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A Breath (1998)
Artists Huang Miaozi and Yu Feng migrated to Australia in 1989. The Chinese octogenarian couple reflect upon their life in the 20th Century. They were artists in China during Japanese invasion, the Great Depression and several revolutions. Their survival and ... [read more]
Prime Minister Rt Hon. WM Hughes visits Western Front (1918)
On 2 July 1918, in the final stages of the First World War, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr WM (Billy) Hughes and his deputy, Sir Joseph Cook, visited various Australian headquarters in France. They are seen arriving on the steps ... [read more]
Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [read more]
If Only – Series 1 Episode 3 (2003)
A series of 'if only’ stories from a range of lives: a young single mother who found and then lost her birth mother, a woman who recalls the years of misery she suffered at the hands of the school bully ... [read more]
40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (1996)
George Miller presents a personal view of the historical and cultural influences that have shaped the development of Australian cinema since its beginning in 1896. [read more]
Menzies 1948 Journey, Reel 1 (1948)
This home movie is the first reel of a four-part travelogue, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, on a journey from Australia to England by the Menzies family in 1948. It begins with the ship’s departure at a ... [read more]
Black Soldier Blues (2004)
Black Soldier Blues looks back on the period during the Second World War when American servicemen were stationed in Queensland. African American veterans talk with candour about the friendliness of Australians compared with their treatment by white American servicemen which ... [read more]
Divine Service – Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church, Rose Bay (1965)
This program features a Roman Catholic religious service recorded in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, celebrated by the Reverend Father Neil Collins with preacher Reverend Father Julian Miller from St Patrick’s College, Manly. The service ... [read more]
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Celebrated crime reporter Tom Stewart (Colin Friels) pockets the cash from an armed robbery when the bandits crash their getaway car. Detective Sergeant Ray Birch (Bruno Lawrence) suspects something, but has his hands full with a series of murders. School ... [read more]
Snapshots around ‘Madras’ (c1926)
This silent home movie footage filmed by Gordon Gidney captures family members in their back garden at their home ‘Madras’ in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Eliza. They are filmed waving, smiling and talking to the camera in a series ... [read more]
Whispering in Our Hearts (2001)
A documentary depicting the 1918 massacre of Aboriginal people at Mowla Bluff, Western Australia. The story of the massacre is told in interviews with surviving Nyikina, Mangala and Karajarri peoples, as well as through dramatised reenactments of the testimonials of ... [read more]
Hayride to Hell (1995)
When George Heygate (Richard Roxburgh) stops his car for a mysterious woman in distress (Kylie Minogue) he soon finds himself on a hayride to hell. [read more]
Certain Women – Episode 166 (1976)
Certain Women follows the lives of the Lucas and Stone families and their various relations by blood and marriage. In this episode, Helen Stone (Jenny Lee) has arrived home from England, heavily pregnant and without her husband, Michael Fraser (Ivor ... [read more]
Northern Safari (1956)
The film records a six-month journey by car, in 1955, from Perth to the Northern Territory and back, via Western Australia. Keith F Adams, his wife Audrey and sister Margaret together with Tiger, their fox terrier, made the trip in ... [read more]
Beautiful Middle Harbour (1927)
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate promotes the new Sydney suburb. It features panoramic shots of Middle Harbour, Sydney including footage of the surrounding bushland and foreshores, a newly built stone house, a rooftop party, people walking through ... [read more]
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]
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]
