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The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)
The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad ... [read more]
Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines (1984)
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who undertook a one-man volunteer mission which saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi extermination camps in 1944–45. Through many interviews and extensive use of historical footage, the film outlines the ... [read more]
Frame Up. Who Bombed the Hilton, Who Didn’t? (1983)
Filmmaker Irina Dunn presents a case for the innocence of the three Ananda Marga members convicted of conspiracy to murder the leader of the National Front in 1978. They were arrested after the terrorist bombing of a Commonwealth Heads of ... [read more]
Whitlam – Visit to the Philippines (1974)
From 28 January to 13 February 1974, the then prime minister Gough Whitlam undertook a six-nation tour of South-East Asia. This current affairs program details the last leg of the trip – his visit to the Philippines. [read more]
Couch: Our Women of the VAD (1943)
This silent amateur documentary with intertitles was made by members of the Couch family. The film begins with three young women knitting, and then reading an issue of Woman’s Weekly. The issue features an illustration of a Voluntary Aid Detachment ... [read more]
The New Inventors – Series 1 Episode 8 (2004)
The three featured inventions on this week’s program are: a pool cleaner with a difference, invented by two brothers; a masterly way of turning landfill into compost; and an inflatable resuscitation mask that prevents the spread of communicable diseases. [read more]
Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (1999)
Flipper the dolphin’s best friend is Lopaka, a young Polynesian boy, and they have many adventures in Quetzo, an ancient sunken city. One day, Lopaka finds an ancient carved stone buried near his village on the idyllic island of Iloka. ... [read more]
Australia Post – This is the Mail (1966)
This is a black-and-white film, showcasing what was then the newly opened Redfern Mail Exchange. It looks at Redfern’s centralised system of mail collection and distribution. While detailing the range of mechanised mail-sorting equipment employed, it’s careful to accentuate the ... [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]
The Human Journey – Episode 3 (1999)
In this, the third and final episode of the series, we learn that Homo sapiens left the Middle East for the new world of South-East Asia 90,000 years ago, in the long saga of the journey out of Africa. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York (1927)
This newsreel footage from 26 March 1927 shows the arrival and official welcome of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia. As the HMS Renown motors through the Heads, aircraft from the RAAF provide an aerial greeting. ... [read more]
A Voice for the Wilderness (1983)
This documentary was produced in 1983 as part of a popular movement to save the rainforest of the Upper Hastings River and the Forbes River inland from Port Macquarie NSW. One of many pro-conservation films produced during the 1980s, ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Miss Australia, Beryl Mills, Leaves for the US on the Sonoma (1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip shows a large crowd farewelling the first Miss Australia, Miss Beryl Mills, as she leaves for the USA in 1926. [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]
Touch the Sun – Top Enders (1988)
Alice (Bennendine Woods) and her mother Sue (Madeleine Blackwell) live in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Alice, about eleven years old, is a tough and independent kid. She and her mother have been on their own for some time now, ... [read more]
Winners – The Other Facts of Life (1985)
Twelve-year-old Ben Guthrie (Ken Talbot) has a good life. His family are well off and his father Ron Guthrie (Dennis Miller), is a successful and ambitious butcher with big plans for expanding his business. There are some things however, that ... [read more]
The Upside Down Show – Art Museum (2006)
Shane (Shane Dundas) and David (David Collins) introduce the viewers to an imaginary remote control to control the on-screen action. Shane creates an artistic ‘masterpiece’ by drawing his face on a perspex screen. Not being able to find a fridge ... [read more]
Naming the Federal Capital of Australia (1913)
This silent film footage, by pioneer director Raymond Longford, documents the naming of Australia’s capital city, Canberra, in the official ceremony held on 12 March 1913. It contains shots of officials attending the ceremony including Andrew Fisher, the then prime ... [read more]
The Business of Making Saints (1994)
The documentary is an overview of the process of making saints in the Roman Catholic Church. The documentary includes a cameo of the Blessed Mary MacKillop, potentially Australia’s first saint. Filming takes place in Rome and other European cities. [read more]
Footy The La Perouse Way (2006)
A documentary that uses historical photographs to talk about the history of rugby league in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse, and how football has helped build a community that prides itself on being open to people of all cultures. [read more]
