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I Can Jump Puddles (1981)
This is the inspirational boyhood story of the author Alan Marshall, a victim of polio. Born in rural Victoria in the early 1900s, young Alan Marshall contracted the dreadful disease poliomyelitis (polio) which left him crippled. I Can Jump Puddles ... [read more]
Kath and Kim – Money (2002)
Kath Day (Jane Turner) is worried about finding the money to pay for her dream wedding to Kel Knight (Glenn Robbins) and looks for ways to get rich quick. Meanwhile her daughter Kim Craig (Gina Riley) discovers the internet, with ... [read more]
Message Stick – Blacktracker (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley narrates the story of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley, who served with the NSW Police from 1911 to 1950. We see Yhi Riley searching through archival records and talking with older family members and a ... [read more]
Compass – Saving Claymore (2002)
Fire-bombings, stealing and vandalism were the norm in the Sydney suburb of Claymore, where residents lived in fear and isolation. Then the Catholic Church moved in and introduced a project developed in the third world, which required the residents themselves ... [read more]
Serious Undertakings (1983)
Serious Undertakings is a fascinating film about the construction of history, culture and politics. Divided into five segments headed by quotes, the film explores how dominant ideas of Australian history, national character and sexual difference are determined by who ... [read more]
‘You run an impressive operation’ (1985)
Becker (Eric Roberts) visits T George McDowell (Bill Kerr) at his bottling plant in Anderson Valley. He offers to help McDowell modernise his business. [read more]
Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (1959)
This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is like. When given a sample, they agree that ‘it’s jelly good’. [read more]
Night (2007)
This documentary is a meditation on the nature of night and how people experience it. It combines beautiful and mesmerising images of the nocturnal with an exquisite and varying symphonic score. People of all ages, sexes and cultures, in voice-over ... [read more]
Teddy Briscoe (2000)
A documentary about an Indigenous stockman, and the legacy carried on by his family. [read more]
Elapsed Time Test Studies: Australian Wildflowers, Tahiti, Travel Scenes (c1955)
In a greenhouse full of flowering plants, amateur filmmaker FE Winton uses early methods of time lapse photography to capture the slow bloom of brightly coloured flora. [read more]
Strikebound (1983)
Strikebound is based on real events in Gippsland, Victoria in 1937, where Wattie Doig (Chris Haywood) is employed at the Sunbeam coal mine and his wife, Agnes (Carol Burns), is a member of the Salvation Army. Angered by poor pay ... [read more]
Pioneers of Love (2005)
Inspired by Elena Govor’s book My Dark Brother: The Story of the Illins, A Russian–Aboriginal Family (2000), Pioneers of Love is a documentary that uses historical footage and interview material to talk about the relationship between a Russian immigrant Leandro ... [read more]
My Mother India (2001)
Director Safina Uberoi traces her parents’ history. Her Australian mother married a Sikh and moved to India. There they bought up their three children and survived the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. The autobiography features family photos, historical footage and interviews ... [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]
Sellex Crockery: Red Riding Hood (c1930)
In this partly animated advertisement for a Sellex tea set, some of the characters that decorate the crockery appear in the story Red Riding Hood. [read more]
Baptism (1994)
Henry Warburton (Peter Coyote) baptises Ort (Jamie Croft) and his mother, Alice (Lisa Harrow). Tegwyn (Amanda Douge) refuses to accept Henry’s brand of faith and salvation. [read more]
It’s Academic – Episode 40 (1971)
A quiz show hosted by Andrew Harwood in which three school teams test their general knowledge and win prizes for themselves and their school. In rounds one and two, each team must answer ten questions from a numbered 'packet’ within ... [read more]
Violence and brutality (1980)
A radio broadcast quotes from Jean Genet’s essay ‘Violence and Brutality’ (1977) while a bomb is constructed. [read more]
Learning to read (2000)
After discovering that his cellmate and ‘protector’ Williams (Tony Martin) can’t read, Sonny (Kick Gurry) teaches him. [read more]
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) has been trained from the age of six to become a ballroom dancing champion. His ambitious mother, Shirley (Pat Thomson), sees a golden future for Scott with his partner Liz (Gia Carides). But Scott’s desire to ... [read more]
