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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]
Rogue (2007)
US travel writer Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) arrives in the Northern Territory and joins tour operator Kate (Radha Mitchell) and a group of tourists on a riverboat daytrip through Kakadu National Park. As they watch a saltwater croc being fed ... [read more]
First Contact (1983)
First Contact is an astonishing documentary about the three Australian Leahy brothers (Michael, Dan and James) who went gold prospecting in what they thought was a completely uninhabited part of the remote Western Highlands of New Guinea. They encountered thousands ... [read more]
High Tide (1987)
Lilli (Judy Davis), a backup singer in a travelling rock’n'roll show, is left broke and stranded when her car breaks down in the NSW coastal town of Bega. She checks into a caravan park, unaware that Ally ... [read more]
Peach’s Gold – Finders Keepers (1983)
The discovery of gold in California in 1849 started a huge rush to the goldfields of the United States, including thousands of Australians. Among them was Edward Hammond Hargraves who returned shortly afterwards to his native Australia to try his ... [read more]
A Big Country – Peninsula People (1968)
Peninsula People was the seventh A Big Country program to be broadcast and was filmed in black-and-white. It presents in magazine format the lives of some of the characters that live in the Gulf country, from stockmen to station owners, ... [read more]
So Simple, So Hard … (1997)
The documentary traces the steps taken by four women to find a life partner. The women – an opera singer, a hairdresser, an artist and a Chinese Australian – seek suitable male partners through introduction agencies, a fortune teller and ... [read more]
Small Treasures (1995)
Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) is swimming in the sea she loves, full of joy in expectation of her first baby. Walking by the shore, she reaffirms her fulfilment and happiness. But at home she panics, imagining the worst domestic ... [read more]
Charles Ulm (c1928)
This historical footage documents an air show featuring Charles Ulm and two planes: the Southern Cloud and Canberra Pup. [read more]
Cool Drink and Culture (2006)
A documentary that features young Indigenous women speaking about the effects of unhealthy food upon the children. Cool Drink and Culture is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe ... [read more]
A Town Like Alice (1980)
A young Englishwoman, Jean Paget (Helen Morse), is a prisoner-of-war in Malaya at the time of the Japanese occupation (1941-45). On an enforced trek across the country she meets an Australian soldier, Joe Harmon (Bryan Brown). When the cruel Captain ... [read more]
Beautiful Lies: A Film About Peter Carey (1986)
The title comes from Mark Twain’s description of Australian history which he found so curious and strange that it read ‘like the most beautiful lies’. Peter Carey recounts the relationship between the country he draws inspiration from and his novels. ... [read more]
Japanese Story (2003)
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious young Perth geologist, flies north to Port Hedland to babysit the son of a Japanese industrialist, on a private visit. Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) marvels at the size of the iron ore mines, but ... [read more]
Soldiers Without Uniform (1942)
Charles and Elsa Chauvel’s short wartime documentary made for the Commonwealth Department of Information highlights the work of Australians in munitions factories. It includes a dramatised narrative about one family in which a father and son work in factories while ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – 70,000 Pounds Production Nears Completion (1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman standing on a moving platform, or dolly, ... [read more]
Voss (1987)
Voss revisits the fateful outback expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt, as re-created by Patrick White in his iconic novel. In his first opera, Richard Meale surprised and delighted theatregoers with a sumptuous and neo-Romantic score comprising evocations of the refined life ... [read more]
Road (2000)
A drama that depicts one night in Sydney, where chance occurrences and luck collide, taxi cabs become predatory and all roads lead to the beach. [read more]
Mr Chedworth Steps Out (1939)
George Chedworth (Cecil Kellaway) lives a timid existence, caught between a nagging wife (Rita Pauncefort) and the pressures of a meagre wage. His eldest son, Arthur (Peter Finch), has got into debt with a bookmaker, so Mr Chedworth bails him ... [read more]
Buckley, Anthony: Buckley Family Collection: Tarn Shan Tin Mine, Thailand (c1928)
This silent 16mm home movie footage was shot by Horace Patrick Buckley in the late 1920s, while working in Thailand at the Tarn Shan Tin Mine. It includes footage taken at the mine, various street and village scenes in South-East ... [read more]
Boxing 1908: Johnson vs Burns (1908)
Historical footage of an open-air boxing match held at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, on 26 December 1908. Canadian Tommy Burns and African American Jack Johnson are competing for the World Heavyweight Championship title. Fight promoter Hugh McIntosh referees the match. ... [read more]
