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‘We don’t like Hendersons’ (1985)
In their local café hangout, the gang drink Coke, chat and play pinball. Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn), son of a striking mill worker, looks forward to the ‘fireworks’ which will result from a walk out at the mill owned by ... [read more]
Artie throws a tanty (2009)
Joe (Clive Owen) has taken his youngest son Artie (Nicholas McAnulty) on a road trip after the death of his mother. Artie throws a tantrum and Joe pulls over at a service station to buy him crisps and orange juice ... [read more]
Circuit court in session (2007)
Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen) arrives by plane for his first day in the Circuit Court, at the Junction Court of Petty Sessions in a remote Aboriginal community. He greets the Legal Aid lawyer, Ellie Zdybicka (Marta ... [read more]
Tactics (2007)
The navy step up their operation to catch Rick Gallagher (Martin Lynes) and his shipment of deadly toxins before they leave Australian waters. At headquarters, Commander Steve Marshall (Steve Bisley) discovers his trace on Gallagher’s ship has been lost. Meanwhile, ... [read more]
Crime scene (2002)
The Kingsway major crime squad try to make sense of the crime scene, after the groom was gunned down at a wedding. Outside, Harriet Walker (Freya Stafford) speaks to the bride Francesca Decia (Bianca Biasi) while Sophia Marinkovitch (Brooke Satchwell) ... [read more]
‘Practice’ (2002)
After a heavy night playing cards and drinking, Detective Joe Hill (Peter O’Brien) is woken in his car by ex-girlfriend Nicole Brown (Jodie Dry). Her new boyfriend, uniformed cop Shane Duggan (Rupert Reid), is being investigated by internal affairs over ... [read more]
The cost of utopia (1949)
Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty) and his friend Raffaello Carboni (Peter Illing) arrive at the diggings near Ballarat, part of a long line of men looking for their fortune. They stop to survey the busy goldfields below. Carboni says they will ... [read more]
‘Full as a goog’ (1960)
Ida sends Jean Halstead (Dina Merrill) to town to fetch Bluey Brown from the pub. Bluey’s wife is in labour and Paddy (Robert Mitchum) is under strict instructions to keep him sober. Jean finds Bluey dead drunk in a corner ... [read more]
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (1909)
A horsedrawn fire brigade unit drives along King William Street in Adelaide, watched by people from the sides of the street. The camera follows events from a fixed position at one side of the road. The vehicle with the extendable ... [read more]
The scam (1997)
Nikki (Frances O’Connor) is flirting outrageously with Paul (Geoff Revell) in a bar. He tells her he’s a patent attorney and then later tries to impress by saying he’s meeting up the next morning with ex-football star Zipper Doyle (a ... [read more]
A new image (2007)
At a board meeting after Newtown has failed to make the finals, club president Murray 'Colgate’ Perry (John Jarratt) outlines his plans for a new image for the club, by recruiting a new style of player. Club stalwart Ned (Bob ... [read more]
‘Lending instead of spending’ (1941)
After complaining to her mother (Bobbie Hunt) about not being able to borrow money to go out for a night with the girls, Grace (Dorothy Dickson) sulks in her room. Her father (John Nugent) tells her about the importance of ... [read more]
‘Sacrifice, while there is still time’ (1941)
Grace (Dorothy Dickson) has received a letter from her soldier boyfriend Jim, who has been blinded while fighting overseas. Filled with inspiration from his letter, Grace reads it to her co-workers at the munitions factory. The letter urges her and ... [read more]
‘A real dog town’ (1983)
Karli (Tracy Mann) visits her drag queen friend Trixie (David Argue), who has just come off stage. She gives him a hit of heroin she bought earlier in the night. She’s preoccupied with her own thoughts as Trixie quietly slips ... [read more]
The library (2004)
As Frankie (Claudia Karvan) shares a smoke with housemate Tom (Brendan Cowell), there is a knock on the door. Frankie remembers that she has arranged to go out for a drink with workmate George (Damon Herriman). Deciding that she is ... [read more]
Mutiny and malnutrition (1927)
The penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour has been evacuated, but John Rex (George Fisher) leads a rebellion on the small ship, the Osprey. He puts Mrs Vickers (Katherine Dawn) and her daughter Sylvia (Eva Novak) ashore, with the hated Lieutenant ... [read more]
Moonlighting (1978)
Pamela Taylor (Rowena Wallace) tells daughter Gayle (Jo-Anne Moore) that her shoplifting charges have been dropped. She has had the family lawyer intervene, using her wealthy father’s influence, despite her husband Glenn’s wishes that they follow the usual legal process. ... [read more]
The killing times (2008)
Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation sets the historical context of the clip. Western Australian police are reacting to calls from cattle farmers to enact revenge for loss of stock at the hands of Aboriginal hunters. Historian Professor Marcia ... [read more]
Endurance (1964)
Under relevant archival footage, the narrator states that during his time on the international scene, Menzies outlasted four American presidents including Kennedy and Johnson and five English prime ministers. He leads the Australian delegation to the United Nations and defends ... [read more]
Highway reconstruction (1976)
An aerial shot shows the Clybucca Flat section of the Pacific Highway after the completion of reconstruction work by the NSW Department of Main Roads in 1976. Traffic passes over a joint in a conventional concrete pavement to illustrate ... [read more]
