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Beach landing at Gallipoli (1915)

Australian long boats reach the beach at Gallipoli, early in the morning on 25 April 1915. Hundreds of men storm ashore under heavy fire from rifle and artillery. Many die on the beach, and are left behind as the Anzacs ... [read more]

Alan Bond (1992)

Archival footage shows Perth’s celebrations when Perth businessman Alan Bond’s yacht wins the Americas Cup. In a speech at the launch of his book about Bond, journalist Paul Barry comments on the rise and fall of a national icon. [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]

Modelling fashion (c1927)

Fashionable garments are modelled displaying a range of designers clothes include a dress by couturier Melnotte Simonin; a hand-embroidered coat with fur trim by designer Jacques Heim, a painted velvet georgette fabric again by Melnotte Simonin ; a broad cloth ... [read more]

Saving Villers-Bretonneux (c1919)

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]

Labor wins in 1972 (1983)

In a campaign speech, Bob Hawke pledges that an elected Whitlam government would stand-up to the US and other nations to openly declare when it believes a policy is wrong. In separate interviews, former US Ambassador Marshall Green and ... [read more]

Family conference (2010)

A family conference in a deserted café about what to do in the wake of the murder of two cops in which the brothers have been involved. Family matriarch Smurf (Jacki Weaver) reminds her criminal sons Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), Pope ... [read more]

To the people of Australia (1941)

This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement uses text to present a direct appeal from the Federal Treasurer, JB Chifley. The text states ‘To you who now enjoy comfortable entertainment in perfect safety. I would give a timely reminder of your obligation ... [read more]

A nuclear future (1976)

Reg Sprigg is taking Bill Peach for a 4-wheel drive trek to the far reaches of his extraordinary Flinders Ranges property, Arkaroola. Street and Peach sit perched over a rocky cavern, while Sprigg tells a story relating to the property. ... [read more]

The white ‘invaders’ rule instead (1928)

The Duke of York opens the new Parliament House in Canberra on 9 May 1927, before assembled dignitaries. His speech recalls the great men who worked to federate Australia and the ‘gallant men and women who laid down their lives ... [read more]

£70,000 production nears completion (1926)

This newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman on a moving platform, or dolly, shoots the scene ... [read more]

‘No clouds in the sky’ (1995)

Refugee Chen Xing Liang revisits the Port Hedland Detention Centre where he was detained for six months after arriving in Australia illegally. He was one of 56 Chinese refugees. He recalls crying from loneliness. [read more]

‘Look and put’ (1988)

Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh explains how he approaches painting the Australian bush from a subjective viewpoint. [read more]

Canvas city begins to take shape (1963)

The aims of the Operation Blowdown test are set out and the troops clear a site in the Cape York rainforest for the location of the test team. [read more]

Qantas goes international (1962)

Qantas flew passengers to London by flying boat in 1938. The trip took 12 days. Regular international air travel was established. Archival footage shows the development of this service. [read more]

‘Sunshiny Day’ (2009)

This clip introduces Samson (Rowan McNamara) and the community where he lives. It shows him waking up in a destitute house and petrol sniffing for breakfast, as well as having a brief confrontation with his brother (Matthew Gibson). Delilah (Marissa ... [read more]

Mystery troops in No-Man’s-Land (1917)

As the German forces withdraw to better fortified positions in March 1917, British troops pursue them across the ruined ground of No-Man’s-Land. Australian Pioneers construct a light railway alongside the Albert-Bapaume Road, in support of the advance. [read more]

Six o’clock swill (1976)

Caddie has taken a job in an inner-city hotel, because it pays more than waitressing, but she’s unprepared for the brutal struggle that is the nightly ‘six o’clock swill’. Men crowd the bar to drink as much beer as possible ... [read more]

Redeveloping Pyrmont (1994)

Pyrmont is the peninsula suburb immediately west of the city of Sydney. It has heritage housing, affordable apartments and semi-industrial buildings. Traditionally working class, the suburb has moved upmarket. It is close to the city and Darling Harbour, a tourist ... [read more]

Flagging a cab (2000)

Lance (Gavin Ritchie) and Murray (Shane O’Mara) try to hail a cab, but with no success. Finally, an idle cab presents itself as an option. Lance and Murray jump in, only to be accosted by the cab driver, who tells ... [read more]

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