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My Mother’s Country Part 2 2001
My Mother’s Country is a personal account of the Coniston Massacre of 1928, in two parts.
My Mother Told Me 2007
A woman pieces together fragments of her own and her mother’s past, from stories her mother tells her. The stories are about her mother’s life in a Cambodian village before the onset of war, her ...
My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? – End of the Line 1967
My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? is a black-and-white sitcom centred on a family living in Balmain, a harbourside suburb of Sydney’s inner-west that was at the time considered barely a cut above a slum. In ...
Mystery Island 1937
An inter-island steamer bound for Noumea is wrecked on an island reef during a storm. The survivors include an Australian detective and a killer, whose identities are known only to the captain (William Lane-Bayliff), but ...
My Survival as an Aboriginal 1978
A documentary about Indigenous woman Essie Coffey and her life in the township of Brewarrina, or Dodge City, as it is also known.
Naming the Federal Capital of Australia 1913
This silent film footage, by pioneer director Raymond Longford, documents the naming of Australia’s capital city, Canberra, in the official ceremony held on 12 March 1913. It contains shots of officials attending the ceremony including ...
Narbalek 2001
An observational documentary about the Bordoh clan of Manmoyi, 200 km from Oenpelli, in Arnhem Land. Narbalek is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe ...
National Treasures – Bradman’s Bats 2004
Warren Brown pulls on the gloves and picks up the willow at the State Library of South Australia for his choice among the treasured Bradman bats on display in the Adelaide collection.
National Treasures – Cuc Lam’s Suitcase 2004
If you were forced to leave your home forever, what would you take with you? Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam took family photos and jewellery but sacrificed one precious possession to buy a suitcase, now in ...
National Treasures – Endeavour Journal 2004
Warren Brown leafs through the precious pages of James Cook’s 1770 journal to discover Cook’s first impressions and trace the beginning of Australia as we know it today.
National Treasures – First Surfboard 2004
Warren Brown gets the lowdown from former world champion surfer Midget Farrelly on the first surfboard in Australia.
National Treasures – Gallipoli Boat 2004
How did a lifeboat, left to rot on the shores of Gallipoli, come to have pride of place at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra?
National Treasures – HMAS Sydney’s Carley Float 2004
Warren Brown talks to Australian War Memorial curator John White about the tiny, war-ravaged float from HMAS Sydney whose entire crew of 645 was lost when the ship sank after a mysterious battle off the ...
National Treasures – Phar Lap’s Hide 2004
In the 1930s, a New Zealand-born horse called Phar Lap won the hearts of Australians and became one of our most loved and enduring icons. Warren Brown visits Melbourne Museum where the legendary Phar Lap ...
National Treasures – ‘The Magic Pudding’ Illustrations 2004
Warren Brown takes a look at Norman Lindsay’s original illustrations for the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding at the State Library of New South Wales.
National Treasures – ‘The Sentimental Bloke’ Film 2004
Despite being one of the greatest Australian films ever made, the 1919 silent movie The Sentimental Bloke was almost lost to the audiences of today. So how was it recovered?
National Treasures – Tom Roberts’s ‘Bailed Up’ 2004
With its revolutionary approach to depicting the landscape and light, Tom Roberts’s Bailed Up is a painting that helped define Australia’s national identity.
National Treasures – ‘Waltzing Matilda’ Song Sheet 2004
Most Australians know that Banjo Paterson wrote the lyrics to 'Waltzing Matilda’ but who wrote the music? And what does it have to do with a rather oddly titled song called 'Go to the Devil ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ned Kelly 2003
Edward (‘Ned’) Kelly (Heath Ledger) defends himself in a fight against police in the main street of Greta, after one officer wrongfully accuses him of stealing a horse. Kelly gets three years in prison. Returning ...
The New Car 1953
In the early 1900s, a well-to-do family eagerly await the delivery of their new Renault. When it arrives at their property, they pack a picnic lunch and go for an afternoon drive through the countryside. ...
New Faces 1982
Seven variety acts from around the country perform live in studio and are judged by industry experts Rod McLennan and Tony Partuccio. Bert Newton hosts.
The New Gladesville Bridge 1967
A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads (DMR) by Kingcroft Productions documenting the construction of the 1000 foot (305 metre) New Gladesville Bridge, a pre-stressed concrete bridge that ...
Newsfront 1978
In Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) and his young sidekick Chris (Chris Haywood) cover the big news stories for the Cinetone newsreel company. An old-school cameraman, ...
Newtown Railway Station 1899
This actuality footage from 1899 begins with a static view of commuters meeting an incoming train at a railway station in Sydney’s inner west. The clip cuts to the view from the back of the ...
