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The New Gladesville Bridge (1967)

A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads (DMR) by Kingcroft Productions documenting the construction of the 1000 foot (305 metre) New Gladesville Bridge, a pre-stressed concrete bridge that connects Gladesville with Drummoyne ... [read more]

Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988)

Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film uncovers the amazing story of the ... [read more]

The Colony (2005)

A six part 'living history’ series, in which four families and several single people – chosen to match the social fabric of the 1800s as convicts, political exiles, free settlers and Aborigines – all travel back in time to relive ... [read more]

Secret Fleets (1995)

During the Second World War, submarines operated secretly out of Fremantle and Albany in the south of Western Australia. These were desperate times, when the Japanese advance had overrun Singapore and New Guinea. American submariners were welcomed by the citizens ... [read more]

The Hand of the Artist (1906)

Photographic images are composed and brought to life on a whim, and then just as quickly transformed or reduced to immobility by the hand of the artist. After each animated sequence, the hand crumples the paper and disposes of it ... [read more]

Vivien Straford 1927–1937 (1927)

This is a 9.5mm home movie compilation of footage filmed by Vivien Straford of his family between 1927 and 1937. It includes scenes in the family garden and at a picnic, and features Vivien’s wife, their parents, their son Jim ... [read more]

In a Savage Land (1999)

Soon after getting married, and just after the outbreak of the Second World War, Dr Phillip Spence (Martin Donovan) and his former student Evelyn (Maya Stange) set out for Papua New Guinea to study the culture of the Trobriand Islanders. ... [read more]

A World to Conquer (1956)

In this amateur science fiction short drama made by John and Frank Straford, a man (Kerry Beckwith) witnesses an alien surveillance camera land in his backyard, but his wife (Jeanette Van Boom) does not believe him. [read more]

Message Stick – Wayne’s World (2005)

An episode that introduces us to award-winning filmmaker and actor Wayne Blair. [read more]

Voice of a Nation (c1918)

This silent actuality footage from around 1918 captures returned Australian soldiers marching through a city street. It features soldiers on foot and horseback and scenes of horse-drawn Red Cross ambulances. [read more]

The Battleships (2000)

A four-hour documentary miniseries examining the rise in importance of the battleship from the wooden sailing ships of the Elizabethan age to the dreadnoughts of modern history. [read more]

The Removalists (1975)

On his first day in the police force, Constable Neville Ross (John Hargreaves) learns the ropes from Sergeant Dan Simmonds (Peter Cummins), an experienced officer. The sergeant hates corruption, but never pays for a hamburger. When two women come to ... [read more]

‘The end of creation’ (2003)

In a series of images and sound, filmmaker Anna Brionowski tells the story of her aunt, Dr Helen Caldicott’s struggle to end nuclear warfare. Frank Gaffney from the Center for Security Policy and actor-activist Martin Sheen give opposing views. [read more]

Young women and the Leahy brothers (1983)

A group of women talk about their experiences with the Leahy brothers. They describe how, as young women, their people sold them to the Leahy brothers for sexual purposes. [read more]

Movietone Special: Peace: Australia Celebrates (1945)

This Movietone News special edition features the nationwide celebrations that erupted with the declaration of peace at the end of the Second World War. It includes scenes in Martin Place, Sydney, as well as other capital cities, a victory march ... [read more]

The Woman Suffers (1918)

The Woman Suffers is a complicated silent melodrama of revenge and sexual betrayal, only part of which survives. In the first two reels, which have been lost, a woman caught in an abusive marriage runs away with her infant son ... [read more]

Morris, DG: Royal Agricultural Show, Adelaide (c1943)

This colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay Morris includes a variety of subjects including the cattle judging at the Royal Agricultural Show, the Queen of the Murray beauty pageant 1951, school marching bands at Berri, the fairytale parade in ... [read more]

First Australian notes (1910)

This newsreel item shows an Australian one pound banknote with 'Bank of New South Wales’ printed on it. [read more]

Cartoons of the Moment – The Economy in Germany (c1915)

Cartoons of the Moment is an animated satirical segment created by Australian cartoonist Harry Julius during the First World War for the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition from approximately 1914, Julius comments on the economic decline in Germany and ... [read more]

The Sundowners (1960)

At the end of the 1920s, Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) and his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) have been living on the road as drovers for 16 years. Their son Sean (Michael Anderson Junior) wonders what it would be like to ... [read more]

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