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McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)

After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]

Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour (2002)

Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical crew as they set up and perform the Italian opera by Giacomo ... [read more]

Dead-end Drive-in (1986)

In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action movies to watch and junk ... [read more]

Birth of a Car (c1948)

In 1948, the year that the first Holden was released, Roland Litchfield produced Made to Order for General Motors Holden. This documentary on the first model Holden was shortened later that year and released as Birth of a Car. Birth ... [read more]

Ballarat Beauty Competition (1911)

This silent newsreel shows the first 15 contestants in a local children’s beauty competition held in the Victorian town of Ballarat in 1911. [read more]

Number 96 – Episode 35 (1972)

The snobbish Claire (Thelma Scott) drops in on her daughter Bev (Abigail) at her flat in Number 96. Dorrie (Pat McDonald) is thrilled by the visit but Bev is not. Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) finds out why her lover (Joe James) ... [read more]

Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)

This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains intertitles. [read more]

That’s Cricket (c1931)

This featurette was directed by Ken G Hall for Australasian Films and made with the cooperation of seven members of the successful Australian XI cricket team, including Sir Donald Bradman, who toured England in 1930. It promotes cricket and its ... [read more]

DAAS Kapital – Faith (1992)

Giant global conglomerate Shitsu Tonka Corporation has taken over the earth. The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are stranded aboard Titanic 2, a giant submarine carrying the world’s great art treasures and historic artefacts. ... [read more]

Monday Conference – PNG (1971)

Robert Moore is the moderator and Donald Hogg and Richard Beckett are the interviewers of the impressive New Guinea politician John Guise, later to be knighted Sir John Guise. They’re asking him about his country’s timetable to independence and the ... [read more]

An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)

A bickering red-headed family on a weekend road trip reach a standoff by the side of a country road. [read more]

Addison Road Drop-In (1977)

A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Many of them are on welfare benefits and the Drop-In Centre offers a safe space ... [read more]

Adventure Island – Episode 1174 (1972)

This is the second-last episode of Adventure Island and the last to be broadcast on a Thursday. It includes a farewell to Thursday regular Maxie Mouse (a puppet operated and voiced by Ernie Bourne), who reads Dorothea Mackellar’s iconic poem ... [read more]

Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life (2005)

Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life tells the story of Jabe Babe, a dominatrix with the genetic condition Marfan syndrome. The film examines Jabe’s removal from her schizophrenic mother as a child and her experiences in the foster care system. This ... [read more]

Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts I - IV (c1927)

This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family between 1927 and 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles. [read more]

It’s Ruth: Ruth Cracknell, Actor (1994)

It’s Ruth provides a glimpse into the professional life of one of Australia’s most well-recognised and loved actresses, Ruth Cracknell (1926-2002). The documentary features generous excerpts from Cracknell’s theatre performances (including Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, 1991, and Oscar Wilde’s The ... [read more]

Black and Dusty (2005)

A documentary about the Indigenous participants of the 2005 Tattersalls Finke Desert Race. [read more]

Browne, George: Blue Mountains (c1930)

This compile of silent home movie footage was taken by George Browne in 1930 and records the scenery of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. [read more]

Looking For Alibrandi (1999)

Josephine Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is cursed, like all the women in her Italo-Australian family. She’s in her final year at a posh Sydney school for Catholic girls, but her temper keeps getting her into trouble. Her grandmother Katia (Elena Cotta) ... [read more]

St Kilda Esplanade 1914 (1914)

This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda in 1914, including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. [read more]

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