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Australia’s Land of Tomorrow (1962)
Australian Inland Mission (AIM) superintendent Reverend Fred McKay conducts his patrol through the north of Australia. Along the way he witnesses a prospering region where industry and agriculture have grown and the population has greatly increased since the first ... [read more]
Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballet Russes in Australia (c1939)
On the sand and rocks of Bungan Beach, dancers from the Ballets Russes enact a drama for the camera and perform excerpts from their repertoire. Friend and balletomane Ewan Murray-Will films the action in a number of scenes. Some of ... [read more]
South Melbourne Methodist Mission News (c1924)
This film made by the South Melbourne Methodist Mission promotes their work with children and the poor in 1920s South Melbourne. It also shows the mission’s weekly issuing of firewood to struggling families in the local community. [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]
Building a Railway Engine (c1925)
This short film shows some of the work carried out at the Islington railway engine construction and repair plant of the South Australian Railways, just outside of Adelaide. [read more]
Marvellous Melbourne: Queen City of the South (c1910)
This silent documentary with intertitles was compiled by producer Charles Cozens Spencer and cinematographer Ernest Higgins. It documents architecture, transport, and recreation in Melbourne in the early part of last century. [read more]
Confessions of a Headhunter (2000)
A drama about two Indigenous men – Frank (Bruce Hutchison) and Vinnie (Kelton Pell) – who seek revenge for the repeated beheading of the statue of their ancestor warrior Yagan. [read more]
Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)
A documentary using historical footage and interviews with Indigenous people who belonged to the generation that were forced into unpaid servitude by the Australian government. The title refers to the amount of pocket money the indentured workers were supposed to ... [read more]
Bliss (1985)
Harry Joy (Barry Otto) dies – for four minutes – after a heart attack. When he is revived, he realises he’s living in hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette Curran) is having an affair with his business partner Joel (Jeff Truman), ... [read more]
Operation Buffalo – Colour Record (1956)
Operation Buffalo was the testing of four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga in South Australia on 27 September 1956. This film is the official recording of the operation. It contains the mute raw footage of each of the explosions, shot ... [read more]
Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour (2002)
Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical crew as they set up and perform the Italian opera by Giacomo ... [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]
DAAS Kapital – Faith (1992)
Giant global conglomerate Shitsu Tonka Corporation has taken over the earth. The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are stranded aboard Titanic 2, a giant submarine carrying the world’s great art treasures and historic artefacts. ... [read more]
West (2007)
Pete (Khan Chittenden) and Jerry (Nathan Phillips) are cousins and best friends, going nowhere in the west of Sydney. They are unemployed and shiftless – bored, drunk and stoned most of the time. When Jerry gets a girlfriend and a ... [read more]
1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is from a solid farming family while Billy has a dysfunctional family life and a drunken ... [read more]
Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)
This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains intertitles. [read more]
That’s Cricket (c1931)
This featurette was directed by Ken G Hall for Australasian Films and made with the cooperation of seven members of the successful Australian XI cricket team, including Sir Donald Bradman, who toured England in 1930. It promotes cricket and its ... [read more]
Backroads (1977)
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western New South Wales and head for the coast. Jack (Bill Hunter) is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary (Gary Foley) doesn’t really care – he just ... [read more]
Monday Conference – PNG (1971)
Robert Moore is the moderator and Donald Hogg and Richard Beckett are the interviewers of the impressive New Guinea politician John Guise, later to be knighted Sir John Guise. They’re asking him about his country’s timetable to independence and the ... [read more]
Zigzag (1978)
Essie Coffey instructs some young people on how to track animals. They are looking for porcupine tracks, and finally find one. A porcupine never walks straight says Essie, but always walks in a zig zag. They follow the porcupine to ... [read more]
