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Compass – Gallipoli Pilgrimage (2006)
Australians are making their way in increasing numbers to Anzac Cove in Turkey each year to commemorate the ANZAC landing there on April 25th, 1915. This is the story of some of those who were present at the dawn ... [read more]
Compass – Broken Open (2005)
Craig Hamilton was a very successful sports commentator who suffered a nervous breakdown at the peak of his career. He was about to take up a job at the Sydney 2000 Olympics when he fell apart in a very public ... [read more]
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? (2006)
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler retraces the investigation into the deaths of brilliant CSIRO scientist Dr Bogle and his lover, Mrs Margaret Chandler, whose bodies were found beside the Lane Cove River, ... [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]
Just Peanuts (1954)
This documentary filmed in Queensland details the growing, harvesting, distribution and processing of peanuts. It also features peanut-related products, 'ETA’ company vans advertising peanut butter leaving the factory, and children consuming peanut butter in school canteens. [read more]
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Celebrated crime reporter Tom Stewart (Colin Friels) pockets the cash from an armed robbery when the bandits crash their getaway car. Detective Sergeant Ray Birch (Bruno Lawrence) suspects something, but has his hands full with a series of murders. School ... [read more]
Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (1959)
This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is like. When given a sample, they agree that ‘it’s jelly good’. [read more]
Demons at Drivetime (1995)
A documentary overview of the high-rating radio announcers across Australia in 1995. The style is 'a day-in-the-life of’, with poignant reminders that ratings are paramount and that the 'shock jocks’ themselves are not necessarily committed to the rabble-rousing rhetoric they ... [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. ... [read more]
Fig Street Fiasco (1974)
A ‘process video’ that filmmaker Tom Zubrycki made in collaboration with inner-city Sydney residents, this documentary voices the concerns of residents whose houses are tagged for demolition to make way for the proposed North-Western Expressway. [read more]
Compass – Fly on the Wall Messiah (2004)
Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel’s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. It’s a Christmas tradition. They have nine rehearsals only and getting ready for the big night is a nail-biting experience. [read more]
Dead Calm (1989)
Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed in mid-ocean, they rescue a frightened young American, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), ... [read more]
Four Corners – Fixing Cricket (2000)
When Hanse Cronje admitted that he’d taken money to throw matches, the world of cricket was thrown into crisis. Then it was disclosed that players and officials had known for years that matches were being fixed, while the cricketing establishment ... [read more]
Size 10 (1978)
Size 10 portrays how women’s body images have been formed and deformed by advertising and sexism and analyses the separation of women from their bodies and each other. Four women tell their stories of the conditioning they received as teenagers ... [read more]
Tall Timbers (1937)
Jim Thornton (Frank Leighton) saves a young woman, Joan Burbridge (Shirley Ann Richards), in the surf at Palm Beach, Sydney. He then goes to work for her father, Stephen Burbridge (Harvey Adams) as a timber-cutter. Joan’s fiancée, Charles Blake (Campbell ... [read more]
Edens Lost (1988)
In the late 1930s, 17-year-old Angus Weekes (Bruce Hughes), following the death of his last living relative, is invited by Eve St James (Julia Blake) to stay indefinitely with the affluent St James family on their crumbling but still elegant ... [read more]
Les Darcy’s Last Fight: Les Darcy vs George Chip (1916)
Historical footage of Australian boxing champion Les Darcy and American George Chip at the Sydney Stadium on 30 September 1916. Highlights from rounds one, three, five, seven and nine are shown. [read more]
Mother and Son – The Ride (1993)
Maggie’s favourite son Robert (Henri Szeps) arrives with a proposal to take her for a drive. This is so out of character that Arthur (Garry McDonald) is astonished and suspicious. Against his better judgement he allows his mother to leave. ... [read more]
Wildside – Series 1 Episode 1 (1997)
A ram-raid on a clothes store by a group of homeless teenagers results in a high-speed police chase. Two officers end up dead but the teenagers escape. Two of them, Joe Pelluci (Paul Pantano) and Heidi Benson (Rose Byrne), seek ... [read more]
The 7.30 Report – Pneumococcal Vaccine (2003)
This is a good example of an effective 7.30 Report episode. The program begins with a news story from Iraq where seven weeks after the invasion, there are still no signs of the weapons of mass destruction. This is followed ... [read more]
