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‘No wonder mama left you’ (1997)
Sonja Buloh (Kerry Fox) confronts her alcoholic father Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek). Upset with him for not responding to news of her pregnancy, Sonja lashes out at Bojan. [read more]
‘The dingo’s got my baby!’ (1988)
At a camping ground near Uluru (Ayers Rock), Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) witnesses a dingo carrying her baby Azaria from a tent. Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill) begins a search in the darkness. [read more]
Sunday in Melbourne (1967)
Air Vice-Marshall Ky and his wife, on their visit to Melbourne, meet Vietnamese students at Victoria’s Government House, before attending a final press conference. [read more]
From joy to tantrum (1995)
The film opens with Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) swimming in the sea she loves, walking by its shore and telling us of her joy at being pregnant. But when indoors, her mood flares into a tantrum. [read more]
Sydney Olympics opening ceremony (2006)
Agnes joins a group of 350 Aboriginal women from the central desert to rehearse and then perform the inma kungkarangkalpa at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. [read more]
Changes in the school yard (2005)
We see some of the unusual class activities at Hunter Sports High School in NSW, which has been making changes in an effort to turn around high rates of truancy and suspensions. The principal is interviewed about the problematic ... [read more]
‘She’s always out’ (1925)
This clip shows an entire Maxonol Gramophone cinema advertisement from 1925 in which a couple decide to buy a gramophone to keep their daughter at home. They visit the Maxonol demonstration room and buy a gramophone. Now their daughter stays ... [read more]
60,000 km around the world (1983)
Explorer Dick Smith arrives at Fort Worth, USA, completing his solo voyage around the world by helicopter. Press and family greet him. [read more]
‘The Snowy Mountains song’ (1963)
At night, in the recreation hut of one of the Snowy Mountains Scheme workers’ camps, the men sing 'The Snowy Mountains song’. [read more]
Preparing the printing machine (1911)
Workers at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1911 furnish one of the main printing machines in the pressroom with curved plates and large rolls of paper. [read more]
‘Boys club’ (1996)
Detectives Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) and Rachel 'Goldie’ Goldstein (Catherine McClements) interrogate the 'negligee bandit’ at the station. When some of the other officers try to get a glimpse of the suspect, Goldie is not amused. [read more]
Shake-a-leg dance on the beach (1898)
A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island. They perform this dance in the same location where Haddon recorded the Torres Strait Islander men’s dance. [read more]
Earning a reputation (2001)
Accompanied by historical footage of a tent-boxing troupe at a local town showground, Aboriginal men talk about their experience as tent boxers, the theatrics surrounding the fights, the boxing lifestyle and conditions. [read more]
A person in trouble (2007)
A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when lifeguards are unable to locate a man last seen struggling to stay afloat at the southern end of the beach where there is a dangerous rip. With no friends or family reporting a ... [read more]
‘We Are Going’ (1986)
In this clip, Oodgeroo Noonuccal reads her poem ‘We Are Going’ in full to an appreciative audience at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney in 1986. [read more]
‘She’s sincerely talented’ (1989)
After his wife has walked out, Gordon (Jon Darling) arrives at Kay’s door, looking for help from his daughters. Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) becomes anxious and self-conscious at the sight of him. Gordon later defends her, when Kay (Karen Colston) and ... [read more]
A meeting of minds (2003)
News footage shows John Howard and George Bush at a press conference together at the White House prior to the invasion of Iraq. Despite the phalanx of media, they appear relaxed and seem the best of mates, with the US ... [read more]
The big time (1968)
In one of the first big swells on the north shore of Hawaii in January 1968, the cream of the world’s surfers gather to size each other up at Haleiwa. [read more]
Mill township (1920)
This clip from an industrial documentary is an observational look at a township built in the 1920s for the timber workers. [read more]
Ba Ria, Dat Do, Long Tan, Binh Ba, Binh Gia (1967)
This clip looks at the settlement areas, both intact and destroyed by war, in what was then known as Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam. [read more]
