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The Office Picnic (1972)
The tensions within an unhappy office boil over during the annual office picnic, held at a bushland park on the edge of the city. The young men drink too much and play football. The women drink less and get bored. ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy–Murray Development (1969)
Produced in 1969 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), the film marks the completion of the Snowy-Murray Development – the northern section of the scheme. The development is explained and the ... [read more]
Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (2001)
This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight 'A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will have to make films she doesn’t believe in and is further upset when Oscar (Damien ... [read more]
A Big Country – The Prices (1979)
A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it. [read more]
The long walk home (1985)
Colin’s cancer is progressing. He struggles to walk to the letterbox and back. Watching a television news report about the Australian government’s response to veterans’ concerns about Agent Orange, Colin (Chris Haywood) gets an idea. He tells Lorraine (Jennifer Cluff) ... [read more]
Skyway Express (c1948)
This travelogue was one of a series produced for Qantas in the late 1940s under the generic title of Universal Skylogues. Each film in the series uses the notion of flying into an 'exotic’ location, usually giving the audience a ... [read more]
Eureka Stockade (1949)
As thousands of men leave their jobs to search for gold in Ballarat in 1854, the Victorian Governor imposes harsh taxation in the form of a mining licence, to discourage new miners. New arrivals Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty) and his ... [read more]
The 8th Wonder of the World (1973)
A documentary looking at the newly completed Sydney Opera House, produced at the time of the official opening in 1973. The film looks at the architecture, art and functions of the building. [read more]
The ‘wogs’ fight the ‘Aussies’ (2009)
Charlie’s mates decide to follow up an earlier confrontation with some white boys in school, on the grounds that they must not let the ‘Aussies’ disrespect them. Charlie (Firass Dirani) is initially reluctant but is talked into confronting the white ... [read more]
The Good Woman of Bangkok (1991)
In Bangkok, Thailand, Australian filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke hires a prostitute, Aoi, and makes her the subject of the film. Glimpses of the red light area of Bangkok are intercut with Aoi’s views of her life and her place in the ... [read more]
Mad Max 2 (1981)
After a disastrous war over oil, Max (Mel Gibson) has become a desert wanderer with few ties to the world. His family is dead; his only companion is a smart and ferocious blue heeler called ‘dog’. The desert is a ... [read more]
The prime minister is missing (1985)
Radio and television carries news of Harold Holt’s disappearance. Holt’s widow, Dame Zara Bate, remembers the day her husband vanished. [read more]
Candy (2006)
Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) are young and in love – with each other, and with heroin. He’s an aspiring poet, she’s an aspiring painter. Their days and nights are full of lovemaking and dope, often a gift ... [read more]
On Our Selection (1920)
Murtagh Joseph Rudd (Percy Walshe), known as Dad, and his son Dave (Tal Ordell) finish a bark hut on their newly established ‘selection’ of virgin bush. The rest of the family arrive and get to work, clearing the land by ... [read more]
The FJ Holden (1977)
Kevin (Paul Couzens) and his best mate Bob (Carl Stever) share everything, even girls. They live in working class Bankstown in Sydney, and spend all their spare time restoring and cruising in Kevin’s FJ Holden. When Kevin meets Anne (Eva ... [read more]
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – The Case of Ronald Ryan (1977)
Ronald Ryan, a convicted armed robber, was the last man to be hanged in Australia. The year was 1967. It was alleged he’d shot a warder as he and another prisoner, Peter Walker, made their escape from Pentridge Gaol in ... [read more]
The Inner City Tape (1974)
A collaborative community video made by Tom Zubrycki in conjunction with the Inner Sydney Resident Action Group. Through the eyes of its residents it tells the story of the threat to the survival of inner-city Sydney in the face of ... [read more]
The Dismissal (1983)
On 11 November 1975, the Labor Prime Minister was dismissed by the Queen’s representative in Australia, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. The Dismissal brings to life the events leading up to this extraordinary event that shook the nation. The drama ... [read more]
The Australian Steel Works (c1920)
This promotional documentary presented by the Made in Australia Council looks at the workings of an Australian steel works factory in Newcastle. [read more]
Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny (1989)
Eccentric sculptor Tony Twist (Richard Moir), and his three children – thirteen-year-old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and eight-year-old Bronson (Rodney McLennan) – move from the city to live in an old lighthouse in an ordinary seaside ... [read more]
