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All Quiet on the Surfie-Rocker Front (1963)
At Manly in 1963, police step up patrols to curb gang violence between surfers and ‘rocker’ groups from the outer suburbs. The narration says that there have been fights almost every weekend between rival gangs, and there is a threat ... [read more]
‘A stumbling block in the path of progress’ (1981)
After a night in jail, retired professor B.C. Simmonds (Alexander Archdale) and his daughter Jessica (Liz Alexander) return to Angel Street, where demolitions are in progress. B.C. explains why he won’t leave. [read more]
Black Harvest (1992)
By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black Harvest. This film follows First Contact (1983) and Joe ... [read more]
Breaking the rules (1971)
Grant (Gary Bond) is full of remorse, nursing a bad hangover. Somehow, he has ended up staying with 'Doc’ Tydon (Donald Pleasence), who lives in a shack on the outskirts of town. The doctor taunts him about his failure the ... [read more]
Diggers (1931)
At a battalion reunion after the First World War, Chic Williams (Pat Hanna) and his ‘cobber’ Joe Mulga (George Moon) recall their exploits on the Western Front in France. In extended flashbacks, we see them getting wounded, repatriated to London, ... [read more]
The hopes for irrigation (1954)
The clip illuminates the hopes and dreams for irrigation in the Murrumbidgee and Murray Valleys, which turning the waters of the Snowy westward will achieve. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – 70,000 Pounds Production Nears Completion (1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman standing on a moving platform, or dolly, ... [read more]
Broken Sun (2008)
In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary existence until he discovers and captures Masura (Shingo Usami), a Japanese prisoner ... [read more]
Archibald Family: Family Scenes and Outings in Sydney (c1932)
This home movie produced by the Archibald family in approximately 1932, features a variety of scenes illustrating their family life. These include beach scenes, a young girl’s birthday party and shots from onboard a boat on Pittwater, Sydney. [read more]
The new cookie (1990)
Club owner Yanni (Nicholas Papademetriou) takes Carl (Sam Neill) to the kitchen in the club basement to explain his new job. The cool room is full of cockroaches and rotting food. The kitchen hand Mustafa (Nico Lathouris) arrives late and ... [read more]
Tatler Social Newsreel: Social Party in South Yarra (c1934)
This newsreel made by FW Thring’s Efftee Film Productions contains three items: a society party held by Mrs Lou Connolly at her home in South Yarra; the first meeting of the Centenary Dog Club at Melbourne Showgrounds; and the activities ... [read more]
‘The last Tasmanian’ (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins recounts Truganini’s concerns about her burial and the resting place of her body after her death. Darlene Mansell, historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, and writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung Heritage, discuss Truganini’s government-given status ... [read more]
Planting the flag (1954)
The ten men who will man Mawson Station for the next year wave goodbye from their Weasel, which heads back over the ice to their new base. The ship heads east, hoping to explore the region around Prydz Bay and ... [read more]
The getaway cars (1986)
Malcolm (Colin Friels) shows Frank (John Hargreaves) his version of a getaway car, gleaned from watching television shows. Frank takes the opportunity to make an unofficial withdrawal at a bank, but is completely taken aback when Malcolm shows him what ... [read more]
‘The Snowy Mountains song’ (1963)
At night, in the recreation hut of one of the Snowy Mountains Scheme workers’ camps, the men sing 'The Snowy Mountains song’. [read more]
The new invincibles (2002)
The men of Cityside Bowling Club enter the lion’s den for the final. Bogarra Bowls Club, run by arch-enemy Bernie Fowler (John Clarke), is a poker machine palace that also has bowling greens. President Len (Frank Wilson) gives a stirring ... [read more]
‘They always do’ (1996)
The Special Operations Unit surround a suspect’s boat, as detectives Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) and Rachel Goldstein (Catherine McClements) look on. [read more]
Maidens (1978)
Maidens is a biographical chronicle. It uses personal archives, made up of still and moving image, from both domestic and vocational sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). [read more]
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
In 1916, during the First World War when both sides have fought to a virtual standstill, Queensland miner Oliver Woodward (Brendan Cowell) joins up. He becomes a captain and leads his men, many of them fellow Australians with mining experience, ... [read more]
Funny by George: The George Wallace Story (1999)
A biography of comedian and actor George Wallace (1895-1960). The documentary traces Wallace’s life from childhood to death. The film shows Wallace starring in many of his films, along with interviews and other archival moving image and stills. [read more]
