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Dead-end Drive-in 1986
In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action ...
Divine Service – The House of Freedom Church, Brisbane 1986
A service is held in the House of Freedom in the inner city Brisbane suburb of West End, with a population of migrant, Aboriginal and working class Australians. This Christian community began in 1972 and ...
Dogs in Space 1986
Melbourne, 1978. A large group of young people share a dilapidated house in the inner-city suburb of Richmond. Sam (Michael Hutchence) sings in the rock group Dogs in Space. His girlfriend, Anna (Saskia Post), works ...
The Flying Doctors – Public Property 1986
The Flying Doctors is based on the work and lives of the men and women of the outback medical service established in 1928 by the Reverend Dr John Flynn. The drama is located somewhere in ...
Harp in the South 1986
A two-part miniseries following the life and times of the Darcys – an Irish-Australian family – in the aftermath of the Second World War. The impoverished Darcy family, exiles from the bush, live in Surry ...
Kylie Tennant 1986
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985.
Malcolm 1986
Malcolm (Colin Friels) gets fired from his job at a Melbourne tram depot for building his own tram. He’s a mechanical genius, but his shyness borders on mental disability. He takes in a boarder, Frank ...
My Life Without Steve 1986
After a lengthy romance, Steve (who is only seen in photographs and is played by Mark McManus) has left Liz (Jenny Vuletic). During the months that follow, the wounded and angry Liz obsesses on the ...
Rebetika: Songs of Greece 1986
An album of Rebetika music, a style originating in Greece in the 1920s. 'Rebetika: Songs of Greece’ was recorded in 1986 by a group of young Greek-Australians who, in the late 1970s in Melbourne, began ...
The Surfer 1986
Vietnam veteran Sam Barlow (Gary Day) runs a surf hire shop on the beach at Surfers Paradise. When fellow veterans Jack (Gerard MacGuire) and Slaney (Stephen Leeder) are murdered, Sam’s investigations point to a conspiracy ...
We Are Going 1986
This is a rare recording of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) reading her poem ‘We Are Going’ at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney 1986, recorded by the ABC.
Cannibal Tours 1987
Using an observational style without commentary, the film follows tourists as they visit the Sepik River region in New Guinea. The film shows the tourists’ reactions in interviews and observes their behaviour as they photograph ...
Cricket in Australia 1987
Jack Egan interviews cricket personalities and narrates this made for commercial television documentary about the history of cricket in Australia. Interviews with key personalities are intercut with extensive archival footage of cricket matches.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lighthorsemen 1987
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than two years after the landings at Gallipoli. In Egypt and ...
Nice Coloured Girls 1987
This short film is about three Indigenous women and their night out at Kings Cross.
Painting the Town: A Film About Yosl Bergner 1987
Painting the Town is a portrait of artist Yosl Bergner in the context of the Melbourne artistic milieu of the 1930s and 1940s. It tells the story of his short but significant period in Australia, ...
Pleasure Domes 1987
A woman (voiced by Julie Forsyth) contemplates the view from her St Kilda balcony. In her eyes, it becomes a 'riviera anywhere’, infused with glamorous images of times past.
Poor Man’s Orange 1987
The story begins just a few years after the end of Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian family, and their local community in Surry Hills, after the Second ...
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 ...
The Shiralee 1987
Macauley (Bryan Brown) is an itinerant rural worker who grew up the hard way, in an orphanage. Despite having a wife (Lorna Lesley) and child (Rebecca Smart) in the city, he’s a loner. He sends ...
The Tale of Ruby Rose 1987
Henry Rose (Chris Haywood) traps wallabies and possum for their skins in the Central Highlands of Tasmania in 1933. He and his wife Ruby (Melita Jurisic) have lived here for seven years, in a primitive ...
Tiga 1987
Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal.
The Time Guardian 1987
In the year 4039 a city of survivors from the Neutron Wars travels through time and space seeking safe haven from the Jen-Diki, a race of cyborgs intent on wiping out humanity. Soldiers Ballard (Tom ...