Next of Kin 1982
Twenty-four-year-old Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) inherits Montclare, a country mansion which was turned into a retirement home by her late mother and her sister, Aunt Rita. Strange events described in her mother’s diaries – lights ...
Nice Coloured Girls 1987
This short film is about three Indigenous women and their night out at Kings Cross.
Ninety Nine Per Cent 1963
Italian immigrant widower Joseph Pino (Francesco Pino) and his school-age son Peter (Carmelo Pino) are opposites personality-wise, living a domestically chaotic life after the death of their wife and mother. When Pino – which is ...
Ningla A-Na 1972
Framed within an international human rights context, Ningla A-Na (Hungry for Land) begins with an excerpt from the International Labour Organisation Convention 1947 printed on the screen. This is followed by a statement from an ...
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 ...
Norforce Army Days at Hayes Creek, NT and Wyndham 1943
This historical footage filmed by John Mack around 1943 captures Australian defence force personnel travelling on the old Ghan railway from South Australia to the Northern Territory. Mack also films some of the Australian landscape ...
North Shore Steam Ferry 1899
This actuality footage shows a steam ferry docking at the Milsons Point Ferry Wharf in 1899. Bennelong Point, Fort Macquarie and Government House can be seen in the distance.
North to Niugini 1979
Malcolm Douglas and Brett Nixon navigate the east coast of Australia in a five-metre boat. They depart from Sydney then replenish their supplies and enjoy some good fishing on a remote beach in far north ...
No Survivors: The Mysterious Loss of the HMAS Sydney 1993
On 19 November 1941, the HMAS Sydney, just returned from Europe, was sailing off the coast of Western Australia when she was sunk by the German raider HSK Kormoran disguised as a Dutch merchant ship. ...
Not In Front of the Kids 2003
A short documentary made by bRitt Arthur which explores sexuality, relationships, ageing and the social and physical needs of people in their later years of life. It contains a series of vignettes in which men ...
Nott, D: A Trip With the RAAF c1970
This silent colour super 8mm home movie includes scenes of New Guinea and Malaysia filmed by David Nott whilst travelling with the Royal Australian Air Force in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
No Worries 1993
Matilda Bell (Amy Terelinck) is an independent 11 year old growing up on a sheep station in western NSW, during a severe drought. Many local farmers have already gone bust, but her parents Ben (Geoff ...
Number 96 – Episode 35 1972
The snobbish Claire (Thelma Scott) drops in on her daughter Bev (Abigail) at her flat in Number 96. Dorrie (Pat McDonald) is thrilled by the visit but Bev is not. Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) finds out ...
Number 96 – Episode 910 1975
In this episode Herb Evans (Ron Shand) is keeping a whopping secret from Dorrie (Pat McDonald), Gary Whittaker (Mike Ferguson) has been stitched up by Liz Feather (Margaret Laurence) and Dudley Butterfield’s (Chard Hayward) dead ...
Number 96 – Episodes 1003 and 1004 1976
These episodes are from the show’s later period when it was trying to woo back viewers with another (politically incorrect) creepy visitor storyline: after the Knicker Snipper and the Pantyhose Strangler, along came the Hooded ...
The Oasis 2008
The Oasis is a feature-length observational documentary about a youth support network centre called the Oasis. It is run by the Salvation Army not far from Sydney’s city centre. The film follows the stories of ...
Ocean Girl – Series 2, Episode 3 1995
Able to swim like a fish and telepathically communicate with a humpback whale called Charley, ocean girl Neri (Marzena Godecki) is searching for the secret of her past. With the Bates brothers Jason (David Hoflin) ...
The Odd Angry Shot 1979
After his 21st birthday, Bill (John Jarratt) goes to fight in Vietnam, as part of the Australian forces. He’s in the Special Air Services, elite professional soldiers who look down on the ‘nashos’, the conscripted ...
Official Opening of Canberra by His Royal Highness the Duke of York 1927
The Duke of York, who later became King George VI, officially opens Old Parliament House, Canberra on 19 May 1927. Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce is also present and Dame Nellie Melba sings the national ...
The Old Man and the Inland Sea 2005
A documentary about Mr Norman Hayes Jagamarra who was a 'noodler’ on the mining fields of Coober Pedy.
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 ...
One Night the Moon 2001
One Night the Moon is a film based on events that took place in 1932, about a young girl who goes missing on the night of a full moon. Her family, though desperate to find ...
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 ...
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin 1992
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin examines the life, work and death of German Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, his ongoing resonance in contemporary thought and his increasing recognition outside of Europe half ...