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The superintendent’s dream (1970)
Superintendent Tilley (Nigel Lovell) is shaken after discovering that a drunken troublemaker he saw at the golf club and the detective he has nominated for an award are apparently the same person. That evening, he has a peculiar dream featuring ... [read more]
This is not your land (2002)
Vaughn (Damian Pitt) and Lena (Dannielle Hall) come to a cornfield. Both hungry, they decide to help themselves to the crop. The farmer catches them in the act. A heated exchange between Vaughn and the farmer leads to Lena questioning ... [read more]
What is love? (2005)
All the main characters are introduced in this clip, and all offer their own definition of love. [read more]
John and Sydney row bitterly (2009)
Sydney’s parents have told her to stop seeing John or they will kick her out of their home. She (Clare Bowen) is waiting for him (George Basha) when he arrives home and tells him, in tears, that she can’t see ... [read more]
Planning for the future (1956)
Marg and Bill Smith (Dick Hackett) marry in the mid-1940s. As cheerful instrumental music plays, a montage shows Bill Smith working hard on a small construction site building cottages during the postwar boom. During a break, a workmate warns him ... [read more]
Internal radiation (2007)
Scientist Chris Busby explains that our knowledge of the health effects of exposure to nuclear radiation are based on a study of 'external radiation’ not 'internal radiation’ (when low levels of radiation are taken inside the body), which is much ... [read more]
Bedside manner (1989)
Anxious about competition from the 24-hour surgery up the road, Dr William Sharp (Michael Craig) has been urging his staff to adopt a more overtly caring attitude towards the clinic’s patients. As receptionist Julie Winters (Denise Roberts) sees off a ... [read more]
The battle begins (1928)
Captain von Müller (Louis Ralph) orders his ship to open fire on the Sydney. His offsider calls the gun coordinates. The Emden’s attack is initially successful, but the better armed Sydney soon gets on top, inflicting fatal blows to the ... [read more]
‘The best lemon tree in the street’ (1996)
Having sold his millionth nail, Uncle (voiced by John Flaus) retires from his hardware store. He and his wife become surrogate parents to their nephew (narrator William McInnes). After Aunt dies, Uncle relies on his dog Reg for company. In ... [read more]
Antonio Gaudi: to a Dancing God (1974)
The documentary celebrates the work of Catalonian architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926), showing his many architectural works around Barcelona and interviewing a range of experts. Gaudí's style is a combination of Gothic, biomorphic shapes and Art Nouveau. His most famous ... [read more]
Divine Service – Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church, Rose Bay (1965)
This program features a Roman Catholic religious service recorded in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, celebrated by the Reverend Father Neil Collins with preacher Reverend Father Julian Miller from St Patrick’s College, Manly. The service ... [read more]
Sugar Mills, Nambour (1899)
This actuality footage shows a horse-drawn tramway of cane arriving at a conveyor belt at a sugar mill in Nambour, Queensland. The cane is trimmed and carried by conveyor belt into the mill for crushing. [read more]
Growing up Muslim in America (2003)
Faiz Khan is a medical doctor born and raised in the USA. He’s never been trained as a preacher but since 9/11 he feels he should speak out as a Muslim whose own faith sits comfortably in our post-modern ... [read more]
This pig ain’t no Babe (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) enrages a boar, which then escapes and chases him up a tree. Cranky Frank Phillips (Martin Vaughan) unwittingly distracts the boar and becomes its next target. He and his wife Shalagh Phillips (Carole Skinner) flee to the ... [read more]
Blood Brothers – Jardiwarnpa (1993)
Jardiwarnpa documents the ceremonial dances of the Warlpiri over two weeks, with minimal intrusion by the film crew, who capture the unfolding ceremony. It is an observational style documentary periodically interrupted with a subject speaking to camera or in voice-over. ... [read more]
Sammy Butcher, Out of the Shadows (2004)
A documentary about musician Sammy Butcher who once played with the Warumpi Band and now invests his energy in young musicians in his community, Papunya, 250 kilometres west of Alice Springs. Sammy Butcher, Out of the Shadows is part ... [read more]
This is treason (1988)
Tim Bowden presents viewers’ responses to a video clip of a song called 'Sack the Jack’, which calls for Australia to become a republic. There was both apoplexy and praise for this item when broadcast on prime time ABC ... [read more]
‘The bow-wows now are all the rage’ (1939)
George (George Wallace) leaps into song in the courtyard of Mrs McAllister’s dog kennel (and boarding house). Jean McAllister (Lois Green) whips off her skirt to join him, dancing in hotpants. Henry (John Dobbie) and a large cast of passers-by ... [read more]
Pacifica: Tales from the South Seas – Episode 1 (1993)
Pacifica: Tales from the South Seas is a 13-part series that tells 35 stories. The compilation covers such diverse subject matter as ships lost at sea, exotic customs, mystery and adventure, historical and contemporary characters, rare animals and more. Episode ... [read more]
‘No clouds in the sky’ (1995)
Refugee Chen Xing Liang revisits the Port Hedland Detention Centre where he was detained for six months after arriving in Australia illegally. He was one of 56 Chinese refugees. He recalls crying from loneliness. [read more]
