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Lucinda Brayford (1980)

Lucinda Brayford (Wendy Hughes) is a lively and elegant but naive 18-year-old woman. Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who ... [read more]

Whitlam – Visit to Bendigo and Eaglehawk (1973)

In Bendigo, assisting with the Labor Party’s campaign for the May 1973 Victorian state elections, Gough Whitlam opens the 2nd Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival and addresses a crowd in the Bendigo Trades Hall. [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]

Queen of Hearts (2003)

A short feature film about the relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother, following the journey of the granddaughter and how she deals with her grandmother’s impending death from cancer. [read more]

My Brilliant Career (1979)

During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an extended visit to her aristocratic grandmother (Aileen Britton), she meets Harry Beecham ... [read more]

Dimpel, Konrad: On the Voyage to Germany (c1966)

In 1966, Konrad Dimpel and his young family left Fremantle port for Germany on the passenger ship Achille Lauro. Dimpel filmed this silent home movie of the voyage from Australia to Germany, along the way capturing the on board activities ... [read more]

It Isn’t Done (1937)

An English solicitor, Mr Potter (Leslie Victor), arrives at the Blaydon farm at Stony Creek, near Sydney. He tells Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) that he’s the long-lost heir to an English estate. Now known as Lord Blaydon, Hubert sails for ... [read more]

The Big Gig – Series 1 Episode 1 (1989)

A live comedy-variety show featuring stand-up comedians, sketch comedy and music. [read more]

Breakout (1984)

Breakout covers the mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war from Cowra on 5 August 1944. It is one of the biggest POW escapes in world history. Two hundred and thirty four Japanese prisoners and four Australians ... [read more]

Message Stick – Child Artists of Carrolup (2003)

During the 1950s children from Carrolup mission in Western Australia, south of Perth, became artists under the instruction of Mr White, but after leaving the mission many of them never painted again. [read more]

Interview with Archbishop Mannix (1962)

Dr Daniel Mannix was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1913 until his death in 1963. He was a man of considerable influence in Australian public life, not only in the religious field but also in social and political ... [read more]

Elapsed Time Test Studies: Australian Wildflowers, Tahiti, Travel Scenes (c1955)

In a greenhouse full of flowering plants, amateur filmmaker FE Winton uses early methods of time lapse photography to capture the slow bloom of brightly coloured flora. [read more]

Funny by George: The George Wallace Story (1999)

A biography of comedian and actor George Wallace (1895-1960). The documentary traces Wallace’s life from childhood to death. The film shows Wallace starring in many of his films, along with interviews and other archival moving image and stills. [read more]

The Life and Times of Malcolm Fraser (2004)

In this documentary Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, looks back on his life and discusses the principles that drive him. Elected after the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government in November 1975, he was frequently ... [read more]

Beneath Clouds (2002)

A visually poetic feature film about two youths who in trying to find themselves, momentarily find each other on the road to Sydney. [read more]

Expedition South (1961)

The Thala Dan brings relief supplies and 33 new men to Mawson, Australia’s largest Antarctic station, in early 1960. They will relieve the winter party, who have spent a year on the ice. In fine weather, teams erect new huts ... [read more]

ALP: It’s Time (1972)

This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election. [read more]

Bit of Black Business – Nana (2007)

A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control. [read more]

Seven Deadly Sins - Envy (1992)

This one-hour drama is the sad and sordid story of two people eaten up with envy for what they can’t possess. The program is book-ended with iconic shots of the life and times of President Kennedy and his wife Jackie, ... [read more]

La Spagnola (2001)

Australia in 1960. Teenage Lucia’s life is shattered when her father Ricardo (Simon Palomares) walks out on the family to shack up with a buxom blonde Australian woman. He leaves behind a desolate house in the shadow of a big ... [read more]

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