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Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [read more]
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Milkshakes and Bomb Shelter (c1940)
This 16mm black-and-white home movie shot by Frederick Simpson Dyer features three children riding their bikes in Balwyn, Victoria, enjoying milkshakes at an old-fashioned milk bar, and playing in a bomb shelter in their backyard. [read more]
Dave in love (1920)
Dave (Tal Ordell) dances with glee after he receives a letter from his new sweetheart Lily White (Carmen Coleman). Joe, the youngest Rudd (Arthur Wilson) thinks he’s gone mad. The Rudd women crowd around to look at Dave’s photo of ... [read more]
‘Send a petition to the King’ (1983)
The clip begins with historical footage of King Burraga who speaks about equal rights and justice for Aboriginal people. William Cooper, an Aboriginal elder, begins the fight for rights by having a petition signed, with the intention of delivering it ... [read more]
Let’s Go (c1956)
This promotional documentary made by the Shell Film Unit advertises the Shell Company of Australia’s extensive knowledge of motoring and Australian motorists’ needs. It focuses on the qualities of the Shell Touring Service throughout the country and their nationwide network ... [read more]
A road train driver (2007)
Thommo (Shane Jacobson), a road train driver, is baffled when he stops at the road-closed-due-to-flooding sign placed earlier by John with the aim of preventing vehicles from heading any further. He calls local cop Rosco (Bryan Brown, who stopped John ... [read more]
December Boys (2006)
Father Scully (Frank Gallacher) drives Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers) and Spit (James Fraser) hundreds of miles from the middle of Australia to the beach for a holiday after a benefactor gives some money to the ... [read more]
Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939)
This Australia Today newsreel looks at the ‘silent terrors of the deep’ – sharks. It begins on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, makes its way through the murky waters of the Georges River where terror strikes, and finally travels out ... [read more]
Walk Into Paradise (1956)
As he’s heading for Australia on leave, senior patrol officer Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) is recalled to take a patrol into unmapped territory in the highlands of Australian-administered New Guinea. An old prospector, 'Sharkeye’ Kelly (Reg Lye), has discovered oil ... [read more]
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
University student Lucy (Emily Browning) works a number of jobs – medical researcher’s guinea pig, waitress, part-time escort. Unable to pay her rent, and threatened with eviction by her flatmates, she answers an advertisement in a student newspaper to become ... [read more]
I don’t want your lousy money (1969)
Tony (Rod Mullinar) tears up a cheque given to him by his lover, Paul (Sean McEuan). Tony says he already has everything Paul aspires to. [read more]
Unprotected forests in danger (1991)
Over footage of a beautiful old growth forest, narrator Noni Hazlehurst explains that, at the current rate of deforestation, Australia’s unprotected forests could no longer exist in 250 years’ time. The forest’s native animals are shown as the narrator explains ... [read more]
Has Beans (1998)
While snoozing peacefully, a plump little kidney bean is accosted by two malicious lima beans. Kicking the little bean as if it were a ball, the lima beans amuse themselves with the kidney bean’s pain. The maligned bean complains to ... [read more]
DAAS Kapital – Faith (1992)
Giant global conglomerate Shitsu Tonka Corporation has taken over the earth. The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are stranded aboard Titanic 2, a giant submarine carrying the world’s great art treasures and historic artefacts. ... [read more]
At The Movies – Series 1 Episode 63, Wolf Creek (2005)
This week Margaret and David discuss the Australian film Wolf Creek with accompanying interviews with the director Greg McLean and actor Cassandra Magrath. There’s also a review of a documentary about the inside story of a porn phenomenon Inside Deep ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Done Dirt Cheap (2007)
Not far from the bustling Kalgoorlie mines, local Aboriginal couple Amos (Trevor Jamieson) and Gracie (Wendy Martin) are fossicking for gold with a pick and shovel. It seems they have hit paydirt so Amos heads to town where gold is ... [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]
Noah and Saskia – Tomorrow Never Knows (2004)
Feisty Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) seeks revenge when a faceless geek somewhere in cyber world steals her music. This opening episode of a 13-part series shows the start of the online relationship between two teenagers – the uncool but quick-tongued Saskia ... [read more]
Queen Street and Victoria Bridge (1899)
This actuality footage, shot in 1899, shows electric trams in Queen Street, Brisbane, with the Treasury building and Victoria Bridge in the background. [read more]
