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Loved Up – Lore of Love (2005)
A short documentary about a young woman named Jessie Bartlett, an 18-year-old being taught the lores of love by her Pintupi grandmothers Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi. [read more]
Four Corners – We’ll All Be Rooned (1982)
Reporter Jim Downes takes us into the wheat belt in the marginal country of Coonamble, near Dubbo in NSW. The outback is now entering its fourth year of drought in this land of boom and bust. This time, the ... [read more]
Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (1999)
Flipper the dolphin’s best friend is Lopaka, a young Polynesian boy, and they have many adventures in Quetzo, an ancient sunken city. One day, Lopaka finds an ancient carved stone buried near his village on the idyllic island of Iloka. ... [read more]
The Night the Prowler (1978)
In a wealthy part of Sydney, Felicity Bannister (Kerry Walker) pretends she has been raped by a prowler, in order to take control of her own life. Her neurotic mother (Ruth Cracknell) is more worried about her daughter’s upcoming wedding. ... [read more]
The Felt Hat (1951)
A short murder-mystery made by the South Australian Amateur Cine Society (SAACS) and directed by John (CJ) Mack. A man lies dying on the side of a riverbed deep in the bush. A couple picnicking nearby witness the ... [read more]
Black Water (2007)
Based on a true story, Adam (Andy Rodoreda), his girlfriend Grace (Diana Glenn) and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) set out on a driving holiday in a lush area of northern Australia. After a visit to a crocodile farm, ... [read more]
Love Tricycle (2003)
Welcome to Rimside, a town completely populated by bicycles. Rimside High School has just closed for the holidays. Beau is contemplating the lonely holiday ahead when he catches sight of Bec – the girl of his dreams. In a classic ... [read more]
Factory to Farm: Making Agricultural Implements in Australia (c1925)
One of a series of promotional films made by the Melbourne-based Made in Australia Council, Factory to Farm supports the production of agricultural implements in Australian factories. It provides a visual record of the inner workings of an agricultural implements ... [read more]
Winners – Top Kid (1985)
It’s 1947 and times are tough for ten-year-old Gary Doyle (Emil Minty), the third child of a large, poor Catholic family. Bright, and with a photographic memory, Gary is constantly picked on and beaten up by the boys at school. ... [read more]
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997)
In a remote Tasmanian worker’s camp in the winter of 1954, Slovenian immigrant Maria Buloh (Melita Jurisic) abandons husband Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) and their three-year-old daughter Sonja (Arabella Wain). Sent to live with family friends for many years, eight-year-old Sonja ... [read more]
Australian Navy: Destroyers (c1930)
This short documentary made by Herschells Films features Royal Australian Navy destroyers launching torpedoes with dummy warheads attached for training purposes. It also shows a smokescreen created by one of the vessels, Anzac, to safeguard the larger vessel, Success. Torpedoes ... [read more]
Camera Natura (1986)
A proposed film critique of white Australian cultural history, specifically the European construction of images of the Australian landscape, Camera Natura has variously been called a montage film and a film essay. A montage of images – early colonial maps, ... [read more]
Dynasties – The Rose Family (2003)
Bob Rose was a football legend and head of a sporting dynasty. He was one of seven sons rescued from poverty by Australian Rules Football and their story is one of great triumph and of great misfortune. [read more]
The Land That Waited (1963)
This remarkable documentary tells the early history of colonial Australia through etchings, paintings and drawings produced by the first colonists. It features voice-over narration written by Max Harris and original and evocative music composed by John Antill. [read more]
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Birthday Party (c1925)
A tinted home movie of family scenes in a garden and a children’s party celebration in the mid 1920s. It begins with a shot of the Albion family posing portrait style for the camera and then shows the father ... [read more]
White River of Life (c1950)
The Milk Board of NSW commissioned this short film to promote the value of milk in the daily diet. It is mostly set during a class at Parramatta Girls’ Home Science School. The cooking teacher asks the class to ... [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]
National Treasures – Tom Roberts’s ‘Bailed Up’ (2004)
With its revolutionary approach to depicting the landscape and light, Tom Roberts’s Bailed Up is a painting that helped define Australia’s national identity. [read more]
The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet (1989)
Mr and Mrs Flynn who live in Maitland, a New South Wales country town, form a musical quartet with Leo, the local greengrocer, and Consuela, a young female bank teller. When Consuela marries and moves interstate, Leo is heartbroken and ... [read more]
Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story (1981)
The documentary summarises nuclear testing in the 1950s in Australia and its consequences. This compilation documentary uses archival footage from both scientific recordings and newsreels of the time. The film was made in 1981, 25 years after the above-ground nuclear ... [read more]
