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Man of Flowers 1983
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead ...
Passionless Moments 1983
Passionless Moments is a lighthearted series of vignettes sharing people’s fleeting thoughts. Jane Campion combines a serious documentary style with a whimsical look at the small moments people experience everyday.
Peach’s Gold – Eureka 1983
From Clunes to Warrandyte, from Buninyong to Ballarat, men came from all over the country and from every corner of the globe to try their luck as diggers on the fabulous goldfields of 19th century ...
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 ...
Peach’s Gold – Land of Gold 1983
From the middle to the end of the 19th century, gold strikes occurred in the most inhospitable regions of the continent, from Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains to the Palmer River at Cape York. Men ...
Phar Lap 1983
The great racehorse Phar Lap dies in the arms of his strapper, Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson), in Agua Caliente, Mexico, in 1932. Australia mourns his loss, amid suspicions of foul play. Five years earlier, a ...
The Rocks: Sydney, Australia 1983
This sponsored documentary traces the beginning of The Rocks in Sydney Cove to its present redevelopment as a tourist precinct. A young female tourist appears throughout the film as a linking device.
Serious Undertakings 1983
Serious Undertakings is a fascinating film about the construction of history, culture and politics. Divided into five segments headed by quotes, the film explores how dominant ideas of Australian history, national character and sexual difference ...
Some of Many: Germans in Australia 1983
A documentary that traces the changing fortunes of German immigrants to Australia from the first fleet to the late 1980s. Australian-based German filmmaker Juergen Corleis interviews migrants in South Australia and New South Wales as ...
Strikebound 1983
Strikebound is based on real events in Gippsland, Victoria in 1937, where Wattie Doig (Chris Haywood) is employed at the Sunbeam coal mine and his wife, Agnes (Carol Burns), is a member of the Salvation ...
Breakout 1984
Breakout covers the mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war from Cowra on 5 August 1944. It is one of the biggest POW escapes in world history. Two hundred and thirty four Japanese prisoners and ...
Couldn’t Be Fairer 1984
A documentary that intercuts historical footage with live interview material, Couldn’t Be Fairer borrows its title from a statement made by Joh Bjelke Peterson, and explores the injustice endured by Aboriginal peoples.
The Cowra Breakout 1984
In the Second World War, Stan Davidson (Alan David Lee) and his best mate Mick Murphy (Dennis Miller) are on patrol in the jungles of New Guinea when their patrol stumbles into a small group ...
The Gillies Report – Series 1, Episode 4 1984
This week’s Gillies Report includes the news read by John Clarke with inserts from various politicians of the day played by Max Gillies, and a National Press Club debate between the Prime Minister Bob Hawke ...
Grave of the President 1984
The film follows a series of dives to one of the world’s biggest and most accessible shipwrecks, in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. It is a popular dive for scuba divers from all over the world. In ...
Out of Darkness 1984
Produced in 1984, this documentary outlines the archaeological findings on Australian Aboriginal history and culture. Various experts postulate on human development at a range of archaeological sites.
Peach’s Explorers – East to West 1984
Edward John Eyre and his loyal companion Wylie, an Indigenous Australian, completed an epic journey across the terrible sand dunes of the Nullarbor Plain from South Australia to Albany in Western Australia in 1841. The ...
Peach’s Explorers – South to North 1984
Inter-colony rivalry between South Australia and Victoria drove a race to the north of the continent. The race resulted in the terrible deaths of the leaders of the lavish but poorly planned Victorian expedition, Burke ...
Peach’s Explorers – The Prison Walls 1984
The story of the Blue Mountains’ barrier to the expansion of the fledgling colony of NSW and its eventual crossing by Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson with four convicts to assist them.
Peach’s Explorers – The Secret of the Rivers: Captain Charles Sturt 1984
Like so many Australian explorers of the early 19th century, Captain Charles Sturt believed there must be an inland waterway in the heart of Australia to explain why all the rivers seemed to run north ...
Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines 1984
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who undertook a one-man volunteer mission which saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi extermination camps in 1944–45. Through many interviews and extensive use of historical ...
Razorback 1984
The infant grandson of Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is carried off by a giant razorback boar near the outback town of Gamulla. Acquitted of murder for lack of evidence, Jake becomes obsessed with proving the ...
The Ship That Shouldn’t Have 1984
The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west ...
Waterfront – Episode 1 1984
It’s 1928 and the waterfront unions in Melbourne are gearing up for a struggle with the shipowners who are trying to take away hard-won wages and working conditions from the wharfies. Meanwhile in Italy, Mussolini’s ...
Australia Post – The Last of the TPOs 1985
This program was produced to mark the closure of the last remaining TPO (Travelling Post Office) service in Australia.
Burke & Wills 1985
The Victorian Exploring Expedition leaves Melbourne on 20 August 1860, amid great fanfare and optimism. Before a large crowd, the leader, Robert O’Hara Burke (Jack Thompson), promises that he will beat the South Australian expedition ...
