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For the future (2006)
Against a backdrop of images of the Ramingining community, director Rolf de Heer talks about the unexpected problems in casting Ten Canoes (2006). The kinship laws are so complex that the final choice of cast is now in the hands ... [read more]
Corroboree (1950)
This is an orchestral suite for a ballet by Australian composer John Antill, first recorded in 1950 by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [read more]
Faking and fighting the final battle (1919)
A shell explodes in No-Man’s-Land after a title suggesting that this is part of an Australian follow-up to an American attack on the Hindenburg Line in late September 1918. The title says the Australians broke through at Gillemont Farm after ... [read more]
Taking Pictures (1996)
Directors Les McLaren and Annie Stiven interview filmmakers about the ethical questions and issues of representation raised when filming Papua New Guinean and other cultures. Taking Pictures features clips from many Australian ethnographic documentaries filmed in PNG. [read more]
Lisa is put to the test (2001)
Veronica (Heli Simpson) secretly plants a noisy pager on Stevie’s (Sophie Bennett) easily spooked horse Comanche. Veronica tests the loyalty of Lisa (Lara Jean Marshall) by letting her in on the plan. Despite the threat of blackmail, Lisa acts without ... [read more]
We’re All Independent Now (1995)
The Family Law Act was enacted in 1975. Twenty years later, filmmaker Don Parham questions its effectiveness and relevance with particular reference to its effect on children. Parham narrates the documentary and uses interviews with experts and children. He also ... [read more]
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]
The shelling of Pozières ridge (1918)
Australian field guns join in the bombardment of Pozières. An artillery officer uses a megaphone to communicate with his gunners. They keep up a constant rain of shells on the German positions on the ridge. Horse-drawn limbers and mules bring ... [read more]
Merrepen (2005)
A documentary about the gathering of the leaves and berries from the Merrepen plant by Indigenous women from the Nauiya community on the Daly River to make dilly bags and baskets. [read more]
Moodeitj Yorgas (1988)
Made during the 1980s, Moodeitj Yorgas is an experimental documentary by Tracey Moffatt on prominent Indigenous women. Moffatt uses her experience as a visual artist to make a film that is somewhat experimental and unconventional about the strength of Aboriginal ... [read more]
A winner is chosen (2005)
Presenter James O’Loghlin teases out the elements necessary for a winner, while the judges are faced with the almost impossible task of choosing between three really cleverly designed and useful inventions. [read more]
Spirit 2000: Countdown to Sydney (1998)
Director David Goldie interviews athletes as they prepare for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He talks to them at training and asks what drives them and what makes a champion. Goldie also interviews parents and partners of the athletes. The ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – 10,000 Miles around Australia (c1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1926 shows the arrival of Mr and Mrs F Dean in Melbourne after their trip around Australia by touring car. The trip was sponsored by the Shell company who supplied their petrol. Buffalo horns ... [read more]
Bapaume is burning (1917)
Mounted transport columns move up the Albert-Bapaume Road, skirting a large crater created by a German mine. The road runs beside a light railway line recently built by the Australian Pioneers (see clip one). A tank lumbers over the shell ... [read more]
Bye Bye Baby (1959)
A jaunty two-and-a-half minute pop song performed by Col Joye, Australia’s first home-grown rock’n'roll star, and the Joy Boys, with backing vocals from the Sapphires. This catchy pop tune of the late ’50s reached number one on the Sydney charts ... [read more]
Here is the news (1984)
John Clarke does a satirical presentation of the national news. His stories include swipes at nationalism, Australia’s relationship with the United States and sound bites from some of the best known political leaders of the day including Don Chipp (Max ... [read more]
Jimmy Little’s Gentle Journey (2006)
A documentary about singer–songwriter Jimmy Little, an Indigenous musician whose voice reaches out to all people across the generations. [read more]
‘Paradise is youth’ (1981)
After the coup has been foiled, Stacey (Ray Barrett) meets Cathy, the child/woman (Janet Scrivener), at a café. As her godfather, he had given her a golliwog, when she was eight. Now he buys her another and ruminates on what ... [read more]
King Billy’s First Car (1939)
In this animated advertisement for Super Shell, King Billy invents an animal-made and animal-powered car. [read more]
Abigail is transported back (1985)
When Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) touches ‘the little fairy girl’, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), it sets off a reaction that sends them both back in time 100 years. With Beatie the only link to her former life, Abigail chases after ... [read more]
