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‘A place to live’ (2006)
Against a background of postwar optimism and a public mood for social change, Bob Mathews and Ken Coldicutt make a film about Melbourne’s housing shortage, A Place to Live (1950). [read more]
Dancing Orpheus (1962)
A black-and-white nature program from the earliest years of ABC television featuring the unique lyrebird. [read more]
Message Stick – Blacktracker (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley narrates the story of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley, who served with the NSW Police from 1911 to 1950. We see Yhi Riley searching through archival records and talking with older family members and a ... [read more]
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in New York with his new girlfriend, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). He misses the Northern Territory but keeps occupied by fishing in the Hudson River with sticks of dynamite. Sue’s ex-husband, a reporter (Dennis ... [read more]
Malcolm (1986)
Malcolm (Colin Friels) gets fired from his job at a Melbourne tram depot for building his own tram. He’s a mechanical genius, but his shyness borders on mental disability. He takes in a boarder, Frank (John Hargreaves), who’s just out ... [read more]
Tasmanian Tiger Footage (1932)
This silent black-and-white footage from 1932 contains some of the last known moving images of a living (now extinct) Tasmanian tiger, thylacinus cynocepalus or thylacine, that died alone in captivity at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. [read more]
Vietnam (1988)
This epic story of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War is told through the history of a middle class family, the Goddards, whose son Phillip (Nicholas Eadie) is conscripted to fight in the war and whose father, Douglas (Barry Otto), ... [read more]
Missionaries of lifestyle (1996)
Elijah Bennett directs a troupe of four New Guineans as they perform in remote villages promoting Western products. Coca Cola is a big hit with the villagers. [read more]
Snapshots around ‘Madras’ (c1926)
This silent home movie footage filmed by Gordon Gidney captures family members in their back garden at their home ‘Madras’ in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Eliza. They are filmed waving, smiling and talking to the camera in a series ... [read more]
Dame Enid Lyons: Maiden Speech (1943)
Dame Enid Lyons reads her maiden speech in this sound recording for radio broadcast. Lyons was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia’s federal parliament. [read more]
Narbalek (2001)
An observational documentary about the Bordoh clan of Manmoyi, 200 km from Oenpelli, in Arnhem Land. Narbalek is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the ... [read more]
Stone Forever (1999)
For Stone Forever, the director Richard Kuipers interviews many of the original Stone (1974) cast and films the 25th anniversary of the film in 1998. The filmmaker makes extensive use of the rich sources of stills, black-and-white footage from the ... [read more]
The docklands (1984)
Max (Jack Thompson) and his wharfie mates set off in the early morning to work on the docks. Along the way, we’re introduced to their world as working men with wives and children, lovers and mothers. When the wharfies arrive ... [read more]
Anzac Day bomb (1980)
A smoke bomb is detonated at the Martin Place Cenotaph in Sydney on Anzac Day. In a train station photo booth, perpetrator Ray Unit (Michael Callaghan) describes the act. [read more]
Australia Post – Royal Tour (1954)
This program was produced by the Public Relations Division of the Postmaster-General’s Department (PMG) to celebrate its role in the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Australia. It follows the Queen as she tours New South Wales, Victoria ... [read more]
The mine in the jungle (1958)
The Chauvels have gained entrance to one of the well-guarded secrets of 1950s Australia: Rum Jungle, a uranium mine said to be the richest in the world. [read more]
‘Can you call me back?’ (2009)
The phones – Fiona’s mobile, the hotel landline – keep ringing. Ben (Joel Edgerton) is irritated by the fact that Fiona (Radha Mitchell) is taking work calls and further annoyed by her refusal to let him answer the landline. He ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
The good, the bad and the ugly (2000)
The Pakistan cricket team has had its fair share of cheats and match fixers and yet there is one player whose bravery in the face of having his national cricketing career interrupted marks him as a man of true cricketing ... [read more]
‘A dream is a shadow’ (1977)
Lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) asks Chris Lee (David Gulpilil) and tribal elder Charlie (Nandjiwarra Amagula) what caused the death of Billy. David’s wife (Olivia Hamnett) must leave before they will speak. Chris then says that Billy saw and touched ... [read more]
