6484 results prev 1 2 ... 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 ... 324 325 next
A great footballer (2003)
When Bob Rose came to Melbourne to seek his fortune as a young man, he came as a boxer. Very soon his first love of football was recognised and he began to play for the working class club, Collingwood. His ... [read more]
A tornado hits (2007)
Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) warns George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) of a tornado coming towards them across the desert. He and some of the boys are changing a tyre on one of the trucks they have borrowed for the final ... [read more]
Behind the Sun (1988)
The documentary looks at a number of artists working in NSW in 1988. Many forms of artistic expression are included. The artists include Jonathan Throsby, painter; Susan Norrie, painter; Martin Wesley-Smith, composer; John Coburn, painter; Robyn Gordon, sculptor; Graeme ... [read more]
An Evergreen Island (2000)
In 1989 the people of Bougainville Island objected to the copper mining that had caused vast environmental damage to the island. They formed the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. The war lasted nine years and the people learned to adapt and survive ... [read more]
Peach’s Explorers – The Prison Walls (1984)
The story of the Blue Mountains’ barrier to the expansion of the fledgling colony of NSW and its eventual crossing by Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson with four convicts to assist them. [read more]
Let George Do It (1938)
Joe Blake (George Wallace) graduates from stagehand to performer at a vaudeville theatre after upstaging Mysto the Magician (Alec Kellaway). When he discovers that Molly (Gwen Munro), the girl he secretly loves, is going to marry the show’s producer, Joe ... [read more]
On Our Selection (1920)
Murtagh Joseph Rudd (Percy Walshe), known as Dad, and his son Dave (Tal Ordell) finish a bark hut on their newly established ‘selection’ of virgin bush. The rest of the family arrive and get to work, clearing the land by ... [read more]
The wrong fence (2002)
Mr Neville (Kenneth Branagh) tells the police inspector (Roy Billing) that the three escaped girls must be following the rabbit-proof fence north, to their home. He devises a plan to catch them, sending police troopers down the fence from the ... [read more]
Prahran 3181: Swimming in the Backyard (2001)
The film covers the construction and subsequent use of the suburban public swimming pool in Prahran, Melbourne. Jim has worked there as manager for 37 years. The pool has become the focus of a community of diverse people, old, young, ... [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]
My Brother Vinnie (2006)
A documentary that explores the relationship between Arrernte actor Aaron Pedersen and his brother Vinnie who have grown up as each others’ shadow. From a very young age Vinnie gave his older brother Aaron duty of care. Aaron is a ... [read more]
La Spagnola (2001)
Australia in 1960. Teenage Lucia’s life is shattered when her father Ricardo (Simon Palomares) walks out on the family to shack up with a buxom blonde Australian woman. He leaves behind a desolate house in the shadow of a big ... [read more]
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2004)
When a starving young woman, Mary Broad (Romola Garai), is caught stealing a bonnet and some bread, she is sentenced to transportation with the First Fleet to Botany Bay. On her voyage, she meets two men with whom her fate ... [read more]
Message Stick – The Long-grassers (2005)
An exposé on the homeless Aboriginal people of Darwin, known as 'long-grassers’. [read more]
The grinding stone (2001)
Reggie Camphoo Pwerl and Donald Thompson Kemarre tell us about what Indigenous people used to carry with them when they travelled everywhere on foot – the main tool being the grinding stone. Images show the grinding stone being used to ... [read more]
Nature of Australia – The Sunburnt Country (1989)
This episode from Nature of Australia describes Australia’s arid centre, sometimes called the 'dead heart’ or the 'back of beyond’ or even the 'never never’. The desert teems with animal life that survives the harsh conditions because moisture remains beneath ... [read more]
Dogwatch (1997)
A disgraced alcoholic sea captain (Steven Vidler) takes a rusty Chinese cargo boat to sea, with a small crew. Their job is to sink the ship for insurance money, but Heckle, the chief officer (John Brumpton) also plans a little ... [read more]
The mug politician (1991)
Jim McClelland had been a minister in the Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975). He talks to Dinny O’Hearn about being a politician and his naivety in thinking that this meant changing the country. Instead he discovered that it’s all about power. [read more]
Australia Post – Standard Letters (1974)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement informing the public of the new system of paying postage on domestic mail items, according to their standard or non-standard size. [read more]
Police Rescue – Mates (1990)
Steve McClintock, better known as Micky (Gary Sweet) lives for his work on the police rescue squad. One day he rescues a 'jumper’ called Bob (Philip Quast), a man who seems to have everything in terms of money and position ... [read more]
