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The First World War begins (2000)
The clip describes Germany’s military build up prior to WW1, including the widening of the Kiel canal, commenced in 1907, to enable its new fleet of dreadnoughts to be able to enter the North Sea easily. The assassination of Archduke ... [read more]
Compass – Buddha Realms, Part 1 (2001)
Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest religions; it’s older than both Christianity and Islam and, like those faiths, its influence has spread throughout the world. This program traces the development of this ancient religion from its origins in India, ... [read more]
‘A warning to the world’ (1981)
Wilfred Burchett was the first journalist to report from the site of atomic devastation at Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. He labelled the effect on human beings as 'atomic plague’. Archival footage shows victims being treated in hospital and flattened landscape. [read more]
‘A real lost world’ (2004)
In 1903 geologist William Ferguson found the claw of a carnivorous dinosaur while searching for coal in south-eastern Australia. [read more]
Post-Second World War challenges (1947)
This clip begins with workers walking and cycling to work at the start of the day. As the narrator talks about the ‘working man’s paradise’, the images show scenes of negotiations between businesses and workers, labour disputes and conflicts between ... [read more]
The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (2002)
Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. There is certainly a lot to do. The crimes committed in Fairytale land mean that ... [read more]
Papunya: a different world (1993)
The 'black and white urban band’ Djaambi arrives at the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya to find no audience, minor flooding and bleak housing conditions for the locals. The band hopes that their visit to the community will leave a ... [read more]
Walking Through a Minefield (1999)
The third largest uranium mine in the world, Ranger, was ending its operations. Twenty kilometres north, the Jabiluka uranium mine started operation. The documentary traces the protest movement to stop Jabiluka from operating. The film interviews protestors, locals, police and ... [read more]
King of the Surf (1964)
In Sydney in 1964, the surfing fraternity welcomes the arrival of many of the world’s best surfers. They include young men from the USA, Hawaii, Great Britain, Peru, France, New Zealand and South Africa. After an official welcome at ... [read more]
The biggest vet practice in the world (1984)
Veterinary surgeon, David Bradley, lives in Kununurra in north Western Australia. His practice stretches from Port Hedland Western Australia to Mt Isa Queensland and to Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Bradley flies himself to work, the distance ... [read more]
Paper Trail, the Life and Times of a Woodchip (1991)
A documentary by Trevor Graham that reports on the international business of woodchipping and its role in the supply of pulp to support the world’s paper industries. It specifically focuses on the relationship between Japan and Australia and Australia’s role ... [read more]
World government response to bird flu (2005)
How much should governments spend in preparation for the potential outbreak of airborne bird flu? The worst case scenario is catastrophic. [read more]
A Morning at the World’s Greatest Agricultural Show (c1926)
This fragment is from a documentary about the Royal Agricultural Show held at the Sydney Showground in approximately 1926. Horses and cattle are prepared for display prior to the agricultural events. We see children grooming, saddling and riding ponies in ... [read more]
‘Without a care in the world’ (2006)
Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his little elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) laughingly recount their latest adventures with playmate zebras while cooling off in a waterhole. The narrators, a pair of cheetahs (voiced by Len Firth and ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Returned Anzacs (c1917)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows returned Anzac soldiers marching through Melbourne as part of the First World War 'Fill-the-Gap’ recruitment drive. [read more]
Rusty Bugles (1980)
Rusty Bugles follows a group of soldiers posted to a remote base in the Northern Territory during the Second World War. [read more]
‘One of the world’s finest boulevards’ (1929)
This clip shows St Kilda Road and Flinders Street Station, Melbourne in approximately 1929. Commuters spill out of the train to the main intersection outside the railway station. [read more]
‘This is the real world, Eddie!’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) and his wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor) argue one morning about money. She has lost her contract at the university, and hasn’t been able to tell him. He has always been the practical one of the two, but ... [read more]
Beyond 2000 – Episode 287 (1992)
This magazine-style program examines the research and innovation happening around the world that will change our lives beyond the year 2000. [read more]
Four Corners – Car Wars (2006)
Australia has one of the highest rates of car theft in the western world, so investigative reporter Chris Masters, explores how this has happened by talking to all interested parties of the car industry from the smash repairers to the ... [read more]
