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Honeybee Blues (2009)

Australian bee pathologist Dr Denis Anderson is on a quest to save the honeybee from the devastating Varroa destructor mite. Honeybee Blues follows Anderson across Australia, Papua New Guinea and the USA revealing just how dire the plight of ... [read more]

Welcome to the English Cricket Team (1932)

Captain of the Australian cricket team, Bill Woodfull, welcomes the English cricket team to Australia for the Ashes in 1932. [read more]

Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988)

Joe Leahy’s Neighbours is the sequel to First Contact (1983) and is the second documentary in The Highlands Trilogy. This well-constructed film traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, one of the highlander sons of the gold prospector Michael Leahy. Joe ... [read more]

Cartoons of the Moment – Australia’s Prime Minister Delights the Empire (c1915)

In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment, cartoonist Harry Julius comments on the war in Europe and Australian Prime Minister Hughes’s policy of restrictions on trade with Germany. [read more]

Sunshine Sally (1922)

Sally (Yvonne Pavis) resigns from her job at a laundry after supporting her friend Tottie (Joy Revelle), who has been sacked. She rejects marriage proposals from Spud Murphy (John Cosgrove) and Skinny Smith (Dinks Paterson), who embark on a boxing ... [read more]

Death is the only way (1984)

Stan has been placed in charge of security in the Japanese compound. His friend, Hayashi (Junichi Ishada) begs him to try to reverse the order to move some of the prisoners to another location. Stan desperately tries to understand what ... [read more]

What’s Your Poison? – Ecstasy (1997)

The aim of What’s Your Poison was to explain the science of recreational drugs and examine them in an atmosphere free of moral and political overtones. The program attempts to explain the facts and dispel some of the myths that ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Highlights of the Cricket Series England vs Australia (1933)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows highlights of the 1932–1933 England versus Australia cricket series. It starts with footage of the packed stadium and shows clips of the first Test in Sydney. It is black-and-white and silent. [read more]

Empire Day Pageant (c1915)

This silent actuality fragment from around 1915 shows people celebrating Empire Day in full costume. It appears to take place in a small country town. [read more]

Hogg sees a massacre (2007)

George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is typing in a war-torn building. Just as he writes ‘The city is quiet’ he hears activity in the street. He goes to the window and sees Japanese troops herding Chinese civilians into a park ... [read more]

Flat (2002)

A short drama about the day in a life of a young teenager, who captures Alice Springs through a video camera given to her by her mostly absent father. [read more]

Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)

Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents’ property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to ... [read more]

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]

The Alfred, Melbourne: One of Australia’s Greatest Hospitals (1931)

This four-minute cinema advertisement made by Australian Sound Films promotes the activities of the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in order to raise funds. The film shows the hospital’s activities, facilities and grounds and includes a persuasive voice-over commentary. [read more]

The Kaiser War (1918)

This clip begins with a cartoon of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II surrounded by skulls. A caption illustrates the Kaiser’s thoughts, saying that while he wished to fight in the trenches, the almighty ‘willed it otherwise’. The hand of a skeleton ... [read more]

Radiance (1998)

Three sisters reunite for the funeral of their mother after having not seen each other for an extended period of time. [read more]

Number 96 – Episodes 1003 and 1004 (1976)

These episodes are from the show’s later period when it was trying to woo back viewers with another (politically incorrect) creepy visitor storyline: after the Knicker Snipper and the Pantyhose Strangler, along came the Hooded Rapist. These episodes also boast ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – The Strike Spreads (c1917)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows waterside workers unloading perishables from a ship, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917. [read more]

Eugénie Sandler PI – Episode Two (2000)

Crooked detective Matt Gurney (Martin Jacobs) detonates the explosive planted in the Sandler home but Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) manage to escape. Tony (Darcy Bonser), a young street kid, offers to help them only for Eugénie and ... [read more]

First Australians – Episode 4, No Other Law (2008)

Episode four, 'No other law’, explores the history of white settlement in Central Australia and the stories of homicidal police officer Constable Willshire, who brings mayhem to the Arrernte nation. Authorities turn a blind eye before telegraph operator Frank Gillen ... [read more]

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