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Walkabout (1970)
After a setback in Sydney, a man drives into the outback with his two English children, a girl of 16 (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother (Lucien John). The father (John Meillon) tries to shoot them; when he fails, he ... [read more]
The Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932)
On Saturday 19 March 1932, a large crowd gathered around Sydney’s Harbour Bridge for the official opening ceremony. This newsreel footage with on-the-spot commentary contains unique coverage of the historical event. [read more]
The painter (1989)
Vali is painting and speaks about what she uses, where it is from and the way she works. [read more]
The welcoming committee (1975)
After months of work, broke and hung over, the union shearers make their feelings plain as strikebreakers arrive to work for reduced wages. [read more]
Marconi, Marx, Pavlov and Picasso (2000)
In the early years of the 20th Century, Marconi revolutionised communication, Queen Victoria died, and Australia federated. What’s more, imagination took off as the Wright Brothers flew over America, Pavlov questioned the thought process, Picasso challenged perception and Einstein explained ... [read more]
Four Corners – We’ll All Be Rooned (1982)
Reporter Jim Downes takes us into the wheat belt in the marginal country of Coonamble, near Dubbo in NSW. The outback is now entering its fourth year of drought in this land of boom and bust. This time, the ... [read more]
Dead to the World (1991)
Alexandra (Agnieszka Perepeczko) owns a boxing gym in the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Her fierce rival is Pearl Wilkinson (Lynette Curran), a corrupt local businesswoman and political candidate. Pearl is in league with Keats (John Doyle), a shady property ... [read more]
Prices and wages (1948)
A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream (2003)
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream follows the top Australian female jockey Bernadette Cooper for a year as she travels around the country competing at country, provincial and metropolitan racetracks. The film interrogates the belief that horseracing is one of ... [read more]
More Winners – The Big Wish (1990)
The faeries in the Enchanted Realm are in trouble. The Charter of the Grand Master states that they must give seven wishes to humans every 100 years or they lose their magic powers. Somehow this time – with the sly ... [read more]
Harp in the South (1986)
A two-part miniseries following the life and times of the Darcys – an Irish-Australian family – in the aftermath of the Second World War. The impoverished Darcy family, exiles from the bush, live in Surry Hills, a housing commission enclave ... [read more]
Careful He Might Hear You (1983)
Since the death of his mother in childbirth, six-year-old PS (Nicholas Gledhill) has been raised by his aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford), in a modest suburban house near Sydney Harbour. The boy has never known ... [read more]
Homicide – The Friendly Fellow (1973)
When safebreakers botch a robbery and a security guard gets killed, the Homicide squad calls in an 'old friend’ for questioning – former safebreaker Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen). Buddy is going straight these days but recognises the work of his ... [read more]
Hinkler’s Message to Australia; Incidents of My Flight (1928)
Bert Hinkler was the first Australian aviator to be celebrated by the issue of a gramophone recording. On this recording, he recalls his experience making the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928, describes key events in the ... [read more]
A dance in the hand (1906)
The artist separates the young man and woman by tearing their photo in half. He brings them back to life by placing the crumpled photograph halves on a ruler. The man and woman dance on the ruler as the artist ... [read more]
Overland Adventure: The Story of the 1954 Redex Reliability Trial (1954)
This is a Cinesound documentary about the Round Australia 1954 Redex Reliability Trial – a 15,450 kilometre motor endurance rally over rough terrain and unsealed roads. Overland Adventure follows the changing fortunes of some of the 246 entrants during the ... [read more]
Kangaroo hunt (1931)
Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there. Two men force a hat on one reluctant kangaroo ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Sharpeye (2007)
When 11-year-old Whalen (Ikaika Fa’aoso) sees a Special Forces dinghy approaching, he rushes to alert his Uncle Robert (Robert Poi Poi) of a potential invasion of their island in the Torres Strait. The men in the village change into army ... [read more]
Dinner party (2004)
Julia (Asher Keddie) and Charlie (Dan Wyllie) have Frankie (Claudia Karvan) and Tom (Brendan Cowell) over to dinner – their first dinner party since the birth of their son. It’s not quite the occasion Julia and Charlie had hoped for. ... [read more]
Boys – lay down your lives for the empire (1990)
It’s 1914 and Australia is preparing for a war in Europe. In voice-over, Scratch (Lachlan Jeffrey) recites the reasons why Australia’s young men should fight for the King. When Sydney rabbito Ned Crocker (Nathan Croft) is asked when he is ... [read more]
