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Peach’s Australia – Darling River (1976)

The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South Wales. This was the centre of sheep grazing in Australia from the ... [read more]

Pianoforte (1984)

A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love. [read more]

The Sum of Us (1994)

Jeff Mitchell (Russell Crowe) lives at home with his dad Harry (Jack Thompson), in an old weatherboard cottage in a working-class street of Balmain. Harry skippers harbour ferries; Jeff is a plumber. He’s also gay – or as Harry prefers ... [read more]

Flowergirl (1999)

Japanese surfers Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba), Hana (Mikiko Ooka) and Tetsu (Jun Iwasaki) share a Bondi flat together. After a year in Australia, Daisuke must return to Japan. Although he is a vegetarian, out of obligation he will go and work ... [read more]

Forbidden Lie$ (2007)

Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller about the incredible journey of author, Norma Khouri, to defend herself against claims that her best-selling book, Forbidden Love (2003), was fraudulent. Forbidden Love is about the honour killing of Dalia, Khouri’s best friend ... [read more]

Clay (1965)

Nick (George Dixon) is a killer on the run from the police in rural Victoria. He is saved from capture by Margot (Janina Lebedew), a sculptress living in a remote artists’ colony along with her painter father (Claude Thomas), Mary ... [read more]

Aunty Connie (2006)

Aunty Connie is described as a love story. It uses voice-over narration (Deborah Mailman), historical photographs and interviews with Aunty Connie McDonald, an Indigenous woman who was born with weak bones, and whose first steps broke both her legs. [read more]

The Year My Voice Broke (1987)

Danny (Noah Taylor) is a gawky 15-year-old, in love with his best friend, the beautiful and free-spirited Freya (Loene Carmen). They’re misfits in a country town in NSW in 1962. When Freya falls for Trevor (Ben Mendelsohn), football star ... [read more]

Redfern Beach (2001)

Max (Michael Tuahine), a worker in a fishmonger’s factory, falls in love with Dimitra (Phaedra Nicolaidis), the daughter of the factory owner (Nicholas Papademetriou). Dimitra’s father refuses to accept the relationship. [read more]

The Golden Cage (1975)

Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) and Ayhan (Sait Memis Oglu) are Turkish migrants living in Sydney. Murat, a crane operator, is haunted by memories of a girl (Emel Ozden) he left behind in Istanbul. Ayhan has made an easier transition to life ... [read more]

Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)

Guy (Richard Roxburgh) meets Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) while trying to find the owner of a cat in distress. For him, it is love at first sight and within six weeks they decide to marry. Guy starts daydreaming about his old ... [read more]

My First Wife (1984)

John’s happy life as a composer and family man collapses when his wife Helen says she’s leaving him. She’s having an affair with one of his friends, but that’s just a symptom of the long-ignored problems in their marriage. John ... [read more]

The Cheaters (sound version) (1931)

Bill Marsh (Arthur Greenaway) serves a 20-year prison sentence for embezzling from businessman John Travers (John Faulkner). On his release Marsh forms a criminal organisation whose members include his daughter Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), and whose ... [read more]

National Treasures – Phar Lap’s Hide (2004)

In the 1930s, a New Zealand-born horse called Phar Lap won the hearts of Australians and became one of our most loved and enduring icons. Warren Brown visits Melbourne Museum where the legendary Phar Lap – or at least his ... [read more]

Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (1992)

This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up a fire brigade and enlists his friends to help. They collect everything they need, by ... [read more]

Death Defying Acts (2007)

In Edinburgh, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) entertain audiences with a psychic act that depends on trickery. They spy on members of their audience and steal from them so they can dramatically reveal insider knowledge ... [read more]

Jack Thompson Down Under – Episode 3 (1987)

This magazine-style show presents aspects of Australian life culled from footage shot over the years by the ABC for their groundbreaking television documentary series A Big Country (1992), as well as from the archive of the national ... [read more]

Shifting Shelter 3 (2005)

Shifting Shelter 3 is the latest instalment in a documentary series shot over a ten year period. Reminiscent of the British 7 Up Series, the Shifting Shelter series records the lives of four Indigenous individuals on their journey from teenagers ... [read more]

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

When it opened on 26 December 1906 The Story of the Kelly Gang was six reels long, or close to 60 minutes, a duration that was unheard of. What remains of the film is almost 10 minutes, much of which ... [read more]

The Eye of the Storm (2011)

Washed-up, UK-based thespian Sir Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis), an impoverished minor European princess, return to their Sydney family home as their eccentric, wealthy mother, Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling), recovers from a stroke. The siblings are more interested ... [read more]

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