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At The Movies – Series 1 Episode 63, Wolf Creek (2005)
This week Margaret and David discuss the Australian film Wolf Creek with accompanying interviews with the director Greg McLean and actor Cassandra Magrath. There’s also a review of a documentary about the inside story of a porn phenomenon Inside Deep ... [read more]
My Mother’s Country Part 2 (2001)
My Mother’s Country is a personal account of the Coniston Massacre of 1928, in two parts. [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]
Stone Forever (1999)
For Stone Forever, the director Richard Kuipers interviews many of the original Stone (1974) cast and films the 25th anniversary of the film in 1998. The filmmaker makes extensive use of the rich sources of stills, black-and-white footage from the ... [read more]
Terrain Study of Phuoc Tuy Province South Vietnam (1967)
This Army training film looks at the terrain of what was known as South Vietnam, principally in the province of Phuoc Tuy. [read more]
Browne, George: Blue Mountains (c1930)
This compile of silent home movie footage was taken by George Browne in 1930 and records the scenery of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. [read more]
Uncivilised (1936)
Beatrice Lynn (Margot Rhys), a successful novelist, journeys into the ‘unexplored’ reaches of north-west Australia in search of book material. She has heard rumours of a ‘wild white man’ who lives with Aboriginal people, but she finds more than she ... [read more]
Safety First (c1936)
This short drama was made in the mid-to-late 1930s and sponsored by the Road Safety Council of NSW. It aims to raise children’s awareness of road safety rules and demonstrates the correct procedures to follow when using the roads. ... [read more]
Ada (2001)
Set in a domestic dining room in Sydney over a number of years in the mid-1950s, Ada portrays a young girl’s observation of her elderly grandmother’s nightly ritual of shelling peas. Although the other family members, including a pet cat, ... [read more]
The Mavis Bramston Show – Series 1 Episode 1 (1964)
This is the first episode of The Mavis Bramston Show, a weekly sketch and variety series featuring topical satire, sketches and songs. [read more]
Double Trouble – Episode 4 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. [read more]
Shifting Sands – Tears (1997)
A short drama from Ivan Sen about two teenagers Lena (Jamilla Frail) and Vaughn (Luke Carroll) who want to get off the 'mish’ – or the mission. [read more]
Letters From Poland (1978)
Set in Sydney in 1950, Letters From Poland follows a few months in the life of Dana (Basia Bonkowski), a young woman who’s recently migrated from Poland. Dana eagerly awaits the arrival of her husband, prevented from joining her by ... [read more]
Blood Oath (1990)
On the Indonesian island of Ambon in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Australian soldiers force Japanese military captives to dig up a mass grave of Australian soldiers. The dead men were prisoners in the island’s Japanese read more]
Shadow Panic (1989)
Shadow Panic is a short experimental drama in which three women characters – 'The Redhead’, 'The Investigator’ and 'The Hothead’ – seem to be inextricably linked through memory, dreams and an increasing state of emergency. Unknown to each other, their ... [read more]
Black Beauty (1978)
In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as his feisty stablemate Ginger bitterly predicts, this doesn’t last, and the harsh realities of life’s ... [read more]
Seven Deadly Sins - Pride (1992)
Roger and Jill Pascoe are a glittering couple. Both are brilliant performers and he is also a great theatre director. Their next production will be Strindberg’s The Stronger, first produced in 1889. We discover via a series of role-plays that ... [read more]
Where Death Wears a Smile (1985)
Where Death Wears a Smile explores the experiences of two Australian soldiers, Walter Steilberg and Alex McClelland, who were thrown into Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague in Czechoslovakia. This Nazi camp had a prison nearby known as the the 'Small ... [read more]
D-Generation – Series 1 Episode 1 (1985)
The D-Generation is a half-hour sketch comedy series. This episode delivers sketches on the theme of ‘Australia’, including parodies of Australian media, cultural stereotypes, history, race relations and attitudes towards immigration. With Australia’s bicentennial year, 1988, on the horizon, there ... [read more]
Fire Guardians (1932)
This is a dramatised documentary which highlights the history and heroics of firefighters and culminates in the 're-burning’ of the Cumberland Paper Mills which were destroyed by fire in 1928. It includes an opening sequence of fire and smoke to ... [read more]
