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Bit of Black Business – Jackie Jackie (2007)
Jinaali (Elaine Crombie) works at Sunny Fresh Supermarket. She stands out from most of the other blond employees and customers. She initiates an 'equal opportunity line’ so she can serve those of difference and like mind. Her boss, Mr Chuck ... [read more]
Mister Prime Minister – Joseph Aloysius Lyons (c1966)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1932 to 1939. Academics, Lyons’s widow Dame Enid Lyons and political figures, including former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies, discuss Lyons’s life and times. [read more]
Mutt (2008)
Mac, a hardened outback farmer, his mellow cow Matilda and his playful dog Mutt are in conflict, yet are dependent on each other for their survival. [read more]
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Children’s Party and Beach (1941)
In this silent colour home movie, Frederick Simpson Dyer records his daughter Janet’s sixth birthday party and a family holiday by the beach. [read more]
Towards a new age (1946)
The clip shows this Liberal Party cinema advertisement, for the 28 September 1946 federal election, in its entirety. The ad presents the post-Second World War period as potentially a time of great possibility for the Australian people. It argues that ... [read more]
Dead Heart (1996)
When a young aboriginal man is found hanging in a police cell, Senior Constable Ray Larkin (Bryan Brown) allows his own deputy (Lafe Charlton) to be speared as payback. The tiny settlement of Wala Wala is soon in uproar again ... [read more]
Lantana (2001)
In the midst of a midlife crisis, detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates the disappearance of a prominent psychiatrist, Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey). Zat suspects her husband John Knox (Geoffrey Rush) of having had a homosexual affair with Patrick ... [read more]
Man of Flowers (1983)
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead mother, plays church organ, loves ... [read more]
Cop Shop – Episode 109 (1978)
The Riverside police investigate a payroll robbery at a mill owned by Ralph Kingston (Roger Newcombe). They quickly set their sights on Kingston’s employee Rod Conway (Stephen Bisley), a mechanic with a criminal record, without realising that a romantic drama ... [read more]
Gettin’ Square (2003)
After eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) gets paroled because of the death of his mother. He returns to the Gold Coast determined to stay out of trouble, but trouble keeps finding ... [read more]
One Shoe Short (2007)
In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to help him out by reorganising ... [read more]
Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
After the body of a young heroin addict is found in Sydney Harbour, Rob (Bryan Brown) tries to find out why she committed suicide. He and the dead girl Lisa (Margie McCrae) were lovers at university, united by their political ... [read more]
Kingswood Country – There’s No Place Like Rome (1980)
When Thelma Bullpitt (Judi Farr) wins a trip for two to Rome, husband Ted (Ross Higgins) refuses to leave Australia. Thelma takes son-in-law Bruno Bertolucci’s (Lex Marinos) mother along instead. While their wives are away, Bruno’s father Enzo Bertolucci (Joseph ... [read more]
Patineur Grotesque (1896)
This short piece of actuality footage shows a man in costume on rollerskates performing a comic act for a gathering crowd. [read more]
Argentine Ants Advertisement (1968)
A black-and-white television advertisement in which Trapper Tom (Barry Crocker) encourages children to hunt Argentine ants in their local neighbourhood for a ten dollar reward. [read more]
The contestants (1911)
Against the backdrop of foliage, the first 15 contestants sit for the camera. The girls, dressed in their best attire, are seated next to large numbered cards. At what seems to be the prompt of an off-screen suggestion, some of ... [read more]
Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989)
A biographical documentary that follows Australian artist Brett Whiteley as he travels from his studio in Sydney to London. Whiteley started painting in the 1960s in London and Paris before returning to Sydney. He has painted landscapes, portraits, tributes to ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Too Late (2007)
Ben (Aaron Pedersen) returns home and instantly realises he is in some kind of trouble. His girlfriend Gemma (Ngaire Pigram) is giving him the cold shoulder and not speaking to him. His son, BJ (Jake Phillips), asks Ben, 'I thought ... [read more]
Postwar Berlin (1948)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, during a trip through Europe in 1948 shows the destruction that followed the Second World War in Berlin. Piles of rubble stand tall in front of ... [read more]
Cedar Boys (2008)
Cedar Boys depicts young Lebanese Australians being tempted into a lifestyle of crime, driven in part by a nursed sense of class and racial grievance. Tarek (Les Chantery) is frustrated by his job as a panel beater. He wants money ... [read more]
