Nathan Buckley

Documentary about Tom Wills, charting his rise to fame as a champion cricketer and founder of Australian football, his close links to Aboriginal Australia, and his fall into alcoholism and debauchery, leading to the most brutal of suicides.

Plenty have had an opinion on the colourful football career of Dane Swan. In fact in 258 games, the 2011 Brownlow Medallist created probably just as many headlines. It all came to an end in 2016 when Swan suffered a foot injury that would go on to end his famous ride in the Black and White. And throughout the season, Collingwood Media was there for every step.

Bryan Strauchan - Collingwood's last pick in the 2004 AFL national draft and yet to play a senior game, has captured the hearts of football fans across the country. His daily struggle to make his debut has been graphically depicted , warts and all, with the cameras gaining unprecedented access to Collingwood's inner sanctum.

Channel Seven and former AFL player and football film maker Rob Dickson present an amazing all access look into our unique Australian Game. Hosted and narrated by Nathan Buckley, the Essence of the Game were allowed into the dressing rooms during the entire 2008 season to take a behind the scenes look at what makes football clubs tick, including Hawthorn and Geelong on Grand Final day. The documentary also celebrates the breadth of the game to everything from kids to international teams and what footy means to them. Commissioned by the AFL and Seven to capture the essence of football, this documentary tracks a range of football stories from the elite to the grassroots.

This is the story of the last fifty years from the Premiership of Lou Richards in 1953 through to the days of Nathan Buckley and his men. We relive the triumphs of the fifties through Richards, Rose and Weideman. The Grand Final nightmares of the sixties and early seventies through Tuddenham, Thompson, Gabelich, Waters, and McKenna. We follow the epic struggles of Tom Hafey and his men as they took the Magpies to the top of the ladder only to have that ultimate prize cruelly snatched from their grasp. This is the story of a proud Football Club - there is none prouder.

Alan Didak chats Candidly about his 150 game career and journey at Collingwood, with club president Eddie McGuire, in this special commemorative program. Alan reflects on some of the greatest games he has been involved with the Magpies, including "the most important win ever" in the 2002 preliminary final against Port Adelaide. Four club greats Craig Kelly, Peter Daicos and Nathan Buckley reflect on Didak's action packed career and Alan compares this years Magpies with the 2002 team, which he describes as a team you would go to war with. Alan reckons the 2009 version can go all the way.

AFL legend Adam Goodes shares the story of his life and career to offer a deeper insight into race, identity, and belonging.

Old timers at Collingwood marvel at his skills. Commentators rave about his footballing prowess. In his distinguished football career Nathan Buckley just seems to get better with every season. A Grand Final hero with Port Adelaide, a Magarey Medal as South Australia's finest and the Norwich Rising Star as an outstanding rookie in the AFL and all before the age of 22.

An intimate look at Collingwood Football Club as it rebuilds itself and aims for glory over the course of the 2018 season.