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Official opening of Old Parliament House (1927)
This shows the Duke of York officially opening Parliament House in 1927, which is now Old Parliament House, in Canberra. A statue of King George V is then unveiled in the foyer and the senators leave for the first ever ... [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]
My Mother India (2001)
Director Safina Uberoi traces her parents’ history. Her Australian mother married a Sikh and moved to India. There they bought up their three children and survived the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. The autobiography features family photos, historical footage and interviews ... [read more]
Patrick (1978)
Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Roget (Robert Helpmann), who treats Patrick ... [read more]
Bodyline (1984)
In the summer of 1932-33, three men of Empire – the brilliant young Australian batsman Donald Bradman (Gary Sweet), the gentleman English captain Douglas Jardine (Hugo Weaving) and the Yorkshire coal miner and fast bowler Harold Larwood (Jim Holt) – ... [read more]
Beautiful eyes (1998)
Preschooler Emily was born with sight in just one eye. We see her mother fitting her with a false eye, specially made so that Emily can look 'normal’ when she goes to school with other children for the first time. [read more]
Changeover at Mawson, 1960 (1961)
Work begins as soon as the ship Thala Dan arrives at Mawson Station, early in 1960. A total of 33 men are to spend a year in Antarctica at Australia’s first two bases, Davis and Mawson. At Mawson, they begin ... [read more]
The faith of Father Dixon (1993)
In re-enactment, Father Dixon speaks to a couple that saw Max Stuart at a carnival at the time of the murder, providing an alibi. Over historical footage of Westminster, we hear that a plea to stay the execution of Stuart ... [read more]
Merrepen (2005)
A documentary about the gathering of the leaves and berries from the Merrepen plant by Indigenous women from the Nauiya community on the Daly River to make dilly bags and baskets. [read more]
Suing the drug companies (2004)
Law firm Baum Hedlund undertook a class action for people suffering from the side effects of antidepressant drugs. Attorney Karen Barth says that the law firm was overrun with thousands of calls from victims. [read more]
Porridge to the rescue (2005)
Stanley has gone to get some of his mother’s infamously awful, rock-hard porridge. It’s the one thing that doesn’t dissolve in the acid. Unfortunately he meets the bullies the Lupin Lupes again, just as he is about to pour the ... [read more]
The end of an era (1958)
This is the end for old Adaminaby. Some of the residents have already moved their homes to the new site on trucks, others have simply taken what they could and moved on. [read more]
Removal and the kinship system (2006)
This clip shows historic footage of the removal of the people from the Charles Creek mission station and Aboriginal people working in the pastoral industry. Agnes talks about the removal of the entire mission station to Santa Teresa; her experience ... [read more]
The chief wakes up (1962)
This clip is from the twelfth and final episode of Wambidgee, 'The Chief Wakes Up’. Wambidgee wakes the chief from sleep and tell him that there is a crocodile in the creek. The chief feels too tired and tells Wambidgee ... [read more]
Neurosurgery and the soul (1996)
Two neurosurgeons discuss the scientific and mechanical nature of their work and one lightheartedly wonders: if a soul exists, where it would show up on a scan? [read more]
Adapting to the climate (1949)
A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a ... [read more]
September (2007)
Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) runs the farm with the help of Paddy and ... [read more]
‘Hang by the neck’ (1975)
The villainous Liz (Margaret Laurence) visits the incarcerated Gary (Mike Ferguson) to taunt him about the murder for which she has set him up to take the blame. [read more]
Lucky shot (1993)
The HMAS Sydney was drawn into battle with the German raider HSK Kormoran off the Western Australian coast on 19 November 1941. Early in the engagement the Sydney was fatally hit and both vessels sank during the battle. ... [read more]
