Landline - Ethanol Special 2006 (2006)
Landline has put together a special bulletin about ethanol which presents both a history and a current snapshot of Australia’s position in relation to its use here. The program also presents a picture from around the world with regard to ... [read more]
The Old Man and the Inland Sea (2005)
A documentary about Mr Norman Hayes Jagamarra who was a 'noodler’ on the mining fields of Coober Pedy. [read more]
The Last Wave (1977)
David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is a successful Sydney tax lawyer who takes on the defence of five Aboriginal men charged with killing another Aboriginal man. As the city is deluged with rain, Burton recognises that he has seen one of ... [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: The Ice Man Was Never Like This (c1934)
This animated cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the benefits of ice refrigeration. [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: Welcome Mr Ice Man (c1934)
This cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the use of block ice for refrigeration to preserve and cool food. [read more]
Fighting the Flames (1909)
This footage of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade features horsedrawn fire units moving through the streets of Adelaide as well as rescue and resuscitation demonstrations by fire brigade members. [read more]
The Tracker (2002)
In rough bush country in 1922, an Aboriginal tracker (David Gulpilil) leads three white men in the hunt for a black fugitive. The senior policeman in charge (Gary Sweet) murders 'bush blacks’ on sight; a young constable (Damon Gameau) joins ... [read more]
Through the Centre (1940)
Made by Herschells Films for the Shell Company of Australia, Through the Centre follows a Shell expedition to map a tourist route from Perth, through northern Western Australia to Darwin, then south through Central Australia to Adelaide. Along the way, ... [read more]
Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
On an outback station in 1956, hard-drinking shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of 'gun shearer’, the one with the highest tally. Foley (Jack Thompson) has not been beaten in ten years, but he ... [read more]
Wirrangul Women: Always Have, Always Will (2006)
A documentary about elders Doreen and Gladys Miller, the last remaining speakers of the Wirangu language in an area where the dominant remaining Indigenous languages are Kokatha and Pitjantjatjara. [read more]
Blood Brothers – Broken English (1993)
A documentary that alternates between interview and dramatised re-creation. It is the story of Rupert Maxwell Stuart (Max Stuart), an Arrernte man accused of murder and condemned to death in 1959. There are blocks of dramatic re-creation in black-and-white, intercut ... [read more]
Minymaku Way: There’s Only One Women’s Council (2000)
This documentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. [read more]
Marn Grook (1996)
Marn Grook details Indigenous involvement in AFL since the game’s beginning. [read more]
Kiss or Kill (1997)
Young lovers Nikki (Frances O’Connor) and Al (Matt Day) are confidence tricksters. She lures men to her hotel room where she drugs them and with Al’s help steals their money, but the scam goes sour in Adelaide when she accidentally ... [read more]
We Have Survived (1981)
This hard-hitting reggae version of Bart Willoughby’s song ‘We Have Survived’ is performed by No Fixed Address. It has become an unofficial anthem for many Indigenous Australians. [read more]
Snowtown (2010)
Snowtown is an account of the infamous Snowtown, or Bodies in the Barrels, murders, named after the discovery of eight bodies in an empty bank vault in the South Australian town of Snowtown in May 1999. Two more bodies were ... [read more]
The Boys are Back (2009)
After successful Adelaide sports journalist Joe Warr (Clive Owen) loses his second wife Katy (Laura Fraser) to cancer, his relationship with his two sons from two different marriages is put to the test. Joe had moved from the UK to ... [read more]
Gallipoli (1981)
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) is a drifter with no great desire to ... [read more]
Stir (1980)
After a spell on the outside, China Jackson (Bryan Brown) returns to the jail where he was once savagely bashed. He is determined to stay out of trouble, but an appearance on TV to complain about the bashings has made ... [read more]
Breaker Morant (1979)
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian 'irregular’ soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary. The accused are Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock ... [read more]
