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On Our Selection (1932)
Drought has all but ruined the Rudd family 'selection’ in south-western Queensland, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and his wife (Alfreda Bevan) hold grimly to the land. He’s in debt to a ruthless neighbour, Old Carey (Len Budrick), who seizes ... [read more]
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than two years after the landings at Gallipoli. In Egypt and Palestine, the young soldiers of ... [read more]
The Sundowners (1960)
At the end of the 1920s, Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) and his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) have been living on the road as drovers for 16 years. Their son Sean (Michael Anderson Junior) wonders what it would be like to ... [read more]
Sunshine Sally (1922)
Sally (Yvonne Pavis) resigns from her job at a laundry after supporting her friend Tottie (Joy Revelle), who has been sacked. She rejects marriage proposals from Spud Murphy (John Cosgrove) and Skinny Smith (Dinks Paterson), who embark on a boxing ... [read more]
Jedda (1955)
An Aboriginal woman dies in childbirth on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory. The baby girl is raised by the station owner’s wife, Sarah McMann, after the death of her own child. Jedda (Margaret Dingle) grows up between ... [read more]
Nice Coloured Girls (1987)
This short film is about three Indigenous women and their night out at Kings Cross. [read more]
Chequerboard – It’s A Big Day In Any Girl’s Life (1973)
Two very different weddings are contrasted. One of them cements the ties between a landed family and a family of high standing in the district. The other is a wedding between two people living in the city who met on ... [read more]
Chequerboard – It’s Amazing What You Can Do With a Pound of Mince (1969)
Three Australian families who are living on the basic wage are interviewed about what they earn, how that money is allocated and how they view their lives. [read more]
Masterpiece Special – Robyn Davidson (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews the expatriate Australian writer Robyn Davidson, who has just written a book about her experience of living with one of the last great nomadic tribes of the world in the desert regions of Rajasthan in northern India. ... [read more]
Time Bomb (2003)
A documentary about Frank Djara and his work as a men’s health consultant in Areyonga. Frank also talks about how diabetes has affected his life. [read more]
Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 51 (2006)
A fast-paced magazine-style program that explains tomorrow, today. This episode shows a device that can be inserted into your brain to prevent depression and a gadget to explain supernatural phenomena, while we see the future of the aeroplane, the car ... [read more]
Peach’s Explorers – South to North (1984)
Inter-colony rivalry between South Australia and Victoria drove a race to the north of the continent. The race resulted in the terrible deaths of the leaders of the lavish but poorly planned Victorian expedition, Burke and Wills, and victory for ... [read more]
Building a Motor Body (c1925)
This film shows the building of a car motor body at the Holden Motor Body Builders at Woodville, near Adelaide, in South Australia. Scenes depict the pressing of steel panels to form the car bodies and the assembly of the ... [read more]
Poisoned Daggers (c1941)
This short documentary by the New South Wales Department of Heath launches a state-wide drive to reduce infectious diseases such as dengue fever through preventative measures and increased community awareness. The film is introduced by the NSW ... [read more]
A World to Conquer (1956)
In this amateur science fiction short drama made by John and Frank Straford, a man (Kerry Beckwith) witnesses an alien surveillance camera land in his backyard, but his wife (Jeanette Van Boom) does not believe him. [read more]
Let the Blood Run Free – Episode 2 (1990)
Let The Blood Run Free is a medical soap opera spoof set in a hospital called Saint Christopher’s. In this episode, orderly Warren Cronkshank (Peter Rowsthorn) races to the aid of ‘tragically short’ Nurse Effie (Helen Knight), who is threatening ... [read more]
Maintaining the Links: Maintenance of Historic Timber Bridges in NSW (2001)
This documentary by the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority documents the history of timber bridge design and construction in New South Wales. It features maintenance work on four historic bridges built by the old Public Works Department and the ... [read more]
Hinkler’s Message to Australia; Incidents of My Flight (1928)
Bert Hinkler was the first Australian aviator to be celebrated by the issue of a gramophone recording. On this recording, he recalls his experience making the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928, describes key events in the ... [read more]
Play School – Opposites Monday (2006)
‘Opposites’ is the weekly theme and ‘hats’ the daily theme. Justine (Clarke) uses a homemade ‘cheeky monkey’ to demonstrate the concept of up and down. Justine and Rhys (Muldoon) make ‘surprise’ hats; Rhys reads a book; Justine leads a guessing ... [read more]
Has Beans (1998)
While snoozing peacefully, a plump little kidney bean is accosted by two malicious lima beans. Kicking the little bean as if it were a ball, the lima beans amuse themselves with the kidney bean’s pain. The maligned bean complains to ... [read more]
