer.

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Who Let The Mice Out?

United Kingdom | 2025

When two 13-year-old girls discover that Britain’s tiniest mammal — the harvest mouse — is vanishing from the wild, they launch an ambitious rescue mission. Breeding hundreds of mice in their bedrooms and garages and then releasing them into a new nature reserve near their homes in Devon, their efforts capture national attention and a visit from Britain’s leading wildlife campaigner, TV presenter…

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Piccadilly

Denmark | 2025

It was one of the most audacious murders of the cold war: Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was waiting for a bus by London’s Waterloo Bridge when a man bumped into him with his umbrella, pushing a tiny, poisoned pellet into his leg. Four days later he was dead. Piccadilly is a true crime documentary that brings new information to light about the likely culprit: The manipulative, chameleonic figu…

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Spartan Bare Knuckle

United Kingdom | 2025

Spartan Bare Knuckle Fight Club is the UK’s only licensed 8x8ft bare-knuckle pit fighting syndicate. A rolling mobile punch-up that draws baying crowds across the north of England, Spartan bouts are short, bloody, and brutal. Yet beneath the violence, the club aims to be a lifeline in difficult times. Over seven years, Spartan has become a form of community and therapy for men battling ill mental…

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Rebuilding Syria

Syrian Arab Republic | 2025

After years of displacement, Syrians have begun to return to their homelands, long neglected under the now-toppled al-Assad regime. But their return is bittersweet, as there is much to be done to rebuild Syria.

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Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea

Uzbekistan | 2024

Through oral histories and tales of loss, adaptation and hope, this short film presents a memory of the Amu Darya – the Central Asian river that no longer reaches its destination. It tells how local communities are dealing with the river’s desiccation and how the USSR turned the world’s fourth largest lake – the Aral Sea – into its youngest desert. The human story of an environmental disaster.

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Moving A Megacity

Indonesia | 2024

Home to 30 million people, choked with traffic air pollution and gradually sinking; Jakarta is one of the worst capital cities in the world. Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has announced a radical plan to tackle this crisis-ridden city: move it over a thousand kilometres away, to Borneo. This ABC report investigates these ambitious plans.

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Bibijan

Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2023

Bibijan was just 13 years old when she was married. That night, she was murdered. Told by the grieving family members she left behind, her story is a candid and unadorned portrait of a life cut short by the practices of child marriage and honour killing.

Iran vs. Israel: Unfinished Busine…

Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2025

Who Let The Mice Out?

United Kingdom | 2025

Piccadilly

Denmark | 2025

Spartan Bare Knuckle

United Kingdom | 2025

Rebuilding Syria

Syrian Arab Republic | 2025

Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea

Uzbekistan | 2024

Moving A Megacity

Indonesia | 2024

Bibijan

Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2023