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The Mad Century (2000)
Bruce Petty animates the 20th century’s achievements and conflicts in a cavalcade of doodles and rare newsreels from the past, guided by a thoughtful voice-over (Neville Thiele), so we can better understand the present. [read more]
Winners – Quest Beyond Time (1985)
One day, while hang gliding, Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is transported 500 years into the future. There, he is asked to help a primitive pagan community to cure thteir sickness. They need him to fly to get a cure from a ... [read more]
Bomb Harvest (2007)
Bomb Harvest follows Laith Stevens, an Australian bomb disposal specialist training a team in Laos to clear bombs left from the ‘secret war’ the US waged at the time of the Vietnam War. The film also tracks the locals, including ... [read more]
The killing times (2008)
Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation sets the historical context of the clip. Western Australian police are reacting to calls from cattle farmers to enact revenge for loss of stock at the hands of Aboriginal hunters. Historian Professor Marcia ... [read more]
End of the Rainbow (2007)
End of the Rainbow is an Australian-French co-production that tracks an industrial gold mine being dismantled piece by piece in Kalimantan, Borneo in Indonesia and reconstructed in a remote part of Guinea, West Africa. To make way for the mine, ... [read more]
The Forerunner (1957)
Made by the Shell Film Unit within the first decade of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme’s construction, this documentary positions the ambitious scheme as the country’s 'first major step towards the final solution of Australia’s water problem’. [read more]
The Hen Convention (1897)
The Hen Convention, a novelty song with piano accompaniment and featuring imitations of a chook, is the earliest known Australian sound recording. [read more]
National Treasures – Gallipoli Boat (2004)
How did a lifeboat, left to rot on the shores of Gallipoli, come to have pride of place at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra? [read more]
Inauguration of the Commonwealth (1901)
This documentary shows the official parade and the swearing in of Australia’s first Governor General and Federal Cabinet for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on the January 1, 1901. [read more]
First women’s union (1983)
This clip talks about the conditions that led to the Melbourne Tailoresses Strike of 1882 to 1883. [read more]
The issue of conscription (1962)
In this excerpt from an interview with Dr Daniel Mannix, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Mannix describes the circumstances in which he advocated against conscription during the First World War. [read more]
Between worlds (2005)
Tommy tells us about the massacre on the plains, Aboriginal peoples executed by stockmen. This is woven into his recount off his experience as a young boy – being called 'white boy’ by the blackfellas, and 'black boy’ by the ... [read more]
Shirley Thompson versus the Aliens (1972)
In the mid-1960s Shirley Thompson (Jane Harders) lives in a mental asylum. She tells a sceptical Dr George Talbot (Tim Elliot) and Dr Leslie Smith (June Collis) about her encounter with aliens ten years ago. In 1956, Shirley escapes the ... [read more]
Roly ‘visits’ Honolulu (1986)
Nurse Ophelia Cox (Gosia Dobrowolska) discovers Wally (Philip Quast) and Eddie (Kelly Dingwall) have created a fake Honolulu for their father, Roly (Allan Penney). Ophelia threatens to tell Roly but Wally convinces her to join the hoodwink. [read more]
Land of the Apocalypse (1991)
Land of the Apocalypse documents the conflict over mining in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. The film outlines the natural and cultural heritage significance of Kakadu which is threatened by plans to mine the uranium deposit at Coronation ... [read more]
King of the Coral Sea (1954)
Ted King (Chips Rafferty), a pearler on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, finds a body floating in the water. Ted and his offsider, Jack Janiero (Rod Taylor), discover that head diver Yusep (Lloyd Berrell) and town drunk Grundy (Reg ... [read more]
High school students against war in Vietnam (1970)
A pupil from Castle Hill High School delivers a speech about the support from students from the steps of Sydney’s town hall to a huge crowd of protestors against the Vietnam War at a moratorium rally. [read more]
The Daylight Moon: A Portrait of the Poet Les Murray (1991)
Les Murray’s readings of his poetry are synchronised with his autobiographical reflections spoken to camera on the family farm near Taree in northern NSW and in Sydney locations. [read more]
The first time (1999)
Speedy McGinness tells us about his mother, and how he wishes to return her remains to Gurindji land – the place of her birth. [read more]
The Middle East (1919)
At street level in Gaza, the buildings have been reduced to rubble as a result of the First World War. Aerial shots of the snaking Jordan River follow its flow into the Sea of Galilee. The team stops at Ramadi ... [read more]
