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Maitland Floods (1955)
The devastation of the 1955 Maitland floods is captured here in this silent colour home movie footage, taken by Colin Johnston. It shows the fast-rising waters, flooding bridges, and submerged streets of the Hunter Valley town as well as the ... [read more]
Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 39 (2006)
From building your own super car to the bus that drives itself and the most advanced robot in the world, this fast and furious program brings to the screen cutting edge technological advances that the Beyond team have combed 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]
Dangerous Immigrant (1960)
Produced by the CSIRO Film Unit for the Commonwealth Department of Health, this documentary alerts the general public to the dangers of a destructive pest – the European house borer, or Hylotrupes bajulus – ... [read more]
Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge (1931)
A comprehensive pictorial record that chronicles the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1925 and 1931, filmed by the Paramount Film Service, Sydney. [read more]
Suburban Strippers (1998)
This documentary takes the audience into the world of strippers in Adelaide in the late 90s. We see male and female strippers performing, and talking about what they do and why they do it. Participants in the film discuss the ... [read more]
China, the Long March (1986)
China, the Long March follows stills photographer Leo Meier as he travels the route of the Long March for seven weeks to photograph the people and places of today’s China for a photographic exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ... [read more]
Banners Held High (1956)
This documentary is about the significance of the May Day celebrations for the trades and labour movement in Australia. It includes the construction and painting of elaborate banners and signs by waterside workers and footage from the 1956 May Day ... [read more]
Tombstone Unveiling (2000)
An observational documentary about the Torres Strait tradition of unveiling the tombstone of the deceased a year after death. Tombstone Unveiling is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe ... [read more]
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an increase in population and discusses the new immigration program, grappling with the ... [read more]
Thursday Island and Merauke, Dutch New Guinea (c1925)
This 16mm actuality footage was recorded during the filming of two back-to-back feature films – The Hound of the Deep (1926) on Thursday Island and The Jungle Woman (1926) at Merauke in Dutch New Guinea. Scenes include the cast and ... [read more]
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, Queensland. [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]
Beyond 2000 – Episode 287 (1992)
This magazine-style program examines the research and innovation happening around the world that will change our lives beyond the year 2000. [read more]
Numbats (1996)
This natural history documentary follows the life cycle of a numbat family. [read more]
The Black Road: on the front line of Aceh’s war (2005)
American journalist William Nessen visits Aceh, the Northern Province of Indonesia, to report on Aceh’s struggle for independence from the Indonesian Government. Nessen makes friends with the Indonesian army commander in order to gain access to information and filming opportunities. ... [read more]
First Australians – Episode 1, They Have Come to Stay (2008)
Episode one covers the first meetings between the Indigenous Aborigines, the first Australians, and the British First Fleet, who sailed into Sydney on 26 January 1788. They soon come face to face and while their differences are immense, apprehension quickly ... [read more]
The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (1996)
In this, the first episode of 39 in The Silver Brumby series, Thowra (John Higginson) meets the beautiful Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) who is greatly taken by him. Unfortunately, she is The Brolga’s (John Stanton) daughter so the young couple ... [read more]
Travelling Library (c1946)
Made by the Children’s Library Movement, this silent colour footage follows the Boys’ and Girls’ Travelling Library from its base centre at Hornsby to school children around the Shire. [read more]
Morning of the Earth (1972)
An opening title describes the film’s approach – 'A fantasy of surfers living in three unspoiled lands and playing in nature’s oceans’. The three lands are Australia, Bali in Indonesia, and Hawaii. The surfers were many of the best in ... [read more]
