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The aftermath (2007)

Medical doctor Yondon Dungu had migrated to Australia with his wife and three children, and had been in Australia for just one week when he drowned at Bondi Beach. Left without a breadwinner, his wife and children returned to Mongolia ... [read more]

Des is called to account (2003)

Des (Rodney Anderson) is in trouble for backing out of the drive-by shooting he’d been ordered to perform. He and Sophie (Sarah Vongmany), having been captured by the crime boss’s henchmen, are marched into a car park to meet him. ... [read more]

The battle for Menin Road begins (1917)

A line of soldiers marching forward from Ypres, along the Menin Road. Motorised traffic returns to the town through the centre of the road, horse-drawn limbers on the right. The soldiers have exchanged their slouch hats for the relatively new ... [read more]

‘The power to win!’ (1942)

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese. Husband (Marshall Crosby) and wife (Beryl Bryant) look outside despairingly on an inactive coal mine. Industry stakeholders meet with a representative from ... [read more]

‘Everybody else does it’ (1976)

The Leyland Brothers respond to a reader’s question about the size of Uluru (Ayres Rock) and interview visitors climbing the rock. [read more]

Marconi, Marx, Pavlov and Picasso (2000)

In the early years of the 20th Century, Marconi revolutionised communication, Queen Victoria died, and Australia federated. What’s more, imagination took off as the Wright Brothers flew over America, Pavlov questioned the thought process, Picasso challenged perception and Einstein explained ... [read more]

Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera (2007)

Amateur filmmaker Frank Straford demonstrates his father’s original brown leather 1920s Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera and tripod. He contrasts the distinctive sprocket holes of 9.5mm with 16mm film and displays the cassettes the film came in. [read more]

‘Boys club’ (1996)

Detectives Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) and Rachel 'Goldie’ Goldstein (Catherine McClements) interrogate the 'negligee bandit’ at the station. When some of the other officers try to get a glimpse of the suspect, Goldie is not amused. [read more]

Mine moving in (2007)

A truck with equipment rolls through a quiet village, followed by more trucks stirring up the dust. A villager quarrels with mine workers about who’s benefiting from the mine. A truck with very wide load crashes through on the narrow ... [read more]

Hearts are trumps (1964)

During the 1964 world surfing championships at Manly, local teenagers flood into a dance, while the international contestants fraternise with new friends. In the morning, the keenest local surfers are out to get a wave before the competition begins. [read more]

Kidnapped from southern Sudan (2003)

Gumaa was eight years old when he was kidnapped from his Christian family living in south Sudan and taken as a slave to work in Muslim Khartoum, during the years when the Sudan was embroiled in a vicious civil war. [read more]

The times are changing (1989)

Monnie (Justine Clarke) is Guinea’s (Rebecca Gibney) younger sister. She works in a factory sewing parachutes for the war effort. She’s becoming independent but her mother (Gillian Jones), grief stricken with the loss of her favourite son, has strong and ... [read more]

Come the revolution (1985)

When the men arrive at the pub to celebrate the end of the strike at the factory, Mick Mendel’s younger brother, the firebrand communist agitator, Jakob (Swawomir Wabik), is furious, and calls them scabs for not holding out. The men ... [read more]

Conspiracy theories (1985)

Controversial theories surrounding the disappearance of Harold Holt are investigated. One theory claims Holt was spying for China. [read more]

‘One of us has got to go’ (1953)

The Sundowner/Ted Simpson (Chips Rafferty) saves McLeod (Max Osbiston) from being shot by Stapleton (Guy Doleman). Stapleton threatens Simpson and McLeod. Kim (Jeanette Elphick) tells McLeod that Ted is ‘the Sundowner’. [read more]

The workman’s nightmare (1951)

In this silent short film, seen here in full, a young man (John Straford) falls asleep at work. During a nightmare, his ladder attacks. [read more]

Macquarie Island (1931)

The expedition team head across Northeast Bay towards Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean north of Antarctica. They head towards the island in a small boat and an attached ‘pram’. On the beach, the men unload their equipment and disperse ... [read more]

’Who am I?‘ (1980)

Tony Barber introduces ‘The Fame Game’, explaining to the contestants that a correct answer to the next question will earn the player a pick of the board for a prize or possible $25 score bonus. ‘I had a dream’, the ... [read more]

Cliffhanger (1918)

Jack (Snowy Baker) has pursued the German spies to the secret beach from which they will rendezvous with a German ship. Master villain Brasels (John Faulkner) has kidnapped Jack’s girl Myee (Lily Molloy) and tied her to a rock, where ... [read more]

Anti-fascist exhibition (1987)

The Contemporary Art Society of Australia, of which Yosl Bergner and fellow artists are members, mounted an anti-fascist exhibition in Melbourne and Adelaide in late 1942. Bergner talks about his paintings of Aboriginal people. [read more]

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