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Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (2001)

This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight 'A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will have to make films she doesn’t believe in and is further upset when Oscar (Damien ... [read more]

Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)

Red Gallagher (Grant Taylor) and his best pals Jim (Chips Rafferty) and Larry (Pat Twohill) are bored Australian soldiers in Egypt in 1916, constantly getting up to mischief in Cairo nightclubs. When German-backed Turkish forces attack British outposts in the ... [read more]

Travelling North (1987)

After retiring, Frank (Leo McKern) and his new companion Frances (Julia Blake) leave Melbourne to begin a new life in Port Douglas, in far north Queensland. He’s an irascible ex-communist civil engineer; she’s a sweet-tempered woman who believes in God ... [read more]

Treaty (1991)

This is an Aboriginal pop song from the 1990s with a powerful political message. [read more]

Wake in Fright (1971)

John Grant (Gary Bond) is the bored teacher at a one-room school in Tiboonda, a tiny railway junction on the far western plains of New South Wales. On his way to Sydney for Christmas, he stops overnight in Bundanyabba, a ... [read more]

Jewboy (2005)

After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]

Compass – Pregnant Pause (2006)

Four women talk about their experiences with unwanted pregnancies in the fifties, an era before abortion was readily available. One of the women already had two children, was looking after her invalid father, and living with a violent and alcoholic ... [read more]

Australian Story – Since Adam Was a Boy (1997)

Adam Sutton is a quintessential cowboy. He’s fearless, fun-loving and gay. He’s a horse wrangler and rodeo rider but the biggest risk he ever took was to reveal the secret of his sexuality to the world. This is Adam’s ... [read more]

Cop Shop – Episode 109 (1978)

The Riverside police investigate a payroll robbery at a mill owned by Ralph Kingston (Roger Newcombe). They quickly set their sights on Kingston’s employee Rod Conway (Stephen Bisley), a mechanic with a criminal record, without realising that a romantic drama ... [read more]

Shame (1987)

Perth lawyer Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness) crashes her motorcycle near a small town in Western Australia. While waiting for repairs Asta stays at the house of garage owner Tim Curtis (Tony Barry). After being subjected to sexual harassment and physical ... [read more]

McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Around Sydney with a Camera (1962)

This silent home movie with intertitles was probably filmed by Roger McKenzie and takes in Sydney’s harbour suburbs from Watsons Bay to Kings Cross including the suburbs of Vaucluse, Rose Bay, Double Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Elizabeth Bay and Kings Cross. [read more]

Patrick (1978)

Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Roget (Robert Helpmann), who treats Patrick ... [read more]

Cadbury’s Crunchie – ‘Exciting Biting’ (1959)

This is a 30-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar . [read more]

Chopper (2000)

In 1991, Mark 'Chopper’ Read (Eric Bana) is in jail watching himself on television. He has become the most famous criminal in Australia, a standover man who claims to have robbed and killed only drug dealers and other criminals. The ... [read more]

General Motors Holden – Holden’s Got More Horses (1966)

This television advertisement for the 1966 'turbo-smooth’ Holden HR is squarely aimed at a male audience. [read more]

Australia Post – Australia Post Inc (1990)

This in-house program, directed at controlling postal managers (CPMs) and postal managers (PMs), discussed what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) meant for individual post offices. [read more]

Smithy (1946)

A young Australian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is shot in the foot while flying over the Western Front in 1917. Charles Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) finishes the war with a Military Cross and a burning desire to do ... [read more]

Message Stick – Koori Court (2005)

The Koori Court in Victoria was set up to reduce high imprisonment rates by combining Aboriginal beliefs with the white legal system. [read more]

Bondi Rescue – Series 2, Episode 7 (2007)

A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when the lifeguards see someone in difficulty in treacherous water who then disappears from view behind the waves. There are 20,000 people at the beach that day and when no-one is reported missing, the ... [read more]

Snake Dreaming (2002)

A short drama written and performed by Indigenous children about the Stolen Generations. [read more]

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