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G.P. – Toss a Coin (1989)
G.P. is a television drama about the professional and personal lives of the staff at the Ross Street Surgery, a busy suburban medical practice run by doctors William Sharp (Michael Craig) and his nephew Robert Sharp (John McTernan). In this ... [read more]
BMX Bandits (1983)
Teenage BMX bike riders Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo) become friends with Judy (Nicole Kidman), who is working the summer at a supermarket, when their bikes are destroyed by runaway shopping trolleys. Judy is fired and, with ... [read more]
Mail Order Bride (1984)
After an exchange of letters, a Filipino woman known as ‘Ampy’ (Charito Ortez) arrives in Australia to marry Kevin (Ray Meagher), a builder who lives in a caravan park in a small town in far-western NSW. They struggle to ... [read more]
Dingo (1991)
On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the tarmac after his plane makes an unscheduled stop. John Anderson (Daniel Scott), aged nine, decides ... [read more]
Minymaku Way: There’s Only One Women’s Council (2000)
This documentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. [read more]
Father (2008)
An autobiographical animated short film about a boy struggling to understand his ‘strange, silent’ father, who arrived in Australia as a refugee from Lithuania. [read more]
Amy (1998)
Tanya Rammus (Rachel Griffiths) moves back to Melbourne with her daughter Amy (Alana De Roma) after a scrape with child welfare workers in the bush. Amy, aged eight, has become deaf and dumb since witnessing the death of her rock ... [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]
Praise (1998)
Gordon (Peter Fenton) works in a Brisbane bottle shop, but quits when they ask him to work fours days in a row. He begins a relationship with Cynthia (Sacha Horler), who has quit the same hotel. They both like drinking ... [read more]
Travelling North (1987)
After retiring, Frank (Leo McKern) and his new companion Frances (Julia Blake) leave Melbourne to begin a new life in Port Douglas, in far north Queensland. He’s an irascible ex-communist civil engineer; she’s a sweet-tempered woman who believes in God ... [read more]
The national interest (1993)
Prime Minister Paul Keating outlines the basic principles of the Mabo legislation, the Native Title Act 1993. While Indigenous Australians, landowners and governments will not get everything they want from the legislation, Keating says the national interest will be served. [read more]
Yolngu Boy (2000)
Botj, Lorrpu and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers from northeast Arnhem Land, who are about to become men. Botj (Sean Mununggurr) is estranged from his parents and prone to glue sniffing. He’s upset when his friends Lorrpu (John Sebastian Pilakui) ... [read more]
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Mid-19th century England. Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) is a trainee Anglican priest studying at Oxford University. Taken to the horse races by fellow student Wardley-Fish (Barnaby Kay), Oscar develops an uncontrollable passion for gambling. Despite giving his winnings to charity, ... [read more]
‘I’d back her next season’ (1949)
Sam Curzon (Charles Tingwell) repays the money he stole from father WJ (Charles Randall) and mother Laura (Muriel Steinbeck). Surrounded by her family, June (Nonnie Peifer) attempts to walk for the first time since her accident. Hugh Duncan (James Workman) ... [read more]
Kenny (2006)
Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson) provides an essential service, but few people want to shake his hand. As a senior plumber at Splashdown Corporate Bathroom Rentals, he provides portable toilets for any outdoor event – from rock festivals to neighbourhood fairs. ... [read more]
Surfing, a national sport (1949)
Commentator John Moyes explains that men are making surfboards out of plywood. A line of surfers carry their boards down to the shore and paddle out towards the breakers. The camera follows their path, capturing them from just in front ... [read more]
‘A new nation flexing its muscles’ (1954)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrive in Sydney aboard the Royal ship SS Gothic, to be greeted at Farm Cove by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and the Governor-General, Sir William Slim. The ... [read more]
Hay citizens’ band (1993)
As the current Hay Citizens’ Band marches and plays, we learn about its 96-year history through stills and archival footage of soldiers leaving for the First World War. [read more]
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
When John Skinner is beaten to death in his suburban home, suspicion falls on his daughter Katrina (Emily Barclay), whose grief is short-lived. In fact, she seems to love the media attention that follows her new notoriety. Months after the ... [read more]
Barred Wives (1993)
Through the examples of four couples, the documentary examines why women marry prisoners, and the complexities and difficulties they experience. [read more]