Butterfly Island – Series 1 Episode 1 1985
The Wilson family run an unspoilt resort on Butterfly Island, despite financial troubles and strong competition from new glamorous resorts nearby. In this first episode of the series, a young Vietnamese refugee (Phu An Chiem) ...
The Coca-Cola Kid 1985
Concerned about profit margins in Australia, the Coca-Cola company sends its top trouble shooter Becker (Eric Roberts) to its Sydney office. The company’s Australian boss, Frank Hunter (Max Gillies), tells Becker about T George McDowell ...
Crocodile Dundee 1985
A glamorous American reporter, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), goes to the Northern Territory to interview a man who survived a crocodile attack. Michael J 'Crocodile’ Dundee (Paul Hogan) charms her with his bushman’s humour and ...
Desert Walker: Gulf to Gulf 1985
Fifty-two year-old adventurer Denis Bartell was the first person to walk across Australia from north to south – from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Gulf of St Vincent. The documentary covers his journey.
D-Generation – Series 1 Episode 1 1985
The D-Generation is a half-hour sketch comedy series. This episode delivers sketches on the theme of ‘Australia’, including parodies of Australian media, cultural stereotypes, history, race relations and attitudes towards immigration. With Australia’s bicentennial year, ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 1985
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The Dunera and interned as 'enemy aliens’.
A Fortunate Life 1985
A dramatisation of Albert Barnett Facey’s award-winning, widely read autobiography of the same name, this mini-series covers about three-quarters of the book. It begins with Facey’s arrival as a toddler in Western Australia in 1899, ...
Fran 1985
In suburban Perth, young mother Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has been seeking the social and sexual comfort of men while her husband, Ray (Danny Adcock), works up north. Ray returns unexpectedly one day, saying he’s heard ...
Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age 1985
From 1946 to 1958 the US used the Marshall Islands south of Hawaii to test nuclear weapons above ground. Early atom bomb tests were conducted with some caution, but later the US exploded hydrogen bombs ...
The Harold Holt Mystery 1985
On 17 December 1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, an hour’s drive south of Melbourne in Victoria. His body was never found. Using dramatic re-creation and archival ...
Hellfire Jack: The John Curtin Story 1985
Produced on the centenary of John Curtin’s birth, Hellfire Jack: The John Curtin Story is an absorbing portrait of the life of the prime minister who led Australia for the vast majority of the Second ...
The Henderson Kids – Series 1 Episode 2 1985
The second part of a two-part episode, originally screened as one. When their mother (Diane Craig) dies in an accident, 13-year-old Tamara ‘Tam Bam’ (Nadine Garner) and 15-year-old Steve Henderson (Paul Smith) move from the ...
Playing Beatie Bow 1985
When troubled teenager Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) encounters a mysterious young girl while playing in a park in modern day Sydney (circa 1985), they both find themselves transported back to the 1870s. The girl, Beatie ...
Red Matildas 1985
Red Matildas tells the personal stories of three women who lived in Australia during the Great Depression – May Pennefather, Joan Goodwin and Audrey Blake. All three were touched by the massive unemployment, poverty and ...
Robbery Under Arms 1985
The Marston brothers, Dick (Steve Vidler) and Jim (Chris Cummins), are wild young men from the bush during the reign of Queen Victoria, who turn to a life of bushranging at the toss of a ...
Rocking the Foundations 1985
Rocking the Foundations covers the New South Wales Builders’ Labourers Federation (BLF) from 1940 until its demise in 1975. Set against the massive social and political upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s – the Vietnam ...
Short Changed 1985
An aboriginal man, Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) is arrested for taking part in a land rights demonstration, after the death of his father. His white wife Alison (Susan Leith) leaves him and takes their son ...
A Street to Die 1985
Colin Turner (Chris Haywood) and his wife Lorraine (Jennifer Cluff) buy a war service home in an outer suburb of Sydney. Their neighbours are all veterans, many ex-Vietnam, like Col. He visits a doctor about ...
Where Death Wears a Smile 1985
Where Death Wears a Smile explores the experiences of two Australian soldiers, Walter Steilberg and Alex McClelland, who were thrown into Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague in Czechoslovakia. This Nazi camp had a prison nearby ...
Around the World in 80 Ways 1986
Senile and almost blind, Roly Davis (Allan Penney) is aghast when he discovers wife Mavis Davis (Diana Davidson) has embarked on a round-the-world holiday with his next-door neighbour and business rival Alec Moffatt (Rob Steele). ...
Australia Post – Letter Writing Venice 1986
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting international postage.
Beautiful Lies: A Film About Peter Carey 1986
The title comes from Mark Twain’s description of Australian history which he found so curious and strange that it read ‘like the most beautiful lies’. Peter Carey recounts the relationship between the country he draws ...
Cactus 1986
Colo (Isabelle Huppert) has come to Australia from France to stay with family friends, after the failure of her marriage. Tom (Norman Kaye) and his wife Beatrice (Monica Maughan) own a big house with a ...
Cyclone Tracy 1986
It is Christmas Eve, 1974, in the northern Australian city of Darwin. There are warnings of a tropical cyclone approaching, but then there are warnings every summer so this one goes largely ignored. A disparate ...
