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Bapaume to Bullecourt (1917)
In March 1917, Australian troops occupy Bapaume in northern France, after German troops have withdrawn to stronger defences along the Hindenburg Line. Troops advance across a desolate No-Man’s-Land, past lines of barbed wire. Near the road from Albert to Bapaume, ... [read more]
Going Down (1983)
Karli (Tracy Mann) is going to New York to escape her out-of-control life in Sydney. On her last night, three girlfriends take her out on the town. Jackie (Julie Barry) buys some speed at a nightclub as a going away ... [read more]
Pearls and Savages (1921)
A silent, black-and-white film, Pearls and Savages records two trips by adventurer, photographer and filmmaker Frank Hurley to the Torres Straits Islands and Papua New Guinea between 1921 and 1923. The first trip was under the auspices of the Anglican ... [read more]
Breathing Under Water (1991)
A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with ... [read more]
Bridewealth for a Goddess (1999)
Bridewealth for a Goddess follows the preparation and performance of a sacred ritual by the Kawelka people, who live on their tribal land near Mount Hagen in the Wahgi Valley in Papua New Guinea. Ru Kundil, a ‘Big Man’, is ... [read more]
With the Dardanelles Expedition (c1915)
During July, August and September of 1915, English war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett shot scenes of the allied troops on Gallipoli. The first section, entitled ‘Scenes of Anzac’, shows Watson’s Pier at Anzac Cove, including MacLaurin’s Hill and Bridges Road, leading ... [read more]
The Piano (1993)
In the mid-19th Century, a sailing ship deposits a young Scottish woman on a beach in New Zealand, with her daughter, her trunks and a crated piano. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) has not spoken since she was six, but her ... [read more]
The Overlanders (1946)
With Australia’s north under threat of Japanese invasion in 1942, the government orders the withdrawal of all people and resources – a ‘scorched earth policy’. Delivering his mob of 1,000 prime beef cattle to the meatworks at Wyndham in Western ... [read more]
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – Alexander McLeod Lindsey (1977)
In 1964 Alexander McLeod Lindsey was sentenced to 18 years in jail for the brutal bashing of his wife Pamela, who recovered but was severely brain damaged as a result. A judicial enquiry five years later upheld the original jury ... [read more]
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than two years after the landings at Gallipoli. In Egypt and Palestine, the young soldiers of ... [read more]
Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)
On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific geniuses. The battlelines are drawn when Elizabeth interferes with Toby’s first ‘scientific ... [read more]
Dog Dreaming (2001)
A documentary that uses observational footage and paintings to tell the Dreaming story of two ancestral dogs. [read more]
My Country (1994)
The documentary examines the working relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous occupants of a cattle station in the Northern Territory. Most of the filming takes place during a cattle muster as helicopters are used to round up thousands of head of ... [read more]
Hoyts and Studebaker Cinema Advertisement: Touring Talkie Show (c1929)
This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company. [read more]
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – The Case of Ronald Ryan (1977)
Ronald Ryan, a convicted armed robber, was the last man to be hanged in Australia. The year was 1967. It was alleged he’d shot a warder as he and another prisoner, Peter Walker, made their escape from Pentridge Gaol in ... [read more]
The Summer of 77 (2001)
The Summer of 77 utilises a combination of live action and animated effects. It begins in the present when 36-year-old Cathy (Mary-Ann Henshaw) reluctantly goes to a party following a failed relationship. There she meets a man (Nicholas Hope) whom ... [read more]
Living Country (2005)
A documentary about the Indigenous peoples of the Northern Territory’s fight to prevent the federal government from dumping nuclear waste in their country. Living Country is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association ... [read more]
The Arrival of Miss Amy Johnson in Brisbane (1930)
In this silent newsreel footage, British aviator Amy Johnson arrives in Brisbane on the final leg of her solo flight between England and Australia in 1930. [read more]
After Mabo (1997)
After Mabo gives an overview to the native title legislation, focusing on the amendments made to the Native Title Act 1993 by the Howard Government as part of its 10-point plan. [read more]
Ask the Leyland Brothers – Episode 23 (1976)
In Ask the Leyland Brothers, adventurers Mike and Mal Leyland travel to different parts of Australia to make short documentary segments. Every story is a response to letters from viewers asking the Leyland Brothers to cover a person, place or ... [read more]
