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The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
After his 21st birthday, Bill (John Jarratt) goes to fight in Vietnam, as part of the Australian forces. He’s in the Special Air Services, elite professional soldiers who look down on the ‘nashos’, the conscripted troops. Bill’s best mate is ... [read more]
A Town Like Alice (1980)
A young Englishwoman, Jean Paget (Helen Morse), is a prisoner-of-war in Malaya at the time of the Japanese occupation (1941-45). On an enforced trek across the country she meets an Australian soldier, Joe Harmon (Bryan Brown). When the cruel Captain ... [read more]
Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938)
An epidemic of romance has broken out among the Rudd children. Bill Ryan (Peter Finch) wants to marry Sarah Rudd (Valerie Scanlon) but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) wants nothing to do with the Ryan family. Old Mr Ryan (Marshall Crosby) ... [read more]
The Overlanders (1946)
With Australia’s north under threat of Japanese invasion in 1942, the government orders the withdrawal of all people and resources – a ‘scorched earth policy’. Delivering his mob of 1,000 prime beef cattle to the meatworks at Wyndham in Western ... [read more]
Storm Boy (1976)
A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. With the help of an Aboriginal man, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), the boy and the bird ... [read more]
Dead Calm (1989)
Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed in mid-ocean, they rescue a frightened young American, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), ... [read more]
Anzac Day Promotional (c1916)
This silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement was used to encourage Australians to commemorate Anzac Day. It shows a re-enactment of soldiers wearing gas masks walking through some trenches with their rifles and ends with a title card that says ‘A nation’s ... [read more]
Friends and Enemies (1987)
Friends and Enemies follows the bitter fight between the Queensland Coalition Government and members of the Electrical Trades Union from the start of the Union’s strike to the permanent loss of jobs nine months later. In 1984, the Queensland ... [read more]
The Devil’s Playground (1976)
Tom Allen (Simon Burke) is a 13-year-old postulant at a Catholic seminary outside Melbourne. It is 1953, when boys still began training for religious orders in their early teens. Tom is constantly in trouble – for wetting his bed, showering ... [read more]
The Official Film of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition (c1916)
This film documents part of the treacherous 600 mile 1911–1914 expedition to the Magnetic South Pole led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The documentary features the team’s departure from Hobart, Tasmania aboard the vessel Aurora. It shows wildlife at Macquarie Island ... [read more]
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
After he comes into a small inheritance, Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful 'sheilas’, but ... [read more]
Mad Max (1979)
In the near future, in a collapsing society, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) patrols the highway in a super-charged patrol car, the Interceptor, like a modern-day samurai. When a bikie gang declares war on him and his family, Max takes justice ... [read more]
The St Kilda Esplanade on Boxing Day (c1913)
This fragment from a silent documentary or newsreel item takes an observational look at the St Kilda esplanade and foreshore on Boxing Day 1913. People relax on the grass, enjoy amusement rides at Luna Park and swim at the beach. [read more]
Hephzibah (1998)
A biography of Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981), using home movies, still photographs, extracts from Hephzibah’s letters, film of concert performances and interviews with family and friends. Hephzibah and her brother Yehudi, a violinist, were child prodigies. She was a concert ... [read more]
Loved Up – Our Bush Wedding (2005)
An observational documentary about the wedding between artist Gordon Syron and photographer Elaine Pelot-Kitchener. Syron went to jail in 1972 for killing a man who, in his view, was attempting to take the land belonging to his family. [read more]
Morning of the Earth (1972)
An opening title describes the film’s approach – 'A fantasy of surfers living in three unspoiled lands and playing in nature’s oceans’. The three lands are Australia, Bali in Indonesia, and Hawaii. The surfers were many of the best in ... [read more]
The Office Picnic (1972)
The tensions within an unhappy office boil over during the annual office picnic, held at a bushland park on the edge of the city. The young men drink too much and play football. The women drink less and get bored. ... [read more]
Vietnam (1988)
This epic story of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War is told through the history of a middle class family, the Goddards, whose son Phillip (Nicholas Eadie) is conscripted to fight in the war and whose father, Douglas (Barry Otto), ... [read more]
Australia Post – Postcode Grandma (1988)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the essential inclusion of correct postcodes when addressing letters, in order to guarantee delivery. [read more]
Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute (1899)
The film shows the people of Darnley Island greeting Queensland’s Home Secretary, the Hon. Justin FG Foxton, and his wife Emily and giving them gifts of fruit from the island. [read more]
