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Bra Boys (2007)

This is an insider account of surf culture, localism, belonging and loyalty in the Sydney beach suburb of Maroubra, presented by the 'Bra Boys’, in particular the Abberton brothers – Koby, Sunny and Jai. The documentary is filmed during the ... [read more]

The Proposition (2005)

In outback Australia in the 1880s, bushranger Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his brother Mike (Richard Wilson) are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). An Englishman who has emigrated with his wife, Martha (Emily Watson), Stanley wants the prize catch ... [read more]

MDA – Second Chance (2005)

Led by dour Bill 'Happy’ Henderson (Shane Bourne), the team of doctors and lawyers at MDA – Medical Defence Australia – provide insurance and legal representation to doctors. In Second Chance, Happy’s team becomes concerned when he arrives at ... [read more]

The Tightrope Dancer (1989)

The Tightrope Dancer is about Vali Myers, a beguiling and eccentric artist who lived a provocative, thoughtful, fearless, humorous and passionate life. In 1989, Myers straddles life in a 14th century cottage in an isolated valley near Positano, Italy with ... [read more]

The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

Concerned about profit margins in Australia, the Coca-Cola company sends its top trouble shooter Becker (Eric Roberts) to its Sydney office. The company’s Australian boss, Frank Hunter (Max Gillies), tells Becker about T George McDowell (Bill Kerr), an old-style soft-drink ... [read more]

Crocodile Dundee (1985)

A glamorous American reporter, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), goes to the Northern Territory to interview a man who survived a crocodile attack. Michael J 'Crocodile’ Dundee (Paul Hogan) charms her with his bushman’s humour and toughness. He is both more ... [read more]

Caddie (1976)

In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid, after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She has no money and two children to feed. The working conditions are appalling, but she learns the trade, with ... [read more]

Antarctic Voyage (1956)

At the port of Melbourne, a small Danish ship prepares for a voyage south. The Kista Dan will take 15 men to spend 1955 at the Australian Antarctic research base at Mawson station. Food, fuel, beer and special over-snow vehicles ... [read more]

I’ll Never Find Another You (1964)

I’ll Never Find Another You is performed by Judith Durham (lead vocals), Athol Guy (double bass, vocals), Keith Potger (12-string guitar, banjo, vocals) and Bruce Woodley (six-string guitar, mandolin, vocals). Recorded in 1964, the track was written and produced by ... [read more]

The Breaking of the Drought (1920)

Wallaby Station in the outback is devastated by drought. The sheep are starving, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) and his wife (Nan Taylor) battle on. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) falls in with the wrong crowd while studying medicine in ... [read more]

The Square (2008)

Married construction site manager Ray (David Roberts) is having an affair with Carla (Claire van der Boom), a neighbour who lives across the river in a leafy southern Sydney suburb. Carla persuades him to help her steal a bag of ... [read more]

End of the Rainbow (2007)

End of the Rainbow is an Australian-French co-production that tracks an industrial gold mine being dismantled piece by piece in Kalimantan, Borneo in Indonesia and reconstructed in a remote part of Guinea, West Africa. To make way for the mine, ... [read more]

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)

Aspiring writer Daniel ‘Danny’ Kirkhope (Noah Taylor) has lived in 46 share households. At house number 47 in Brisbane, he moves in with Flip (Brett Stewart), a nerd; Sam (Emily Hamilton), an icy English intellectual; couch potato Jabber (Haskel Daniel); ... [read more]

Emerald City (1988)

Successful screenwriter Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) moves from Melbourne to Sydney with his publisher wife Kate (Robyn Nevin) and their children, Sam (Haydon Samuels) and Penny (Ella Scott). When his latest screenplay is rejected by producer Elaine Ross (Ruth Cracknell), ... [read more]

Footy Legends (2006)

Ten years after leaving school in Yagoona, in Sydney’s western suburbs, Luc Vu (Anh Do) is unemployed and struggling to raise his little sister Anne (Lisa Saggers). Their mother has died and their grandfather (Dao Minh Sinh) is in a ... [read more]

ALP: It’s Time (1972)

This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election. [read more]

Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (2005)

Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf Academy on Sydney’s northern beaches. The last minute inclusion of the unknown German kiteboarder Anna ... [read more]

Tatler Social Newsreel: Social Party in South Yarra (c1934)

This newsreel made by FW Thring’s Efftee Film Productions contains three items: a society party held by Mrs Lou Connolly at her home in South Yarra; the first meeting of the Centenary Dog Club at Melbourne Showgrounds; and the activities ... [read more]

Zipper (1998)

The invention of the zipper in the 1920s is revealed as contemporaneous with that of the automobile, jazz and modern art. Images of changing representations of women in art and fashion are used to show women’s changes in sexual demeanour. ... [read more]

Shadowland (1988)

Giant, vampiric winged insects attack humans. The humans evolve into winged creatures. The insects disappear and the first steam-driven machines appear. [read more]

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