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Australia in France, Part One (c1918)
This documentary film was shot in the middle of 1916 on the Western Front in France by British cinematographers. The earliest scenes, from May 1916, include the Australian prime minister, Mr WM Hughes meeting General Sir William Birdwood, commander-in-chief of ... [read more]
Road to Nhill (1997)
Returning from a day’s lawn bowling in a nearby town, a car runs off the road, trapping four lady bowlers upside down. Bob (Bill Hunter), the stock and station agent, recounts the humorous events that followed. Maurie (Paul Chubb), the ... [read more]
Bapaume to Bullecourt (1917)
In March 1917, Australian troops occupy Bapaume in northern France, after German troops have withdrawn to stronger defences along the Hindenburg Line. Troops advance across a desolate No-Man’s-Land, past lines of barbed wire. Near the road from Albert to Bapaume, ... [read more]
Blue Ice (1954)
Blue Ice documents the 1954 expedition to set up the first Australian base on the Antarctic continent. The chartered Danish ship Kista Dan leaves Melbourne in December 1953 under Captain Hans Christian Petersen, bound for Macquarie Island, to resupply the ... [read more]
The Spirit of Gallipoli (1928)
Billy Austin (Keith Gategood) has grown up carefree and undisciplined on the outskirts of Sydney. His mother and father despair until he is called up to compulsory training in the Army. At Liverpool camp, Billy and his best mate Jack ... [read more]
Alvin Purple (1973)
Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces him. At 21, he vows to avoid sex but it keeps walking ... [read more]
The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
Bill, AKA 'The Kid’ (Arthur Tauchert), a larrikin from the Sydney dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo, gets a six-month sentence when he’s caught in a two-up game. After he’s released, he falls for Doreen (Lottie Lyell), an upright young woman ... [read more]
Petersen (1974)
Retired Australian Rules football star Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson) quits his job as an electrician and enrols at university to study for an arts degree. Married to Susie (Jackie Weaver) and the father of two young children, Petersen is having ... [read more]
Caddie (1976)
In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid, after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She has no money and two children to feed. The working conditions are appalling, but she learns the trade, with ... [read more]
Strike Me Lucky (1934)
Broke and behind his rent during the Great Depression, ‘Mo’ McIsaac (Roy Rene) tries to find work to support a young orphan girl he finds dancing for pennies in the street. Miriam ('Baby’ Pamela Bevan) is really the missing daughter ... [read more]
Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes up to find a large female red kangaroo tapping her on the shoulder. With the ... [read more]
Smithy (1946)
A young Australian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is shot in the foot while flying over the Western Front in 1917. Charles Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) finishes the war with a Military Cross and a burning desire to do ... [read more]
Looking For Alibrandi (1999)
Josephine Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is cursed, like all the women in her Italo-Australian family. She’s in her final year at a posh Sydney school for Catholic girls, but her temper keeps getting her into trouble. Her grandmother Katia (Elena Cotta) ... [read more]
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
When John Skinner is beaten to death in his suburban home, suspicion falls on his daughter Katrina (Emily Barclay), whose grief is short-lived. In fact, she seems to love the media attention that follows her new notoriety. Months after the ... [read more]
Lovers and Luggers (1937)
Tired of his life as one of the world’s greatest concert pianists, Daubenny Carshott (Lloyd Hughes) sails for Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, to become a pearl diver. London society beauty Stella Raff (Elaine Hamill) has promised to marry ... [read more]
Letters to Ali (2004)
A documentary feature by Clara Law that follows an Australian family on their journey of friendship with fifteen-year-old ‘Ali’, an Afghan asylum seeker detained at the Port Hedland detention centre. The film also tells the parallel story of Law’s own ... [read more]
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]
The Bet (2006)
Will O’Connor (Matthew Newton) accepts a challenge from his rich friend Angus McFarlane (Aden Young). Will is a Sydney stockbroker, Angus is a banker, the son of a tycoon. Whoever can make the most money in 90 days takes the ... [read more]
The Birth of White Australia (1928)
After introductory scenes at the opening of Parliament House in Canberra in 1927, the history of Australia is shown as a series of flashbacks – from Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay to the first settlement at Sydney Cove, deadly ... [read more]
September (2007)
Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) runs the farm with the help of Paddy and ... [read more]
