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Touch the Sun – Princess Kate (c1988)

Fourteen-year-old Kate (Justine Clarke) is on top of the world. Popular, talented, much loved and spoilt by her wealthy Sydney family, she receives a seven-metre yacht, christened Princess Kate, from her father (Alan Cassel) for her birthday. Life is perfect ... [read more]

Union Street (1990)

The multicultural residents of an inner-city street redecorate their houses in competition with a yuppie couple who are intent on financial gain. Consequently, the street attracts media publicity and becomes a tourist destination. Meanwhile, an application by a group of ... [read more]

Eagle Rock (1971)

‘Eagle Rock’ is a classic rock song by Melbourne band Daddy Cool. Their first single, it was composed by lead vocalist Ross Wilson, who also plays guitar and harmonica. [read more]

The Rising Generation (c1925)

This incomplete documentary promotes the public education system in South Australia from kindergarten through to university. [read more]

Harmony Row (1933)

Tommy Wallace (George Wallace), down on his luck, decides to join the Victoria Police. He’s threatened, fooled and bullied by the thugs of Harmony Row, a tough inner-city slum, so the sergeant (Marshall Crosby) reassigns him to a well-to-do suburb, ... [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]

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]

It’s Academic – Episode 40 (1971)

A quiz show hosted by Andrew Harwood in which three school teams test their general knowledge and win prizes for themselves and their school. In rounds one and two, each team must answer ten questions from a numbered 'packet’ within ... [read more]

The Dream – Days 9 and 15 (2000)

The Dream, hosted by comedic duo 'Rampaging’ Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), was conceived as a two-hour informal nightly wrap to Seven’s coverage of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000, also known as the Millennium Games ... [read more]

Redback (1995)

A man’s confidence is sorely tested by the likes of an ingenious redback spider. Neither he, nor a boy neighbour, can thwart the spider’s will to live. It is the spider who has a final and hilarious revenge on the ... [read more]

Compass – Embracing the Enemy (2005)

Turkish immigrants to Australia in the 1970s immediately felt connected through the Anzac Day marches but found they were forbidden to march with the Australians. Thus began a long campaign to be acknowledged, just as their great leader Atatürk had ... [read more]

Welcome to the English Cricket Team (1932)

Captain of the Australian cricket team, Bill Woodfull, welcomes the English cricket team to Australia for the Ashes in 1932. [read more]

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1992)

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin examines the life, work and death of German Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, his ongoing resonance in contemporary thought and his increasing recognition outside of Europe half a century after his death. [read more]

The Gunston Tapes (1975)

From the unbelieving Sally Struthers to Sir John Gorton and Warren Beatty, Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) became Australia’s star interviewer whose rich and famous subjects had no idea what this parody of a journalist was all about. He was present ... [read more]

The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)

The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad ... [read more]

Shifting Sands – Promise (1997)

A short drama about a grandmother’s tale of her promise marriage. [read more]

St Kilda Esplanade 1914 (1914)

This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda in 1914, including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. [read more]

Kindergarten Playtime (1959)

This black-and-white episode, produced in 1959 and presented by Rosemary Milne, features a sing-a-long with children in a rocket ship ‘way up in space’ and an animated story of a trip to the moon illustrated by the smiling but melancholy ... [read more]

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1999)

A short film based on a story by Archie Weller, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is the story of a robbery gone wrong, an unplanned kidnapping and its consequences. A young white girl is kidnapped by three youths – two black, ... [read more]

Pioneers of Love (2005)

Inspired by Elena Govor’s book My Dark Brother: The Story of the Illins, A Russian–Aboriginal Family (2000), Pioneers of Love is a documentary that uses historical footage and interview material to talk about the relationship between a Russian immigrant Leandro ... [read more]

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