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Wrong Side of the Road (1981)
This documentary-style drama follows the Indigenous bands Us Mob and No Fixed Address as they move from gig to gig. [read more]
Doesn’t Everybody Want a Golden Guitar (1995)
Filmed during the 1995 Tamworth Country Music Festival, the documentary is a tribute to Australian country music and the performers and fans that follow country music. The film is a sampler of differing styles of country music and a kaleidoscope ... [read more]
Inside the sawdust arena (1949)
The procession of performers and circus acts passes by the camera to enter the big top arena including horses, clowns and elephants. Some of the acts are filmed including a female lion tamer, a cycling clown, performing elephants, and barebacked ... [read more]
A piano on the beach (1993)
After the long voyage from Scotland, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) and daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) are camped on a New Zealand beach, in a tent made from Ada’s skirt hoops. They are woken by the arrival of Mr Stewart and ... [read more]
Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under (1962)
After a successful career in London, Georgia Lee returned to Australia and recorded ‘Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under’. She became only the second female artist to release a long-playing record in Australia and surely the first Indigenous female ... [read more]
Strange happenings in the desert (2004)
Our central characters are in transit and heading towards Alice Springs for the eclipse. Travelling on the Ghan, the young doctor Matt (Patrick Brammall) leaves a group of older women with whom he shares a cabin, and meets a beautiful ... [read more]
The Safe House (2006)
In the summer of 1954, Lee Whitmore (voiced as a child by Alycia Debnam-Carey and as an adult by Noni Hazlehurst) and her friends pass the time playing in a make-shift children’s swimming pool in the backyard and gazing out ... [read more]
The Mighty Conqueror (1931)
This short documentary made by the McDonagh sisters (Paulette, Isobel and Phyllis) shows Phar Lap on and off the track. It includes footage of the gelding in his stables, at play with strapper and trainer Tommy Woodcock, and competing for ... [read more]
Crossing the Roper River (1946)
McAlpine (Chips Rafferty) swims his cattle across the crocodile-infested Roper River, one of the largest rivers in the Northern Territory. Mary Parsons (Daphne Campbell) plunges in, leading her horse across, as her mother (Jean Blue) and sister (Helen Grieve) watch ... [read more]
Mabo: An Address to the Nation (1993)
On 15 November 1993, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating addresses the nation on his government’s response to the High Court Mabo decision which recognised native title for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Outlining the history of the Mabo court case ... [read more]
The sailors part two (1927)
The Sailors is a recorded version of a theatrical comedy routine by vaudeville performers Stiffy (Nat Phillips) and Mo (Roy Rene). You can listen to part two of The Sailors here in its entirety. Part two is the second side ... [read more]
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]
The Phantom Stockman (1953)
Kim Marsden (Jeanette Elphick) inherits a cattle station near Alice Springs. Convinced that her father was murdered, Kim asks local Aborigines to send a message to ‘the Sundowner’, a legendary bushman who roams the outback. Adopting the name Ted Simpson, ... [read more]
For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
Richard Devine (George Fisher), heir of wealthy Sir Richard, decides to ship out of England, rather than reveal his mother’s secret – that his real father is the neighbour, Lord Bellasis (Arthur Greenaway). When Bellasis is killed by his own ... [read more]
Cartoons of the Moment – The War Zoo (c1915)
A segment from an animated political series created by cartoonist Harry Julius for wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition, zoo animals are used to depict the major warring countries including: a lion (Britain), an eagle (the ... [read more]
The Constant Threat (1946)
This short community service announcement raises awareness about tuberculosis and encourages people to have a free chest x-ray provided by the NSW Department of Public Health. A man on his way home from work approaches an x-ray caravan stationed ... [read more]
The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)
Will Brown (Guy Hastings) enlists in the Australian Army, soon after the outbreak of the First World War. He puts away his sporting equipment, in favour of more serious duties. He joins hundreds of other men in a training camp ... [read more]
The Happy Years (c1958)
This short film, shot in black-and-white, promotes the operations of the School Medical Service within NSW state schools in the 1950s. The film describes how the service aims to provide a holistic approach to child health, covering physical and ... [read more]
The Hungry Miles (1955)
The Hungry Miles is a documentary made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit. It documents industrial relations on the waterfront since the 1930s and includes dramatised scenes of working conditions during the Depression. It also recounts the background to ... [read more]
The Waiting City (2009)
An Australian couple, lawyer Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and musician Ben (Joel Edgerton), arrive in the heady atmosphere of Kolkata to finalise the adoption of an Indian baby. In this overcrowded city, the culture clash, a frustratingly inefficient adoption bureaucracy and ... [read more]
