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Searchlight on Japan (c1948)
This documentary surveys Japan under Allied occupation at the end of the Second World War. It includes the impact of democratisation, re-education and the ‘rehabilitation’ of the Japanese people and its institutions of power. [read more]
Australia Post – We Deliver 1 (1988)
These are two of a series of television commercials (TVCs) promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia Posted’ song. [read more]
The wrong fence (2002)
Mr Neville (Kenneth Branagh) tells the police inspector (Roy Billing) that the three escaped girls must be following the rabbit-proof fence north, to their home. He devises a plan to catch them, sending police troopers down the fence from the ... [read more]
My Mother’s Country Part 1 (2001)
My Mother’s Country is a documentary that gives a personal account of the Coniston Massacre of 1928. [read more]
Down on the farm (1979)
Frank Bourke, the band leader and composer of reliable dance tunes, revisits the dirt poor farm where he grew up. [read more]
Black Beauty (1978)
In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as his feisty stablemate Ginger bitterly predicts, this doesn’t last, and the harsh realities of life’s ... [read more]
Second World War (2005)
In this track, 'World War 2’, narrator Jack Thompson gives an overview of the involvement of Australian armed forces in the Second World War. The music is 'Mars Reprise’ from Holst’s orchestral suite 'The Planets’. Also featured is an extract ... [read more]
Japanese Story (2003)
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious young Perth geologist, flies north to Port Hedland to babysit the son of a Japanese industrialist, on a private visit. Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) marvels at the size of the iron ore mines, but ... [read more]
Australia Post – Olympic Post Script (1956)
This black-and-white film was produced to celebrate the communications achievements of the PMG (Postmaster-General’s Department) during the summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 December 1956. [read more]
My Country (1994)
The documentary examines the working relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous occupants of a cattle station in the Northern Territory. Most of the filming takes place during a cattle muster as helicopters are used to round up thousands of head of ... [read more]
Cyclone Tracy (1986)
It is Christmas Eve, 1974, in the northern Australian city of Darwin. There are warnings of a tropical cyclone approaching, but then there are warnings every summer so this one goes largely ignored. A disparate group of characters prepare for ... [read more]
Grendel Grendel Grendel (1980)
The animated feature Grendel Grendel Grendel is introduced by co-producer Phillip Adams, who discusses the role of monsters in the human imagination as a prelude to the film’s ‘venerable’ monster, Grendel (voiced by Peter Ustinov). The film’s early sequences depict ... [read more]
Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy) (1972)
Billy Thorpe’s musical career mirrors the Australian pop and rock music scene of the 1960s and ’70s and the move from pop to hard rock. His hit song ‘Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy)’ came to define the ... [read more]
Vanish (1998)
Vanish, a documentary written and directed by Ivan Sen, explores the history of the Gamilaroi (or Kamilaroi) people of the Macintyre River being rounded up into the Euraba Reserve on the northern border of NSW in 1912. In 1927, ... [read more]
More Winners – The Journey (1990)
On an isolated Tasmanian mountain plateau, 12-year-old Ada Zuckermann (Christen Cornell) lives with her wealthy miner father Justus (Owen Weingott). They are cared for by housekeeper Martha (Judith Stratford), and her teenage daughter Agnes (Melanie Boomer). Unbeknown to Ada and ... [read more]
Short Changed (1985)
An aboriginal man, Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) is arrested for taking part in a land rights demonstration, after the death of his father. His white wife Alison (Susan Leith) leaves him and takes their son Tommy (Jamie Agius). Seven years ... [read more]
‘I knew that poem was there’ (1991)
Les Murray speaks of his first trip to Newcastle with his mother in 1942 and occasionally thereafter. He returned to find the poem that he knew was there. Over a montage of images of family photos and Newcastle locations, Murray ... [read more]
Gerakiteys: Scenes of Greece and Canberra (c1954)
In this 16mm silent colour home movie, members of the Gerakiteys family, residents of Canberra, arrive in their town of origin in Greece where they meet relatives, visit local villagers and attend a wedding. [read more]
Going Tribal (1995)
The documentary observes the lifestyle and values of a group of ferals living in the Byron Bay area in northern New South Wales. The film includes interviews with several families, observes ceremonies taken from ancient cultures and explains the philosophy ... [read more]
Riot or Revolution (2005)
A partly dramatised documentary about the Eureka Stockade in colonial Victoria. The civil revolt was triggered by the government’s imposition of a gold licence for gold miners. The documentary consists of photographs and drawings of the event, some dramatic recreations, ... [read more]
