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Maintaining the Links: Maintenance of Historic Timber Bridges in NSW (2001)

This documentary by the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority documents the history of timber bridge design and construction in New South Wales. It features maintenance work on four historic bridges built by the old Public Works Department and the ... [read more]

Always on my mind (2006)

Football players lined up ready to train, it is night-time. Non-Indigenous player Brad Taaffe speaks of three generations of his family growing up with Aboriginal people. Brad’s wife is Aboriginal, and Taaffe talks about the absence of racism. Chris ‘Offo’ ... [read more]

HQ Kingswood Sedan: Holden, the Great Way to Move (c1971)

This is a black-and-white television advertisement for the Holden HQ Kingswood sedan. [read more]

‘My babies’ (2004)

Toma is both passionate about his eggplants and keen to show off his invention, an ingenious machine which helps with the picking. His wife works along side and afterwards it’s home to the barbie where both of them explain one ... [read more]

Bit of Black Business – Bloodlines (2007)

Bloodlines, is about making a difficult phone call. The caller is Josh Barnett (Kirk Page) who is a young man that appears to have it all in his modern apartment. He doesn’t make the call as he is preoccupied with ... [read more]

Gone to the Dogs (1939)

While working as a zookeeper, George (George Wallace) accidentally invents a tonic that makes dogs run faster. He and his mate Henry (John Dobbie) are sacked for impersonating a gorilla, so they try the tonic on their landlady’s greyhound Black ... [read more]

My Aunty got taken away too (2011)

Daniel (Daniel Connors) is sitting with Linden (Christoper Edwards). Linden asks Daniel about his Aunt Cindy and says, ’my old aunty got taken away when she was little’. He goes on to tell Daniel how the old people used to ... [read more]

The City of Geelong (1957)

This part travelogue, part promotional documentary, made by the Shell Film Unit Australia, illustrates how the city of Geelong has developed into a great industrial centre since it was first settled in 1836. [read more]

Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)

A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States between 2000 and 2004. It addresses the disempowerment ... [read more]

I’m the master! (1995)

The genies (Rhys Muldoon) and Baz (Glenn Meldrum) show Penelope (Alexandra Milman) that she is not really in control of them despite being their master. She orders that her room be cleaned of 'its useless mess and rubbish’ and whoosh ... [read more]

The Big Steal (1990)

Danny Clarke (Ben Mendelsohn) wants only two things – a Jaguar automobile and a date with Joanna Johnson (Claudia Karvan), the prettiest girl in his high school. Through Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley), a shonky car dealer, he buys a second-hand ... [read more]

The library (2004)

As Frankie (Claudia Karvan) shares a smoke with housemate Tom (Brendan Cowell), there is a knock on the door. Frankie remembers that she has arranged to go out for a drink with workmate George (Damon Herriman). Deciding that she is ... [read more]

Into the Straight (1949)

Prominent Australian horse breeder WJ Curzon (George Randall) hires British trainer Hugh Duncan (James Workman) and his son Paul (Alan White). Soon after arriving at Curzon’s stud farm, St Aubins, Paul makes romantic moves on Curzon’s daughter, June (Nonnie Peifer). ... [read more]

The Tightrope Dancer (1989)

The Tightrope Dancer is about Vali Myers, a beguiling and eccentric artist who lived a provocative, thoughtful, fearless, humorous and passionate life. In 1989, Myers straddles life in a 14th century cottage in an isolated valley near Positano, Italy with ... [read more]

Incidents of my flight (1928)

This clip features one complete side of a two-sided gramophone record. In 'Incidents of my flight’, pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler recounts key events in his record-breaking solo flight from England to Australia. [read more]

The Golden Cage (1975)

Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) and Ayhan (Sait Memis Oglu) are Turkish migrants living in Sydney. Murat, a crane operator, is haunted by memories of a girl (Emel Ozden) he left behind in Istanbul. Ayhan has made an easier transition to life ... [read more]

South African anarchy (2003)

Glory is a black South African mother who suffered from the wide spread urban violence in Johannesburg. A neighbour sexually assaulted her twin four-year-old daughters repeatedly over three weeks. The offender was released on bail and allowed back in the ... [read more]

Head On (1998)

Nineteen-year-old Ari (Alex Dimitriades) walks out of a Greek wedding in Melbourne. He is young, handsome, unemployed and bisexual, alienated from just about everything. His father (Tony Nikolakopoulos) calls him an animal, his mother (Eugenia Fragos) pleads with him not ... [read more]

The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (1999)

Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her uncle King Nemon’s (Dennis Pryor) prison and fled with him into the dreaded ‘tunnel of ... [read more]

Shifting Shelter 3 (2005)

Shifting Shelter 3 is the latest instalment in a documentary series shot over a ten year period. Reminiscent of the British 7 Up Series, the Shifting Shelter series records the lives of four Indigenous individuals on their journey from teenagers ... [read more]

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