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Fran (1985)
In suburban Perth, young mother Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has been seeking the social and sexual comfort of men while her husband, Ray (Danny Adcock), works up north. Ray returns unexpectedly one day, saying he’s heard of her infidelity. He viciously ... [read more]
A treasure hunt at Katoomba (1936)
At Echo Point in the Blue Mountains, lovers Jack (Harry Cantor) and Jill (Margaret Jackson) begin their quest to find a £500 cheque hidden in the area. They proceed along the Prince Henry Cliff Walk followed by other sightseers and ... [read more]
‘How are you?’ (1998)
Arriving at work for the day, Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton) tries to take Diver Dan’s advice and really mean it when she asks her clerk, Angus (Tom Long), ‘How are you?’, much to his bemusement. When court is in session, ... [read more]
Beautiful Lies: A Film About Peter Carey (1986)
The title comes from Mark Twain’s description of Australian history which he found so curious and strange that it read ‘like the most beautiful lies’. Peter Carey recounts the relationship between the country he draws inspiration from and his novels. ... [read more]
Darwin Airport in the 1960s (1962)
Passengers cross the tarmac to board the new Boeing 707 jet aircraft. It stops in Singapore, Bangkok, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo, Rome and London. [read more]
Australia (1934)
Semi-professional filmmaker Gordon Donkin, accompanied by his wife, travelled more than 25,000 kilometres over 18 months filming throughout Australia. The resulting documentary presents a comprehensive and realistic picture of life and work in 1930s Australia with an emphasis on the ... [read more]
Catalyst – Genius of Junk (2003)
This is a story of triumph and tragedy. Dr Malcolm Simons, an internationally recognised immunologist, has turned 'junk DNA’ into gold. He has patented his discovery that non-coding DNA is of vital importance to our understanding of how diseases ... [read more]
Take the trip (1999)
This clip opens with a wide shot of the bikes coming out of a bunker and two bikies with guns in a graveyard. There is fast cutting and a violent fight ensues. A narrator explains what Stone (1974) is about, ... [read more]
Starring – the house (1988)
The real estate agent (Peter Felmingham) comes to look over the Georgallis family home and makes a few suggestions on how it could be improved for sale, upsetting most of the family along the way. His reaction to Con’s masterpiece ... [read more]
Hello (2003)
This gently funny short is a take on the classic 'boy wants girl’ love story, set in a fantastical world where all the characters have music players for heads. A boy with an analog tape recorder for a head, is ... [read more]
Lucinda Brayford (1980)
Lucinda Brayford (Wendy Hughes) is a lively and elegant but naive 18-year-old woman. Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who ... [read more]
Belsen For Example (1985)
A German film crew interviews survivors, now living in Australia, of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The recollections of the victims and members of the rescue teams are a harrowing testament to man’s inhumanity to man. The survivors hope that such ... [read more]
A delivery to King Billy (1956)
The crooked publican has tricked Smiley (Colin Petersen) into making a delivery of opium to the blacks’ camp across the river. This is supposed to be 'out of bounds’ to whites, but Smiley has clearly been there before. He gives ... [read more]
Shame (1987)
Perth lawyer Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness) crashes her motorcycle near a small town in Western Australia. While waiting for repairs Asta stays at the house of garage owner Tim Curtis (Tony Barry). After being subjected to sexual harassment and physical ... [read more]
Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (1976)
This documentary made by the New South Wales Department of Main Roads features the reconstruction of a five-and-a-half kilometre stretch of the Pacific Highway at Clybucca Flat, north of Kempsey, using continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP). It includes footage ... [read more]
Inheriting the earth (1988)
Now a widower, Richard Eastwick’s (Hugo Weaving) son, David (Peter Phelps), had gone to fight in the First World War over his father’s objections. He is killed in action and Richard is heartbroken that he will no longer have an ... [read more]
‘Was a little one’ (2003)
Frank Djara introduces himself. Frank tells us diabetes is like a time bomb. Black-and-white photographs show Areyonga where Frank is from. We also see black-and-white photographs of Indigenous children. Frank introduces us to his childhood friend Jarla. The two men ... [read more]
Child Soldiers (2002)
There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. The film features historical footage, interviews with child soldiers and their families ... [read more]
Breaking the ice (1956)
With the ship held fast in the ice, Phillip Law decides to explore the largely unknown Larsemann Hills. The ship unloads a Weasel, an American over-snow vehicle, which will tow the specially constructed caravan, followed by a sledge. The plan ... [read more]
ALP: It’s Time (1972)
This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election. [read more]
