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The constant threat (1946)
This four-minute film, seen here in full, was made to create awareness of the free chest x-ray service provided by the Health Department of NSW to diagnose tuberculosis. [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]
Paper City Architects (2006)
Woodman (voiced by Paul Fletcher) is sent a mysterious bill by the Department of Debt. When he calls them to report the error, he gets tangled in a web of bureaucracy. [read more]
The Man Who Stole My Mother’s Face (2003)
Laura Henkel was raped in Johannesburg in 1989. Even though Mrs Henkel identified her attacker, the South African police failed to prosecute. Thirteen years later her daughter, Cathy Henkel, the film’s director, set about to get the case re-opened. ... [read more]
Jabiluka (1997)
The documentary investigates the attitudes of Aborigines, mine management and conservationists to the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine, and the impact of the established Ranger mine. It outlines the legal processes that led to the permissions being granted and the protest ... [read more]
Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Mermaids Swim Well (c1931)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1931 shows highlights of the Bondi Ladies’ Annual Carnival at the local Bondi Baths, now known as the Bondi Icebergs. Edna Davey is shown well in front in the mile championship; the Bondi Club ... [read more]
2000 Weeks (1969)
Will Gardener (Mark McManus) is a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife (Eileen Chapman) and two kids to support. His father (Michael Duffield) is dying in hospital and his mistress ... [read more]
Australian Navy: Destroyers (c1930)
This short documentary made by Herschells Films features Royal Australian Navy destroyers launching torpedoes with dummy warheads attached for training purposes. It also shows a smokescreen created by one of the vessels, Anzac, to safeguard the larger vessel, Success. Torpedoes ... [read more]
Mr Squiggle and Friends – Episode 148 (c1960)
This early black-and-white episode opens with Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell) bemoaning Bill Steamshovel’s ‘awful wet washing’ on the line. It transpires that Bill did not have time to ‘wring out his tracks’ so they take turns telling riddles while they ... [read more]
Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballets Russes (c1939)
Members from the Ballets Russes relax at the beach house of Ewan Murary-Will. Murray-Will films them dancing, picnicking on the grass, swimming and sunbathing at the beach. [read more]
Belsen For Example (1985)
A German film crew interviews survivors, now living in Australia, of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The recollections of the victims and members of the rescue teams are a harrowing testament to man’s inhumanity to man. The survivors hope that such ... [read more]
First Australians – Episode 5, Unhealthy Government Experiment (2008)
In this fifth episode of First Australians, European settlement spreads to Western Australia and is met with much conflict, as explored through the experiences of Aboriginal stockman Jandamarra. The history and aftermath of the Stolen Generations is examined in the ... [read more]
Rosie (2004)
A docudrama stylistically using both interview and dramatic re-enactment to depict the childhood of Rosalie Fraser, an Aboriginal woman who as one of the Stolen Generation, fostered out to a white family as a child and suffered physical, sexual and ... [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]
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in New York with his new girlfriend, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). He misses the Northern Territory but keeps occupied by fishing in the Hudson River with sticks of dynamite. Sue’s ex-husband, a reporter (Dennis ... [read more]
SS Katoomba Unloading (1899)
This actuality footage from 1899 shows the unloading of timber spars from the SS Katoomba at a busy wharf in Brisbane. [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]
My South Polar Expedition (1910)
Sir Ernest Shackleton and four men, with four Manchurian ponies, attempted to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1908. In this recording, he tells how the loss of the last pony almost killed one of the men ... [read more]
The proposition (2005)
The outlaw Charlie Wilson (Guy Pearce) has been arrested by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Stanley offers to pardon Charlie and his brother Mike (Richard Wilson), provided Charlie kills his older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), who remains at large. [read more]
