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The Western Distributor (1973)
A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads by Kingcroft Productions which documents the construction of the first stage of the Western Distributor, providing a route from the Sydney Harbour Bridge through to Ultimo ... [read more]
The Money or the Gun – Heroin (1989)
In this episode of his variety-chat show, host Andrew Denton explores the subject of heroin and heroin addiction. [read more]
Last Plane Out of Berlin (1999)
The documentary is a complete life biography of Australian Sidney Cotton (1894-1969). Cotton was an aviator who spied for the British prior to the Second World War. During the war, he ran a photographic unit spying on the Germans. The ... [read more]
Choir of Hard Knocks – Episode 3 (2007)
Inspired by an article about a homeless men’s choir in Montreal, choirmaster and former opera singer Jonathan Welch forms a similar choir in Melbourne in association with local charity Reclink. Auditions are not required – anyone who is homeless, struggling ... [read more]
Catalyst – Planet of the Rings (2005)
A ride to the outer reaches of the solar system with Dr Richard Smith. This program is about one of the greatest exploration feats of all time – the Cassini mission to the planet Saturn, followed by the release of ... [read more]
Into the Shadows (2009)
This independent documentary examines problems facing the Australian film industry in the fast-changing conditions of the early 21st century. At the point the film was made, independent cinemas were closing and Australian films routinely falling over at the local box ... [read more]
The Pearl Fishers (1963)
A televised performance of The Pearl Fishers, an opera by Bizet with an improbable storyline but incomparable music. Zurga, chief of the pearl fishermen, and his great friend Nadir once vied for the hand of the beautiful priestess Leila. They ... [read more]
Isle of Many Waters (1939)
Made for the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau, this travelogue filmed and narrated by Frank Hurley promotes Tasmania as an idyllic holiday destination. [read more]
The New Gladesville Bridge (1967)
A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads (DMR) by Kingcroft Productions documenting the construction of the 1000 foot (305 metre) New Gladesville Bridge, a pre-stressed concrete bridge that connects Gladesville with Drummoyne ... [read more]
Sanitation and the City (c1957)
A documentary produced for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works which provides an overview of Melbourne’s development and expansion since the 1880s, the history of the city’s sewerage system and the work of the read more]
Take the Tempo from the Teeth (1948)
Made for the Milk Board of NSW, Take the Tempo from the Teeth is a short dramatised film promoting the consumption of milk as a health product. It presents one woman in conversation with another, talking about how her ... [read more]
The Waiting City (2009)
An Australian couple, lawyer Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and musician Ben (Joel Edgerton), arrive in the heady atmosphere of Kolkata to finalise the adoption of an Indian baby. In this overcrowded city, the culture clash, a frustratingly inefficient adoption bureaucracy and ... [read more]
The Constant Threat (1946)
This short community service announcement raises awareness about tuberculosis and encourages people to have a free chest x-ray provided by the NSW Department of Public Health. A man on his way home from work approaches an x-ray caravan stationed ... [read more]
Stateline – The Transcontinental Dream (2004)
Reporter Mark Bowling travels with the Ghan on its inaugural train journey from Adelaide to Darwin, arriving in its new destination at the Northern Territory on 3 February 2004. [read more]
The Mighty Conqueror (1931)
This short documentary made by the McDonagh sisters (Paulette, Isobel and Phyllis) shows Phar Lap on and off the track. It includes footage of the gelding in his stables, at play with strapper and trainer Tommy Woodcock, and competing for ... [read more]
Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)
A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States between 2000 and 2004. It addresses the disempowerment ... [read more]
Son of a Lion (2007)
In a town in Pakistan’s mountainous North-West Frontier Province, an 11-year-old Pashtun boy, Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), makes illegal copies of guns in his father’s arms manufacturing workshop. His widower father, Sher (Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad), also gives him ... [read more]
Snippy is an Artful Dodger (c1925)
This short film, with animation by David Barker, features a young boy (Snooks) and a cartoon character named Snippy. Snooks is asleep in his garden, dreaming, when Snippy appears. Snooks chases him around the garden, but Snippy eludes capture. [read more]
The Broken Melody (1938)
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) ruins his good prospects after a drunken brawl in a Sydney nightclub. Expelled from his musical studies at the university and thrown off his father’s property, he falls on hard times in a city in the ... [read more]
The Flying Doctor (1941)
Far from medical facilities on an outback station, a station worker is struck down with an attack of acute appendicitis. In a re-enactment of an actual event, the coordinated efforts of the Flying Doctor, the Australian Aerial Medical Service (read more]
