Australian
Screen

an NFSA website

432 titles prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 21 22 next

I Can Jump Puddles (1981)

This is the inspirational boyhood story of the author Alan Marshall, a victim of polio. Born in rural Victoria in the early 1900s, young Alan Marshall contracted the dreadful disease poliomyelitis (polio) which left him crippled. I Can Jump Puddles ... [read more]

We Can Be Heroes – Episode 3 (2005)

Mockumentary series We Can Be Heroes follows five very different nominees for the Australian of the Year award in the lead-up to the event. In this episode, former policeman bravery award recipient and wannabe motivational speaker Phil Olivetti secures his ... [read more]

Raw FM – What You Can (1997)

A series revolving around community youth radio station 99.9 Raw FM and the young people who run it. In this first episode, Raw FM is launched by three unlikely friends: unemployed sound mixer Robert (Mathew Dyktynski), blind writer and musician ... [read more]

Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballets Russes: Petrouchka: Carnaval: Aurora’s Wedding (c1936)

This silent footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo performing scenes from Petrouchka, Carnaval, and Aurora’s Wedding during their 1936–37 tour of Australia. [read more]

Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballets Russes (c1939)

Members from the Ballets Russes relax at the beach house of Ewan Murary-Will. Murray-Will films them dancing, picnicking on the grass, swimming and sunbathing at the beach. [read more]

Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballet Russes (c1936)

This amateur footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, captures two solo dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo dancing on a Sydney beach and a grassy slope. [read more]

Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Food for Thought (c1941)

This black-and-white and colour Kraft Cheddar Cheese advertisement looks at food preparation, food value and how Kraft cheese can make the difference to nutrition. [read more]

You Can’t See ‘Round Corners (1969)

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is young, stylish and tough, an illegal 'SP’ bookmaker in the working class Sydney suburb of Newtown. Sent to train for the war in Vietnam, he goes AWOL and returns to his old haunts, but ... [read more]

Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 51 (2006)

A fast-paced magazine-style program that explains tomorrow, today. This episode shows a device that can be inserted into your brain to prevent depression and a gadget to explain supernatural phenomena, while we see the future of the aeroplane, the car ... [read more]

Return Home (1990)

After his divorce, Noel McKenzie (Dennis Coard) returns to Adelaide, where he grew up, to take stock. He is bored with his high-powered job in insurance, but unsure if he can return to the life that sustains his brother Steve ... [read more]

One Shoe Short (2007)

In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to help him out by reorganising ... [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]

Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000)

In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited. [read more]

Chequerboard – It’s Amazing What You Can Do With a Pound of Mince (1969)

Three Australian families who are living on the basic wage are interviewed about what they earn, how that money is allocated and how they view their lives. [read more]

Dreamtime, Machinetime (1987)

An episodic documentary featuring distinguished Indigenous artists specialising in literary and visual art forms. [read more]

Vegemite Cinema Advertisement: Sister Knows Best (c1948)

A black-and-white cinema advertisement for Kraft Vegemite outlines the benefits it has if added to one’s diet, especially for children and infants. [read more]

Dugong Dugong (1980)

A documentary about the hunting and butchering of the dugong. [read more]

Noise (2007)

Lavinia Smart (Maia Thomas) walks into a carriage full of dead and dying passengers on a suburban train in Melbourne. She survives an encounter with the killer but he steals a framed photograph that has her name on the back. ... [read more]

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Milk Tray Day Today’ (c1955)

This is a compilation of three 30-second black-and-white advertisements from a Cadbury’s Milk Tray campaign dating from the mid-1950s. [read more]

Bushells Tea Advertisement: The World of the Future (c1941)

This colour animated Bushells tea advertisement from 1941 paints a picture of what it will be like in the future and claims that regardless of the fast-paced lives we all live and changes to the world, Bushells tea will always ... [read more]

prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 21 22 next