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A Hero’s Reward 1950
An amateur family film that uses a Charlie Chaplin type character to create a comic story of robbery, rescue and love. Basher Bill (Michael Bidencope), newly escaped from jail and in desperate need of money, ...
Hewers of Coal 1957
This documentary about Australian coal miners presents a dramatised history of mining since the early 1900s. It features scenes of the mechanisation and modernisation of the industry in the 1950s as well as the friction ...
Hey Sista! 2001
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Canavada (Phaedra Nicolaidis) struggles to find her place in the world after her father, Remo (Michael Futcher), has an accident and forces her to change schools. Her agony is compounded when her hair ...
Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924 c1909
This home movie footage, filmed mostly by Ernest Higgins, includes scenes of a family picnic at Mt Wellington, Christmas celebrations, children’s birthday parties, picnics, holidays and other family gatherings between 1909 and 1924.
High on a Cool Wave 1968
As Australia moves into cooler temperatures in March 1966, the waves pick up along the east coast. A huge swell hits Fairy Bower near Manly, providing dramatic scenes as surfers and a lone surfboat brave ...
High Tide 1987
Lilli (Judy Davis), a backup singer in a travelling rock’n'roll show, is left broke and stranded when her car breaks down in the NSW coastal town of Bega. She checks into a caravan park, unaware ...
Hinkler’s Message to Australia; Incidents of My Flight 1928
Bert Hinkler was the first Australian aviator to be celebrated by the issue of a gramophone recording. On this recording, he recalls his experience making the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928, ...
His Royal Highness 1932
Tommy Dodds, an unemployed country boy in the city (George Wallace), gets a job as a stagehand in a Melbourne theatre. A rival hits him on the head and Tommy dreams he’s the long-lost heir ...
Historic Beechworth 1971
This home movie filmed by Alan Bresnahan shows scenery of the town and surrounding countryside at Beechworth. The main street is shown, featuring the Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel. This is followed by shots of the Post ...
Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Tropical Australia c1954
This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving an FJ Holden sedan take a tour of tropical north Australia, including a boat trip on the Coral Sea.
Holidays in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Java c1932
This is silent home movie footage of Robert Minter’s travels through the South-East Asian cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton and Java in the early 1930s.
Holmes, Mr WGA: Locals Cool Off at the Weir, Theodore c1940
This home movie filmed by WGA Holmes contains 17 segments filmed between 1940 and 1953 mostly in and around Theodore, Queensland. It includes footage of people bathing at the Theodore weir; mechanical and manual cotton ...
Holy Smoke 1999
While visiting India, young Australian woman Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) falls under the spell of a guru. Ruth’s alarmed mother, Miriam (Julie Hamilton), travels to Delhi and lures Ruth home with a lie that her ...
Homelands: View from the Edge 1993
This documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki follows the Robles family – Carlos, Maria and their four daughters – who came to Melbourne as refugees from El Salvador in the mid 1980s. Now that the fighting ...
Homes for Crippled Children c1940
Produced by Reverend RW Dobbinson, this silent film surveys convalescent homes and caring facilities for children with polio and other crippling diseases. It shows a number of homes and facilities across the country including the ...
Homicide – The Decimal Point 1965
What starts out looking like a straightforward crime committed in self-defence becomes a complicated double murder investigation and prompts homicide detectives to reopen an old file. One of the murder victims, a prison escapee, was ...
Homicide – The Friendly Fellow 1973
When safebreakers botch a robbery and a security guard gets killed, the Homicide squad calls in an 'old friend’ for questioning – former safebreaker Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen). Buddy is going straight these days but ...
Homicide – The Superintendent 1970
A young girl, Alice (Jessica Ball), is heartbroken when homicide detectives take away ‘Jennifer’, her new favorite toy. Jennifer is a human skull with a bullet rattling around inside. Senior Detective Patterson (Norman Yemm) needs ...
Honest Toil March 1924
This is the earliest disc recording of an Australian brass band. It was made in 1924 by the prize-winning Newcastle Steelworks Band, who were drawn from the ranks of the BHP steelworks.
Honeybee Blues 2009
Australian bee pathologist Dr Denis Anderson is on a quest to save the honeybee from the devastating Varroa destructor mite. Honeybee Blues follows Anderson across Australia, Papua New Guinea and the USA revealing just how ...
How the West was Lost 1987
On May 1 1946 hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral station workers walked off sheep stations in the Pilbara region of north-west Western Australia. This was the beginning of an organised strike that officially lasted for three ...
Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise 2005
The 18th century discovery of Polynesia by both the British and French started a fantasy about island paradises and beautiful unrestrained women. This film traces the creation of the Western image from French explorer Bougainville’s ...
The Hungry Miles 1955
The Hungry Miles is a documentary made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit. It documents industrial relations on the waterfront since the 1930s and includes dramatised scenes of working conditions during the Depression. It ...
I Am Woman 1972
Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’, released in 1972, made her one of the most successful Australian singers worldwide. The song became the unofficial anthem of the women’s liberation movement and endures to this day.
Il Contratto 1953
Financed by loans from a travel agency, four young single Italian men (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) arrive by ship in Melbourne, attracted by an Australian government scheme that promises them two ...
