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Balibo (2009)
Darwin, December 1975. Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia), a veteran Australian journalist, is approached by José Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaac), the charismatic Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the government of East Timor. Ramos-Horta tells East that his fledgling republic, which has declared ... [read more]
The Golden Cage (1975)
Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) and Ayhan (Sait Memis Oglu) are Turkish migrants living in Sydney. Murat, a crane operator, is haunted by memories of a girl (Emel Ozden) he left behind in Istanbul. Ayhan has made an easier transition to life ... [read more]
Sydney Opera House Opening Concert (1973)
The ABC concert-telecast broadcast of the official opening concert at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on 29 September 1973. Performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, it was conducted by expatriate Australian conductor Charles Mackerras and featured Swedish soprano ... [read more]
Keating Speech: The Redfern Address (1992)
On 10 December 1992, at the official opening of the United Nations International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in Redfern Park New South Wales, the then Prime Minister the Honourable Paul J Keating made a landmark speech which influenced ... [read more]
The Librarians – Series 1 Episode 1 (2007)
The Librarians is a situation comedy series set in the fictitious ‘Middleton Interactive Learning Centre’ in Melbourne, known more prosaically as the local library. In this introductory episode, the weekly staff meeting is derailed by someone putting human excrement in ... [read more]
Grendel Grendel Grendel (1980)
The animated feature Grendel Grendel Grendel is introduced by co-producer Phillip Adams, who discusses the role of monsters in the human imagination as a prelude to the film’s ‘venerable’ monster, Grendel (voiced by Peter Ustinov). The film’s early sequences depict ... [read more]
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1992)
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin examines the life, work and death of German Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, his ongoing resonance in contemporary thought and his increasing recognition outside of Europe half a century after his death. [read more]
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Josh Cody (James Frecheville), aka J, is a nervous 17 year old who moves in with his grandmother (Jacki Weaver), nicknamed ‘Smurf’, following the death of his junkie mother from an overdose. J’s mother had always kept him away from ... [read more]
King of the Coral Sea (1954)
Ted King (Chips Rafferty), a pearler on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, finds a body floating in the water. Ted and his offsider, Jack Janiero (Rod Taylor), discover that head diver Yusep (Lloyd Berrell) and town drunk Grundy (Reg ... [read more]
A Hard God (1980)
A Hard God tells the story of the Cassidys, an Irish-Australian family in Sydney in 1946, struggling to reconcile their faith with the harsh realities of life. Dan (Graham Rouse) and his family suffered most during the Great Depression and ... [read more]
Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign (1979)
Patrol Boat is a television drama about the crew of a navy patrol boat, whose job it is to guard Australia’s coastal waters. In this episode Jacki Weaver guest stars as journalist Jenny Smith who visits HMAS Ambush to ... [read more]
Jack and Jill: A Postscript (1970)
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) lives in a condemned house with his mother (Jean Higgs) and lodger Stan (Stanley Randall) in the Melbourne working-class suburb of Maribyrnong. Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech), a middle-class kindergarten teacher, lives across the Maribyrnong Creek from ... [read more]
Into the Straight (1949)
Prominent Australian horse breeder WJ Curzon (George Randall) hires British trainer Hugh Duncan (James Workman) and his son Paul (Alan White). Soon after arriving at Curzon’s stud farm, St Aubins, Paul makes romantic moves on Curzon’s daughter, June (Nonnie Peifer). ... [read more]
King of the Surf (1964)
In Sydney in 1964, the surfing fraternity welcomes the arrival of many of the world’s best surfers. They include young men from the USA, Hawaii, Great Britain, Peru, France, New Zealand and South Africa. After an official welcome at ... [read more]
Stone Bros. (2009)
Eddie (Luke Carroll) works as a cleaner in a museum. His cousin Charlie (Leon Burchill) loves smoking cannabis, partying and having fun. While visiting Eddie at his workplace, Charlie knocks over a large photographic display causing both men to flee ... [read more]
Reg Grundy’s Wheel of Fortune (1959)
Host Reg Grundy informs viewers of the prizes to be won and introduces carry-over champion Evan Sutton. Evan earns a perfect score in the first round by answering correctly six questions about Shakespeare. Grundy spins the ‘Reg Grundy Wheel of ... [read more]
Pyongyang Diaries (1997)
Shortly after the death of the country’s leader Kim Il Sung, and again on a return trip two years later in 1996, filmmaker Solrun Hoaas embarked on a personal journey to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the DPRK ... [read more]
Shine (1996)
David Helfgott (played as a child by Alex Rafalowicz) is a piano prodigy, growing up in Perth in the 1950s. His father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a loving authoritarian, determined to keep his family together at all costs, a legacy ... [read more]
On Our Selection (1932)
Drought has all but ruined the Rudd family 'selection’ in south-western Queensland, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and his wife (Alfreda Bevan) hold grimly to the land. He’s in debt to a ruthless neighbour, Old Carey (Len Budrick), who seizes ... [read more]
Proof (1991)
Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a 32-year-old blind photographer. He lives alone and trusts no-one, especially not his housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot), who loves him in secret. Their antagonistic relationship is disturbed when Martin meets Andy (Russell Crowe), a kitchen hand ... [read more]
