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The Forerunner (1957)
Made by the Shell Film Unit within the first decade of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme’s construction, this documentary positions the ambitious scheme as the country’s 'first major step towards the final solution of Australia’s water problem’. [read more]
Friday on My Mind (1966)
‘Friday on My Mind’ is considered one of the greatest ever Australian pop songs and made the Easybeats an enduring name in the pop and rock world. [read more]
Project Vlad (1999)
In the midst of the Cold War between East and West in the 1950s, the Soviet Space Agency launched Project Vlad. This film is the story of the spacecraft’s lone astronaut, Vlad the chimpanzee. [read more]
The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)
Three surfboard riders take off on a full wave at the north end of Bondi Beach, riding large Hawaiian-style longboards. They are shown from the side, then filmed from the beach, riding straight in. One man performs a handstand while ... [read more]
Pugwall – Hollow Drums (1989)
Thirteen-year-old Pugwall (Jason Torrens) is trying to get a band together. The first task is to find Orfo (Jay McCormack) a drum set. Eventually, and by luck, Pugwall and Orfo legitimately buy a great drum set, cheap. Now the band ... [read more]
Alicia (1996)
Alicia Liley was a promising 18-year-old drama student when she sustained brain damage in a near fatal car accident. The documentary traces her recovery and her determination to live a full life. Her response to her disability was to start ... [read more]
Alvin Purple (1973)
Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces him. At 21, he vows to avoid sex but it keeps walking ... [read more]
Tnorala: Baby Falling (2007)
Tnorala records an ancient central Australian Dreaming story about the formation of a large meteorite crater at Gosses Bluff or ‘Tnorala’, 175 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. [read more]
Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities (c1939)
This film is a compilation of 11 segments showing activities at Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, during the years 1936 to 1942. [read more]
Cine Safari (c1977)
This silent home movie footage was filmed by amateur filmmaker Alan Bresnahan during a tour of the United States of America and Canada in 1977. It includes eight short travelogues: Hello Hawaii, Looking at Los Angeles, Canyon Capers, Seeing ... [read more]
Living in a film script (1996)
Two villagers explain the confusion they experienced upon the first sighting of white people in the area. Filmmaker Robin Anderson speaks about arriving in the village and the way the villagers remembered them. Footage from Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988) ... [read more]
South of the Border (1987)
South of the Border looks at the role of music in the grass roots political protest movement in Central America. David Bradbury films various bands singing protest songs and talking about government oppression in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and ... [read more]
Artie throws a tanty (2009)
Joe (Clive Owen) has taken his youngest son Artie (Nicholas McAnulty) on a road trip after the death of his mother. Artie throws a tantrum and Joe pulls over at a service station to buy him crisps and orange juice ... [read more]
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an increase in population and discusses the new immigration program, grappling with the ... [read more]
Two Hands (1999)
Jimmy (Heath Ledger), a small-time wannabe criminal, loses $10,000 on Bondi Beach. The money belongs to Pando (Bryan Brown), the toughest criminal in Kings Cross, who sends his killer deputy Acko (David Field) to find him. Jimmy’s sister-in-law Deirdre (Susie ... [read more]
Bad Bob loses it (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) is in hiding, after having fed the gang’s stash of grog to the pigs in the hope of avoiding the violence that usually follows one of their drunken evenings. Bad Bob (Ray Meagher) finds him, drags him ... [read more]
Bush Toys (2008)
Bush Toys documents the continuity of the bush toy-making tradition in the Titjikala community, 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It follows a group of boys finding the materials, creating toy cars and exhibiting their works. The bush toys achieve ... [read more]
A daughter’s ruin (1918)
Philip (Boyd Irwin) brings Marjory (Lottie Lyell) home after a day’s outing, during which they have become lovers. Mrs Manton (Connie Martyn) sends her to her room for being so late home. The next section of the film is missing ... [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: The Ice Man Was Never Like This (c1934)
This animated cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the benefits of ice refrigeration. [read more]
Sunstruck (1972)
Welsh schoolteacher and choirmaster Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) migrates to Australia. His dream of a new life in sunny Sydney is upended by a posting to Kookaburra Springs, a tiny town in western New South Wales. Boarding at the pub ... [read more]
