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Jimmy Little’s Gentle Journey (2006)
A documentary about singer–songwriter Jimmy Little, an Indigenous musician whose voice reaches out to all people across the generations. [read more]
Australia Post – Onward Speed (1970)
Produced by The Film House for the Australian Post Office, this is an amusing instructional film on maximising the effectiveness of business mail procedures. [read more]
Hey Sista! (2001)
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Canavada (Phaedra Nicolaidis) struggles to find her place in the world after her father, Remo (Michael Futcher), has an accident and forces her to change schools. Her agony is compounded when her hair turns curly when all she ... [read more]
Suzi’s Story (1987)
Suzi, diagnosed with HIV/AIDS soon after her marriage to Vince, is rapidly deteriorating physically. Troy, their son, who contracted the disease in Suzi’s womb, is also undergoing regular treatment. We see the day-to-day ... [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]
Crackerjack (2002)
Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy), a loud-mouthed slob, discovers a talent for lawn bowls when he’s called on to justify his membership of an inner-city bowls club. He’s been using his three memberships for access to the club’s free carpark, but ... [read more]
Evil Angels (1988)
A true story. On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Azaria’s body is never ... [read more]
On Stream (1954)
This industrial documentary made between 1951 and 1954 by the Shell Film Unit Australia retraces the development, construction and opening of the Shell Oil Refinery on the outskirts of Geelong, Victoria. [read more]
Black and White (2002)
Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), a 27-year-old mixed-race Aborigine from Alice Springs, is arrested in December 1958 in Ceduna, on the South Australian border. He is charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, Mary Hattam, whose body was ... [read more]
Men’s Group (2008)
Six men of varying ages and backgrounds meet each week at the home of convenor Paul (Paul Gleeson) to discuss their lives and feelings. After each meeting, the audience is given brief glimpses of the participants as they go about ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Annual Christmas Treat (c1925)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1925 shows Christmas celebrations for children in the Victoria Barracks, Sydney including a live puppet show and Father Christmas handing out presents. [read more]
Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute (1899)
The film shows the people of Darnley Island greeting Queensland’s Home Secretary, the Hon. Justin FG Foxton, and his wife Emily and giving them gifts of fruit from the island. [read more]
Temple on the Hill (1997)
The film looks at a number of people from an Indian community in Northern New South Wales who have chosen to marry outside their own ethnic community, and the effects of that on themselves and their families. [read more]
Electric Stove Cinema Advertisement: Banish Drudgery (c1940)
This cinema advertisement from the 1940s illustrates the benefits of cooking with electricity and the new electric kooka range. [read more]
A Big Country – Perkins Navy (1979)
Bruce Perkins owns a fleet of flat-bottomed barges that help the people of northern Australia to inhabit some of the least accessible areas of the top end. [read more]
Wings to Victory (1984)
A film celebrating the win by 12-metre yacht, Australia II, at Rhode Island USA. The Australian yacht beat the American entry, Victory. It was the first time that America had lost the America’s Cup in 132 years. The documentary ... [read more]
Win Some Lose Some (1996)
The documentary traces the fall and rise of three entrepreneurs. The economic recession of 1990–1991 sent three men – Tony Toumbourou, garment manufacturer, Joe Galani, furniture retailer and Bill Lew, restauranteur – and their families into financial ruin. Through observational ... [read more]
Carnival of Flowers, Toowoomba (1953)
Every spring, in the heart of Queensland’s Darling Downs, Toowoomba celebrates the Carnival of Flowers, complete with floral street parade, garden competitions and the crowning of the floral queen. Capturing the colour of spring and its associated activities, the Carnival ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Hush (2007)
Ethel’s daughter (Lisa Flanagan) is getting ready to go to bed when she discovers that her mum has forgotten her medication. When there’s no answer to her knocks at the front door, she discovers Ethel (Auriel Andrews) and her friend ... [read more]
Where Angels Fear To Tread (1997)
Northern Territory medical practitioner Dr Philip Nitschke assisted terminally ill patients to die after the Northern Territory passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Seventy five percent of Australians support euthanasia but the federal parliament, through the Andrews Bill, ... [read more]
