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The extra mile (2008)

Robbin is looking for Haley, who is not doing well, and Robbin wants to get her into rehab. She has a strong but tender heart-to-heart with her. Robbin is upset after she leaves Haley. [read more]

APEC motorcade (2007)

Julian Morrow, playing a security guard, leads a fake Canadian motorcade into the APEC restricted area, carrying Chas Licciardello dressed as Osama Bin Laden. [read more]

Mr Ten Questions (2006)

Andrew Hansen, as Mr Ten Questions, attends a promotional press conference with Hugh Jackman. [read more]

Disturber of the peace (c1945)

This five-minute film, made for the NSW Department of Health and seen here in full, emphasises the importance of sleep in maintaining good health and advises the people of New South Wales to reduce their noise level, particularly in ... [read more]

The building business (1980)

Builder Terry Vince has observed through his work on building sites that scaffolding needs a gadget to assist the sole operator to lay the planks. He’s come up with a simple, inexpensive and easy-to-use invention to plug a gap for ... [read more]

‘I’m a drycleaner now’ (1998)

Elvis Maginnis (Marcus Graham) is on the lookout for clues as to who killed his girlfriend’s husband, Noel Pomeroy, a car dealer. His first stop is Pomeroy’s old enemy Athol Amoroso (Tommy Dysart). Meanwhile, Stella Kinsella (Alison Whyte) heads ... [read more]

The storm (1980)

The narrator, Charlie (Alwyn Kurts), strolls along the beach and recalls what made the ‘green year’ of 1929 a defining moment in his life. Charlie age 14 (Darius Perkins) is woken in the night by his ailing Grandfather (Tom Farley), ... [read more]

‘The men will protect us’ (1998)

While the two men search in the night for the feral cat, Ronnie (Miranda Otto) and Ida (Brenda Blethyn) get roaring drunk at the Stubbs house. Ida says she knows the men will protect them. Both women burst out laughing ... [read more]

‘Fallen from the sky’ (2000)

The Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) arrives at a suburban house in Australia to buy a car. A young blind woman (Rose Byrne) shows him into a crime scene, with blood and brains on the ceiling. She is a cousin, now ... [read more]

‘The bow-wows now are all the rage’ (1939)

George (George Wallace) leaps into song in the courtyard of Mrs McAllister’s dog kennel (and boarding house). Jean McAllister (Lois Green) whips off her skirt to join him, dancing in hotpants. Henry (John Dobbie) and a large cast of passers-by ... [read more]

Opening up the west (1963)

Graphics, paintings and voice-over tell the story of why it took 30 years for the settlers of New South Wales to cross the Blue Mountains and gain access to the fabulous pasture lands beyond. It needed a true bushman, one ... [read more]

Prices and wages (1948)

A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]

The early years (1981)

The station began when Jackie and Wogga’s parents built fences and began branding wild cattle and calling the place 'Mallapunyah’. Wogga may be a millionaire but he’s unable to read and write. Sitting under a tree, he explains to the ... [read more]

‘No place for a woman’ (1960)

Ida (Deborah Kerr) has persuaded her husband to inquire about a job shearing sheep. In the contractor’s office, Paddy (Robert Mitchum) tries his best to avoid getting hired but Quinlan (Chips Rafferty) takes him on. He also has jobs for ... [read more]

Anzac Cove to Quinn’s Post (c1915)

Filming from Watson’s Pier at Anzac Cove, the camera pans along the steep hillside at the beach, across the area the Australian and New Zealand troops had to assault on 25 April 1915. This shot is from three months later ... [read more]

The AIM nursing hostel, Birdsville (1947)

At the Australian Inland Mission nursing hostel in Birdsville, the AIM sisters alternate between nursing and domestic duties. One of the sisters treats a young girl who has an injured finger. She washes and dresses the girl’s ... [read more]

‘The strangest of all encounters’ (2000)

This clip, narrated by David Wenham, explores significant landmarks in the history of the interaction between Australian culture and the beach. [read more]

The valley of death (1998)

Maurice Stubbs (Ray Barrett) makes a plaster cast of a paw print in the mud in his stockyards. He suspects a giant feral cat is killing his stock, and he shapes the print with his fingers, as if to make ... [read more]

Addressing the housing problem (1957)

People in inner-city Sydney live in garages and temporary dwellings in backyards, unable to complete building their homes. The narration, spoken by Leonard Teale, lists reasons why proper housing is not affordable: lack of finance, insufficient loans for home building, ... [read more]

Mateship in the army (1993)

Over footage of Remembrance Day ceremonies, and archival footage of soldiers in the First World War, surviving ex-servicemen recall the power of mateship and remember their fallen comrades. [read more]

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