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Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986)
The documentary examines aspects of life in Chile under the dictatorship of General Pinochet. The film records songs of protest by the Chileans and the director interviews dissidents as well as people who support the regime. Bradbury also filmed demonstrations ... [read more]
The Sundowner (1953)
Convinced her father was murdered, Kim Marsden (Jeanette Elphick) tells cattle station manager McLeod (Max Osbiston) she has sent for ‘the Sundowner’. McLeod claims the Sundowner is a myth created by Aborigines. [read more]
Living in the 70’s (1974)
The title track of the Living in the 70’s album, recorded during June and July 1974 at the TCS Studios in Melbourne. The album, produced by Ross Wilson from the band Daddy Cool, broke all previous sales records for ... [read more]
John Safran’s Music Jamboree – Episode 2 (2002)
John Safran’s Music Jamboree is a ten-part comedy-documentary series about music and pop culture. In episode 2, John Safran stages a Footloose-inspired dance protest at his former high school and helps nine young men gain entry into an exclusive Melbourne ... [read more]
Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma (1979)
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Give Her Roses’ (1959)
This is a 60-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates from 1959. [read more]
Art + Soul (2010)
Senior art curator Hetti Perkins travels across the country meeting with leading Aboriginal artists in an endeavour to answer some fundamental questions. Why do artists make art? Why do they share their stories of home or their journeys away, their ... [read more]
Alyawarre Country (2001)
A documentary about how, in January 1889, cattle arrived in the Frew River area, and changed the lives of the local Indigenous peoples forever. [read more]
World’s oldest living culture (1988)
An Aboriginal protest march took place on Australia’s bicentenary 26 January 1988. An Aboriginal speaker describes the invasion of Australia and the resulting problems of dispossession and poverty. She also says it is a day to celebrate the survival of ... [read more]
Shifting Sands – Promise (1997)
A short drama about a grandmother’s tale of her promise marriage. [read more]
Mr Squiggle and Friends – Cheer Up (1990)
The episode opens with Reg (Mikel Robins) and Bill Steamshovel (Norman Hetherington) discussing rain, which would make Gus the Snail happy but Bill unhappy (because he rusts). They then cheer each other up with some riddles. Rebecca (Hetherington) prepares a ... [read more]
Samson and Delilah (2009)
Samson and Delilah is the story of two Indigenous teenagers growing up in a socio-economically disadvantaged community in central Australia. Samson (Rowan McNamara) and Delilah (Marissa Gibson) struggle to find the strength, courage and resilience to rise above the challenges ... [read more]
Loggerheads (c1990)
In 1992 the NSW State Government gave permission for logging to commence in Northern NSW, prior to an environmental impact study being completed. Environmentalists protested to stop the logging until the study was completed, claiming that there were ... [read more]
Selling Sickness (2004)
This report looks at the increased use of antidepressant drugs. It examines the marketing and promotion of medicines to treat normally occurring conditions. Specialists are interviewed and patients talk about the undesirable side effects of stopping taking the new drugs. ... [read more]
Take the tempo from the teeth (1948)
This 10-minute film, seen here in full, promotes the consumption of milk as a health product. Helen is having afternoon tea with a friend who compliments Helen’s grown son on his sparkling white teeth. Helen credits them to the large ... [read more]
‘You’d have to burn the place down’ (2008)
Carla (Claire van der Boom) shows Ray (David Roberts) a sample of the money she’s found and tries to persuade him to help her steal the rest of it. When he baulks at her suggestion, she questions whether he’s serious ... [read more]
A baptism of fire (2006)
Marg’s first placement with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) was in South Sudan where a terrible civil war had been raging for over 20 years. She was thrown into the work from the very first moment she arrived at ... [read more]
Preparations for the carnival (1952)
A voice-over prompts the question, would you meet your neighbours with warmth and friendship or with bombs? Images of friendly Chinese people are contrasted with the bombs and destruction of war. This then cuts to youth erecting posters for the ... [read more]
‘Take time by the forelock’ (1948)
This clip shows the first two minutes of the travelogue Skyway Express. It was produced in the late 1940s for exhibition in the cinema. It shows the start of a passenger plane journey to London. The clip covers the journey ... [read more]
Big Girls Don’t Cry (2002)
A moving documentary about Indigenous women living with kidney disease. [read more]
