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Palermo: ‘History’ Standing Still (2004)
An experimental documentary that explores the traces of Palermo’s history visible in its architecture and street life, and the way history can be constructed on screen. [read more]
Jungle Patrol (1944)
Eight Australian soldiers leave Port Moresby in New Guinea on an American C-47 transport. They are returning to their unit, pushing the Japanese back along Shaggy Ridge, part of the Finisterre Range, west of Lae, in 1943. The soldiers land ... [read more]
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
In the rural British county of Cumbria in 1348, a boy named Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) is troubled by visionary dreams. His beloved elder brother Connor (Bruce Lyons) returns home from an expedition and reports the plague is on its way. ... [read more]
Sea Patrol – Cometh the Hour (2007)
Patrol ship HMAS Hammersley’s navy service is coming to an end: she is due to be decommissioned and her crew relocated. She heads out on her last voyage, in pursuit of villain Rick Gallagher (Martin Lunes) and a shipment ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro - Where Men and Mountains Meet (1963)
Produced in 1963 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film looks at the spectrum of male work involved in the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [read more]
Shadow Play (2001)
In Indonesia, on 30 September 1965 a group of President Sukarno’s guards murdered six generals who were anti-Communist. General Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Suharto grabbed power and set up death squads to murder up to ... [read more]
Operation Buffalo – Colour Record (1956)
Operation Buffalo was the testing of four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga in South Australia on 27 September 1956. This film is the official recording of the operation. It contains the mute raw footage of each of the explosions, shot ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)
Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour. [read more]
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1999)
A short film based on a story by Archie Weller, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is the story of a robbery gone wrong, an unplanned kidnapping and its consequences. A young white girl is kidnapped by three youths – two black, ... [read more]
The Blainey View – Footprints (1982)
Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us from the southernmost reaches of Tasmania to the edge of the continent in the Northern Territory to tell the extraordinary history of the first humans to live in Australia, from their earliest footprint on ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy–Murray Development (1969)
Produced in 1969 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), the film marks the completion of the Snowy-Murray Development – the northern section of the scheme. The development is explained and the ... [read more]
The President Versus David Hicks (2004)
David Hicks, a young Australian man, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of being a Taliban freedom fighter. The Northern Alliance handed him to the US military and he was detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without legal representation ... [read more]
Waterfront – Episode 2 (1984)
Max Woodbury (Jack Thompson) is the iconic Aussie bloke. He’d far rather spend an evening at the Tivoli with his girl (Noni Hazlehurst) than take on the responsibility of the wharfies’ union. When the union boss (Ray Barrett) dies of ... [read more]
Gerakiteys: Greek Wedding Reception: Canberra Scenes (c1954)
A colour home movie filmed mostly by Emmanuel Gerakiteys of the Greek community in Canberra in the 1950s. Footage includes a Greek bridal party and wedding reception, family life at home, scenes around Canberra, and part of the Queen’s visit ... [read more]
Picturesque Portsea Provides Perfect Pageant (c1926)
This silent footage features a newsreel segment, filmed by Gordon Gidney, of bathers and holiday-makers on Portsea Beach in the 1920s. Intertitles are used throughout. [read more]
Winging It (1998)
A young man (voiced by David Brown) leaves his home and family for a far-off land, where a dangerous encounter inspires him to recall his father’s (voiced by Max Bannah) and grandfather’s advice on marksmanship. [read more]
Choo Choo (c1940)
An amateur film by Will and Harrie Owen which features the Spirit of Progress passenger train. It includes both documentary and dramatised footage. [read more]
The Broken Melody (1938)
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) ruins his good prospects after a drunken brawl in a Sydney nightclub. Expelled from his musical studies at the university and thrown off his father’s property, he falls on hard times in a city in the ... [read more]
First Australians – Episode 6, A Fair Deal for a Dark Race (2008)
Episode six, 'A Fair Deal for a Dark Race’, explores Indigenous history from 1930–67, primarily in the south-eastern regions of Australia, through the lives of Yorta Yorta men Doug Nicholls and his uncle, William Cooper. Across the continent, the ... [read more]
