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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]
Hypsi: the Forest Gardener (1998)
The documentary follows zoologist Dr Andrew Dennis as he studies the life cycle of the smallest kangaroo, the hypsi (musky rat-kangaroo), in Far North Queensland’s rainforest, and discovers the secrets of its survival. [read more]
The White Monkey (1987)
This documentary biography follows Father Brian Gore as he works among the poor on the island of Negros in the Philippines. In his fight for social justice he was imprisoned, along with eight others, on trumped up charges by the ... [read more]
Inauguration of the Commonwealth (1901)
This documentary shows the official parade and the swearing in of Australia’s first Governor General and Federal Cabinet for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on the January 1, 1901. [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 Art of Healing (2005)
A documentary about an Arrernte woman Agnes Palmer, and her vision of painting the walls of the Santa Teresa church in Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa), an Aboriginal community one hour south of Alice Springs. The Art of Healing is ... [read more]
Looking For Alibrandi (1999)
Josephine Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is cursed, like all the women in her Italo-Australian family. She’s in her final year at a posh Sydney school for Catholic girls, but her temper keeps getting her into trouble. Her grandmother Katia (Elena Cotta) ... [read more]
Three Dollars (2005)
Eddie Harnovey (David Wenham) gets the sack. His job as a chemical engineer for a government department is abolished after he refuses to rubber-stamp a large residential development on land contaminated with pesticide. Eddie contemplates his future as he remembers ... [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]
Divine Service – Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church, Rose Bay (1965)
This program features a Roman Catholic religious service recorded in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, celebrated by the Reverend Father Neil Collins with preacher Reverend Father Julian Miller from St Patrick’s College, Manly. The service ... [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]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy–Murray Development (1969)
Produced in 1969 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), the film marks the completion of the Snowy-Murray Development – the northern section of the scheme. The development is explained and the ... [read more]
Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (2001)
This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight 'A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will have to make films she doesn’t believe in and is further upset when Oscar (Damien ... [read more]
A Big Country – The Prices (1979)
A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it. [read more]
Skyway Express (c1948)
This travelogue was one of a series produced for Qantas in the late 1940s under the generic title of Universal Skylogues. Each film in the series uses the notion of flying into an 'exotic’ location, usually giving the audience a ... [read more]
Eureka Stockade (1949)
As thousands of men leave their jobs to search for gold in Ballarat in 1854, the Victorian Governor imposes harsh taxation in the form of a mining licence, to discourage new miners. New arrivals Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty) and his ... [read more]
The 8th Wonder of the World (1973)
A documentary looking at the newly completed Sydney Opera House, produced at the time of the official opening in 1973. The film looks at the architecture, art and functions of the building. [read more]
The Good Woman of Bangkok (1991)
In Bangkok, Thailand, Australian filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke hires a prostitute, Aoi, and makes her the subject of the film. Glimpses of the red light area of Bangkok are intercut with Aoi’s views of her life and her place in the ... [read more]
Mad Max 2 (1981)
After a disastrous war over oil, Max (Mel Gibson) has become a desert wanderer with few ties to the world. His family is dead; his only companion is a smart and ferocious blue heeler called ‘dog’. The desert is a ... [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]