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 ...
Voss 1987
Voss revisits the fateful outback expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt, as re-created by Patrick White in his iconic novel. In his first opera, Richard Meale surprised and delighted theatregoers with a sumptuous and neo-Romantic score comprising ...
The Year My Voice Broke 1987
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a gawky 15-year-old, in love with his best friend, the beautiful and free-spirited Freya (Loene Carmen). They’re misfits in a country town in NSW in 1962. When Freya falls for Trevor ...
Australia Post – 200 Years 1988
This is a short programme produced to mark Australia Post’s commemoration of the 26 January 1988 Australian Bicentennial.
Australia Post – Joint Stamp Issue 1988
This program records Australia Post’s release of a special joint Australian and United States bicentennial stamp and a commemorative bicentenary book of stamps.
Eelemarni, The Story of Leo and Leva 1988
A short film about a Dreaming story from the Bundjalung people.
Emerald City 1988
Successful screenwriter Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) moves from Melbourne to Sydney with his publisher wife Kate (Robyn Nevin) and their children, Sam (Haydon Samuels) and Penny (Ella Scott). When his latest screenplay is rejected by ...
Evil Angels 1988
A true story. On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in central ...
Four Corners – Blue Death 1988
Wittenoom was home to more than 20,000 people who worked in the mining and processing of blue asbestos from 1944 until the mine closed in 1966. But blue asbestos is a killer and now, years ...
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 ...
Living Room 1988
An experimental documentary set in Sydney suburbia. A series of people pose for time-based portraits in their home environments.
Mimi: An Evening with the Aboriginal Dance Theatre 1988
A documentary filmed during the National Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre’s end of year production.
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey 1988
In the rural British county of Cumbria in 1348, a boy named Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) is troubled by visionary dreams. His beloved elder brother Connor (Bruce Lyons) returns home from an expedition and reports the ...
Thanks Girls and Goodbye 1988
Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film uncovers ...
The Big Gig – Series 1 Episode 1 1989
A live comedy-variety show featuring stand-up comedians, sketch comedy and music.
Central Australia: The Eighth Wonder 1989
Ted Egan takes us on tour through Central Australia and introduces us to many of the features of the region he calls the 'Eighth Wonder’. Retracing the tracks of explorers and settlers in times past, ...
Dead Calm 1989
Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed in mid-ocean, they rescue a frightened young ...
Father 1989
Melbourne, 1989. Elderly widower Joseph Mueller (Max von Sydow) lives with his daughter, Anne (Carol Drinkwater), her husband Bobby (Steve Jacobs) and their daughters Rebecca (Simone Robertson) and Amy (Kahli Sneddon). Running a busy inner ...
Land Bilong Islanders 1989
Land Bilong Islanders covers the Supreme Court of Queensland proceedings in which Justice Moynihan considered issues of fact in the Mabo v Queensland case, ahead of the High Court of Australia’s 1992 decision. The court ...
The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet 1989
Mr and Mrs Flynn who live in Maitland, a New South Wales country town, form a musical quartet with Leo, the local greengrocer, and Consuela, a young female bank teller. When Consuela marries and moves ...
Nature of Australia – The Sunburnt Country 1989
This episode from Nature of Australia describes Australia’s arid centre, sometimes called the 'dead heart’ or the 'back of beyond’ or even the 'never never’. The desert teems with animal life that survives the harsh ...
One Man’s Instrument 1989
On a lush banana plantation, a farmer views his crop and plays on his trumpet, coaxing the bananas to grow. Suddenly, on the horizon, a high-rise building appears with a thud and multiplies into more ...
Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny 1989
Eccentric sculptor Tony Twist (Richard Moir), and his three children – thirteen-year-old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and eight-year-old Bronson (Rodney McLennan) – move from the city to live in an old ...
Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out 1989
Chaos reigns after a bolt of lightning hits the Twist family’s video remote control – it now works on people! Unfortunately Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) gets hold of it and Pete (Sam Vandenberg) is desperately ...
