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Going Down (1983)
Karli (Tracy Mann) is going to New York to escape her out-of-control life in Sydney. On her last night, three girlfriends take her out on the town. Jackie (Julie Barry) buys some speed at a nightclub as a going away ... [read more]
Australia Post – Meeting the Challenge (1988)
This in-house program was produced for Australia Post management and employees to inform them of what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) will mean for the organisation. [read more]
The Healing of Bali (2003)
Produced one year after the terrorist bombing of a nightclub in Bali, the film examines the impact on the Balinese and their recollection of the event. The film interviews victims, their families and those who have assisted in the recovery. ... [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]
Mother and Son – The Clock (1991)
Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) has stolen a clock from a neighbour’s house where she’s been snooping. The house is for sale and is open for inspection. The real estate agent (Paula Duncan) saw her take the clock and comes across the ... [read more]
Bitter Herbs and Honey (1981)
The anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe in the 1930s triggered a big migration. This film explores the story of those Jews who settled in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne. The film shows that the Melbourne Jewish community was divided by ... [read more]
From the sink to the sewer (1957)
This clip outlines how clean water becomes polluted once it is used in the home, at workplaces and in factories. It also illustrates the responsibility of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in disposing of the city’s sewage. A ... [read more]
Kath and Kim – Money (2002)
Kath Day (Jane Turner) is worried about finding the money to pay for her dream wedding to Kel Knight (Glenn Robbins) and looks for ways to get rich quick. Meanwhile her daughter Kim Craig (Gina Riley) discovers the internet, with ... [read more]
The long paddock (1981)
Jack must keep moving this mob of sheep over the ‘long paddock’, as the open road is called, because the owner of the flock is still waiting for rain that refuses to come. The long paddock is part of Australian ... [read more]
Australia Post – Post Office Speeds the Mail (1970)
This is a short program produced by Bennett Honda for the Australian Post Office to introduce and promote the new use of motorcycles by postal delivery officers. [read more]
The Last Man Hanged (1993)
The dramatised documentary traces the events leading up to the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967. Ryan escaped from Pentridge prison and a warder was shot dead in the break-out. Ryan was found guilty of the warder’s death and was ... [read more]
The black tracker (1919)
Jack Braggan (Wilfred Lucas) drives Muriel Hammond (Brownie Vernon) along an outback road. An Aboriginal man rides up and momentarily keeps pace with their buggy. The Aboriginal man is ordered away by Braggan, who explains that the man is a ... [read more]
The Ice Capped Jungle (1993)
The documentary covers a hiking trip to the mountains in a remote area of Irian Jaya. The party consists of an expedition leader, a mountain climber, a biologist, two filmmakers and 70 indigenous carriers. The film also uses historical footage ... [read more]
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 (1985)
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The Dunera and interned as 'enemy aliens’. [read more]
Cartoons of the Moment – Miss Australasia (c1915)
Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on First World War-related events in Australia and Europe. In the first of three sketches, women ... [read more]
Pentuphouse (1998)
A portrait of the dying days of the relationship between down-and-out nightclub singer Della (Gillian Jones) and Dale (Aaron Blabey), a younger man constantly on the wrong side of the law. [read more]
Overland Adventure: The Story of the 1954 Redex Reliability Trial (1954)
This is a Cinesound documentary about the Round Australia 1954 Redex Reliability Trial – a 15,450 kilometre motor endurance rally over rough terrain and unsealed roads. Overland Adventure follows the changing fortunes of some of the 246 entrants during the ... [read more]
Number 96 – Episode 35 (1972)
The snobbish Claire (Thelma Scott) drops in on her daughter Bev (Abigail) at her flat in Number 96. Dorrie (Pat McDonald) is thrilled by the visit but Bev is not. Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) finds out why her lover (Joe James) ... [read more]
Liberal Party Cinema Advertisement: The House that You Built (1949)
This is a Liberal Party cinema advertisement for the 1949 federal election. It presents the election as a choice for the electorate between ‘the socialist way of life’ offered by the Labor Party and the ‘free democratic way of life’ ... [read more]
Awakening (1973)
A man and a woman in a car are having a conversation. Jeni (Jeni Thornley), the young office worker, is troubled by what one of her co-workers has discussed with her that day. In the conversation with her boyfriend (John ... [read more]
