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Rare Chicken Rescue (2008)
Queensland chicken breeder Mark Tully struggles with depression and anxiety but his love of chickens has given him back his life. Rare Chicken Rescue is an observational documentary that follows Mark on his mission to save rare breeds of chicken ... [read more]
Dig A Million, Make A Million (1968)
Australia’s richest iron ore deposit has been found by Lang Hancock and his partner, Peter Wright. The mining company Hamersley Iron is developing a huge mining infrastructure in Western Australia. [read more]
Alexandra’s Project (2003)
After Steve (Gary Sweet) has enjoyed birthday greetings and gifts from his two children, Sam (Jack Christie) and Emma (Samantha Knigge), he cheerfully leaves for work. Clearly anxious, his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) tells the children they’re not going to ... [read more]
Yolngu Boy (2000)
Botj, Lorrpu and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers from northeast Arnhem Land, who are about to become men. Botj (Sean Mununggurr) is estranged from his parents and prone to glue sniffing. He’s upset when his friends Lorrpu (John Sebastian Pilakui) ... [read more]
Holy Smoke (1999)
While visiting India, young Australian woman Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) falls under the spell of a guru. Ruth’s alarmed mother, Miriam (Julie Hamilton), travels to Delhi and lures Ruth home with a lie that her father (Tim Robertson) is terminally ... [read more]
Rydin’ Time (2005)
A documentary about three Indigenous rodeo riders, Kaleb Comollatti, Dallas McNamara, and John Stacey who ride at the Mt Isa Rodeo in 2005. Rydin’ Time is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (read more]
A Film for Discussion (1973)
A Film for Discussion is a black-and-white experimental film made in 1970 using dramatised scenes, historical footage, stills, posters and ads to convey the situation of women, the emergence of the women’s movement in Australia and the awakening of one ... [read more]
Australia Post – Security (1989)
This program, produced for in-house training use, outlines the operations of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service and alerts personnel to the range of potential mail crime. [read more]
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]
Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. Original Ballet Russe (c1936)
This footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows staged sequences of the Ballets Russes’ repertoire on their tours to Australia. It includes excerpts from the ballets Le Beau Danube, Le Carnaval, Les Presage, Petrouchka and Thamar. [read more]
What Makes a Champion (1959)
This sporting documentary made by the Shell Film Unit Australia answers the question ‘What makes a champion?’ by analysing championship performance and investigating the qualities in elite athletes that give them the ability to win. It focuses on six key ... [read more]
Think Twice (1958)
This short film about occupational safety amongst metal workers highlights the dangers of improper use of safety equipment and inadequate protective clothing. It highlights three main sources of injury – heat, rays and fumes – and illustrates safe and unsafe ... [read more]
Chant Vénitien (1904)
Dame Nellie Melba’s recording of ‘Chant Vénitien’ was among her first commercial recording sessions. Her performance, for the Gramophone Company in London on 20 October 1904, is accompanied by the composer of the song, Herman Bemberg. [read more]
Play School – Opposites Monday (2006)
‘Opposites’ is the weekly theme and ‘hats’ the daily theme. Justine (Clarke) uses a homemade ‘cheeky monkey’ to demonstrate the concept of up and down. Justine and Rhys (Muldoon) make ‘surprise’ hats; Rhys reads a book; Justine leads a guessing ... [read more]
A Changing Race (1964)
The 1964 black-and-white documentary A Changing Race interviews Aboriginal people about their life in Central Australia including their experience of racial discrimination. [read more]
Fast Forward – Series 4 Episode 3 (1992)
Fast Forward is a sketch comedy series that simulates an evening of live television viewing, switching between sketches like a TV audience flicking channels. [read more]
Death in Brunswick (1990)
Carl (Sam Neill) takes a job as cook at a seedy nightclub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne. He is verging on being an alcoholic loser until he meets Sophie (Zoe Carides), the club’s 19-year-old barmaid. They fall passionately ... [read more]
Heatwave (1982)
During a sweltering Sydney summer, architect Stephen West (Richard Moir) faces determined community opposition to his greatest opus, a $200 million inner-city development called the Eden Project. The developer, Peter Houseman (Chris Haywood), hires goons to forcibly remove squatters and ... [read more]
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]
Patrick (1978)
Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Roget (Robert Helpmann), who treats Patrick ... [read more]
