World Movies

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World Movies
World Movies Channel Logo
Launched October, 1995
Country Australia
Website http://worldmovies.net
Availability
Cable
Foxtel Digital Channel 419
Austar Digital Channel 419

World Movies is an Australian cable channel that broadcasts foreign films, usually subtitled, on Foxtel, Austar, and Optus Television. Digital subscribers and those with wide-screen televisions have the opportunity to watch the films broadcast in widescreen.

The World Movies channel has a close working relationship with Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) even though they are separate business operations. For both organisations benefit, they jointly purchase many films where World Movies has subscription TV rights and SBS has free-to-air TV rights. When this is the case, then typically the World Movies Channel will broadcast such movies 12 months before they become available to SBS for broadcast.

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[edit] Corporate information

PAN TV Limited is an independent Australian company that was founded to produce the World Movies channel for the Australian subscription television market.

World Movies began broadcasting in October 1995 coinciding with the launch of subscription TV in Australia.

PAN TV Limited is a partnership between three Australian entities. The partners are:

  • Australian Capital Equity
  • APN News and Media, and
  • Multilingual Subscriber Television Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of SBS).

[edit] Examples of films

World Movies has broadcast films that cover all genres, ranging from Italian arthouse fare to Hong Kong sexploitation films. Some of the films shown have included:

[edit] 25 Films You Must See Before You Die

In 2005 World Movies screened 25 Films You Must See Before You Die, inspired by Steven Jay Schneider's book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. [1]

  1. Seven Samurai - Japan (1954)
  2. The Rules of the Game - France (1939)
  3. Metropolis - Germany (1927)
  4. Dersu Uzala - Japan/U.S.S.R (1974)
  5. Blowup - UK (1966)
  6. The Seventh Seal - Sweden (1957)
  7. The Battleship Potemkin - U.S.S.R (1925)
  8. 8½ - Italy (1963)
  9. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) - France (1928)
  10. Kes - UK (1969)
  11. Breathless - France (1959)
  12. Mon Oncle - France (1958)
  13. Raise the Red Lantern - China (1991)
  14. Modern Times - USA (1936)
  15. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - Spain (1988)
  16. Boudu Saved from Drowning - France (1932)
  17. Solaris - U.S.S.R (1972)
  18. City of God - Brazil (2002)
  19. Breaking the Waves - Denmark (1996)
  20. Last Tango in Paris - Italy/France (1972)
  21. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror - Germany (1922)
  22. Umberto D. - Italy (1952)
  23. Three Colours: Blue - France (1993)
  24. The Battle of Algiers - Algeria/Italy (1965)
  25. Les Enfants du Paradis - France (1945)

25 Docs You Must See Before You Die is being screened in 2007.

  1. Triumph of the Will (1935)
  2. Grey Gardens (1975)
  3. To Be and to Have (2002)
  4. Don't Look Back (1967)
  5. I Was a Fireman (1943)
  6. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
  7. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
  8. The Last Waltz (1978)
  9. Brother's Keeper (1992)
  10. Hoop Dreams (1994)
  11. The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  12. For All Mankind (1989)
  13. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
  14. Häxan (1922)
  15. Spellbound (2002)
  16. The Gleaners & I (2000)
  17. Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
  18. When We Were Kings (1996)
  19. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
  20. Best Boy (1979)
  21. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
  22. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
  23. Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993)
  24. My Flesh and Blood (2003)
  25. Hearts and Minds (1974)

[edit] External links

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