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Addison Road Drop-In (1977)
A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Many of them are on welfare benefits and the Drop-In Centre offers a safe space ... [read more]
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party (c1921)
A home movie filmed by the Albion family of a children’s Christmas party in the 1920s. Most of the footage focuses on five-year-old Wally and takes place over a single afternoon. The three minutes of 35 mm silent footage ... [read more]
Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (c1939)
In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates devoting time to collecting and depositing food in their local bank. Winter arrives and Willie, ... [read more]
Gettin’ Square (2003)
After eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) gets paroled because of the death of his mother. He returns to the Gold Coast determined to stay out of trouble, but trouble keeps finding ... [read more]
Murder Call – Black Friday (1997)
A school trip to the zoo goes awry when a child finds a dead man in a gorilla suit. Detectives Tessa Vance (Lucy Bell) and Steve Hayden (Peter Mochrie) are called in to investigate – with the help of a ... [read more]
November Victory (1955)
November Victory presents the struggles of Australian workers to improve their conditions and highlights some of the landmark events in the history of the labour movement in Australia. [read more]
Death Defying Acts (2007)
In Edinburgh, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) entertain audiences with a psychic act that depends on trickery. They spy on members of their audience and steal from them so they can dramatically reveal insider knowledge ... [read more]
We Aim to Please (1976)
We Aim to Please is an experimental feminist film that challenged the way the image of women had been produced by and for men. Made collaboratively by Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, who also appear in it, the film is ... [read more]
Playing Beatie Bow (1985)
When troubled teenager Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) encounters a mysterious young girl while playing in a park in modern day Sydney (circa 1985), they both find themselves transported back to the 1870s. The girl, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), takes Abigail ... [read more]
Kerr’s Cur (1975)
On 11 November 1975, on the steps of Parliament House, the dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam delivers his now-famous verdict on the day’s events. [read more]
Country Gardens (1919)
Percy Grainger’s own performance of his best-known composition, ‘Country Gardens’, captured on a piano roll. [read more]
Mister Prime Minister – Alfred Deakin (1966)
Alfred Deakin served three terms as Prime Minister of Australia between 1903 and 1910. This biography examines Deakin’s achievements in the first decade of the Australian Commonwealth. [read more]
Life at the Top: A Week with Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (1977)
Life at the Top follows Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser for one jam-packed week as he goes about his various work responsibilities, from 7-13 October 1977. He visits Kalgoorlie and Wollongong, attends numerous meetings with advisers and joint Liberal-Country Party Coalition ... [read more]
Much Ado About Something (2001)
Much Ado About Something questions the authorship of the works of Shakespeare in a delightful and accessible way. It uses interviews, dramatisations, pictures, photos, paintings, and scenes from feature films and plays to investigate whether Christopher Marlowe or Sir Francis ... [read more]
The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
Ever since he was a little boy, Placid Lake (Ben Lee) has been told by his hippie parents, Sylvia (Miranda Richardson) and Doug (Garry McDonald), that he must find the positive in every experience and not judge people. He grows ... [read more]
The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet (1989)
Mr and Mrs Flynn who live in Maitland, a New South Wales country town, form a musical quartet with Leo, the local greengrocer, and Consuela, a young female bank teller. When Consuela marries and moves interstate, Leo is heartbroken and ... [read more]
Number 96 – Episode 910 (1975)
In this episode Herb Evans (Ron Shand) is keeping a whopping secret from Dorrie (Pat McDonald), Gary Whittaker (Mike Ferguson) has been stitched up by Liz Feather (Margaret Laurence) and Dudley Butterfield’s (Chard Hayward) dead cousin might not be so ... [read more]
The Saddle Club – Series 1 Episode 1 (2001)
Lisa Atwood’s (Lara Jean Marshall) first day at Pine Hollow Stables begins badly when a car driven by her mother (Marie-Louise Walker) nearly collides with Pine Hollow’s best students Stevie Lake (Sophie Bennett) and Carole Hanson (Keenan MacWilliam) and their ... [read more]
Last Ride (2009)
Kev (Hugo Weaving), a former convict on the run, and his 10-year-old son Chook (Tom Russell) get to know each other for the first and last time in this road movie set in South Australia. The pair’s relationship deepens as ... [read more]
Birth of the Red Kangaroo (1965)
This CSIRO documentary details the reproductive cycle of the red kangaroo, its mating habits and the early stages of a kangaroo’s development as it grows in the pouch. It includes animated diagrams to illustrate ... [read more]
