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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Li Cunxin (Wen Bin Huang), the son of Chinese peasants, is picked at a young age for training in a provincial ballet school in 1972 during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. While later training in an elite institution in Beijing, the ... [read more]
Skyway Express (c1948)
This travelogue was one of a series produced for Qantas in the late 1940s under the generic title of Universal Skylogues. Each film in the series uses the notion of flying into an 'exotic’ location, usually giving the audience a ... [read more]
Historic Beechworth (1971)
This home movie filmed by Alan Bresnahan shows scenery of the town and surrounding countryside at Beechworth. The main street is shown, featuring the Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel. This is followed by shots of the Post Office and people panning for ... [read more]
Landline - Ethanol Special 2006 (2006)
Landline has put together a special bulletin about ethanol which presents both a history and a current snapshot of Australia’s position in relation to its use here. The program also presents a picture from around the world with regard to ... [read more]
Road to Kokoda (1942)
This Movietone News special edition features Australian troops fighting on the Kokoda track in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. It uses footage taken by cinematographer Damien Parer for the Commonwealth Department of ... [read more]
Rinso Laundry Powder : Hilda and Hugh Jones (c1940)
This is a cinema advertisement promoting Rinso laundry powder. It takes the form of a short domestic drama in which Mrs Hilda Jones overcomes the drudgery of housework with the discovery of Rinso. Her husband Hugh is very relieved that ... [read more]
Alvin Purple (1973)
Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces him. At 21, he vows to avoid sex but it keeps walking ... [read more]
Message Stick – Kurtal: Snake Spirit (2002)
Spider, an 80-year-old Indigenous elder and Wangkatjungka man, returns to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia to perform a cleansing ceremony at a sacred jila, a water supply that never dries up. [read more]
My Mother Told Me (2007)
A woman pieces together fragments of her own and her mother’s past, from stories her mother tells her. The stories are about her mother’s life in a Cambodian village before the onset of war, her own birth as a refugee ... [read more]
Careful He Might Hear You (1983)
Since the death of his mother in childbirth, six-year-old PS (Nicholas Gledhill) has been raised by his aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford), in a modest suburban house near Sydney Harbour. The boy has never known ... [read more]
Singles Club (2007)
Phoenix Lifestyle, founded in 1982, has 1,000 members in Melbourne. Singles Club follows the lives of five members as they seek partners. The camera follows the people as they attend club functions and date. They speak directly to camera about ... [read more]
Provincial Cities of Australia: Ballarat, Victoria (c1932)
This is a travelogue filmed by Arthur Higgins for Frank W Thring’s Efftee Film Productions. It surveys the Victorian town of Ballarat from the days of the gold rush up to the 1930s, and features voice-over narration by Thring and ... [read more]
Riot or Revolution (2005)
A partly dramatised documentary about the Eureka Stockade in colonial Victoria. The civil revolt was triggered by the government’s imposition of a gold licence for gold miners. The documentary consists of photographs and drawings of the event, some dramatic recreations, ... [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]
Peach’s Gold – Eureka (1983)
From Clunes to Warrandyte, from Buninyong to Ballarat, men came from all over the country and from every corner of the globe to try their luck as diggers on the fabulous goldfields of 19th century Victoria. Their sense of outrage ... [read more]
Mad Bastards (2011)
After visiting his brother in prison, TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) returns to the Kimberley region of Western Australia to try and reconnect with his teenage son, Bullet (Lucas Yeeda), who has been in trouble with the law. Local policeman Texas (Greg ... [read more]
Bushnell, K: Cyclone Tracy Aftermath (1974)
This unedited raw footage was shot by freelance cameraman Keith Bushnell in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas Day 1974. It captures the devastation and destruction of the city and the temporary shelter and food ... [read more]
Winners – Top Kid (1985)
It’s 1947 and times are tough for ten-year-old Gary Doyle (Emil Minty), the third child of a large, poor Catholic family. Bright, and with a photographic memory, Gary is constantly picked on and beaten up by the boys at school. ... [read more]
Cyclone Tracy (1986)
It is Christmas Eve, 1974, in the northern Australian city of Darwin. There are warnings of a tropical cyclone approaching, but then there are warnings every summer so this one goes largely ignored. A disparate group of characters prepare for ... [read more]
Radiance (1998)
Three sisters reunite for the funeral of their mother after having not seen each other for an extended period of time. [read more]
