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Nightmare (1989)

The three characters – the Redhead (Robin Laurie), the Investigator (Rose Wanganeen) and the Hothead (Kaarin Fairfax) – each feel the threat from world events outside themselves. [read more]

Greg feels special (1998)

Vicki (Susie Porter) is happy, busy and preoccupied, which prompts her husband Greg (Tamblyn Lord) to think she is having an affair. She takes him to see what she has been painting: a room with proclamations of love for him ... [read more]

Breakthrough (1985)

Alex McClelland speaks about writing to Prime Minister Gorton to no avail. When he finally finds someone that believes he was imprisoned in the concentration camp at Terezin, misfortune strikes. McClelland is pouring through Gestapo records when he makes the ... [read more]

What is it? (1980)

Grendel (voiced by Peter Ustinov) recalls his first encounter with King Hrothgar (voiced by Ed Rosser) and his men. [read more]

Nobody is listening (2007)

Newspaper editor Rami Khouri argues that modern political history has generated terrorism and that the situation will worsen if this is not recognised. Journalist Robert Fisk notes that when new footage of Osama Bin Laden surfaces the focus is always ... [read more]

‘I’m not taking that woman up the Sepik …’ (1956)

Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) tells the District officer (Fred Kaad) that he’s not taking Louise Demarcet, a UN doctor (Françoise Christophe) up the Sepik River. The boat captain (Richard Davis) advises her that shorts are not acceptable for women in ... [read more]

A young talent (2000)

Max was a highly intelligent and thoughtful twelve-year-old when he was first filmed in the late 1960s. A child performer, he was also the man of the house and breadwinner, as his mother was often ill and they lived on ... [read more]

Building pyramids (1992)

Young Bert (Kevin Jones) is caught up in the dream to build a huge church and a religious community in the middle of nowhere. He’s willing to give his all without realising that the dream is demented and Brother O’Neill ... [read more]

The supernova of seduction (2002)

Dumby’s sister Clarence (Lisa Flanagan) and Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) share a marijuana cigarette under the pier. She is called away as their lips meet for the first time. Their courtship is watched by Gary’s team-mate Pickles (Tom Budge), who ... [read more]

‘Vicki’s in trouble!’ (1994)

Alex (Elena Mandalis) has just seen that Vicki (Dora Kaskanis) is being sexually abused by her own father (George Harlem). She runs to the home of her English teacher, but leaves when a man – another teacher – answers the ... [read more]

‘Big sister make money for family’ (2007)

Crystal (Emma Lung) is interviewed after her rescue. Agent Mollica (Damien Richardson) tries to be sympathetic, but these federal policemen remind her of the men she has seen as a prostitute. Crystal tells them her real name and how she ... [read more]

The dragonfly super skimmer (2004)

Inventor brothers explain a pool cleaner they’ve invented that picks up leaves and other debris from the surface of the pool before it settles onto the bottom to finish the job. [read more]

‘The face that killed your mother’ (2007)

Rose (Joan Chen), Joe (Qi Yuwu) and the two children go to a Chinese martial arts movie, where Joe and May (Irene Chen) throw popcorn at each other. Rose is angry afterwards and accuses May of dressing ‘like a slut’. ... [read more]

Pony club (2001)

Tess Silverman-McLeod (Bridie Carter) reveals that she has no home to go to and Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) finally invites her to stay at Drover’s Run. Having fired her men for stealing fuel, Claire sets out to muster the cattle ... [read more]

Djedbang-ari (1953)

'Djedbang-ari’ is a three-part Indigenous manikay (song) and dance from the Yirrkala district in the far north-east of Arnhem Land. [read more]

‘We’re happy little Vegemites’ (1959)

A children’s chorus promotes the health properties of Vegemite, a popular Australian yeast spread, in this radio jingle from the late 1950s. [read more]

Bridge construction (1967)

An aerial shot shows the completed steel false work for the bridge in preparation for the concrete stage. A concrete box unit is delivered by barge and elevated by lifting winch to the top of the steel arch where it ... [read more]

Washington scenes (c1941)

This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a view of the White House through the windscreen of the prime minister’s car. It then cuts to a baseball match being played in ... [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]

Tourism (1997)

An elder speaks about the choice to use tourism as a vehicle through which to make culture economically viable, as well as preserving it for future generations. In order to ensure the preservation of cultural practice, cultural knowledge is made ... [read more]

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