SBS World Movies
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SBS World Movies is an Australian free-to-air television channel showing international movies. The channel features foreign language films, documentaries, independent, annual films, art films and mainstream cinema and interviews with international movie stars. It was previously known simply as World Movies and was available on Foxtel. Its library of movies is currently available on the SVOD service Stan and Netflix, and it was revived on Channel 32 as a free-to-air channel, on 1 July 2019.
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Country | Australia |
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Broadcast area | Nationally |
Network | SBS Television |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed on pay TV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Special Broadcasting Service |
Sister channels | SBS SBS HD SBS Viceland SBS WorldWatch SBS Food NITV |
History | |
Launched | October 1995; 28 years ago (October 1995) (pay TV) 1 July 2019; 4 years ago (1 July 2019) (free-to-air revival) |
Closed | 31 January 2018; 6 years ago (31 January 2018) (pay TV) |
Former names | World Movies (1995–2018) |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview SBS | Channel 32 |
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