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Jubilee and Beyond (1977)
This documentary is a record of the visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Victoria in 1977. In particular it covers the welcome by 18,000 school children in Royal Park. [read more]
We Can Be Heroes – Episode 3 (2005)
Mockumentary series We Can Be Heroes follows five very different nominees for the Australian of the Year award in the lead-up to the event. In this episode, former policeman bravery award recipient and wannabe motivational speaker Phil Olivetti secures his ... [read more]
Echidna the Survivor (1995)
The documentary looks at a year in the life of several echidnas on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia. The film captures the life cycle from egg to mature adult. The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculaetus) is a monotreme ... [read more]
Opal Fever (2004)
Opal Fever is a four-part documentary series that explores the obsession with mining the precious stone opal. The series looks at the miners, retailers and consumers of opals. It also examines the dangers of working underground. The series is set ... [read more]
Pianoforte (1984)
A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love. [read more]
The Foundation 1963–1977 (2002)
A documentary that intercuts interviews with historical footage to tell the history of The Foundation of Aboriginal Affairs, an organisation significant in the push for the 1967 referendum in which Aboriginal peoples were given the vote. [read more]
‘A dago just the same’ (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) comes to meet Harry Kelly (Chips Rafferty), father of Kay (Clare Dunne), the woman he wants to marry. Harry is a successful building contractor, who thinks his daughter can do better. [read more]
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Cinema and its Workings (1941)
An outing to the Saturday matinee screening of Pack Up Your Troubles (1940) at a local cinema is captured in black-and-white and colour by amateur movie maker Frederick Simpson Dyer. [read more]
It gets in the blood (2005)
Lauren Moret, a nuclear weapons scientist, says that when depleted uranium burns after use in weapons, the radioactive gas released into the atmosphere has deadly effects when ingested into the bloodstream of humans. [read more]
Cadbury’s Crunchie – ‘Snap Goes the Crunchie’ (c1966)
This is a 30–second television advertisement for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar. [read more]
Wolf Creek (2005)
Three young backpackers buy a car in Broome, Western Australia, intending to drive across the top end to Cairns. Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips) is Australian; the two women, best friends Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are ... [read more]
A six way investment (1956)
This advertisement begins on a building site with a man loading a sheet of plywood onto the back of the new Holden utility. A voice-over describes purchasing the new ute as a 'six way investment’. Shots of the utility in ... [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]
Lord of the Bush (1990)
The documentary is about Lord Alistair McAlpine, bon vivant, patron of the arts and author. After falling in love with the Broome region in Western Australia in the 1980s, he invested heavily in the Cable Beach Club and donated money ... [read more]
My Brother Jack (2001)
Set in the years following the First World War and ending in the midst of the Second World War, this is the story of the Merediths, a working-class family living in Melbourne. David Meredith (Matt Day) is the second son ... [read more]
The Painters and Dockers Strike (1976)
A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over the principle of flow-ons from parent awards. [read more]
On the war in Iraq (2004)
At a conference in Jakarta, Malcolm Fraser speaks out against going to war in Iraq. [read more]
In the lab (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) submits to a medical experiment involving a narrow tube being inserted down her throat. [read more]
I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2004)
This is a comprehensive and enlightening documentary about comedian, writer and performer Spike Milligan, as seen through the eyes of his immediate family, his close friends and his show business colleagues. Along with testimony from his loved ones, the documentary ... [read more]
Cheap Blonde (1998)
This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times – ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’ – while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in a waterfall. [read more]
