Friday 8.30pm SBS - The Man Who Knew Infinity
When self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan fails out of college, he does not give up hope. Determined to pursue his passion, he contacts Professor GH Hardy and is invited to attend Trinity College.
Friday 8.55pm Viceland - Project Blue Book
When a film emerges documenting an Army platoon under UFO attack, the Generals send Hynek and Quinn in to investigate, where they find the soldiers not only suffer from physical effects of war, but psychological ones as well.
Friday 10.45pm Viceland - The Doors
After a psychedelic experience in the California desert, Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer), lead singer of The Doors, and his bandmates begin performing in Los Angeles and quickly become a sensation. However, when Jim begins ditching his musical responsibilities and his girlfriend, Pamela (Meg Ryan) in favour of his dangerous addictions and the affections of the seductive, occult-obsessed Patricia (Kathleen Quinlan), the band starts to worry.
Saturday 9.00pm su SBS - LIVE Premier League Tottenham V West Ham
Live coverage of the 2018-19 Premier League. Tottenham takes on West Ham at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Sunday 0.20am SBS - The Bridge On The River Kwai
In 1942, the Japanese army had captured more than 200,000 Allied prisoners of war and needed a supply route to its frontline troops in Burma. POWs and thousands of Asian laborers were ordered to complete a railway linking Thailand and Burma that would include the infamous 'bridge on the River Kwai'. Meanwhile, the U.S. was developing a 'smart bomb'. In late 1944, a group of rescued POWs provided the first accurate information about targets along the railway, and the railway was destroyed.
Sunday 7.00pm Viceland - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece tracing an expedition to the moon, Jupiter and beyond, and imagining the future evolution of humanity. A group of ape-like creatures - primitive humans - discover the use of bones as weapons in a quarrel over a waterhole. Jump forward 1000s of years, and an American expedition finds a mysterious black monolith - an obvious alien artefact - on the Moon. Another expedition is sent to Jupiter, where a second monolith has been discovered. But during the journey the ship's computer, HAL 9000, develops paranoia.
Stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and Douglas Rain.
Sunday 10.00pm Viceland - Cycling: Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2019
Live coverage of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2019 tour.
Monday at 12noon Viceland - Gimme Shelter
Pregnant teenager Agnes Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens) flees her abusive mother in search of her father, only to be rejected by her stepmother and forced to survive on the streets until a compassionate stranger offers a hopeful alternative. Also stars Rosario Dawson and Brendan Fraser.
Tuesday 0.55 SBS - Safe Harbour
Five Australians on a sailing holiday come across a fishing boat full of desperate asylum seekers. Deciding to help, they tow the boat but, in the middle of the night, it disappears. Years later, one of the Australians, Ryan, steps into a taxi driven by one of the refugees, Ismail. Overjoyed to learn the refugees reached Australia, he invites Ismail and his family to a barbeque - reuniting everyone. It’s there that Ryan and the others learn the truth - someone cut the rope between the two boats and, as a result, the fishing boat sank and seven people died, including Ismail’s nine-year-old daughter. Old secrets come to light, relationships are shattered and lives are put in danger.
Tuesday 7.30pm SBS - Who Do You Think You Are? Scott Cam
TV personality Scott Cam reveals his paternal family changed their surname from Caminiti to Cam during World War Two. But, beyond this historical detail, Scott knows little about his Italian ancestors, including what compelled them to leave their homeland for a ‘sunburnt country’.
Wednesday 8.35pm Viceland - Cry-Baby
In this quirky John Waters musical-comedy set in 1950s Baltimore, Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker (Johnny Depp), a juvenile delinquent with a heart of gold, wins the love of a reluctant ‘square’ girl, who fights society’s disapproval with gusto.
