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Alvin Purple (1973)
Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces him. At 21, he vows to avoid sex but it keeps walking ... [read more]
The Birdsville Track (1954)
A pan across a skeleton-littered desert of ‘prehistoric bones’ sets the scene. As the camera sweeps across this vast landscape, the voice-over narration tells of the Aborigines, explorers, settlers, prospectors and drovers who travelled up and down the land defying ... [read more]
Go the guts (2002)
Gary Black’s voice (Nathan Phillips) introduces the story: The Prospect Bay Australian Rules football team has made the grand final for the first time in years. The coach, the local butcher (Kevin Harrington), gives a post-game rant to his young ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – A Great New Feeling (1969)
This is a black-and-white television advertisement for the 'new generation’ 1969 Holden Kingswood. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Pauline Frederick, World Famous Star of Stage and Screen (c1924)
This newsreel from 1924 shows Pauline Frederick, a world famous actress from the stage and screen, posing for the camera. She takes of her hat to reveal her new sophisticated bob haircut and wears a cloche hat with a fox ... [read more]
Greetings from Wollongong (1982)
Greetings From Wollongong is a short drama about the lives of four unemployed young adults living in an Australian industrial city. The film follows the characters as they face rejection, boredom, social isolation, family tensions and lack of money. Set ... [read more]
Molly and Mobarak (2003)
Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to life in the regional NSW town of Young. Molly Rule and ... [read more]
My Life as I Live It (1993)
My Life as I Live It follows on from My Survival as an Aboriginal (1978), which introduced Essie Coffey (‘Bush Queen’) and her community in north-west New South Wales (Dodge City). My Life as I Live It returns to ... [read more]
First Australians – Episode 6, A Fair Deal for a Dark Race (2008)
Episode six, 'A Fair Deal for a Dark Race’, explores Indigenous history from 1930–67, primarily in the south-eastern regions of Australia, through the lives of Yorta Yorta men Doug Nicholls and his uncle, William Cooper. Across the continent, the ... [read more]
Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)
A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States between 2000 and 2004. It addresses the disempowerment ... [read more]
Bondi Rescue – Series 1, Episode 4 (2006)
A young man is found lifeless in the water on a surprisingly calm day. With no breath and no pulse, a frantic resuscitation begins. [read more]
Starring – the house (1988)
The real estate agent (Peter Felmingham) comes to look over the Georgallis family home and makes a few suggestions on how it could be improved for sale, upsetting most of the family along the way. His reaction to Con’s masterpiece ... [read more]
The Wintergarden Theatre (1929)
This silent clip begins with a title card announcing that the Wintergarden Theatre is the 'first theatre in the world to present a completely new invention in Talking Picture Equipment’. This is followed by an exterior shot of the Wintergarden ... [read more]
Evil Angels (1988)
A true story. On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Azaria’s body is never ... [read more]
Divine Service – Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church, Rose Bay (1965)
This program features a Roman Catholic religious service recorded in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, celebrated by the Reverend Father Neil Collins with preacher Reverend Father Julian Miller from St Patrick’s College, Manly. The service ... [read more]
A Fortunate Life (1985)
A dramatisation of Albert Barnett Facey’s award-winning, widely read autobiography of the same name, this mini-series covers about three-quarters of the book. It begins with Facey’s arrival as a toddler in Western Australia in 1899, traces the various physical and ... [read more]
National Treasures – ‘Waltzing Matilda’ Song Sheet (2004)
Most Australians know that Banjo Paterson wrote the lyrics to 'Waltzing Matilda’ but who wrote the music? And what does it have to do with a rather oddly titled song called 'Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself’? [read more]
Running the gauntlet (1995)
Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) runs the daily gauntlet from the gate of Blackstream Prison past the inmates in the exercise yards to her place of work in the prison’s psychology unit. [read more]
Sheep to Shop: Hosiery and Knitted Goods (1924)
Produced by Herschells Films for the Made in Australia Council, this documentary promotes Australia’s wool industry and the production of high-grade woollen garments. [read more]
Torres Strait Islanders (1898)
Torres Strait Islanders contains the surviving four-and-a-half minutes of footage shot by AC Haddon during an expedition conducted by Cambridge University to Murray Island in the Torres Straits, in 1898. Composed of five short sequences, this film is the world’s ... [read more]
