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Deadly Hurt (1994)

In 1992, the National Committee on Violence Against Women released its National Strategy on Violence Against Women. Deadly Hurt is a personal response to the strategy by filmmaker Don Parham. Parham puts the case that it simplifies a complex issue ... [read more]

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

Broome boy Willy (Rocky McKenzie) must choose between studying to become a priest or following his heart and pursuing his love for Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). Rosie, an aspiring singer, loves to hang out at the bar and is invited to ... [read more]

Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: The Joy of Living (1948)

This cinema advertisement for MILO shows how to get a good night’s rest and plenty of energy for the morning – just drink a cup of MILO before bedtime! [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]

Grandad Rudd (1935)

The battling pioneer settler Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) has now become a grandfather and a prosperous grazier, but no less careful with his money. His sons Dave (Fred MacDonald), Joe (William McGowan) and Dan (George Lloyd) do most of the ... [read more]

Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton (c1920)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel item shows a group of boys riding on the back of goats and children riding in billycarts down a street in Rockhampton, Queensland. [read more]

Balinese Holiday (c1933)

This home movie footage was filmed in the early 1930s by Harold Beckwith on his travels throughout Europe and the islands of Bali and Java in the then Dutch East Indies. [read more]

Phoenix – Top Quality Crims (1991)

Phoenix is a procedural drama telling the story of the investigation into the 1986 bombing of the Victorian Police Headquarters, commonly known as the 'Russell Street bombing’. Told from the perspective of the Major Crime Squad who investigated the crime, ... [read more]

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)

On an outback station in 1956, hard-drinking shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of 'gun shearer’, the one with the highest tally. Foley (Jack Thompson) has not been beaten in ten years, but he ... [read more]

Innocence (2000)

Widower and retired musician Andreas (Charles Tingwell) writes to his first love, Claire (Julia Blake), who has long been married, expressing his desire to meet for the first time since their youthful love affair in Europe 50-odd years ago. They ... [read more]

2000 Weeks (1969)

Will Gardener (Mark McManus) is a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife (Eileen Chapman) and two kids to support. His father (Michael Duffield) is dying in hospital and his mistress ... [read more]

The Damnation of Harvey McHugh – From Here to Maternity (1994)

All clerk Harvey McHugh (Aaron Blabey) wants is a permanent job in the public service but his persistent naivety and honesty keep getting him in trouble. Shuffled from department to department, he accidentally stumbles upon fraud and corruption at every ... [read more]

Robbery Under Arms (1985)

The Marston brothers, Dick (Steve Vidler) and Jim (Chris Cummins), are wild young men from the bush during the reign of Queen Victoria, who turn to a life of bushranging at the toss of a coin. Captain Starlight (Sam Neill), ... [read more]

Belsen For Example (1985)

A German film crew interviews survivors, now living in Australia, of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The recollections of the victims and members of the rescue teams are a harrowing testament to man’s inhumanity to man. The survivors hope that such ... [read more]

Modern Love (2006)

City businessman John (Mark Constable) inherits a remote farm from his uncle Tom (Don Barker), a recluse said to have committed suicide. With wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and young son Edward (William Traegar), John travels to the farmhouse for what’s ... [read more]

Sydney-Newcastle Expressway (1968)

A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads (DMR) by Kingcroft Productions which documents the first three-and-a-half years of construction on the Sydney-Newcastle Expressway. It shows the planning, design, construction and completion of ... [read more]

Oz – A Rock ‘n’ Roll Road Movie (1976)

Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) wakes up in the strange land of Oz after a car crash. The 'Good Fairy’ (Robin Ramsey) tells her she should go to the city, to see the last performance of a beautiful glam-rock singer, The Wizard ... [read more]

Blue Heelers – A Woman’s Place (1993)

Fresh from police training, Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) arrives to take up her new post in the country town of Mount Thomas, where the locals call the police 'blue heelers’. As the new kid on the block – and ... [read more]

Australian Movie Magazine No 7201 (1971)

This cinema newsreel features news highlights from 1971 including anti-apartheid demonstrations against South African sporting teams; John Gorton’s tour of Vietnam; William McMahon becoming Prime Minister; a wool fashion parade staged in the New Guinea Highlands; an underwater wedding at ... [read more]

Big Bag’s Japanese Adventure (1998)

The Big Bag Band is invited to perform at a disabled arts festival in Japan. Three of the band are intellectually disabled, four are not. The documentary follows their departure from Australia, preparations in Japan and the concert itself. [read more]

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