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Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)
On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific geniuses. The battlelines are drawn when Elizabeth interferes with Toby’s first ‘scientific ... [read more]
Lockie Leonard – The Human Torpedo (2006)
For ‘surf rat’ Lockie Leonard (Sean Keenan), ‘life is proving to be one long whack in the goolies’. Discovering that his new home is a dump on the edge of a swamp, starting high school in a new town without ... [read more]
The Gillies Report – Series 1, Episode 4 (1984)
This week’s Gillies Report includes the news read by John Clarke with inserts from various politicians of the day played by Max Gillies, and a National Press Club debate between the Prime Minister Bob Hawke and the Leader of the ... [read more]
The Last True Action Hero (1995)
The fire and rescue service has always attracted recruits. The film follows young trainee fire fighters as they experience the dangers and challenges of their chosen profession. We learn that team thinking and reliance on others are key characteristics of ... [read more]
The Chaser’s War on Everything – Series 1 Episode 1 (2006)
This is the first episode of the satirical variety program, containing comic pranks, commentary and send-ups responding to topical issues and more general subjects. This episode covers topics including the late Kerry Packer, the Australian Wheat Board and sniffer dogs ... [read more]
The Dream – Days 9 and 15 (2000)
The Dream, hosted by comedic duo 'Rampaging’ Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), was conceived as a two-hour informal nightly wrap to Seven’s coverage of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000, also known as the Millennium Games ... [read more]
The Alfred, Melbourne: One of Australia’s Greatest Hospitals (1931)
This four-minute cinema advertisement made by Australian Sound Films promotes the activities of the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in order to raise funds. The film shows the hospital’s activities, facilities and grounds and includes a persuasive voice-over commentary. [read more]
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line (2002)
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of conscripts was still at home in Australia. The AIF was overseas in ... [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]
Ken Howard Calls the Melbourne Cup (1941)
In this recording from 1941, sports broadcaster Ken Howard calls the Melbourne Cup. [read more]
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 (1985)
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The Dunera and interned as 'enemy aliens’. [read more]
Weekend Magazine – Carnarvon Gorge and the Fighting Highlanders (1982)
The Carnarvon Gorge in northern Queensland has been gazetted as a national park since 1932 but this is the first time a route has been opened up so that tourists can appreciate its extraordinary beauty at first hand. The second ... [read more]
Compass – The Cardinal’s Cousin (2005)
Monica is a lesbian and a former nun. She rose to prominence in 2004 when she published a letter she’d sent to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. She asked him to look her in ... [read more]
The Book Show – Jim McClelland (1991)
Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton begin this weekly magazine program on Australia Day at Bondi Beach, where they discuss the different meanings of this special day for different groups of Australians. Then Dinny shows an interview he completed in Melbourne ... [read more]
The Man Who Stole My Mother’s Face (2003)
Laura Henkel was raped in Johannesburg in 1989. Even though Mrs Henkel identified her attacker, the South African police failed to prosecute. Thirteen years later her daughter, Cathy Henkel, the film’s director, set about to get the case re-opened. ... [read more]
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a gawky 15-year-old, in love with his best friend, the beautiful and free-spirited Freya (Loene Carmen). They’re misfits in a country town in NSW in 1962. When Freya falls for Trevor (Ben Mendelsohn), football star ... [read more]
The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet (1989)
Mr and Mrs Flynn who live in Maitland, a New South Wales country town, form a musical quartet with Leo, the local greengrocer, and Consuela, a young female bank teller. When Consuela marries and moves interstate, Leo is heartbroken and ... [read more]
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)
In this animated film, the aerial navigator Jasper Morello (voiced by Joel Edgerton), accompanied by the academy biologist Dr Claude Belgon (voiced by Helmut Bakaitis), sets out on a voyage aboard the airship Resolution to establish a line of beacons ... [read more]
Your Daily and Weekly News: The Making of Two Great Papers (1928)
This fragment from a newsreel produced by Australasian Films shows the production processes behind Melbourne’s Argus metropolitan newspaper. It shows the sheets of paper which are delivered in rolls every morning, the printing machinery, the reporters and typists who cover ... [read more]
Australia Post – Post Office Speeds the Mail (1970)
This is a short program produced by Bennett Honda for the Australian Post Office to introduce and promote the new use of motorcycles by postal delivery officers. [read more]
