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Alvin Purple (1973)
Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces him. At 21, he vows to avoid sex but it keeps walking ... [read more]
Message Stick – Kurtal: Snake Spirit (2002)
Spider, an 80-year-old Indigenous elder and Wangkatjungka man, returns to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia to perform a cleansing ceremony at a sacred jila, a water supply that never dries up. [read more]
They Chose Peace (1952)
This documentary, made by the Melbourne-based Realist Film Unit, covers the lead up to, and convening of, the Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, which took place in Sydney from 15 to 23 March 1952. [read more]
Seven Little Australians (1973)
This is the story of the Woolcot family – Captain John Woolcot (Leonard Teale) from the NSW Regiment, his young second wife Esther (Elizabeth Alexander), and his seven children and their adventures in late 19th century Sydney. It is ... [read more]
Here I Am (2011)
During her first week of life after release from a women’s prison, Karen Burden (Shai Pittman) attempts to reorientate herself back into society. She plans to reunite with her three-year-old daughter and to rebuild a relationship with her estranged mother ... [read more]
Vacant Possession (1994)
After the death of her mother, Tessa (Pamela Rabe) returns to Australia and moves back into the family’s run-down house on the shores of Botany Bay. She argues with her sister Kate (Linden Wilkinson) over who will inherit the house ... [read more]
The Spirit of Gallipoli (1928)
Billy Austin (Keith Gategood) has grown up carefree and undisciplined on the outskirts of Sydney. His mother and father despair until he is called up to compulsory training in the Army. At Liverpool camp, Billy and his best mate Jack ... [read more]
The Overlanders (1946)
With Australia’s north under threat of Japanese invasion in 1942, the government orders the withdrawal of all people and resources – a ‘scorched earth policy’. Delivering his mob of 1,000 prime beef cattle to the meatworks at Wyndham in Western ... [read more]
The Final Winter (2007)
After 13 years of first grade rugby league for the Newtown Jets, Mick 'Grub’ Henderson (Matt Nable) faces his hardest challenge – the end of his career. His vicious late hit on a St George player – his own younger ... [read more]
Cybergirl – Series 1 Episode 1 (2000)
Cybergirl (Ania Stepien), ‘the most human of superheroes’, is a fun-loving teenager who just happens to be the only Cyber Replicant Human Prototype 6000. From a galaxy ‘not that far away’, Cybergirl has incredible strength and the ability to ‘go ... [read more]
Playing Beatie Bow (1985)
When troubled teenager Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) encounters a mysterious young girl while playing in a park in modern day Sydney (circa 1985), they both find themselves transported back to the 1870s. The girl, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), takes Abigail ... [read more]
Provincial Cities of Australia: Ballarat, Victoria (c1932)
This is a travelogue filmed by Arthur Higgins for Frank W Thring’s Efftee Film Productions. It surveys the Victorian town of Ballarat from the days of the gold rush up to the 1930s, and features voice-over narration by Thring and ... [read more]
Ward 13 (2003)
After a car accident, Ben wakes up in hospital … only to find that the staff really don’t have his health in mind. The hapless patient must pull himself together and do everything he can to escape. Ward 13 is ... [read more]
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The city of Verona Beach is dominated by a bitter feud between the families of Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) and Ted Montague (Brian Dennehy). Ted’s son, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), sneaks into a masked ball at the Capulet mansion and falls ... [read more]
Always a Visitor (2000)
A personal journey by 30-year-old Turkish Australian Muslim Kuranda Seyit. He discusses his relationship with his father and his siblings, and talks about growing up in Emu Plains in Western Sydney. At the time he was called a 'wog’ at ... [read more]
My Country (1994)
The documentary examines the working relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous occupants of a cattle station in the Northern Territory. Most of the filming takes place during a cattle muster as helicopters are used to round up thousands of head of ... [read more]
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Jack Flange (Alex O’Loughlin) takes a job as an oyster farmer on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney. To help his sister (Claudia Harrison), who’s recuperating after a car accident, he robs an armoured van at the Sydney Fish Markets ... [read more]
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than two years after the landings at Gallipoli. In Egypt and Palestine, the young soldiers of ... [read more]
Compass – Pregnant Pause (2006)
Four women talk about their experiences with unwanted pregnancies in the fifties, an era before abortion was readily available. One of the women already had two children, was looking after her invalid father, and living with a violent and alcoholic ... [read more]
Behind the Big Top (1949)
A documentary about the travelling Wirth’s Circus and Zoo that toured to Melbourne in 1949. The circus train arrives in town and workers (and elephants) help set up the big top for the main show. Inside the sawdust arena ... [read more]
