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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]
Selling Sickness (2004)
This report looks at the increased use of antidepressant drugs. It examines the marketing and promotion of medicines to treat normally occurring conditions. Specialists are interviewed and patients talk about the undesirable side effects of stopping taking the new drugs. ... [read more]
The Young One: A Portrait of the Conductor Simone Young (1995)
Biographical documentary on the life and times of Australian conductor Simone Young. The film follows her across continents, into rehearsals, during performances and sees her at home with her partner Greg and daughter Yvann. [read more]
Official Opening of Canberra by His Royal Highness the Duke of York (1927)
The Duke of York, who later became King George VI, officially opens Old Parliament House, Canberra on 19 May 1927. Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce is also present and Dame Nellie Melba sings the national anthem God Save the King. [read more]
Queen of Hearts (2003)
A short feature film about the relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother, following the journey of the granddaughter and how she deals with her grandmother’s impending death from cancer. [read more]
Four Corners – The First Program (1961)
The very first broadcast of Four Corners went to air on Saturday 19 August 1961. There is no record of the program as it went to air but what remains is a compilation tape of the items that made up ... [read more]
A Changing Race (1964)
The 1964 black-and-white documentary A Changing Race interviews Aboriginal people about their life in Central Australia including their experience of racial discrimination. [read more]
Australia Post – News Release E-Post Electronic Mail (1985)
This 1985 video press release explains E-Post, a new service offered by Australia Post. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Little Sign of Love’ (c1969)
This 30-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s. [read more]
A Place to Live (1950)
This dramatised documentary, made by the Realist Film Unit for the Brotherhood of St Laurence, contrasts the living conditions of the urban poor with the ‘owners of industry’ in 1950s Melbourne. It implies that while Melbourne is Australia’s financial centre, ... [read more]
Opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway (1910)
This silent historical footage filmed by Millard Johnson and William Gibson captures the opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway, Victoria, on 30 May 1910. [read more]
From Little Things Big Things Grow (1993)
‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’, written by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly in the late eighties, pays tribute to Vincent Lingiari and the Gurindji Strike in 1966. The ‘little’ thing refers to Lingiari leading the Wave Hill Station walk-off ... [read more]
Operation Buffalo – Colour Record (1956)
Operation Buffalo was the testing of four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga in South Australia on 27 September 1956. This film is the official recording of the operation. It contains the mute raw footage of each of the explosions, shot ... [read more]
The Blainey View – Footprints (1982)
Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us from the southernmost reaches of Tasmania to the edge of the continent in the Northern Territory to tell the extraordinary history of the first humans to live in Australia, from their earliest footprint on ... [read more]
The President Versus David Hicks (2004)
David Hicks, a young Australian man, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of being a Taliban freedom fighter. The Northern Alliance handed him to the US military and he was detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without legal representation ... [read more]
Manganinnie (1980)
In 1830 Edward Waterman (Phillip Hinton) and his family arrive in a remote part of Tasmania (or Van Diemen’s Land, as it was then known). Waterman is pressured into helping British colonial forces carry out the Black Line – enforced ... [read more]
Message Stick – Macumba: Outside Looking In (2003)
Macumba: Outside Looking In pays homage to the highly respected Aboriginal media legend John Macumba and to his legacy in Aboriginal radio broadcasting. It documents events in Macumba’s life that led to his career in Aboriginal media. It focuses on ... [read more]
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]
Travelling Library (c1946)
Made by the Children’s Library Movement, this silent colour footage follows the Boys’ and Girls’ Travelling Library from its base centre at Hornsby to school children around the Shire. [read more]
Fashionista – Mambo (2003)
Robert Moore loves his job and he’s been at it since 1989. He designs for Mambo and creates what he likes. Mambo may or may not pick up his design but then there’s always another season and one of his ... [read more]
