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Fighting for rights (2000)
On the train, Harry Saunders (David Ngoombujarra) introduces himself to Thomas Green (Glenn Shea), his wife Maude (Kylie Belling) and daughter Sophia (Rose Kirby). Maude gets angry with Harry, and tells both men that black men fighting in the War ... [read more]
Salute to the Aussie Digger (2005)
Actor Jack Thompson leads the listener through an historical overview of engagements by the Australian Defence Force in various conflicts and peacekeeping events. It is accompanied by a variety of musical compositions including traditional tunes, classical pieces and popular songs ... [read more]
‘It was the best thing to do’ (2008)
It is 1830 and European settlement has begun in Tasmania. Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the resulting inter-racial tension and violence dubbed the Black War, the harsh world Truganini is born into. This clip introduces her personality and ... [read more]
The Digger Carries On: Repatriation Illustrated (1919)
This public information film from 1919 shows the facilities for injured and psychologically affected returned servicemen from the First World War and the various vocational training schemes available. [read more]
The Breaker (1973)
A documentary of Henry 'Breaker’ Morant’s life. It covers his disputed parentage, his variety of names, and his adventures as a bushman in Queensland and New South Wales. He volunteered to fight in the Boer War. He is famous for ... [read more]
Cartoons of the Moment – Miss Australasia (c1915)
Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on First World War-related events in Australia and Europe. In the first of three sketches, women ... [read more]
A Morning at the World’s Greatest Agricultural Show (c1926)
This fragment is from a documentary about the Royal Agricultural Show held at the Sydney Showground in approximately 1926. Horses and cattle are prepared for display prior to the agricultural events. We see children grooming, saddling and riding ponies in ... [read more]
East West 101 – The Enemy Within (2007)
When a police officer is shot after an armed hold-up, the Lakemba Major Crime Squad go in search of men 'of Middle Eastern appearance’. As the net closes around two suspects, Detective Zane Malik (Don Hany) doubts his unit’s tactics. ... [read more]
Arriving at the Migrant Reception Centre (1962)
A group of migrants arrive by bus at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre. As they disembark and collect their luggage, a female voice-over explains they have come from many countries across Europe. The centre functions as a temporary place for ... [read more]
It’s war! (1982)
The recruiting drive is on and throughout the bush there are more than enough young men willing to drop everything for the adventure of war. Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) have been waiting for this moment with barely ... [read more]
The Broken Melody (1938)
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) ruins his good prospects after a drunken brawl in a Sydney nightclub. Expelled from his musical studies at the university and thrown off his father’s property, he falls on hard times in a city in the ... [read more]
The Workman’s Nightmare (1951)
This short amateur film is about a young man (John Straford) who, falling asleep on his work break, dreams that his ladder attacks him. [read more]
Dynasties – The Murdochs (2001)
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is the last of the world’s great media empires controlled by a family dynasty. The Murdochs is a portrait of a very close-knit family. Now in his seventies, Rupert Murdoch is the only son of ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Maoris Give Their War Cry (c1922)
This newsreel from about 1922 shows a Maori rugby league team doing a haka war dance before a football match. The New South Wales team poses for the camera and a match is captured in progress. [read more]
Rocking the Foundations (1985)
Rocking the Foundations covers the New South Wales Builders’ Labourers Federation (BLF) from 1940 until its demise in 1975. Set against the massive social and political upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s – the Vietnam War, Aboriginal land rights, ... [read more]
National Treasures – HMAS Sydney’s Carley Float (2004)
Warren Brown talks to Australian War Memorial curator John White about the tiny, war-ravaged float from HMAS Sydney whose entire crew of 645 was lost when the ship sank after a mysterious battle off the West Australian coast in ... [read more]
The Proposition (2005)
In outback Australia in the 1880s, bushranger Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his brother Mike (Richard Wilson) are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). An Englishman who has emigrated with his wife, Martha (Emily Watson), Stanley wants the prize catch ... [read more]
The Boys are Back (2009)
After successful Adelaide sports journalist Joe Warr (Clive Owen) loses his second wife Katy (Laura Fraser) to cancer, his relationship with his two sons from two different marriages is put to the test. Joe had moved from the UK to ... [read more]
The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (2002)
Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. There is certainly a lot to do. The crimes committed in Fairytale land mean that ... [read more]
The Dismissal (1983)
On 11 November 1975, the Labor Prime Minister was dismissed by the Queen’s representative in Australia, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. The Dismissal brings to life the events leading up to this extraordinary event that shook the nation. The drama ... [read more]
