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Bapaume is burning (1917)
Mounted transport columns move up the Albert-Bapaume Road, skirting a large crater created by a German mine. The road runs beside a light railway line recently built by the Australian Pioneers (see clip one). A tank lumbers over the shell ... [read more]
Keeping hold of authority (1984)
At the Cowra POW camp, another 100 Japanese prisoners have arrived and pour scorn on their compatriots for having accepted their prison status without a fight to the death for the honour of their Emperor and their families. They ... [read more]
Two ways (2006)
Rupert Max Stuart, Arrernte Mat-utjarra Elder oversees the preparation of kangaroo by his two descendents. He tells us that he never ate white man’s food growing up and was taught by the old men and ladies. Max is teaching the ... [read more]
Life and death battle (1996)
Waxy (David Hudson) stands in the foreground. In the background by a fire, an Aboriginal warrior (Jeffrey Locke) in traditional dress throws Waxy a snake which becomes a belt when Waxy catches it. Back in the present Waxy fixes the ... [read more]
The flip side (1993)
A young boy is suddenly awoken from his sleep. Before him stand two spirits, a man and a woman. They clasp hands, and disappear through the wall of the boy’s bedroom. The boy follows them. They are the spirit of ... [read more]
Muluru (2001)
Women at Five Mile show us plants using the Indigenous names like muluru, or warrumungu, called wintatu. They tell us that smoking is for mothers and small children. Jungarrayi jungarrayi is used to make the bedding over the fire for ... [read more]
Hogg sees a massacre (2007)
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is typing in a war-torn building. Just as he writes ‘The city is quiet’ he hears activity in the street. He goes to the window and sees Japanese troops herding Chinese civilians into a park ... [read more]
A plan of attack (1917)
Australian soldiers study a large ground plan of the Messines area, in the days before the attack. A shell appears to have just been fired from nearby. Closer to the front, British artillery pounds the German positions at Messines, observed ... [read more]
Battle (2007)
HMAS Hammersley has succeeded in locating the ship loaded with deadly toxins. The CO (Ian Stenlake) engages in a tense confrontation with mastermind Rick Gallagher (Martin Lynes), who is holding the CO’s love interest, Dr Ursula Morrell (Sibylla Budd), ... [read more]
London, the Blitz, April 1941 (1941)
This clip from a home movie taken by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures London during the Blitz. It begins with an intertitle that introduces the subject and records that is ‘London the Blitz April 16th, 1941,’ 25 days ... [read more]
The Toecutter exacts revenge (1979)
Family friend May Swaisey (Sheila Florance) helps Max’s wife Jessie (Joanne Samuel) and child (Brendan Heath) to escape the Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his gang, but they soon catch up. The scene uses iconic imagery – madonna and child, old ... [read more]
The battle for the Middle East (2002)
One of the great artillery battles of the Second World War was fought in the desert near El Alamein. The extent of the battle was seen from the air by an Australian fighter pilot who later shot down an Italian ... [read more]
Yaks in Tibet (1986)
Tibetan graziers move their families and yaks 30 to 40 kilometres for fresh feeding lands. They pay no taxes but support the local school teacher. [read more]
Boer War Transvaal contingent (1899)
This actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby in 1899. Crowds line the streets to watch the First Queensland Cavalry Contingent parade just before ... [read more]
Men of many talents (1977)
Pym (John Meillon) entertains a small-town audience with his hilarious version of a song-and-dance man. Larry (Harold Hopkins) lights a lime pellet that will produce 'limelight’ for projection. Freddie (John Ewart) accompanies the images with an eye for the pretty ... [read more]
Escape (1984)
Over 300 prisoners escaped into the countryside surrounding the camp. Mr Kawaguchi tells the story of his and his friends’ plans to jump under a train to avoid returning to captivity. Luckily for them, the train was late. [read more]
Owen piles on the pressure (2007)
Sitting outside, Owen (Stuart Clark) shows Chris (Richard Green) the drug ‘ice’ and aggressively urges him to try it. Chris refuses and buries his face in his hands in despair but Owen is insistent, telling him that prostitutes love it. ... [read more]
Jenny has a wacky side (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) tells Jenny (Frances O’Connor) off for how badly she has set the table for dinner. His parents (Genevieve Mooy, Michael Ross) arrive and Jenny mischievously explains why each object in the big pile now on the table ... [read more]
Beginnings of Eureka (2005)
Drawings and archival photographs depict the events that lead to the battle between gold miners and authorities at the Eureka Stockade. It describes the emergence of Peter Lalor as the leader of the Stockade and how the diggers used the ... [read more]
Port Arthur (c1932)
The convict history of the Tasmanian settlement of Port Arthur is explained in this clip, with a voice-over accompanying scenes of the site. Convict history is re-enacted to evoke the past. A couple and a tour group walk through the ... [read more]
