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A new Australian settlement (1949)
An Australian Landing Ship Tank, LST3501, arrives at Heard Island in late 1947 to establish an Australian base, for both strategic and scientific purposes. The men must initially unload everything by hand, until heavy equipment can be landed. They roll ... [read more]
Charlie does a runner (2007)
Charlie (Luke Ford) has noticed that the front door is unlocked. He seizes his chance to go for a run, pursued by his brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield). Both are wearing only underpants. Charlie runs into a stranger’s house to use ... [read more]
Conrad Martens (1978)
The documentary follows the life and work of watercolourist Conrad Martens. The painter was born in England and moved to New South Wales in 1835, remaining in Australia until his death in 1878. Martens recorded early life in the colony. ... [read more]
Babakiueria (1986)
This is a drama pretending to be an ethnographic documentary examining the customs of the white natives of ‘Babakiueria’, from the perspective of the country’s black colonisers. Babakiueria is named as a result of first contact between the colonisers and ... [read more]
Deaf, blind, drunk and sick (2002)
The three brothers have escaped the bookie robbery with the bags of loot, only to wind up back at Flemington Racecourse. Dale (Guy Pearce) asks a tipsy racegoer on her way home if he can buy her car. Pamela (Kate ... [read more]
A wilderness revealed (1982)
The Carnarvon Gorge has a very special appeal to contemporary visitors like John Marr, who is leading this expedition of mostly amateurs through the gorge. There’s a sense that the place meant something special for the Aborigines who had a ... [read more]
McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Silent Car Trip Australia (c1960)
This travelogue is edited into segments based around the places and sites of interest that they visited on a trip through South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Each segment contains distinctive title cards with words appearing against various ... [read more]
It’s a multicultural world (2004)
In the heart of Italian Leichhardt, Robyn Touchard is a chef whose family hails from Mauritius, the large island off the coast of Africa. She moves easily between her family’s cooking tradition and that of her husband, whose parents are ... [read more]
Red Matildas (1985)
Red Matildas tells the personal stories of three women who lived in Australia during the Great Depression – May Pennefather, Joan Goodwin and Audrey Blake. All three were touched by the massive unemployment, poverty and uncertainty of the time and ... [read more]
Rinso Laundry Powder : Hilda and Hugh Jones (c1940)
This is a cinema advertisement promoting Rinso laundry powder. It takes the form of a short domestic drama in which Mrs Hilda Jones overcomes the drudgery of housework with the discovery of Rinso. Her husband Hugh is very relieved that ... [read more]
Fig Street Fiasco (1974)
A ‘process video’ that filmmaker Tom Zubrycki made in collaboration with inner-city Sydney residents, this documentary voices the concerns of residents whose houses are tagged for demolition to make way for the proposed North-Western Expressway. [read more]
A compromise (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins gives the historical context to the lives and situation of this episode’s focus individuals – Simon Wonga and William Barak. Writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung heritage and historian Professor Janet McCalman expand on the cultural and spiritual ... [read more]
From Sand to Celluloid – Round Up (1995)
A short drama about two stockmen, one Indigenous and one not, who are caught up in racial conflict. Desi Little (Gary Cooper) and Hugo Hutton (Ben Oxenbould) are two men who are on a journey to deal with their own ... [read more]
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
In 1916, during the First World War when both sides have fought to a virtual standstill, Queensland miner Oliver Woodward (Brendan Cowell) joins up. He becomes a captain and leads his men, many of them fellow Australians with mining experience, ... [read more]
Bonjour Balwyn (1971)
Kevin Agar (John Duigan) has left a job in insurance to start his own magazine, called Bolo. His middle class parents don’t understand it, and very few people buy it. As his debts mount, Kevin loses his girlfriend, his friends ... [read more]
Anzac Day Promotional (c1916)
This silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement was used to encourage Australians to commemorate Anzac Day. It shows a re-enactment of soldiers wearing gas masks walking through some trenches with their rifles and ends with a title card that says ‘A nation’s ... [read more]
Saving Villers-Bretonneux (1919)
The German spring offensive of 1918 has pushed the Western Front back across a large area, reversing the British gains since mid-1916. Australian troops have retaken the town of Villers-Bretonneux, south of the Somme River, after the Germans held it ... [read more]
‘I feel like such a fool’ (1982)
Nancy (Veronica Lang) tells Dr Carol Young (Rona McLeod) about her sex life and how she contracted gonorrhoea. [read more]
Green Tea and Cherry Ripe (1989)
This insightful and moving documentary features six Japanese women who came to Australia as 'war brides’, having married Australian servicemen after the Second World War. They share their stories through candid interviews with director Solrun Hoaas, talking about their experiences ... [read more]
A dancing stagehand (1932)
Tommy Dodds (George Wallace) demonstrates his storytelling skills to an unseen audience of musicians in the orchestra pit, during rehearsals for a new show. He is a stagehand, but he says he learned to dance while working on a pig ... [read more]
