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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]
Return Home (1990)
After his divorce, Noel McKenzie (Dennis Coard) returns to Adelaide, where he grew up, to take stock. He is bored with his high-powered job in insurance, but unsure if he can return to the life that sustains his brother Steve ... [read more]
I Should Be So Lucky (1987)
I Should Be So Lucky was the second single from Kylie’s debut album, Kylie (1988). Penned by English pop writing-producing phenomenon Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman (also known as SAW), the song is a prime example of ... [read more]
Lucinda Brayford (1980)
Lucinda Brayford (Wendy Hughes) is a lively and elegant but naive 18-year-old woman. Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who ... [read more]
Palm Beach (1979)
Four characters, all misfits of a sort, cross paths over one weekend on the northern beaches of Sydney. Leilani (Amanda Berry) is a runaway 16-year-old; Larry (John Flaus) is a Bondi private eye who’s looking for her; Joe (Ken Brown) ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Australia’s Ideal Family Car (c1957)
This black-and-white television advertisement presents the early model Holden sedan as Australia’s 'ideal family car’. It highlights the car’s new features and shows it undergoing steering tests on the Holden Lang Lang proving ground outside Melbourne, Victoria. [read more]
Goodbye Paradise (1981)
On Queensland’s Gold Coast in the early 1980s, a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett), sets out to find a missing girl, the daughter of a senior politician. Stacey is down on his luck and desperate for a drink. ... [read more]
Spotswood (1992)
In the dockside Melbourne suburb of Spotswood, business efficiency expert (Anthony Hopkins) tries to save a run-down moccasin factory that hasn’t made a profit for years. The boss, Mr Ball (Alwyn Kurts) has been selling off assets to keep his ... [read more]
Betty Pounder (1988)
Australian dancer and choreographer Betty Pounder (1921–1990) is interviewed about her life. She recalls her years with the Sydney based theatre company JC Williamson and the joy of performing and dancing. Later in her career she became a choreographer. [read more]
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Raimond Gaita (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives with his father Romulus (Eric Bana) in a rundown farmhouse in central Victoria. It is 1960 and Raimond’s mother Christina (Franka Potente) returns for one of her infrequent visits. She leaves soon after and moves ... [read more]
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance (2006)
Mr Jonathon (Ben Miller) has never been conventional. The young girls in his dance school perform routines about evil scientists, greedy corporations and the oppression of women – even though most of them are only aged between eight and twelve. ... [read more]
Masterpiece Special – Robert Hughes (1997)
The Australian expatriate art critic and author Robert Hughes ranges widely in a conversation with arts journalist Andrea Stretton about a career that’s taken him from Australia to London, Italy and finally New York, where he’s lived since the 1970s. ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – Sound and Safe (1963)
Produced in 1963 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film lays out safety procedures for hard rock tunnelling. [read more]
Broken Sun (2008)
In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary existence until he discovers and captures Masura (Shingo Usami), a Japanese prisoner ... [read more]
Somersault (2004)
Sixteen-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) kisses her mother’s boyfriend, just as her mother Nicole (Olivia Pigeot) walks back into the house. Confused and frightened, Heidi takes the bus to Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains, where she meets Joe (Sam Worthington) the ... [read more]
Prologue and invocation (1966)
This is an extract from the Epilogue to In the Head the Fire. The ancient Irish poem is read by Alexandre Archdale. During the poem we hear other sounds which have been superimposed over the vocal recording. [read more]
Two Laws (1981)
Two Laws is a documentary made collaboratively by Borroloola Tribal Council and filmmakers Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini about the two laws that now exist in this country – colonial law and Indigenous law. [read more]
Walk Into Paradise (1956)
As he’s heading for Australia on leave, senior patrol officer Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) is recalled to take a patrol into unmapped territory in the highlands of Australian-administered New Guinea. An old prospector, 'Sharkeye’ Kelly (Reg Lye), has discovered oil ... [read more]
Serving Suggestion (1998)
Little Kevin (voiced by Philip Joseph) is a snotty boy who doesn’t heed his mother’s call at the supermarket. He steals lollies, gobbles them and spills them, causing an old lady to fall. He runs over her to get his ... [read more]
Mortified – Taylor’s DNA (2006)
This is the first episode of the series. Self conscious eleven-year-old Taylor Fry (Marny Kennedy) finds her crazy parents Don (Andrew Blackman) and Glenda (Rachel Blakely) so embarrassing that she becomes convinced that they can’t possibly be her real mother ... [read more]
