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Bit of Black Business – Kwatye (2007)
Gary (Donnovan Mears) comes home after a big night drinking beer and collapses on the couch. He is awoken early by his daughter, Aspen (Aspen Beattie). Hung over, he wants to be treated like a sick patient and asks Aspen ... [read more]
Land of the Apocalypse (1991)
Land of the Apocalypse documents the conflict over mining in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. The film outlines the natural and cultural heritage significance of Kakadu which is threatened by plans to mine the uranium deposit at Coronation ... [read more]
Evelyn goes into mourning (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) gets her head shaved and moves into a cage. Her husband has just died from dysentery and this is part of the mourning ritual of the villagers. The pearl trader Mick Carpenter (Rufus Sewell) checks on ... [read more]
The Home Song Stories (2007)
In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, but leaves Bill (Steven Vidler) after one week of marriage. Seven years ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Days Like These (2007)
Days Like These is a day in the life of Dan (Jordan Gee-Hoy), a young Aboriginal man who is trying to get ahead, but it seems the odds are stacked against him. Living with his single working mother (Lillian Crombie), ... [read more]
Building a Railway Engine (c1925)
This short film shows some of the work carried out at the Islington railway engine construction and repair plant of the South Australian Railways, just outside of Adelaide. [read more]
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college to jeers of 'country bumpkin’ and 'tweedle-dumb, ram’s bum’. Spirited and talented though she is, the pressure to fit in almost defeats her, until ... [read more]
Harlequin (1980)
Mysterious drifter Gregory Wolfe (Robert Powell) appears dressed as a clown at the birthday party of Timothy (Mark Spain), the terminally ill son of Senator Nick Rast (David Hemmings) and his distant wife, Sandra (Carmen Duncan). Wolfe cures the boy ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – Conservation in the Snowy Mountains (1955)
Produced in 1955 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film traces the history of soil erosion in the Snowy Mountains and demonstrates the approach taken by the Snowy Mountains Scheme ... [read more]
The Far Paradise (1928)
Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), who has spent years overseas, is on her way home when she meets and is attracted to Peter Lawton (Paul Longuet), son of attorney-general Howard Lawton (John Faulkner). While Peter’s father welcomes ... [read more]
More Winners – His Master’s Ghost (1990)
A group of kids are on a music camp in a spooky old mansion. Some of them are more interested in the stories about a resident ghost than their music and young Flea (Simon Grey) is particularly fascinated by it ... [read more]
West Australians at the trenches (1917)
Men of the 11th Battalion, AIF, marching beside a light railway near Armentières, probably in early June 1916. Soldiers rest by a road with their horses tethered in shell holes. A military padre takes divine service. A ... [read more]
Young people and the Drop-In (1977)
A member of the Addison Road Drop-In provides an on-the-spot commentary on a parking policeman or 'brown bomber’ booking a motorist on Marrickville Road. Inside the recreation room at the centre, the young men play pool and muck around ... [read more]
Two pounds of butter (1934)
George (George Wallace) has to mind the grocery store while his boss is out. He has no training for the task and almost destroys the shop with a succession of demanding customers, starting with Mrs Doyle (Marie La Varre). [read more]
Four Corners – Inside the Circle (2005)
In NSW, Aboriginal people are just 2% of the population and yet make up 20% of the prison population. Something is being done to change this terrible statistic. It’s a new system to deal with Aboriginal offenders who come ... [read more]
Codenamed Breakaway (1956)
The explosion of Breakaway, one of the four nuclear fission bombs tested at Maralinga between September and October 1956. [read more]
A Voice for the Wilderness (1983)
This documentary was produced in 1983 as part of a popular movement to save the rainforest of the Upper Hastings River and the Forbes River inland from Port Macquarie NSW. One of many pro-conservation films produced during the 1980s, ... [read more]
Irkanda IV (1967)
'Irkanda IV’ is the fourth in a series of works sharing the title 'Irkanda’ (which the composer explains as ‘a remote and lonely place’). It is scored for solo violin, string orchestra and percussion. This ABC recording was made ... [read more]
A Big Country – The White Rose (1979)
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – A Seaplane Circles a Continent (1924)
This newsreel shows segments of the 1924 documentary A Seaplane Circles a Continent about Wing Commander SJ Goble and Officer IE McIntyre arriving at St Kilda, Melbourne, in their RAAF Fairey 111D seaplane after a flight circumnavigating Australia. [read more]
