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Women of the Sun (1982)
This four-part television drama series follows the lives of four generations of Aboriginal women. Episode one, Alinta: The Flame, depicts an Aboriginal family clan in 1824 living peacefully by the ocean, hunting, fishing and gathering foods. Alinta (Naykakan Munung) is ... [read more]
Curtin (2007)
John Curtin (William McInnes) assumes office as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia on 7 October 1941 after patiently allowing the former Liberal Government led by Robert Menzies to implode. Australia, as part of the British Commonwealth, is already at ... [read more]
Five little Petals (1997)
The opening titles introduce the Petals and their world, a ramshackle garden that they call home. [read more]
Snowy Mountains Scheme opened (1974)
The Governor-General opens the Snowy Mountains Scheme in 1974. It is one of the world’s greatest engineering achievements. [read more]
Anzac Day 1946 (1946)
This colour home movie clip shows the official Anzac Day parade through central Sydney one year after the end of the Second World War in 1946. [read more]
Nightmare (1989)
The three characters – the Redhead (Robin Laurie), the Investigator (Rose Wanganeen) and the Hothead (Kaarin Fairfax) – each feel the threat from world events outside themselves. [read more]
Giving peace a chance (2003)
This clip features an interview with Sarah Davies, a Quaker who comes from a family of Quakers. Her grandfather was a conscientious objector during the Second World War. Sarah herself has travelled with the World Council of Churches to Israel ... [read more]
Down the drain (2005)
This is the opening sequence, introducing the real-world characters Mary Jane and Stanley Staines and their crazy, imaginative mutant friends and monster foes from the drain – a perilous and fascinating world that they enter through a portal in the ... [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]
National Treasures – HMAS Sydney’s Carley Float (2004)
Warren Brown talks to Australian War Memorial curator John White about the tiny, war-ravaged float from HMAS Sydney whose entire crew of 645 was lost when the ship sank after a mysterious battle off the West Australian coast in ... [read more]
The pyjama game (1987)
Former Australian cricketer Ian Chappell tells his version of the beginnings of World Series Cricket in 1978, when media baron Kerry Packer made Chappell captain. [read more]
Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002)
A documentary about the career of Indigenous actor, dancer, and cultural delegate, David Gulpilil, using interview as well as archival footage. [read more]
The Big Boomerang (1962)
Qantas commissioned this film in 1962 to promote their international air service. The film features the new Boeing 707 that halved travel time overseas, and includes brief segments about transport in early Australia and flight before the 1960s. [read more]
Big Bag’s Japanese Adventure (1998)
The Big Bag Band is invited to perform at a disabled arts festival in Japan. Three of the band are intellectually disabled, four are not. The documentary follows their departure from Australia, preparations in Japan and the concert itself. [read more]
Coming Up from Down Under (1983)
A documentary that reviews the re-emerging Australian film industry of the time. Even though the film refers to the Australian cinema prior to the mid ’70s, it concentrates on the period 1975-1983. The documentary features extracts from feature films and ... [read more]
Dipping Sheep (1899)
A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip. [read more]
They Serve (1940)
Made with the assistance of Shell Australia, and produced by Herschells Films, They Serve promotes the work of the Red Cross for the ‘Australian soldier at home and abroad’. The film presents a number of vital Red Cross services to ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt (c1917)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes of supplies down stairs to load onto a vehicle. The horse-drawn vehicles ... [read more]
School (2004)
Ricco sits amongst a group of children roughly the same age as himself. They are learning about maps of the world, as well as Warlpiri. [read more]
Pauline Frederick (1924)
Pauline Frederick, a world famous actress from the stage and screen, poses for the camera showing off her new sophisticated bob haircut. She wears a cloche hat and a fox stole. [read more]
