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The Interceptor (1979)
A crazed joyrider (Vincent Gil) and his girlfriend (Lulu Pinkus) lead the highway patrol on an extended chase. Their luck runs out when they come up against Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), the best cop on the road. [read more]
The lover (1992)
Roger Pascoe (Colin Friels) is directing his wife (Elizabeth Alexander) and their actor friend and drama teacher (Linden Wilkinson) in the play by Strindberg The Stronger. [read more]
‘You’re fired, Yusep’ (1954)
Janiero (Rod Taylor) picks a fight with Yusep (Lloyd Berrell), who has lent company equipment to local deadbeat Grundy (Reg Lye). Yusep’s girlfriend, Serena (Francis Chin Soon), watches the brawl before Ted (Chips Rafferty) intervenes. [read more]
Merriman arrives (1954)
A traditional dance is held to welcome company boss Peter Merriman (Charles Tingwell) to Thursday Island. Ted’s daughter, Rusty (Ilma Adey), offers to show him around the island. [read more]
The pram (1983)
After the title of the film, a man and a woman establish the conflict over what they would like to make a film about. A dramatic scene follows showing the use of a pram in a terrorist kidnapping. The film ... [read more]
The proposal (1973)
Margaret recalls the day that Peter proposed. She knew from the moment they met that they would get together, especially as her mother always adored him and encouraged the relationship. [read more]
‘It’s a constant struggle’ (2003)
A group of women that includes Jackie Kelly, a Federal Parliamentarian and a Junior Minister in the Howard Liberal Government, talk about how to deal with their children’s acquisitiveness. Jackie Kelly recalls growing up in a family of six children, ... [read more]
The rehearsal (2004)
It’s week five of nine weeks of rehearsals, and the conductor of the Messiah, Clive Pascoe, tells his choristers they’re nowhere near ready. He’s a tough leader but the troops know that he has to be firm to achieve the ... [read more]
The fire (2006)
At the end of the day, Frankie’s teacher (Renee Newman-Storen) apologises for not taking him on the excursion. Frankie (Antionne Forrest-Yarran) picks up the box of matches she leaves behind. On the way home from school, he sets fire to ... [read more]
Uni types and Popeyes (2007)
Buffer (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor), Charge (John Batchelor) and Blake (Matthew Holmes) talk women and toxins over their meal. Their banter is interrupted by the arrival of Federal Agent Martina Royce (Yvonne Strechowski). Meanwhile Nav (Saskia Burmeister) and Leading Seaman Communicator ... [read more]
The poison (1985)
In 1954 the US exploded a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The inhabitants of the nearby atolls of Rongelap and Rongerik were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. A Marshallese woman talks to camera about her ... [read more]
The scientist, the journalist and the farmer. (2002)
Professor David Goldney is a landscape ecologist and a huge admirer of Peter Andrews’s work. He tells the story of the very first time he came to see what this man was doing. He arrived with a group of bureaucrats ... [read more]
The coming of the light (2004)
Each year in the Torres Strait Islands, the Coming of the Light Festival is remembered with religious services and with feasting. And the food for the feasts is always island food from island produce. [read more]
The Battlers (1986)
Kylie Tennant talks about researching and writing her third novel The Battlers. [read more]
‘My Ferrari, my surf’ (1991)
Les Murray talks of his formative years as a poet – his discovery of Australian poetry while at school, his time as a student at the University of Sydney, teaching himself to write and meeting other poets in coffee shops. [read more]
The breakthrough (1989)
Sergeant Dillon, movingly played by himself, tells the President of the Commission of Inquiry (Nick Tate) how he discovered a bottle of Chivas Regal whisky in his locker, to which he had the only key. He took the bottle home ... [read more]
The wet and the dry (1964)
This clip, shot in various regions of Thailand, juxtaposes footage shot during the wet season with footage shot in the same place during the dry season. [read more]
The negotiators (1968)
Rio Tinto in Australia was unable to commit to Lang Hancock’s iron ore find without the input of the parent company in Britain, so Hancock confronted the Chairman and CEO in London – Sir Val Duncan read more]
The good, the bad and the ugly (2000)
The Pakistan cricket team has had its fair share of cheats and match fixers and yet there is one player whose bravery in the face of having his national cricketing career interrupted marks him as a man of true cricketing ... [read more]
The docklands (1984)
Max (Jack Thompson) and his wharfie mates set off in the early morning to work on the docks. Along the way, we’re introduced to their world as working men with wives and children, lovers and mothers. When the wharfies arrive ... [read more]
