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Heartbreak High – Series 7 Episode 210 (1998)
School at Hartley Heights High is out for the very last time, but not before there is compromise, a sporting victory, personal growth and even a proposal. This episode continues the story of self-appointed bad guy Drazic (Callan Mulvey), facing ... [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]
Rites of Passage (1994)
The documentary looks at three teenagers and their families. Each teen is experiencing difficulties, and the filmmakers interview both sides as they struggle to resolve their differences [read more]
Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (1992)
This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up a fire brigade and enlists his friends to help. They collect everything they need, by ... [read more]
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Sydney, 1969. Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown), affable family man and gangster, controls most of the city’s booming poker machine trade, when the US mafia decides it wants to take over his patch. Barry’s nephew Darcy (Sam Worthington), just back from ... [read more]
Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (c1943)
In this partly animated cinema advertisement for Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the benefits of a fast, nutritious and easy to prepare breakfast cereal are illustrated through a children’s story about Lady Kangaroo and her large family. [read more]
Carcrash (1995)
Twenty-six people speak to camera about their emotional relationship with their car and their experience of a car accident. The interviews are intercut with stylised close ups of road signs, test dummy crashes and atmospheric photography. The music track gives ... [read more]
Chequerboard – My Brown Skin Baby, They Take ‘im Away (1970)
My Brown Skin Baby, They Take 'im Away introduces Bob Randall, a lay preacher and folksinger living and working in Darwin. This documentary presents a first-hand account of a member of the stolen generations. It shows Randall at his home, ... [read more]
Ned Wethered (1983)
A young girl watches her father developing a photograph of Ned Wethered and recalls the rituals associated with his visits. Ned enters through the back gate, doffs his hat to her mother and plays with the family cat during morning ... [read more]
Journey among Women (1977)
In the earliest years of Australian settlement, Elizabeth Harrington, a high-born and headstrong young woman (Jeune Pritchard) helps a group of convict women to escape constant rape by their jailers. They run off into the bush, where a young Aboriginal ... [read more]
Doggie Day Afternoon (2000)
A light-hearted look at pampered dogs in the suburbs, produced for The LifeStyle Channel. The program features short segments about a hotel that welcomes dogs as guests, a doggie beauty parlour, a dog cemetery, and 'Dogue’ – the fashion house ... [read more]
Faireez – A Chilling Plot (2005)
Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it is Jumpalina, the big-footed baddy in her floating castle, up to her tricks again. Wise ... [read more]
Four Corners – Blue Death (1988)
Wittenoom was home to more than 20,000 people who worked in the mining and processing of blue asbestos from 1944 until the mine closed in 1966. But blue asbestos is a killer and now, years after the mine closed, people ... [read more]
Holidays in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Java (c1932)
This is silent home movie footage of Robert Minter’s travels through the South-East Asian cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton and Java in the early 1930s. [read more]
Harold (1994)
Harold Blair was the first Aboriginal person to sing on national radio. He studied singing in the USA and his tenor voice was heard throughout the world. This biographical documentary about his life honours his achievements in music and ... [read more]
Two Men of Fiji (1959)
This documentary, made by the Shell Film Unit, follows the story of two young Fijian men who leave their native village on one of the Lau group of islands for the city of Suva on Fiji’s main island. For one ... [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]
Black Harvest (1992)
By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black Harvest. This film follows First Contact (1983) and Joe ... [read more]
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985. [read more]
Jack O’Hagan: Vocalist Composer (1931)
In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites five of his compositions, 'Carry On’, 'By the Big Blue Billabong’, 'In Dreamy Araby’, 'After the Dawn’ (1926) and – most famously – 'Along the Road ... [read more]
