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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 1 July 2019 (free-to-air revival) | (pay TV)
Closed | 31 January 2018 | (pay TV)
Former names | World Movies (1995–2018) |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview SBS | Channel 32 |
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. It was revived on Channel 32 as a free-to-air channel on 1 July 2019.