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A Greek Easter (2004)
Sydney’s Greek community come together at Easter to celebrate a great religious festival. The story intercuts the religious elements and the food making elements to show that the tradition is still very strong and is being handed down from generation ... [read more]
‘A warning to the world’ (1981)
Wilfred Burchett was the first journalist to report from the site of atomic devastation at Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. He labelled the effect on human beings as 'atomic plague’. Archival footage shows victims being treated in hospital and flattened landscape. [read more]
Profound impact (1987)
In 1939, for the first time, a French and British contemporary art exhibition was brought to Melbourne. It is the first large collection of cubist, post-expressionist and surrealist art exhibited there. It wowed the artists and public but had its ... [read more]
Heroic deeds (1928)
Billy has saved a fellow recruit from drowning, so his commander gives him a reward, a history book Australia and the World War, written by SH Perry. Billy becomes absorbed, reading before lights out in his bunk beside his best ... [read more]
Aboriginal law, white man’s law (1993)
Band members on tour in the Northern Territory discuss Aboriginal law and its implications. In Victoria police arrest Aborigines on suspicion of breaking the law. In traditional Aboriginal law offenders may be speared or flogged as a punishment. [read more]
Political asylum (2006)
Lee’s mum (voiced by Tara Morice) hems her dress while her little brother, Kent (Justin Rynne), plays noisily with a toy truck. Their father (Marcus Hale) attempts to listen to the radio. Later, Mrs Davis (Celia Matthews) attempts to have ... [read more]
Endurance (1964)
Under relevant archival footage, the narrator states that during his time on the international scene, Menzies outlasted four American presidents including Kennedy and Johnson and five English prime ministers. He leads the Australian delegation to the United Nations and defends ... [read more]
Trapped (1986)
Jimmy (Ned Manning) and Carmen (Natalie McCurry) are told by drive-in manager Thompson (Peter Whitford) they must stay overnight. [read more]
The constant threat (1946)
This four-minute film, seen here in full, was made to create awareness of the free chest x-ray service provided by the Health Department of NSW to diagnose tuberculosis. [read more]
Shake-a-leg dance on the beach (1898)
A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island. They perform this dance in the same location where Haddon recorded the Torres Strait Islander men’s dance. [read more]
‘The biggest sing-sing ever heard in New Guinea’ (1956)
McAllister (Chips Rafferty) asks the nearby highland tribes to perform a traditional 'sing-sing’, or ceremonial dance, in order to flatten the grass for an airstrip. Hundreds of warriors oblige, dressed in full regalia, staging a mock battle in the process. [read more]
‘Voices in the dark’ (2006)
John (Mark Constable) believes he has seen Tom (Don Barker), his dead uncle. He hides his thoughts from wife Emily (Victoria Hill), who begins to suspect something is wrong. [read more]
Picking at the soul of the game (2007)
As training concludes with the customary bathtub full of tinnies, coach Jack Cooper (Matthew Johns) takes Grub (Matt Nable) aside to discuss the judiciary hearing. Jack warns him his style of game is dead. Grub declares his style of play ... [read more]
Citroën samurai (2000)
The Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) uses his satellite phone to check on his snakes in Tokyo. He speaks to his girlfriend (Yoshiko Tatsumi), and to the police, whom he thinks are listening to his phone. He claims full responsibility for ... [read more]
Jeff first in the swimming pool (2001)
Pool manager Jim recalls the opening of the pool on 28 December 1963 and the local boy Jeff Marsden who was first at the gate and first in the new pool. We see stills of Jeff in the pool as ... [read more]
‘Don’t resist’ (2006)
Daniel (Tom Long) awakes in chains, with the sound of a music box and the lapping of water outside. He is terrified, but unable to move. Later that night, the three women show themselves and begin to caress his body. [read more]
Walkabout (2002)
After a screening of Walkabout (1971) in a cinema, David is speaking to fans at the cinema. Interviews with Justine Saunders, Gary Foley, Professor Marcia Langton and David Stratton give background information to both Indigenous cinema and David’s influence ... [read more]
All that was left of the Emden (1916)
Jack Lane (actor unknown) recounts the story of the Sydney’s battle with the Emden, which is re-created with historical and miniatures footage. After the Emden succumbs, we see footage of the damage she sustained. [read more]
Connecting the dots (1985)
A boys’ own moment of truth. A retired French secret service agent is willing to blow the whistle on the French Government and explain its connection to the Rainbow Warrior affair because there’s outrage in the French secret service that ... [read more]
Trans-Australian Railway (1940)
A stationary train sits on the tracks while workers carry out maintenance. Intertitles and a map show the route across the Nullarbor, followed by shots of sparsely occupied landscape. From on board the train, Alma films houses, red dirt and ... [read more]
