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Blackbuster (2012)

Rowdy punters at a kooky Queensland pub stir an unusual awakening in pirated-DVD dealer Kainen (Jeremy Ambrum). As his crush grows for Tanika (Naomi Bowly), the daughter of the publican (Martin Sacks), his uncontrollable imagination takes us on a ... [read more]

The White Monkey (1987)

This documentary biography follows Father Brian Gore as he works among the poor on the island of Negros in the Philippines. In his fight for social justice he was imprisoned, along with eight others, on trumped up charges by the ... [read more]

‘Mothers don’t give up their babies easily’ (1988)

Kate visits a volunteer organisation to get help to locate her birth parents. Barry (Nick Enright) explains why there is so much secrecy around the details of adoption. [read more]

While There is Still Time (1941)

This is a short wartime documentary made by Charles and Elsa Chauvel for the Commonwealth Department of Information (DOI). It encourages Australians at home to work and save to help their loved ones overseas fighting the war. Grace (Dorothy ... [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]

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The brother is dead. The mayor (John Meillon) takes Arthur under his ... [read more]

The Chaser’s War on Everything – Series 1 Episode 1 (2006)

This is the first episode of the satirical variety program, containing comic pranks, commentary and send-ups responding to topical issues and more general subjects. This episode covers topics including the late Kerry Packer, the Australian Wheat Board and sniffer dogs ... [read more]

Mother and Son – The Money (1984)

Maggie Beare (Ruth Cracknell) has been hiding her pension cheques so that the government won’t know how much money she has. Her harassed son Arthur (Garry McDonald), would love to have some of that money to buy a new car ... [read more]

Touch the Sun – Princess Kate (c1988)

Fourteen-year-old Kate (Justine Clarke) is on top of the world. Popular, talented, much loved and spoilt by her wealthy Sydney family, she receives a seven-metre yacht, christened Princess Kate, from her father (Alan Cassel) for her birthday. Life is perfect ... [read more]

Beating About the Bush (1993)

The rock band Djaambi goes on tour in the Northern Territory visiting remote communities on the way and finishing in Darwin. The Melbourne band is made up of five white and four Indigenous Australians. The wet conditions make progress ... [read more]

The Shiralee (1987)

Macauley (Bryan Brown) is an itinerant rural worker who grew up the hard way, in an orphanage. Despite having a wife (Lorna Lesley) and child (Rebecca Smart) in the city, he’s a loner. He sends them money from his earnings ... [read more]

They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari), an Italian sports journalist, arrives in Australia to find his cousin’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He gets a job as a builder’s labourer, learns to talk and drink like an Australian, and falls ... [read more]

Four Corners – Inside the Circle (2005)

In NSW, Aboriginal people are just 2% of the population and yet make up 20% of the prison population. Something is being done to change this terrible statistic. It’s a new system to deal with Aboriginal offenders who come ... [read more]

Black Robe (1991)

In 1634, French Jesuit priest Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) leaves the fledgling colonial settlement of Quebec in Canada via canoe to join fellow missionaries who have settled up river with the Huron tribe. Accompanying Laforgue is a young Frenchman, Daniel ... [read more]

Compass – Broken Open (2005)

Craig Hamilton was a very successful sports commentator who suffered a nervous breakdown at the peak of his career. He was about to take up a job at the Sydney 2000 Olympics when he fell apart in a very public ... [read more]

Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)

Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes up to find a large female red kangaroo tapping her on the shoulder. With the ... [read more]

Four Corners – The Kilwa Incident (2005)

The disturbing story of a massacre, its cover-up and a UN investigation and report that implicates an Australian mining company working in the far reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This fabulously wealthy country was once the Belgian ... [read more]

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Li Cunxin (Wen Bin Huang), the son of Chinese peasants, is picked at a young age for training in a provincial ballet school in 1972 during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. While later training in an elite institution in Beijing, the ... [read more]

Small Treasures (1995)

Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) is swimming in the sea she loves, full of joy in expectation of her first baby. Walking by the shore, she reaffirms her fulfilment and happiness. But at home she panics, imagining the worst domestic ... [read more]

The Far Paradise (1928)

Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), who has spent years overseas, is on her way home when she meets and is attracted to Peter Lawton (Paul Longuet), son of attorney-general Howard Lawton (John Faulkner). While Peter’s father welcomes ... [read more]

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