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The Human Journey – Episode 3 (1999)
In this, the third and final episode of the series, we learn that Homo sapiens left the Middle East for the new world of South-East Asia 90,000 years ago, in the long saga of the journey out of Africa. [read more]
Winging It (1998)
A young man (voiced by David Brown) leaves his home and family for a far-off land, where a dangerous encounter inspires him to recall his father’s (voiced by Max Bannah) and grandfather’s advice on marksmanship. [read more]
Palace of Dreams (1985)
Tom Raynor (Michael O’Neill) is a country boy with a dream to be a writer. He comes to Sydney to find work and is caught up in the turbulent and desperate times we now call the Great Depression. He is ... [read more]
The Bones of Building (1956)
This is an instructional documentary made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit on safety in the construction industry. It dramatises the case of Bill Smith (Dick Hackett) to illustrate how dangerous accidents can occur on building sites if workers ... [read more]
The Human Journey – Episode 1 (1999)
This is the first in a three-part series that describes the evolution of humankind from the heart of Africa, and its subsequent migration around the world. It presents recent genetic research that claims that all humans originated from the one ... [read more]
Police Rescue – By the Book (1990)
Georgia Rattray (Sonia Todd) and Micky McClintock (Gary Sweet) are attracted to each other and drifting towards a sexual relationship. Then, while McClintock is acting boss of the squad for a couple of weeks, he finds himself having to protect ... [read more]
Hewers of Coal (1957)
This documentary about Australian coal miners presents a dramatised history of mining since the early 1900s. It features scenes of the mechanisation and modernisation of the industry in the 1950s as well as the friction between miners and mine owners ... [read more]
Tom White (2004)
After a meltdown at work, architectural draughtsman Tom White (Colin Friels) walks out on his family and tries to lose himself in alcohol and anonymity. He becomes homeless and derelict in the backstreets of Melbourne. A homosexual prostitute (Dan Spielman) ... [read more]
Life at the Top: A Week with Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (1977)
Life at the Top follows Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser for one jam-packed week as he goes about his various work responsibilities, from 7-13 October 1977. He visits Kalgoorlie and Wollongong, attends numerous meetings with advisers and joint Liberal-Country Party Coalition ... [read more]
Underbelly – Series 1 (2008)
A 13-part drama series based on real events in Melbourne from 1994–2004. In 1994, power and influence in Melbourne’s underworld is held by the Moran family and old-school gangsters the Carlton Crew. Carl Williams (Gyton Grantley) is a little-known employee ... [read more]
Come In Spinner (1989)
This is the story of women in wartime – those left behind while the men are away fighting. It’s the story of three very different women who work in a beauty parlour attached to a luxury hotel, during the Second ... [read more]
Not Only the Need (1957)
This sponsored film made for the Australian Council of Trade Unions proposes a Commonwealth solution to the housing problems facing families living in inner-city slums. It contrasts crowded and dilapidated city tenements with better homes in the suburbs, illustrates the ... [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]
Message Stick – Wathaurong Glass (2003)
The Wathaurong community of Geelong began a glass business in order to provide employment for their people. [read more]
Soft Fruit (1999)
In the shadow of the steel mills of Port Kembla, the four children of Patsy and Victor Petrov gather at the family house, which is surrounded by fruit trees. Patsy (Jeanie Drynan) is dying of cancer, but the family has ... [read more]
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
In Western Australia in 1931, three mixed-race Aboriginal children are forcibly abducted from their mothers at Jigalong, in the eastern Pilbara. Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi), 14, her sister Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), eight, and their cousin Gracie (Laura Monaghan), about 10, ... [read more]
The Hungry Miles (1955)
The Hungry Miles is a documentary made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit. It documents industrial relations on the waterfront since the 1930s and includes dramatised scenes of working conditions during the Depression. It also recounts the background to ... [read more]
G.P. – Toss a Coin (1989)
G.P. is a television drama about the professional and personal lives of the staff at the Ross Street Surgery, a busy suburban medical practice run by doctors William Sharp (Michael Craig) and his nephew Robert Sharp (John McTernan). In this ... [read more]
Rusty Bugles (1980)
Rusty Bugles follows a group of soldiers posted to a remote base in the Northern Territory during the Second World War. [read more]
Four Corners – Car Wars (2006)
Australia has one of the highest rates of car theft in the western world, so investigative reporter Chris Masters, explores how this has happened by talking to all interested parties of the car industry from the smash repairers to the ... [read more]
