SBS50: Biggest Stories

About SBS50: Biggest Stories

For fifty years SBS has been at the forefront of delivering multilingual, multicultural, and First Nations content, tailored to Australia's diverse communities. In this series we highlight major news events, personalities, places and stories that made headlines in Australia and around the world.

Publisher

SBS

Category

history · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Mar 2025

Latest episode

9 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Mar 2025

   SBS50: Biggest Stories 1975

   One of the stories that shook the world in 1975 was Cambodia’s genocide. Communist forces lead by Pol Pot attempted to socially engineer a classless, peasant society. The Khmer Rouge took aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servants, and religious leaders.

2. 

   9 Mar 2025

   SBS50: Biggest Stories 1976

   1976 was marked by a dramatic hostage-rescue mission carried out by Israeli soldiers at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July the 4th.

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   9 Mar 2025

   SBS50: Biggest Stories 1977

   1977 was significant in the entertainment world for two events. Star Wars hit theatres for the first time and went onto become the third highest grossing film ever. And then - sad news for rock ‘n roll fans – the premature death of Elvis Presley.

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