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Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002)
A documentary about the career of Indigenous actor, dancer, and cultural delegate, David Gulpilil, using interview as well as archival footage. [read more]
Play School – Trains Thursday (1969)
Don (Spencer) and Anne (Haddy) make a steam train out of a washing basket, plant pot, two ‘clean’ rubbish-tin lids and part of a garden rake. Passengers Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty get on board. Then Ruth (Cracknell) tells ... [read more]
Convictions (1994)
The documentary is a series of recollections by the Australian soldiers who served in the Korean War (1950-1953). Forty years after the war, the men talk frankly and with immense dignity about their experiences as young Australian soldiers. The interviews ... [read more]
Alexandra’s Project (2003)
After Steve (Gary Sweet) has enjoyed birthday greetings and gifts from his two children, Sam (Jack Christie) and Emma (Samantha Knigge), he cheerfully leaves for work. Clearly anxious, his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) tells the children they’re not going to ... [read more]
Backchat, Episode 215 (1988)
On this week’s Backchat, viewers write in with praise for ABC current affairs programs The World At Six and The World Tonight, programs that copped tough criticism the previous week. There’s also viewers’ response to the BBC’s drama series, ... [read more]
Body Work (1988)
The documentary consists of a series of interviews with professionals working in the bereavement industry: pathologists, coroners, nurses, funeral directors, police, gravediggers and cremation workers. They each describe their job and their emotional response to their work. [read more]
Merrepen (2005)
A documentary about the gathering of the leaves and berries from the Merrepen plant by Indigenous women from the Nauiya community on the Daly River to make dilly bags and baskets. [read more]
Beyond 2000 – Episode 287 (1992)
This magazine-style program examines the research and innovation happening around the world that will change our lives beyond the year 2000. [read more]
Strike Me Lucky (1934)
Broke and behind his rent during the Great Depression, ‘Mo’ McIsaac (Roy Rene) tries to find work to support a young orphan girl he finds dancing for pennies in the street. Miriam ('Baby’ Pamela Bevan) is really the missing daughter ... [read more]
Australia Post – Recruitment (1989)
This is a collection of short videos produced by Australia Post, each entitled 'Australia Post Career Employment’. The collection profiles eight different career opportunities for individuals considering working for Australia Post. [read more]
Balibo (2009)
Darwin, December 1975. Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia), a veteran Australian journalist, is approached by José Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaac), the charismatic Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the government of East Timor. Ramos-Horta tells East that his fledgling republic, which has declared ... [read more]
Street Scenes in Perth, Western Australia (1907)
Leonard Corrick’s candid camera records Perth street scenes in 1907. This footage screened during the performances of the Corrick family entertainers at the Queen’s Hall in Perth in March 1907. [read more]
General Motors Holden – Postgraduate Research Fellowship Plan (c1962)
This ad demonstrates how crucial scientific and technological research is to large multinational companies like GMH. [read more]
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream (2003)
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream follows the top Australian female jockey Bernadette Cooper for a year as she travels around the country competing at country, provincial and metropolitan racetracks. The film interrogates the belief that horseracing is one of ... [read more]
Travelling Library (c1946)
Made by the Children’s Library Movement, this silent colour footage follows the Boys’ and Girls’ Travelling Library from its base centre at Hornsby to school children around the Shire. [read more]
Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign (c1928)
In 1929 the Federal Capital Commission’s Health Department launched a campaign to reduce blowfly and housefly numbers in Canberra. This public relations film produced by the Commission explains its anti-fly campaign. It depicts a series of familiar situations in which ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Export Holden (c1962)
This television advertisement chronicles Holden’s expansion overseas between 1954 and 1962, including the development of the left-hand drive and the importance of the 'Made in Australia’ brand. [read more]
Greetings from Wollongong (1982)
Greetings From Wollongong is a short drama about the lives of four unemployed young adults living in an Australian industrial city. The film follows the characters as they face rejection, boredom, social isolation, family tensions and lack of money. Set ... [read more]
Clifton Pugh (1988)
In this short film Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh is interviewed by Nina O’Leary. He describes painting the Australian bush, his influences and his plan to keep the bushland virginal. The interview is intercut with examples of his work. [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]
