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‘You’re never gonna get out of this place’ (2002)
Lena (Dannielle Hall) is sitting in a bus shelter. Her brother Liam (Mundurra Weldon) skids to a halt on his bike. Liam asks for money. A police car drives by. All eyes are on the vehicle. Lena is talking to ... [read more]
Top End paradise (2000)
The three boys are halfway to Darwin when they come upon Aboriginal paintings in a cliff cave. The camera travels up over the extraordinary landscape as the boys revel in their surroundings. They lower themselves down a cliff to a ... [read more]
Bad Bob loses it (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) is in hiding, after having fed the gang’s stash of grog to the pigs in the hope of avoiding the violence that usually follows one of their drunken evenings. Bad Bob (Ray Meagher) finds him, drags him ... [read more]
Serbian identity (1997)
Author Dusko Tomic talks about how, on a Paris radio program, he identified as a Serb for the first time. While proud of Serb inventor Nikola Tesla, he expressed shame for the atrocities against humanity carried out during the Bosnian ... [read more]
Redex Trials (1978)
Cameraman Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) and assistant Chris (Chris Haywood) rush ahead of the entrants in the round Australia Redex Trials to capture footage. They set up at a dangerous corner to wait for the cars. When one crashes, the ... [read more]
Belsen remembered (1985)
Max, an Australian survivor of Belsen concentration camp, is shown some photos taken at the camp for the first time. He recognises his brother in a photo and recalls life in the camp. [read more]
Thirty years (2000)
Over shots of the town of Fitzroy Crossing, Willigan tells us that the Indigenous population have been employed in the CDEP or working for the dole scheme for nearly 30 years. We see people working and collecting their payment. ... [read more]
‘What’s your name? What’s your father?’ (1978)
Laura (Susannah Fowle) arrives in the refectory at her new school, an upper class ladies’ college in Melbourne, carrying a cake made by her mother. She is frightened and alone. The deputy headmistress, Miss Chapman (Patrick Kennedy) tries to be ... [read more]
Ghost (1984)
The Japanese POWs were apprehensive about going home after the war. In interview, Mr Takahara speaks about his return to a family that had already conducted his funeral and called him a ghost. [read more]
Australian attitudes in the 1970s (1973)
Daddy Cool band member Ross Hannaford talks about how both city and country Australians are restless and wanting change. [read more]
First women’s union (1983)
This clip talks about the conditions that led to the Melbourne Tailoresses Strike of 1882 to 1883. [read more]
A man without a past (1989)
Joseph Mueller (Max von Sydow) is cross-examined by the prosecuting counsel (Nancy Black). She questions Joseph about the evidence of his identity being destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. Iya Zetnick (Julia Blake) appears on ... [read more]
‘Nonna’s spy ring’ (1999)
Josie (Pia Miranda) laments the lack of privacy in her life. Every afternoon she must visit her grandmother, Nonna Katia (Elena Cotta), where everything she does is already known, courtesy of Nonna’s network of spies. At Nonna’s house, Josie and ... [read more]
‘Menstruation blues’ (1993)
Australian singer Robyn Archer performs the song 'Menstruation Blues’. 'I explore anything that I want to’, says Archer. [read more]
‘Why was I adopted?’ (1985)
Le explains to Lindy how she came to be adopted – he was captured by Viet Cong, their village was bombed and her mother was trying to walk to Saigon with all the children and no food. She gave baby ... [read more]
Shake a leg (2005)
Flashback, Franky and his father are sitting on the river bank, fishing lines cast into the river. Returning to the present, the Djarn Djarns dancers are walking towards the stage with the focused gaze of seasoned professionals. [read more]
Man’s inhumanity to man (1985)
Mike Lewis was an English serviceman filming the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. He talks about his own horrifying experience of the aftermath, and his feelings about the Germans. [read more]
Melbourne Chinese Orchestra (1931)
This clip shows eight members of the Melbourne Chinese Orchestra performing at Efftee Film Studios in 1931. A stage curtain parts to reveal the orchestra on stage together with some Chinese props. After a wide shot of the whole ensemble, ... [read more]
You’re dropped (1981)
After a brief period as Bruce’s girlfriend, Debbie (Nell Schofield) discovers she is ‘dropped’ – by a message delivered by Strach (Ned Lander) via Cheryl (Leander Brett). Debbie and Sue (Jad Capelja) get very drunk before going to a party. ... [read more]
‘Where are you blokes from?’ (1994)
After a drunken night at a pub in Broken Hill, the three drag artists – Mitzi (Hugo Weaving), Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) – awake to find their bus defaced with an anti-gay slogan. They leave the city ... [read more]
