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Heartbreak High – Series 1 Episode 1 (1993)

It’s the first day back at school at multicultural Hartley High and simmering racial conflict is ignited when Rivers (Scott Major) repeatedly goads new student Jack Tran (Tai Nguyen). It comes to a head when Jack’s schoolbag is set alight ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Patriotic Procession in Aid of the French Red Cross (1915)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip shows a parade in 1915 for the French Red Cross. People dressed in costumes walk, ride horses or ride in horse-drawn carriages along an inner-city street of Melbourne, Victoria while trams can be seen in ... [read more]

Opening up the west (1963)

Graphics, paintings and voice-over tell the story of why it took 30 years for the settlers of New South Wales to cross the Blue Mountains and gain access to the fabulous pasture lands beyond. It needed a true bushman, one ... [read more]

Anzac Day 1946 (1946)

This colour home movie clip shows the official Anzac Day parade through central Sydney one year after the end of the Second World War in 1946. [read more]

A Matter of Taste (c1954)

This colour cinema advertisement for Schweppes soft drinks and juice cordials emphasises quality, sophistication and versatility. [read more]

Noise (2007)

Lavinia Smart (Maia Thomas) walks into a carriage full of dead and dying passengers on a suburban train in Melbourne. She survives an encounter with the killer but he steals a framed photograph that has her name on the back. ... [read more]

The Life and Times of Malcolm Fraser (2004)

In this documentary Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, looks back on his life and discusses the principles that drive him. Elected after the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government in November 1975, he was frequently ... [read more]

Neptune’s Nippers (1984)

The Wildlife Research Institute advertised for young people interested in participating in a marine science training program. The film traces the training of 12-year-old Jason Duplator who won the scholarship and travelled overseas. [read more]

High stakes (1946)

The cattle are dying of thirst. Desperate to find water, McAlpine heads them up over an old mountain pass that he knows. Mary (Daphne Campbell) leads them up but finds the path blocked near the top. If the cattle are ... [read more]

Underbelly – Series 1 (2008)

A 13-part drama series based on real events in Melbourne from 1994–2004. In 1994, power and influence in Melbourne’s underworld is held by the Moran family and old-school gangsters the Carlton Crew. Carl Williams (Gyton Grantley) is a little-known employee ... [read more]

Melbourne Cup 1896 (1896)

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race. [read more]

Fond Memories of Cuba (2002)

Documentary maker David Bradbury visits Cuba to report on what the socialist revolution of 1959 has delivered for Cubans in 2002. The film has two distinct parts. The first is more observational and relaxed. The second half tackles human rights ... [read more]

Fig Street Fiasco (1974)

A ‘process video’ that filmmaker Tom Zubrycki made in collaboration with inner-city Sydney residents, this documentary voices the concerns of residents whose houses are tagged for demolition to make way for the proposed North-Western Expressway. [read more]

The AIM nursing hostel, Birdsville (1947)

At the Australian Inland Mission nursing hostel in Birdsville, the AIM sisters alternate between nursing and domestic duties. One of the sisters treats a young girl who has an injured finger. She washes and dresses the girl’s ... [read more]

My Brilliant Career (1979)

During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an extended visit to her aristocratic grandmother (Aileen Britton), she meets Harry Beecham ... [read more]

Nicaragua: No Pasaran (1984)

This 1984 documentary examines the political story of Nicaragua. The Sandinistas overthrew the US backed dictatorship of Somoza. The Sandinistas then had to defend their country from the invasion of the US funded Contras from neighbouring Honduras and Costa Rica. ... [read more]

‘The men will protect us’ (1998)

While the two men search in the night for the feral cat, Ronnie (Miranda Otto) and Ida (Brenda Blethyn) get roaring drunk at the Stubbs house. Ida says she knows the men will protect them. Both women burst out laughing ... [read more]

The Henderson Kids – Series 1 Episode 2 (1985)

The second part of a two-part episode, originally screened as one. When their mother (Diane Craig) dies in an accident, 13-year-old Tamara ‘Tam Bam’ (Nadine Garner) and 15-year-old Steve Henderson (Paul Smith) move from the city to live with their ... [read more]

Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera (2007)

Amateur filmmaker Frank Straford demonstrates his father’s original brown leather 1920s Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera and tripod. He contrasts the distinctive sprocket holes of 9.5mm with 16mm film and displays the cassettes the film came in. [read more]

Beneath Clouds (2002)

A visually poetic feature film about two youths who in trying to find themselves, momentarily find each other on the road to Sydney. [read more]

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