In a Savage Land 1999
Soon after getting married, and just after the outbreak of the Second World War, Dr Phillip Spence (Martin Donovan) and his former student Evelyn (Maya Stange) set out for Papua New Guinea to study the ...
Inauguration of the Commonwealth 1901
This documentary shows the official parade and the swearing in of Australia’s first Governor General and Federal Cabinet for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on the January 1, 1901.
Incident at Raven’s Gate 1988
Country police officer Taylor (Max Cullen) is investigating the theft of a football trophy. His search leads to Raven’s Gate, an isolated property that has witnessed a destructive cosmic happening. He is met there by ...
Incidents in Connection with the Funeral of Captain Baron von Richthofen 1918
After the death of Captain Manfred von Richthofen on 21 April 1918, the wreckage of his plane was brought to the headquarters of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, at Poulainville, near Amiens in France. ...
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant 2004
When a starving young woman, Mary Broad (Romola Garai), is caught stealing a bonnet and some bread, she is sentenced to transportation with the First Fleet to Botany Bay. On her voyage, she meets two ...
The Inlanders 1949
A documentary by John Kingsford Smith made for the Australian Inland Mission. The Inlanders follows patrolling minister Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge on his 8,690 kilometre journey into Australia’s remote communities to tend to the physical, ...
Innocence 2000
Widower and retired musician Andreas (Charles Tingwell) writes to his first love, Claire (Julia Blake), who has long been married, expressing his desire to meet for the first time since their youthful love affair in ...
Interview with Archbishop Mannix 1962
Dr Daniel Mannix was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1913 until his death in 1963. He was a man of considerable influence in Australian public life, not only in the religious field but ...
In the Mind of the Architect – Episode One: Keeping the Faith 2000
Keeping the Faith is the first in a series of three programs showcasing contemporary Australian architecture. In this program, some of Australia’s best-known and finest architects talk about their work and how their initial vision ...
In the Wild with Harry Butler – Lake Argyle 1976
Harry Butler is a native of Western Australia. He has returned there to explain how this massive man-made body of water, now called Lake Argyle, has changed the Ord River and the ecology of the ...
In the Wild with Harry Butler – Scars on the Landscape 1976
Naturalist Harry Butler is in northern Queensland, where millennia of fire stick farming by Indigenous Australians has created the grasslands of that region.
In the Winter Dark 1998
In an isolated Australian valley, something or someone is killing native animals and livestock in the night. Maurice Stubbs (Ray Barrett), an aging farmer, finds a dead kangaroo with its throat torn out. He believes ...
Into the Shadows 2009
This independent documentary examines problems facing the Australian film industry in the fast-changing conditions of the early 21st century. At the point the film was made, independent cinemas were closing and Australian films routinely falling ...
Into the Straight 1949
Prominent Australian horse breeder WJ Curzon (George Randall) hires British trainer Hugh Duncan (James Workman) and his son Paul (Alan White). Soon after arriving at Curzon’s stud farm, St Aubins, Paul makes romantic moves on ...
The Isabellas: The Long March 1995
Chen Xing Liang attained refugee status after six months in detention. He arrived in northern Australia by boat along with 56 other Chinese. He retells the story of his journey and first year in Australia. ...
I Should Be So Lucky 1987
I Should Be So Lucky was the second single from Kylie’s debut album, Kylie (1988). Penned by English pop writing-producing phenomenon Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman (also known as SAW), the song is ...
Island Fettlers 2006
A documentary that uses historical footage, with current interview and observational footage, about the journey of Torres Strait Islander men who moved to the Pilbara to work on the railways and after the job finished ...
Isle of Many Waters 1939
Made for the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau, this travelogue filmed and narrated by Frank Hurley promotes Tasmania as an idyllic holiday destination.
It Isn’t Done 1937
An English solicitor, Mr Potter (Leslie Victor), arrives at the Blaydon farm at Stony Creek, near Sydney. He tells Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) that he’s the long-lost heir to an English estate. Now known as ...
I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan 2004
This is a comprehensive and enlightening documentary about comedian, writer and performer Spike Milligan, as seen through the eyes of his immediate family, his close friends and his show business colleagues. Along with testimony from ...
It’s Academic – Episode 40 1971
A quiz show hosted by Andrew Harwood in which three school teams test their general knowledge and win prizes for themselves and their school. In rounds one and two, each team must answer ten questions ...
Jack and Jill: A Postscript 1970
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) lives in a condemned house with his mother (Jean Higgs) and lodger Stan (Stanley Randall) in the Melbourne working-class suburb of Maribyrnong. Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech), a middle-class kindergarten teacher, lives ...
Jack Luscombe 1953
In the 1950s, folk enthusiast John Meredith travelled around New South Wales recording songs for posterity. Jack Luscombe, 81 at the time, was the first singer Meredith recorded, providing a fascinating glimpse back in time. ...
Jack O’Hagan: Vocalist Composer 1931
In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites five of his compositions, 'Carry On’, 'By the Big Blue Billabong’, 'In Dreamy Araby’, 'After the Dawn’ (1926) and – most ...
The Jammed 2007
Ashley Hudson (Veronica Sywak) works in an insurance company in Melbourne. By chance, she meets Sunee (Amanda Ma), a Chinese woman who believes her daughter may have been sold into prostitution. Ashley doesn’t want to ...
