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Much Ado About Something (2001)
Much Ado About Something questions the authorship of the works of Shakespeare in a delightful and accessible way. It uses interviews, dramatisations, pictures, photos, paintings, and scenes from feature films and plays to investigate whether Christopher Marlowe or Sir Francis ... [read more]
Birth of the Red Kangaroo (1965)
This CSIRO documentary details the reproductive cycle of the red kangaroo, its mating habits and the early stages of a kangaroo’s development as it grows in the pouch. It includes animated diagrams to illustrate ... [read more]
Sanitation and the City (c1957)
A documentary produced for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works which provides an overview of Melbourne’s development and expansion since the 1880s, the history of the city’s sewerage system and the work of the read more]
Lucinda Brayford (1980)
Lucinda Brayford (Wendy Hughes) is a lively and elegant but naive 18-year-old woman. Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who ... [read more]
The Upside Down Show – Art Museum (2006)
Shane (Shane Dundas) and David (David Collins) introduce the viewers to an imaginary remote control to control the on-screen action. Shane creates an artistic ‘masterpiece’ by drawing his face on a perspex screen. Not being able to find a fridge ... [read more]
The Ferals – An Explosion of Talent (1994)
The Ferals is an irreverent situation comedy starring a mangy group of animals living in the backyard shed of an inner-city home. In this first episode, a wannabe musical promoter (Miguel Ayesa) moves in and attempts to evict the Ferals ... [read more]
Man of Flowers (1983)
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead mother, plays church organ, loves ... [read more]
Waiting (1990)
Single, heavily pregnant Clare Fairweather (Noni Hazlehurst) is a successful artist living on a rural property. After experiencing her first contractions she contacts her three closest female friends to join her for the planned home birth, as arranged. Arriving ... [read more]
A Cold Summer (2003)
A Cold Summer depicts the dysfunctional entanglement of three damaged young individuals in Sydney, two of them old female school friends, the third a male alcoholic living in his car. Bobby (Teo Gebert), who has absented himself from his ... [read more]
Phar Lap (1983)
The great racehorse Phar Lap dies in the arms of his strapper, Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson), in Agua Caliente, Mexico, in 1932. Australia mourns his loss, amid suspicions of foul play. Five years earlier, a scrawny colt with facial warts ... [read more]
It’s Ruth: Ruth Cracknell, Actor (1994)
It’s Ruth provides a glimpse into the professional life of one of Australia’s most well-recognised and loved actresses, Ruth Cracknell (1926-2002). The documentary features generous excerpts from Cracknell’s theatre performances (including Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, 1991, and Oscar Wilde’s The ... [read more]
Molly and Mobarak (2003)
Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to life in the regional NSW town of Young. Molly Rule and ... [read more]
Homelands: View from the Edge (1993)
This documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki follows the Robles family – Carlos, Maria and their four daughters – who came to Melbourne as refugees from El Salvador in the mid 1980s. Now that the fighting has stopped in their home ... [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]
The Back of Beyond (1954)
Battling heat, dust, flood and sand, Royal Mail driver and everyman Tom Kruse completes the fortnightly run in his battered Leyland Badger, delivering mail, stores and supplies to the people along the 517 kilometre Birdsville Track in central Australia’s isolated ... [read more]
We Have To Live With It (1974)
A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about the impact of an existing port terminal on their community. Residents give their perspectives on ... [read more]
A Hero’s Reward (1950)
An amateur family film that uses a Charlie Chaplin type character to create a comic story of robbery, rescue and love. Basher Bill (Michael Bidencope), newly escaped from jail and in desperate need of money, robs Dolores (Lilian Fetherstonhaugh) on ... [read more]
Letters to Ali (2004)
A documentary feature by Clara Law that follows an Australian family on their journey of friendship with fifteen-year-old ‘Ali’, an Afghan asylum seeker detained at the Port Hedland detention centre. The film also tells the parallel story of Law’s own ... [read more]
King Billy’s First Car (1939)
In this animated advertisement for Super Shell, King Billy invents an animal-made and animal-powered car. [read more]
The Flying Doctor (1941)
Far from medical facilities on an outback station, a station worker is struck down with an attack of acute appendicitis. In a re-enactment of an actual event, the coordinated efforts of the Flying Doctor, the Australian Aerial Medical Service (read more]
