About Us

Make every night a film festival with The WORLD MOVIES Channel, Australia’s ultimate arthouse and international movie destination. Offering a refreshing change to the generic Hollywood mainstream, The WORLD MOVIES Channel brings you the best international cinema sourced from the finest film festivals around the world including Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

We guarantee to bring you no less than 12 Exclusive to Australian Television films every month, all of which are screened uncut, uncensored and ad free – exactly as the directed intended.

With dedicated programming blocks showcasing the best international cinema on Sunday nights at 8:30pm with FilmFirst: Essential Sunday Cinema, hidden cinematic and documentary gems with The Radar on Mondays at 9:30pm and the classic favourites on Friday Night Favourites at 8:30pm, The WORLD MOVIES Channel hand-selects classic and contemporary works that may have once disappeared under the radar.

See what the world has to offer.

To watch The WORLD MOVIES Channel, subscribe to FOXTEL, AUSTAR or Optus Television. The WORLD MOVIES Channel is available on Showtime Movies tier, Movie Network tier and is also available as a stand-alone channel on AUSTAR and a speciality channel on FOXTEL.

Corporate Information

The WORLD MOVIES Channel is owned and produced by PAN TV Ltd which is operated through SBS’s wholly owned subsidiary, Multilingual Subscriber Television. PAN TV Ltd also produces Australia’s newest dedicated art channel STVDIO. The WORLD MOVIES Channel began broadcasting in October 1995 coinciding with the launch of subscription TV in Australia.

PAN TV Limited also manages a number of contract partnerships that assist in the delivery of key operations which include programming, marketing, broadcast transmission services, television production and general administration.