6495 results prev 1 2 ... 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 ... 324 325 next
Time Bomb (2003)
A documentary about Frank Djara and his work as a men’s health consultant in Areyonga. Frank also talks about how diabetes has affected his life. [read more]
We Have To Live With It (1974)
A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about the impact of an existing port terminal on their community. Residents give their perspectives on ... [read more]
All About Olive (2004)
Filmmaker Mike Rubbo takes 105-year-old Olive Riley back to her childhood home in Broken Hill, western NSW, to talk about her life. Rubbo enlists Olive’s help to faithfully recreate scenes from Olive’s early life, using locals dressed in period ... [read more]
Mad Max 2 (1981)
After a disastrous war over oil, Max (Mel Gibson) has become a desert wanderer with few ties to the world. His family is dead; his only companion is a smart and ferocious blue heeler called ‘dog’. The desert is a ... [read more]
Give a Little Credit to your Dad; Lonesome for You, Mother Dear (1939)
Buddy Williams recorded six songs in his first recording session, on 7 September 1939 – the start of a career that would last 40 years and make him one of the foundation artists of Australian country music. Three of those ... [read more]
Manufacture of khaki (1916)
This brief fragment with intertitles shows part of the process of manufacturing khaki cloth including sewing, cutting, folding and the finished rolls of khaki. A woman works beside a large machine which produces large sheets of khaki cloth. She re-threads ... [read more]
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000)
In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited. [read more]
Redfern Beach (2001)
Max (Michael Tuahine), a worker in a fishmonger’s factory, falls in love with Dimitra (Phaedra Nicolaidis), the daughter of the factory owner (Nicholas Papademetriou). Dimitra’s father refuses to accept the relationship. [read more]
Australia Post – News Release E-Post Electronic Mail (1985)
This 1985 video press release explains E-Post, a new service offered by Australia Post. [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (1992)
This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. Nipper ... [read more]
Hot to trot (1977)
A cartoon adventure featuring Captain Goodvibes, the pig of steel, and his sidekick Astro. You can watch Hot to Trot here in its entirety. [read more]
Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Food for Thought (c1941)
This black-and-white and colour Kraft Cheddar Cheese advertisement looks at food preparation, food value and how Kraft cheese can make the difference to nutrition. [read more]
Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 51 (2006)
A fast-paced magazine-style program that explains tomorrow, today. This episode shows a device that can be inserted into your brain to prevent depression and a gadget to explain supernatural phenomena, while we see the future of the aeroplane, the car ... [read more]
Coming Up from Down Under (1983)
A documentary that reviews the re-emerging Australian film industry of the time. Even though the film refers to the Australian cinema prior to the mid ’70s, it concentrates on the period 1975-1983. The documentary features extracts from feature films and ... [read more]
‘I wanted to get closer to reality’ (2006)
In an excerpt from the only surviving interview with Bob Mathews, one of the founders of the Realist Film Unit, he describes the beginnings of his interest in film. Meanwhile, filmmaker John Hughes looks through the old film canisters Mathews’s ... [read more]
The silly faces of George Wallace (1999)
Stand up comic and film star George Wallace struts his stuff in this compilation of his film roles. [read more]
Roamin’ Holiday (1954)
This amateur travelogue made by John and Frank Straford records their trip to north-east Victoria. Places visited include Marysville, Stephenson Falls, Cumberland Falls, Tallangatta, Hume Weir and Bethanga. It includes both black-and-white and colour footage. [read more]
Crackerjack (2002)
Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy), a loud-mouthed slob, discovers a talent for lawn bowls when he’s called on to justify his membership of an inner-city bowls club. He’s been using his three memberships for access to the club’s free carpark, but ... [read more]
Bridge of brotherhood and unity (1997)
To the sound a Bosnian vocal group performing, people stream back into Sarajevo at the end of the Bosnian War as United Nations peacekeepers and international media look on. It is an emotional reunion between friends and relatives after a ... [read more]
Art + Soul (2010)
Senior art curator Hetti Perkins travels across the country meeting with leading Aboriginal artists in an endeavour to answer some fundamental questions. Why do artists make art? Why do they share their stories of home or their journeys away, their ... [read more]
