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Australian Visit (1967)

This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, to Australia in January 1967. [read more]

The Saddle Club – Series 1 Episode 1 (2001)

Lisa Atwood’s (Lara Jean Marshall) first day at Pine Hollow Stables begins badly when a car driven by her mother (Marie-Louise Walker) nearly collides with Pine Hollow’s best students Stevie Lake (Sophie Bennett) and Carole Hanson (Keenan MacWilliam) and their ... [read more]

Poor Man’s Orange (1987)

The story begins just a few years after the end of Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian family, and their local community in Surry Hills, after the Second World War. It is a ... [read more]

Colleano on Tightwire, Rehearses in Arena (c1939)

Colour home movie footage, probably filmed by Winnie Colleano around 1939, which shows Aboriginal tightwire performer Con Colleano rehearsing in a circus arena in the USA. [read more]

Torres Strait Islanders (1898)

Torres Strait Islanders contains the surviving four-and-a-half minutes of footage shot by AC Haddon during an expedition conducted by Cambridge University to Murray Island in the Torres Straits, in 1898. Composed of five short sequences, this film is the world’s ... [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]

The Dance of the Eyes (c1940)

The Dance of the Eyes is one of a series of travelogues made for screening in the first half of a cinema program in the 1940s and 50s. Travelling to Bali, the documentary covers woodcarving, exotic dancing, rice farming and ... [read more]

General Motors Holden – Holden Ute (c1956)

This television advertisement for General Motors Holden presents the Holden utility. [read more]

The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait (1898)

Yamaz Sibarud, a traditional song performed by ‘Maino of Yam’, is part of the Alfred Cort Haddon recordings of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait in 1898. [read more]

Deck Dogz (2005)

Three teenage friends in western Sydney spend their lives on skateboards, clashing with police, parents and the school principal. Jay ‘Spasm’ Filkins (Sean Kennedy) dreams of being a professional skater, like his hero, Tony Hawk. Robert ‘Poker’ Benardi (Richard Wilson) ... [read more]

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)

Charles and Elsa Chauvel follow the path of the Bounty mutineers from Tahiti to the Pitcairn Islands, using dramatised scenes to re-create the events leading up to the mutiny. Most of the second half of the film is a narrated ... [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]

From Sand to Celluloid – No Way to Forget (1996)

A short film that uses flashback to tell the story of Shane Francis’ (David Ngoombujarra) close encounters with the spirit and secular worlds during his work as a field officer for the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody, haunted by ... [read more]

The Squatter’s Daughter (1933)

Joan Enderby (Jocelyn Howarth) is about to lose her family’s sheep station, because she can’t afford to buy out the lease from the Sherringtons, who run the neighbouring station, Waratah. Old ‘Ironbark’ Sherrington (W Lane Bayliff) returns after two years ... [read more]

Wheel of Fortune – Series 3 Episode 1 (1990)

Wheel of Fortune is hosted by John Burgess and Adriana Xenides, with voice-over by John Deeks. In this edition of the long-running game show, three contestants compete for prizes including a Holden car. Over three rounds Kelly, Mark and carry-over ... [read more]

Bookmark – Tim Winton (1995)

Andrea Stretton introduces the wonderful children’s books of Jeannie Baker whose then newest work is The Story of Rosie Dock (1995), a magical journey into central Australia. There’s also a 1995 film adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel, That Eye, the ... [read more]

The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (1999)

Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her uncle King Nemon’s (Dennis Pryor) prison and fled with him into the dreaded ‘tunnel of ... [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]

Funny by George: The George Wallace Story (1999)

A biography of comedian and actor George Wallace (1895-1960). The documentary traces Wallace’s life from childhood to death. The film shows Wallace starring in many of his films, along with interviews and other archival moving image and stills. [read more]

I Am Woman (1972)

Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’, released in 1972, made her one of the most successful Australian singers worldwide. The song became the unofficial anthem of the women’s liberation movement and endures to this day. [read more]

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