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Australia in World War 1 (c1980)
A compilation of film footage from the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian War Memorial. Subjects include the home front factories, parades, propaganda films, the battlefront, men in action and troops relaxing overseas. [read more]
Tabaluga – The Last One of His Kind (1997)
Born at a time when he is needed most, the tiny, naïve but brave Tabaluga is the last dragon on earth. A delightful hero, Tabaluga uses courage and kindness, combined with his growing prowess at fire-breathing and flying, to outsmart ... [read more]
The Circus Comes to Town (c1943)
This silent documentary follows Wirth’s Circus and Zoo as it travels to Brisbane, Queensland. It shows the arrival of the circus train at the station and the elephants hauling equipment from the train. A large crowd gathers around the elephants ... [read more]
Message Stick – Arafura Pearl (2003)
Kathleen Mills (nee McGuiness) is a respected Indigenous Elder of Darwin, mother of eight, and mother to the singing group The Mills Sisters. [read more]
The Harold Holt Mystery (1985)
On 17 December 1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, an hour’s drive south of Melbourne in Victoria. His body was never found. Using dramatic re-creation and archival footage, this docudrama traces the ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – Devil’s Hill (c1988)
It is 1950. Badge (Alexander 'Mathew’ Jacobs) lives on a remote farm in Tasmania’s rugged southwest, with his parents Dave (Peter Hehir) and Jessie (Mary Haire). It is hard life but the family is full of hope as they battle ... [read more]
Candy (2006)
Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) are young and in love – with each other, and with heroin. He’s an aspiring poet, she’s an aspiring painter. Their days and nights are full of lovemaking and dope, often a gift ... [read more]
The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
When a Hong Kong drug courier is arrested at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Inspector Fang of the Hong Kong Special Branch (Jimmy Wang Yu) comes to Sydney to handle his extradition. The local cops don’t offer much cooperation, so Fang gets ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – Peter & Pompey (1988)
In a cave, near a small coastal town in Queensland, Peter (Clayton Williamson) finds the manuscript of Pompey (Aaron Ferguson), a young Roman boy from the past. Peter asks Margaret (Kate McDonald) to translate Pompey’s story from Latin, and it ... [read more]
Abortion, Corruption and Cops: The Bertram Wainer Story (2005)
Based on Bertram Wainer’s own book, It Isn’t Nice (1972, Alpha Books), the documentary Abortion, Corruption and Cops: The Bertram Wainer Story recounts the 1960s battle for legal abortions in Australia. In 1967 Dr Wainer is called to treat a ... [read more]
A Town To Be Drowned (1958)
This is one of the earliest documentaries made by ABC television. It records the disappearance of the old town of Adaminaby beneath the waters of the Snowy as part of the construction of the Adaminaby Dam for the Snowy ... [read more]
Australia Post – Royal Tour (1954)
This program was produced by the Public Relations Division of the Postmaster-General’s Department (PMG) to celebrate its role in the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Australia. It follows the Queen as she tours New South Wales, Victoria ... [read more]
Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (2005)
Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and weirdly wonderful world in the drains below their home. There they find friends like Vegety ... [read more]
Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Aeroplane (1942)
This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Fruit Jellies shows how little Bertie the Aeroplane reveals to the world the mystery of flying saucers. [read more]
Black and White (2002)
Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), a 27-year-old mixed-race Aborigine from Alice Springs, is arrested in December 1958 in Ceduna, on the South Australian border. He is charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, Mary Hattam, whose body was ... [read more]
Compass – Gallipoli Pilgrimage (2006)
Australians are making their way in increasing numbers to Anzac Cove in Turkey each year to commemorate the ANZAC landing there on April 25th, 1915. This is the story of some of those who were present at the dawn ... [read more]
Spotswood (1992)
In the dockside Melbourne suburb of Spotswood, business efficiency expert (Anthony Hopkins) tries to save a run-down moccasin factory that hasn’t made a profit for years. The boss, Mr Ball (Alwyn Kurts) has been selling off assets to keep his ... [read more]
Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma (1979)
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved. [read more]
The Quiet Room (1996)
A seven-year-old girl (Chloe Ferguson) refuses to speak. We hear her thoughts in a constant and perceptive monologue, but she will not talk to her parents (Celine O’Leary and Paul Blackwell). A series of flashbacks shows that their increasingly vicious ... [read more]
The Dismissal (1983)
On 11 November 1975, the Labor Prime Minister was dismissed by the Queen’s representative in Australia, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. The Dismissal brings to life the events leading up to this extraordinary event that shook the nation. The drama ... [read more]
