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Lonely Hearts (1981)
After his mother dies, Peter (Norman Kaye), a piano tuner, meets Patricia (Wendy Hughes), a shy bank clerk, through a dating agency. He’s approaching 50 and wears a wig, she’s in her 30s and afraid of sex. Their friendship blossoms ... [read more]
1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is from a solid farming family while Billy has a dysfunctional family life and a drunken ... [read more]
Flat (2002)
A short drama about the day in a life of a young teenager, who captures Alice Springs through a video camera given to her by her mostly absent father. [read more]
The Trespassers (1976)
Richard, a radical journalist (John Derum), begins an affair with Dee, an actress and activist (Judy Morris). Richard conceals the fact that he’s married, but his wife Penny (Briony Behets) walks in on them. Once past their initial wariness, the ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – Devil’s Hill (c1988)
It is 1950. Badge (Alexander 'Mathew’ Jacobs) lives on a remote farm in Tasmania’s rugged southwest, with his parents Dave (Peter Hehir) and Jessie (Mary Haire). It is hard life but the family is full of hope as they battle ... [read more]
This Day Tonight – The Last Program (1978)
This last TDT program captures a unique interview with the former Governor-General Sir John Kerr, appointed by Prime Minister EG Whitlam in 1972. Kerr had dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975 and had not spoken to ... [read more]
Stan Ray and George Moon Jnr: Specialty Dancers (1931)
Entertainers Stan Ray and George Moon Jnr perform a tap dancing routine as part of Frank Thring’s Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts. [read more]
(I’m) Stranded (1976)
Loud, raw and catchy with trademark deadpan vocals, '(I’m) Stranded’ has remained popular, both in Australia and internationally. The song gave a first taste of the emerging punk movement and proved to be hugely influential for many of the punk ... [read more]
Body Work (1988)
The documentary consists of a series of interviews with professionals working in the bereavement industry: pathologists, coroners, nurses, funeral directors, police, gravediggers and cremation workers. They each describe their job and their emotional response to their work. [read more]
So Simple, So Hard … (1997)
The documentary traces the steps taken by four women to find a life partner. The women – an opera singer, a hairdresser, an artist and a Chinese Australian – seek suitable male partners through introduction agencies, a fortune teller and ... [read more]
Cockatoo Island: HMAS Success Launching (1984)
HMAS Success is launched from Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, on 3 March 1984. [read more]
A Big Country – Gulf Battlers (1982)
Elton and Maude are making a go of a cattle station in the Gulf country of northern Australia. It’s a tough life in an era before satellite phones and the internet, but this family seem to have pulled it off. [read more]
Bit of Black Business – The Turtle (2007)
Jason (Gregory Cross) is no longer a small boy. His mother has sent him to his grandfather (Kelton Pell) to experience a different way of life. [read more]
Australia Today – Australia’s 5th Column (1941)
The opening title card to this Australia Today newsreel declares that Australia is at war and threatened by a ruthless enemy whose objective is the ‘downfall of the British Empire’. That enemy is the ‘5th Column’. [read more]
Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma (1979)
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved. [read more]
I Am Woman (1972)
Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’, released in 1972, made her one of the most successful Australian singers worldwide. The song became the unofficial anthem of the women’s liberation movement and endures to this day. [read more]
Dead to the World (1991)
Alexandra (Agnieszka Perepeczko) owns a boxing gym in the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Her fierce rival is Pearl Wilkinson (Lynette Curran), a corrupt local businesswoman and political candidate. Pearl is in league with Keats (John Doyle), a shady property ... [read more]
D-Generation – Series 1 Episode 1 (1985)
The D-Generation is a half-hour sketch comedy series. This episode delivers sketches on the theme of ‘Australia’, including parodies of Australian media, cultural stereotypes, history, race relations and attitudes towards immigration. With Australia’s bicentennial year, 1988, on the horizon, there ... [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]
The Mavis Bramston Show – Series 2 Episode 1 (1965)
This is the first episode for 1965 of The Mavis Bramston Show, a weekly sketch and variety series featuring topical satire, sketches and songs. [read more]
