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Message Stick – Blacktracker (1996)

Bernadette Yhi Riley narrates the story of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley, who served with the NSW Police from 1911 to 1950. We see Yhi Riley searching through archival records and talking with older family members and a ... [read more]

Crowd near the grandstand (1896)

This clip shows the crowd at what is probably the Melbourne Cup during the Spring Carnival of 1896. The gathered crowd stroll through the shot while the Flemington Racecourse grandstand can be seen in the background. [read more]

‘The horizontal tango’ (2007)

At home, Jean (Brenda Blethyn) hugs her boys and warns Mark (Richard Wilson) about what he can and can’t watch on video. Tim (Khan Chittenden) drives her to the club where she is to perform that night, in between a ... [read more]

‘Shoot the dog’ (2010)

John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) challenges the teenage Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) to shoot a dog, to prove himself. [read more]

Satellite Dreaming (1991)

A documentary about the history of Indigenous media, including television production, in Australia, and the start of Indigenous media in the centre of Australia. [read more]

Wrap Me Up in Paperbark (1999)

The family of a Gurindji woman work to have her remains returned to her traditional country after she was buried in Larrakia country. [read more]

Vietnam (1988)

This epic story of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War is told through the history of a middle class family, the Goddards, whose son Phillip (Nicholas Eadie) is conscripted to fight in the war and whose father, Douglas (Barry Otto), ... [read more]

Uncivilised (1936)

Beatrice Lynn (Margot Rhys), a successful novelist, journeys into the ‘unexplored’ reaches of north-west Australia in search of book material. She has heard rumours of a ‘wild white man’ who lives with Aboriginal people, but she finds more than she ... [read more]

‘Quite a particular anywhere’ (1987)

A woman (voiced by Julie Forsyth) reflects on the view from her balcony in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. [read more]

Kath and Kim – Money (2002)

Kath Day (Jane Turner) is worried about finding the money to pay for her dream wedding to Kel Knight (Glenn Robbins) and looks for ways to get rich quick. Meanwhile her daughter Kim Craig (Gina Riley) discovers the internet, with ... [read more]

Future of the dreaming site (2007)

Western Arrernte elder Mavis Malbunka talks about the future of Tnorala and the need to conserve the sites and the environment. [read more]

Australia wins the America’s Cup (1984)

Australia wins the 12-metre yacht race the America’s Cup in 1983. [read more]

Elapsed Time Test Studies: Australian Wildflowers, Tahiti, Travel Scenes (c1955)

In a greenhouse full of flowering plants, amateur filmmaker FE Winton uses early methods of time lapse photography to capture the slow bloom of brightly coloured flora. [read more]

Banana plantations (1955)

A couple drives through banana country on the coastal border of Queensland and New South Wales. Their car pulls up at a banana plantation where they alight and meet with the owner. A voice-over explains the growing and harvesting process. ... [read more]

Chequerboard – It’s A Big Day In Any Girl’s Life (1973)

Two very different weddings are contrasted. One of them cements the ties between a landed family and a family of high standing in the district. The other is a wedding between two people living in the city who met on ... [read more]

Repairing the damage (1974)

Workers are shown in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy fixing roofs and securing tarpaulin for protection. Fallen trees, collapsed buildings, debris and shells of houses can be seen. [read more]

An Airman Remembers (1964)

Sir Gordon Taylor, one of the great aviation pioneers of Australia, presents this documentary. He delivers his story about the history of Australian aviation in the manner of a public lecture or an after-dinner speech, interspersed with archival footage of ... [read more]

All the Snowy’s People (1963)

The sequence shows the domestic settlements and the worksites of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in co-existence. [read more]

Peach’s Australia – Flinders Ranges (1976)

Bill Peach takes us on a folksy amble through the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. As he reveals the extraordinary beauty of this arid range he tells us something of the rich history of settlement and exploration of the region, ... [read more]

Proof (1991)

Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a 32-year-old blind photographer. He lives alone and trusts no-one, especially not his housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot), who loves him in secret. Their antagonistic relationship is disturbed when Martin meets Andy (Russell Crowe), a kitchen hand ... [read more]

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