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From Sand to Celluloid – Two Bob Mermaid (1996)
A short drama, set in the 1950s, about an Aboriginal girl Koorine (Carrie Prosser) who is fair skinned and gains access to the local swimming pool where Aboriginal people are legally denied access. [read more]
Out There – Two Down Under (2002)
In small-town Wollemi, teenager Miller (Richard Wilson) observes two overseas newcomers arriving at the vet clinic next door. Reilly (Douglas Smith) is a reluctant refugee from his wealthy family’s troubles in America, while UK-born Aggie (Jade Ewen) is starting her ... [read more]
Toomelah (2011)
Ten-year-old Daniel (Daniel Connors) lives in Toomelah, a remote Aboriginal community in north-west New South Wales. He lives with his mother (Dorothy Cubby), a drug user, and sees his ex-boxer father (Michael Connors) hanging around the streets drinking metho (methylated ... [read more]
The Painters and Dockers Strike (1976)
A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over the principle of flow-ons from parent awards. [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]
Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998)
Author and screenwriter Bob Ellis and poet Les Murray go on a journey visiting significant places from their past. They attended Sydney University together and remain staunch friends after 39 years. They go to Newcastle NSW, Sydney, Taree, Canberra, ... [read more]
The Back of Beyond (1954)
Battling heat, dust, flood and sand, Royal Mail driver and everyman Tom Kruse completes the fortnightly run in his battered Leyland Badger, delivering mail, stores and supplies to the people along the 517 kilometre Birdsville Track in central Australia’s isolated ... [read more]
Heritage (1935)
James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett), a dashing and ambitious young settler in the new colony at Sydney Cove, woos Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maquire), a fiery young Irish girl, when she arrives in Sydney on 'the wife ship’, but fate intervenes and ... [read more]
A 5000 Mile Tour Through Central Australia (1930)
This documentary-style footage follows a 1930 expedition by a group of men through central Australia and up to the Northern Territory. Shot by CJ Stanley Low, and complete with intertitles, this silent 16 mm footage captures the flora, fauna and ... [read more]
Delegates to the Australian Labor Party’s Easter Conference at the Trades Hall Melbourne (1928)
This is mute newsreel footage, edited with caption cards identifying individual delegates, of the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference at the Melbourne Trades Hall. [read more]
Frame Up. Who Bombed the Hilton, Who Didn’t? (1983)
Filmmaker Irina Dunn presents a case for the innocence of the three Ananda Marga members convicted of conspiracy to murder the leader of the National Front in 1978. They were arrested after the terrorist bombing of a Commonwealth Heads of ... [read more]
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 2 (2004)
Whether it’s diving for trepang or sea cucumber in the northernmost tip of Australia, or putting together a feast from local produce at the southernmost point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania, the program ranges wide to find fine produce ... [read more]
Mother and Son – The Ride (1993)
Maggie’s favourite son Robert (Henri Szeps) arrives with a proposal to take her for a drive. This is so out of character that Arthur (Garry McDonald) is astonished and suspicious. Against his better judgement he allows his mother to leave. ... [read more]
Epsilon (1995)
An old woman (Alethea McGrath) recounts a story to her granddaughters (Chloe and Phoebe Ferguson) about a man (Syd Brisbane) that she met many years before. He told her about an experience that changed his life. He was camped in ... [read more]
The Foundation 1963–1977 (2002)
A documentary that intercuts interviews with historical footage to tell the history of The Foundation of Aboriginal Affairs, an organisation significant in the push for the 1967 referendum in which Aboriginal peoples were given the vote. [read more]
Peach’s Explorers – The Prison Walls (1984)
The story of the Blue Mountains’ barrier to the expansion of the fledgling colony of NSW and its eventual crossing by Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson with four convicts to assist them. [read more]
My Mother’s Country Part 1 (2001)
My Mother’s Country is a documentary that gives a personal account of the Coniston Massacre of 1928. [read more]
Around a Gum Tree (1949)
Using Australia’s many species of gum trees as an analogy, this black-and-white documentary looks at the wide range of industries, employment sectors and lifestyles which emerge ‘around a gum tree’ in different parts of the country. Like the people ... [read more]
Message Stick – Babinda Boulders (2005)
Young men fall victim to a waterhole that, according to Aboriginal legend, is a sacred place where the spirit of an Aboriginal woman dwells. [read more]
Marn Grook (1996)
Marn Grook details Indigenous involvement in AFL since the game’s beginning. [read more]
