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Legacy of the Silver Shadow – The Feral Element (2002)
Four kids’ lives are changed forever when they discover the secret lair of The Silver Shadow (Tayler Kane). The Silver Shadow is a long-forgotten superhero from the 1950s who is now just a voice and a grainy image on an ... [read more]
Menzies’ Wartime Tour – England (1941)
This home movie filmed by Australia’s longest serving prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures England during the Blitz in 1941. It features footage of the Churchills in their home, close-ups of various political leaders and prominent figures of England including ... [read more]
Angst (1993)
The film looks at the lives of three Jewish comedians who are the children of Holocaust survivors. Deb Filler is from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from Melbourne and Moshe Waldoks is from the USA. Each of the ... [read more]
Wolf Creek (2005)
Three young backpackers buy a car in Broome, Western Australia, intending to drive across the top end to Cairns. Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips) is Australian; the two women, best friends Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are ... [read more]
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an increase in population and discusses the new immigration program, grappling with the ... [read more]
Lionel Murphy (1970)
Federal Opposition shadow minister Lionel Murphy pledges his government’s opposition to the Vietnam War. He says ‘we are here to end the war in Vietnam’. [read more]
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997)
In a remote Tasmanian worker’s camp in the winter of 1954, Slovenian immigrant Maria Buloh (Melita Jurisic) abandons husband Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) and their three-year-old daughter Sonja (Arabella Wain). Sent to live with family friends for many years, eight-year-old Sonja ... [read more]
Fighting in Flanders (1917)
Australian soldiers prepare for a ‘stunt’ with physical exercises and rifle drill. Well-rested troops display their prowess at marching, as artillery units prepare for a major offensive against German positions east of the Belgian city of Ypres. Field Marshal Sir ... [read more]
John Safran vs God – Episode 2 (2004)
In this episode of his comedy-documentary series about religion, John Safran road tests Zen Buddhism, questions left-wing sincerity about Aboriginal land rights and gets to know the Freemasons. [read more]
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Concerned about profit margins in Australia, the Coca-Cola company sends its top trouble shooter Becker (Eric Roberts) to its Sydney office. The company’s Australian boss, Frank Hunter (Max Gillies), tells Becker about T George McDowell (Bill Kerr), an old-style soft-drink ... [read more]
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network – Lunchgate (2002)
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network is a fictional 24-hour Australian news channel mimicking the formats of shows like US television’s CNN and Fox News. The show is presented as an 'interruption’ in the ABC's usual programming, to ... [read more]
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985. [read more]
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
On St Valentine’s Day 1900, three schoolgirls from an exclusive English-style boarding school go missing, along with a teacher, at Hanging Rock, in central Victoria. One of the girls is found alive a week later, but the others are never ... [read more]
Australian Story – A Man for All Seasons (1999)
Wayne Bennett was born on the wrong side of the tracks. His father was a violent and hard drinking fettler, who left his wife and kids when the family was still very young. Wayne left school and began work at ... [read more]
It Isn’t Done (1937)
An English solicitor, Mr Potter (Leslie Victor), arrives at the Blaydon farm at Stony Creek, near Sydney. He tells Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) that he’s the long-lost heir to an English estate. Now known as Lord Blaydon, Hubert sails for ... [read more]
Bright Star (2009)
Hampstead Village, London, 1818. Eighteen-year-old Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) lives in a small house with her sister, Toots (Edie Martin), brother Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and widowed mother (Kerry Fox). Through her mother’s connection with the Dilke family, Fanny meets John ... [read more]
The Stranger – Series 1 Episode 1 (1964)
One rainy night a stranger (Ron Haddrick), suffering from amnesia and with no discernible heartbeat, is found unconscious on the doorstep of the Walsh family home. He is welcomed inside by high school principal Mr Walsh (John Faassen), his wife ... [read more]
Jungle Patrol (1944)
Eight Australian soldiers leave Port Moresby in New Guinea on an American C-47 transport. They are returning to their unit, pushing the Japanese back along Shaggy Ridge, part of the Finisterre Range, west of Lae, in 1943. The soldiers land ... [read more]
The Legend of Damien Parer (1964)
The life story of the legendary Australian combat cameraman Damien Parer, as seen through the eyes of those who knew him and through the amazing footage that he shot with Australian and US forces until his death in action with ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – The Gift (c1988)
Sophia (Vicki Serbos) and Nikos (Nicholas Hatjiandreou), two Greek-Australian kids living with their family in inner Melbourne, win a plot of land in Western Australia as a prize in a television quiz show. Sophia and her father Con (Con Laras) ... [read more]
