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Under pressure (2000)
Pressure mounts for workers Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien), Uncle Le (Hieu Phan), Yen (My Lingh Thi Nguyen) and Linh (Suong Tran) as the day wears on in the garment factory and unexpected mishaps threaten the delivery. Trang (Deborah Le) ... [read more]
Fulfilling her father’s dream (1985)
Carol (Nicole Kidman) is feeling the pressure from home to work harder on her training and her attitude towards competition. At dinner, Peter Trig (Terence Donovan) criticises her laidback approach to her last race, while she is trying to get ... [read more]
Butterflies (2009)
John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) exchange love letters during Keats’ writing retreat on the Isle of Wight. [read more]
Delilah, Samson and Grandma (2009)
Delilah (Marissa Gibson) sees Samson (Rowan McNamara) at the shop, and his message of love written on the shop wall. She gives him a packet of chips and he follows her home to her grandmother’s place. Delilah’s grandmother (Mitjili Napanangka ... [read more]
‘Love doesn’t feed you’ (2001)
Lola (Lola Marceli) has begun to go out with men, in the hope of getting some money to live on. One of these is Bruno (Silvio Ofria), her late husband’s best friend. She has warned the younger Stefano (Alex Dimitriades) ... [read more]
Jedda dreaming again (1955)
Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth), sitting by an open window, gazes out dreamily. Her adoptive mother (Betty Suttor), eventually comes to stand by her side. Jedda tells her of her desire to go walkabout, to be with the tribe. She is chastised ... [read more]
Conrad Martens’s New South Wales (1978)
Watercolourist Conrad Martens settled in NSW in 1835, remaining there until his death in 1878. He painted a valuable visual record of life in the young colony, and we see many examples of early Sydney. [read more]
Air base, Malaysia (1970)
The camera pans across aircraft at a base in South-East Asia, including RAAF strike planes, a Gloster Javelin interceptor and a Royal Navy helicopter. [read more]
An ordinary inner-city street (1990)
We are introduced to the residents of Union Street on an 'ordinary’ Sunday. The odour of cooking wafts from a Greek household to that of an elderly Anglo-Australian woman who wrinkles her nose in distaste. Her cat jumps through a ... [read more]
‘First time in H Division?’ (1994)
Prisoner Dale has been sent to H Division for assaulting a prison officer. He is on remand, awaiting trial, but the officer in charge tells him he has no rights in prison, only those that the prison officers give him. ... [read more]
Forever is a long time (1990)
The languid faery King (Richard Moir) and Queen (Rowena Wallace) discover that today is the last day they have to grant seven wishes to humans or they will lose their magic power – forever! Their son, Prince Wilton (Justin Rosniak) ... [read more]
You can’t serve chicken without stuffing. (1942)
This is a complete colour Tandaco Prepared Stuffing cinema advertisement from approximately 1942. It begins like a feature film with a title and melodramatic music and cuts to a woman crying as she peels onions for her roast chicken stuffing. ... [read more]
‘What did you say?’ (2001)
Upset by a patient, psychiatrist Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) attacks a stranger in the street, imagining she heard a remark. The stranger, Pete O’May (Glenn Robbins) seeks refuge in a pub, where he meets Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia). [read more]
Yaks in Tibet (1986)
Tibetan graziers move their families and yaks 30 to 40 kilometres for fresh feeding lands. They pay no taxes but support the local school teacher. [read more]
A bag of oranges at a funeral (1984)
The procession of funeral cars comes to a halt because Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) has spied a roadside stall selling really cheap bags of oranges. [read more]
A Charlie Chaplin comedy (1950)
Basher Bill (Michael Bidencope) is robbing Dolores (Lilian Fetherstonhaugh) on the side of the road after her return from the grocery store. She cries for help. Her cries wake Charlie (Cynthia Bidencope) who was sleeping in the bushes nearby. Charlie ... [read more]
Packed lunch (1985)
Bob (Gerry Sont) collects his father’s deliveries from ‘boss’ Fred Morgan (Peter Whitford) and the workers all enjoy a laugh at Fred’s expense. [read more]
‘You want a drink?’ (1986)
After a long drive from the city, Trevor, the officer in charge (David Argue), pulls into a country pub for a drink. Constable Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) is appalled when he chains his prisoner Kath (Lydia Miller) to a tap. ... [read more]
SS Katoomba unloading (1899)
This actuality footage shows the unloading of materials from the SS Katoomba at a busy wharf in Brisbane. Men unload large sacks and crates onto trolleys and wheel them down a gangway off the ship. In the foreground, workers use ... [read more]
‘Yeah!’ (2001)
Veronica (Heli Simpson) is horrified as the three united riders pass by, with Stevie smiling and unharmed. Stevie (Sophie Bennett), Carole (Keenan MacWillian) and new best friend Lisa (Lara Jean Marshall) consolidate their friendship by forming and naming their own ... [read more]
