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Benny and the Dreamers (1992)
A documentary about the Pintubi people’s first contact with white people, and the affects of dispossession and institutionalisation when the peoples were forced from their lands into missions. [read more]
Over the top (1980)
Australian troops charge out of the trenches, going 'over the top’ to attack the enemy on the Western Front. Bombs explode nearby. [read more]
Islam in the West (2003)
Tarik Ramadam is one of the West’s most articulate Muslims. He lives in Geneva but was born in Egypt. In an interview for Compass he is outspoken and honest about the freedoms offered Muslims in the West in contrast with ... [read more]
The Spirit of Gallipoli (1928)
Billy Austin (Keith Gategood) has grown up carefree and undisciplined on the outskirts of Sydney. His mother and father despair until he is called up to compulsory training in the Army. At Liverpool camp, Billy and his best mate Jack ... [read more]
Loading Horses on the SS Cornwall (1899)
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry lead horses down a ramp to board the SS Cornwall on 31 October 1899, prior to their departure for the Boer War. [read more]
Homicide – The Superintendent (1970)
A young girl, Alice (Jessica Ball), is heartbroken when homicide detectives take away ‘Jennifer’, her new favorite toy. Jennifer is a human skull with a bullet rattling around inside. Senior Detective Patterson (Norman Yemm) needs Alice to tell him where ... [read more]
The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
As war breaks out in Europe in 1939, three friends droving cattle in Australia decide to join up. By 1941, they’re with the 9th Division of the Australian Infantry Force, fighting Italians and Nazis in North Africa. Bluey Donkin (Grant ... [read more]
‘The Americans are coming’ (2005)
The US forces are to use Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland for a training base. Military officials say they are concerned about the environment and acting responsibly. Some locals are concerned about the pollution possibilities especially if depleted uranium (DU) ... [read more]
The Hard Word (2002)
The Twentyman brothers are released from Long Bay jail in Sydney to carry out an armed robbery. Dale (Guy Pearce) is the smart one, Mal (Damien Richardson) is dim but kind-hearted and Shane (Joel Edgerton) is an angry bundle of ... [read more]
The Piano (1993)
In the mid-19th Century, a sailing ship deposits a young Scottish woman on a beach in New Zealand, with her daughter, her trunks and a crated piano. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) has not spoken since she was six, but her ... [read more]
The Oasis (2008)
The Oasis is a feature-length observational documentary about a youth support network centre called the Oasis. It is run by the Salvation Army not far from Sydney’s city centre. The film follows the stories of five kids at the centre ... [read more]
King of the Coral Sea (1954)
Ted King (Chips Rafferty), a pearler on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, finds a body floating in the water. Ted and his offsider, Jack Janiero (Rod Taylor), discover that head diver Yusep (Lloyd Berrell) and town drunk Grundy (Reg ... [read more]
Rocking the Foundations (1985)
Rocking the Foundations covers the New South Wales Builders’ Labourers Federation (BLF) from 1940 until its demise in 1975. Set against the massive social and political upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s – the Vietnam War, Aboriginal land rights, ... [read more]
Cradle of Creation (1944)
A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Israel, including the cities of Tehran, Basra, the ancient city ... [read more]
When the fun stops (1997)
There is a down side to taking ecstasy when it is mixed with other drugs, usually alcohol. In a large Sydney hospital on a weekend night, a young man is brought in with a psychotic reaction to a cocktail of ... [read more]
Sexy pheromones (1994)
Cockroaches attract each other by pheromones. We get to witness the male in a mating ritual and copulation process that takes one to two hours. In one year the happily married couple can produce 400,000 descendents. [read more]
Road to Tokyo (c1941)
An animated Commonwealth Government advertisement illustrated by the Owen Brothers and designed to persuade the Australian public to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans. [read more]
For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
Richard Devine (George Fisher), heir of wealthy Sir Richard, decides to ship out of England, rather than reveal his mother’s secret – that his real father is the neighbour, Lord Bellasis (Arthur Greenaway). When Bellasis is killed by his own ... [read more]
Rebetika: Songs of Greece (1986)
An album of Rebetika music, a style originating in Greece in the 1920s. 'Rebetika: Songs of Greece’ was recorded in 1986 by a group of young Greek-Australians who, in the late 1970s in Melbourne, began to immerse themselves in Rebetika ... [read more]
The Alice (2004)
'Action and adventure meet magic and romance in Alice Springs’, say the publicity notes for this telemovie, and it’s not a lie. A disparate group of people are heading for the outback to watch a solar eclipse. Strange things begin ... [read more]
