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Stingers – Ratcatcher (1998)

When a country schoolgirl goes missing after babysitting for a family called the Gallaghers, police suspect Ronnie Gallagher (John Brumpton) of foul play. Unable to find evidence, they turn to the undercover unit for help. Peter Church (Peter Phelps) and ... [read more]

Heritage (1935)

James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett), a dashing and ambitious young settler in the new colony at Sydney Cove, woos Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maquire), a fiery young Irish girl, when she arrives in Sydney on 'the wife ship’, but fate intervenes and ... [read more]

Creation of the world (1982)

The Aboriginal dreaming was the creation of earth and humans. Forty thousand years of Indigenous continuous human society makes our history unique. A montage of the Australian landscape and Indigenous rock paintings is accompanied by a voice-over narration by Jack ... [read more]

Electric Stove Cinema Advertisement: Banish Drudgery (c1940)

This cinema advertisement from the 1940s illustrates the benefits of cooking with electricity and the new electric kooka range. [read more]

Evil Angels (1988)

A true story. On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Azaria’s body is never ... [read more]

Australia Post – We Deliver 3 (1988)

These are three of a series of television commercials promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia Posted’ song. [read more]

If Only – Series 1 Episode 3 (2003)

A series of 'if only’ stories from a range of lives: a young single mother who found and then lost her birth mother, a woman who recalls the years of misery she suffered at the hands of the school bully ... [read more]

Waterloo (1981)

The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to outline the history of change in the area. The documentary emphasises the need for consultation and shows ... [read more]

Factory to Farm: Making Agricultural Implements in Australia (c1925)

One of a series of promotional films made by the Melbourne-based Made in Australia Council, Factory to Farm supports the production of agricultural implements in Australian factories. It provides a visual record of the inner workings of an agricultural implements ... [read more]

Black Beauty (1978)

In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as his feisty stablemate Ginger bitterly predicts, this doesn’t last, and the harsh realities of life’s ... [read more]

The bulldozer (1985)

This powerful sequence shows the violent clashes between the government and developers planning Sydney’s large-scale re-development and those that opposed it – the unionists, residents, conservationists and students. [read more]

Cenotaph (1993)

The documentary looks at the effect of the First World War on the New South Wales country town of Hay. Seven women and 641 men went to the war from Hay. One hundred and three were killed and more than ... [read more]

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1992)

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin examines the life, work and death of German Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, his ongoing resonance in contemporary thought and his increasing recognition outside of Europe half a century after his death. [read more]

Australia Post – We Deliver 1 (1988)

These are two of a series of television commercials (TVCs) promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia Posted’ song. [read more]

The city of Geelong (1957)

Against a series of scenic shots of the city and its bustling streets, a voice-over introduces the 90,000 strong seaport city of Geelong on the shores of Corio Bay. As the voice-over explains the reasons for the city’s prosperity, images ... [read more]

Molly and Mobarak (2003)

Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to life in the regional NSW town of Young. Molly Rule and ... [read more]

‘The Lettes of Willow Glen’ (1978)

Using still photographs, personal narration, quoted correspondence and music, the early 20th century history of the maternal side of the filmmaker’s family is detailed. [read more]

‘Silent terror of the deep’ (1939)

On the sparkling beaches of Australia, where people relax and enjoy the summer, life guards patrol the beaches and remain alert to the dangers of sharks lurking in the shallow beach water. [read more]

Cyclone Tracy (1986)

It is Christmas Eve, 1974, in the northern Australian city of Darwin. There are warnings of a tropical cyclone approaching, but then there are warnings every summer so this one goes largely ignored. A disparate group of characters prepare for ... [read more]

When the Lights Go Out: Cockroaches, a Domestic History (1994)

A documentary about the cockroach. Scientists talk about its survival instincts, families react to its presence and we go on a tour of a roach’s domestic life. The film consists of interviews, animation and graphics, people overreacting to the insect ... [read more]

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