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Seven Deadly Sins - Pride (1992)
Roger and Jill Pascoe are a glittering couple. Both are brilliant performers and he is also a great theatre director. Their next production will be Strindberg’s The Stronger, first produced in 1889. We discover via a series of role-plays that ... [read more]
Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts I - IV (c1927)
This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family between 1927 and 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles. [read more]
Gerakiteys: Greek Wedding Reception: Canberra Scenes (c1954)
A colour home movie filmed mostly by Emmanuel Gerakiteys of the Greek community in Canberra in the 1950s. Footage includes a Greek bridal party and wedding reception, family life at home, scenes around Canberra, and part of the Queen’s visit ... [read more]
Traffic Chaos Caused by Fusing of Electric Tram Wires (c1926)
This newsreel segment filmed by Gordon Gidney covers a traffic jam caused by the fusing of electric tram wires in Melbourne in the 1920s. [read more]
Mr Squiggle and Friends – Episode 148 (c1960)
This early black-and-white episode opens with Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell) bemoaning Bill Steamshovel’s ‘awful wet washing’ on the line. It transpires that Bill did not have time to ‘wring out his tracks’ so they take turns telling riddles while they ... [read more]
DAAS Kapital – Faith (1992)
Giant global conglomerate Shitsu Tonka Corporation has taken over the earth. The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are stranded aboard Titanic 2, a giant submarine carrying the world’s great art treasures and historic artefacts. ... [read more]
I Am Woman (1972)
Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’, released in 1972, made her one of the most successful Australian singers worldwide. The song became the unofficial anthem of the women’s liberation movement and endures to this day. [read more]
Sunstruck (1972)
Welsh schoolteacher and choirmaster Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) migrates to Australia. His dream of a new life in sunny Sydney is upended by a posting to Kookaburra Springs, a tiny town in western New South Wales. Boarding at the pub ... [read more]
Curtin Speech: Japan Enters Second World War (1941)
Prime Minister John Curtin addresses the nation from Melbourne to inform them that Australia is now at war with Japan. This was the first occasion in Australian history that the nation had independently declared war on another nation. [read more]
Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign (1979)
Patrol Boat is a television drama about the crew of a navy patrol boat, whose job it is to guard Australia’s coastal waters. In this episode Jacki Weaver guest stars as journalist Jenny Smith who visits HMAS Ambush to ... [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]
Ten Canoes (2006)
A narrator (David Gulpilil) instructs us to pay attention, because he is going to tell us a good story. The story takes place in two periods in the past. In the first story, shot in black-and-white, a young man called ... [read more]
The Games – Series 1 Episode 8, Rural and Environment (1998)
The Games charts the progress of the fictitious Logistics and Liaison Division of SOCOG (the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games), the real-life authority charged with staging the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000. ... [read more]
Underbelly – Series 1 (2008)
A 13-part drama series based on real events in Melbourne from 1994–2004. In 1994, power and influence in Melbourne’s underworld is held by the Moran family and old-school gangsters the Carlton Crew. Carl Williams (Gyton Grantley) is a little-known employee ... [read more]
Shirley Thompson versus the Aliens (1972)
In the mid-1960s Shirley Thompson (Jane Harders) lives in a mental asylum. She tells a sceptical Dr George Talbot (Tim Elliot) and Dr Leslie Smith (June Collis) about her encounter with aliens ten years ago. In 1956, Shirley escapes the ... [read more]
The Australians at Messines (1917)
In the lead-up to the Battle of Messines in June 1917, Australian troops study a topographical model of the battle area, constructed on the ground. Small towers allow the men to peruse the ground from above. On 5 June, the ... [read more]
Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1 (2011)
Go Back to Where You Came From, hosted by Dr David Corlett, invites participants to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by embarking on a confronting 25-day adventure, tracing in reverse the journeys taken by refugees now ... [read more]
Nice Coloured Girls (1987)
This short film is about three Indigenous women and their night out at Kings Cross. [read more]
Chequerboard – It’s Amazing What You Can Do With a Pound of Mince (1969)
Three Australian families who are living on the basic wage are interviewed about what they earn, how that money is allocated and how they view their lives. [read more]
Stateline – The Transcontinental Dream (2004)
Reporter Mark Bowling travels with the Ghan on its inaugural train journey from Adelaide to Darwin, arriving in its new destination at the Northern Territory on 3 February 2004. [read more]
