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First Australians – Episode 4, No Other Law (2008)
Episode four, 'No other law’, explores the history of white settlement in Central Australia and the stories of homicidal police officer Constable Willshire, who brings mayhem to the Arrernte nation. Authorities turn a blind eye before telegraph operator Frank Gillen ... [read more]
‘Where’s my piano?’ (1987)
The Kaboodle opening titles run into the first story: ‘Molly Makes Music’. While Molly (voiced by Cara Schwarz) is out for the day, removalists arrive at her house. She returns to find furniture missing and her mother (voiced by Julia ... [read more]
Welcome to Bellbird (1970)
These are the opening titles and theme music that went into Australian homes every night for ten years, just before the ABC’s seven o’clock news. In the scene that follows, Lori Chandler (Elspeth Ballantyne) has returned to Bellbird on holiday ... [read more]
Gallipoli (1981)
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) is a drifter with no great desire to ... [read more]
Palm Beach (1979)
Four characters, all misfits of a sort, cross paths over one weekend on the northern beaches of Sydney. Leilani (Amanda Berry) is a runaway 16-year-old; Larry (John Flaus) is a Bondi private eye who’s looking for her; Joe (Ken Brown) ... [read more]
They’re a Weird Mob (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari), an Italian sports journalist, arrives in Australia to find his cousin’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He gets a job as a builder’s labourer, learns to talk and drink like an Australian, and falls ... [read more]
The St Kilda Esplanade on Boxing Day (c1913)
This fragment from a silent documentary or newsreel item takes an observational look at the St Kilda esplanade and foreshore on Boxing Day 1913. People relax on the grass, enjoy amusement rides at Luna Park and swim at the beach. [read more]
Mystery Island (1937)
An inter-island steamer bound for Noumea is wrecked on an island reef during a storm. The survivors include an Australian detective and a killer, whose identities are known only to the captain (William Lane-Bayliff), but he is now suffering a ... [read more]
Don’s Party (1976)
On federal election night in 1969, Don and Kath Henderson (John Hargreaves and Jeanie Drynan) host a party, to celebrate what they expect will be a Labor victory after 20 years of conservative government. Most of their friends vote Labor. ... [read more]
Dynasties – The Murdochs (2001)
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is the last of the world’s great media empires controlled by a family dynasty. The Murdochs is a portrait of a very close-knit family. Now in his seventies, Rupert Murdoch is the only son of ... [read more]
Couldn’t Be Fairer (1984)
A documentary that intercuts historical footage with live interview material, Couldn’t Be Fairer borrows its title from a statement made by Joh Bjelke Peterson, and explores the injustice endured by Aboriginal peoples. [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]
Australia Today – Men of Tomorrow (1939)
Men of Tomorrow looks at the ‘city of shadows’ – life as it is for young people living in slum conditions in Sydney in the late 1930s. It contrasts the despair and poor social conditions of those living in densely ... [read more]
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989)
A short experimental film shot totally in a studio, it is about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places. [read more]
Revolution by Referendum: Political advertisement by Mr Costello (c1932)
Made by Kinetone Productions, this unedited footage shows an unidentified man attempting to deliver a speech for what may be a public advertisement, to petition the Government in favour of abolishing the ‘Capitalistic system’. [read more]
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Celebrated crime reporter Tom Stewart (Colin Friels) pockets the cash from an armed robbery when the bandits crash their getaway car. Detective Sergeant Ray Birch (Bruno Lawrence) suspects something, but has his hands full with a series of murders. School ... [read more]
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, Queensland. [read more]
Backlash (1986)
Police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort a young Aboriginal woman to the NSW outback to stand trial. Kath (Lydia Miller) is accused of murdering a publican (Don Smith) who tried to ... [read more]
Bondi Rescue – Series 2, Episode 7 (2007)
A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when the lifeguards see someone in difficulty in treacherous water who then disappears from view behind the waves. There are 20,000 people at the beach that day and when no-one is reported missing, the ... [read more]
A Home of their Own (1949)
A promotional documentary made for the Housing Commission of Victoria that examines the importance of home and the ‘dignity of daily life’. It shows post-Second World War housing development projects aimed at addressing the housing crisis across the state. [read more]
