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Roma Street Station 1899
This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters, many of them wearing boaters and suits, disembark from the train and walk up the stairs towards the camera.
Romeo + Juliet 1996
The city of Verona Beach is dominated by a bitter feud between the families of Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) and Ted Montague (Brian Dennehy). Ted’s son, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), sneaks into a masked ball at ...
Romper Stomper 1992
Hando (Russell Crowe) and his best mate Davey (Daniel Pollock) lead a rampaging gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Footscray, Melbourne, during the 80s. They beat up young Vietnamese migrants, get drunk and fall down, living ...
Romulus, My Father 2007
Raimond Gaita (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives with his father Romulus (Eric Bana) in a rundown farmhouse in central Victoria. It is 1960 and Raimond’s mother Christina (Franka Potente) returns for one of her infrequent visits. She ...
Round About Townsville 1926
Townsville, Magnetic Island and the Hinchinbrook Channels are the subject of this scenic tour through northern Queensland’s attractive tourist destinations. Filled with steady pans and well framed static shots, this documentary also contains explanatory intertitles ...
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 ...
Round the Twist – Series Two – Nails 1992
Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is attracted to Andrew (Eamonn Kelly), a mysterious new boy at school who never removes his gloves. Andrew lives on an island with his grumpy father Mr Shelford (Peter Bensley). Linda discovers ...
Round the Twist – Series Two – Next Time Round 1992
Pete has been hypnotised by Linda and every time someone says the word 'now’ he behaves like a chicken for ten seconds. Unfortunately, Linda can’t undo the hypnosis so Pete gets into some serious trouble ...
Rydin’ Time 2005
A documentary about three Indigenous rodeo riders, Kaleb Comollatti, Dallas McNamara, and John Stacey who ride at the Mt Isa Rodeo in 2005. Rydin’ Time is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central ...
The Saddle Club – Series 1 Episode 1 2001
Lisa Atwood’s (Lara Jean Marshall) first day at Pine Hollow Stables begins badly when a car driven by her mother (Marie-Louise Walker) nearly collides with Pine Hollow’s best students Stevie Lake (Sophie Bennett) and Carole ...
Sadness 1999
The documentary Sadness is based on a theatrical performance developed by the award-winning Australian photographer William Yang. Writer-director Tony Ayres developed it into a film with Yang as the central character. Yang is covering two ...
The Safe House 2006
In the summer of 1954, Lee Whitmore (voiced as a child by Alycia Debnam-Carey and as an adult by Noni Hazlehurst) and her friends pass the time playing in a make-shift children’s swimming pool in ...
The Sailors 1927
The Sailors is a vaudeville comedy routine, recorded by Stiffy (Nat Phillips) and Mo (Roy Rene) in 1927.
Sale of the Century – Series 1 Episode 1 1980
Host Tony Barber and co-host Victoria Nicholls introduce the quiz contestants on the first episode of Sale of the Century. Each player starts with $20 in the bank and competes to press the buzzer first ...
Sammy Butcher, Out of the Shadows 2004
A documentary about musician Sammy Butcher who once played with the Warumpi Band and now invests his energy in young musicians in his community, Papunya, 250 kilometres west of Alice Springs. Sammy Butcher, Out of ...
Samson and Delilah 2009
Samson and Delilah is the story of two Indigenous teenagers growing up in a socio-economically disadvantaged community in central Australia. Samson (Rowan McNamara) and Delilah (Marissa Gibson) struggle to find the strength, courage and resilience ...
Sanitation and the City c1957
A documentary produced for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works which provides an overview of Melbourne’s development and expansion since the 1880s, the history of the city’s sewerage system and the work of the ...
Satellite Dreaming 1991
A documentary about the history of Indigenous media, including television production, in Australia, and the start of Indigenous media in the centre of Australia.
The SBF Story 2007
This is a four-part chronological documentary made by Frank Straford on the history of SBF (Straford Brothers Films) – an amateur production company formed by Frank and his brother John in the 1950s. It features ...
Schools for Farmers c1950
Produced by the NSW Department of Agriculture, this short informational film promotes the Hawkesbury College farmer school to NSW farmers. Schools for Farmers outlines the practical courses on offer, including vehicle maintenance and animal husbandry, ...
SeaChange – One of the Gang 1998
High-powered city lawyer Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton) is almost too busy to notice her life falling apart. Then her husband’s shock arrest for white-collar crimes, the revelation he is having an affair with her sister ...
Sea Patrol – Cometh the Hour 2007
Patrol ship HMAS Hammersley’s navy service is coming to an end: she is due to be decommissioned and her crew relocated. She heads out on her last voyage, in pursuit of villain Rick Gallagher (Martin ...
The Secret Life of Us – Now or Never 2001
The Secret Life of Us follows a group of 20-somethings living in and around the same apartment block. In this episode, Evan (Samuel Johnson) discovers he has been accepted into a two-month writer’s course in ...
Senator Dorothy Tangney: Maiden Speech 1944
Dorothy Tangney, Australia’s first woman senator, delivered her maiden speech in the Senate in Canberra on 24 September 1943, at the age of 32. This recording of Tangney reading her maiden speech was made by ...
The Sentimental Bloke 1919
Bill, AKA 'The Kid’ (Arthur Tauchert), a larrikin from the Sydney dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo, gets a six-month sentence when he’s caught in a two-up game. After he’s released, he falls for Doreen (Lottie Lyell), ...
September 2007
Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) runs the farm with ...
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 ...
Service in the Sun 1957
In 1956, after Australians have enjoyed the Melbourne Olympics, members of the American and Hawaiian surf lifesaving teams come to Sydney to show the latest surfing techniques, on their new lightweight balsawood boards. Young Australian ...
The Set 1969
A young working-class man who sells shirts at a Sydney department store, Paul Lawrence (Sean McEuan), dreams of going to art school. When his girlfriend Cara (Julie Rogers) leaves for London, Paul becomes the protégé ...
Sewerage of a Great City: Melbourne c1922
This sponsored documentary highlights the achievements of the Melbourne Board of Works in laying sewers underneath the city in 1922. It includes footage of pipes being laid in Brunswick and Camberwell South ([c[clip one]]), the ...
Shadow Panic 1989
Shadow Panic is a short experimental drama in which three women characters – 'The Redhead’, 'The Investigator’ and 'The Hothead’ – seem to be inextricably linked through memory, dreams and an increasing state of emergency. ...
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 Sharkcallers of Kontu 1982
The Sharkcallers of Kontu depicts the ancient tradition of 'sharkcalling’ in the village of Kontu, on the remote west coast of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. There are only a few men remaining who ...
She’s My Baby 1959
Johnny O’Keefe released ‘She’s My Baby’ in 1960. It came after a string of hits that included ‘The Wild One’ and ‘Shout’ and helped secure his position as the biggest star in Australia in that ...
Shifting Sands – Grace 1998
A short drama about a woman (Justine Saunders) who returns to Cairns for the burial of her sister.
Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed 1998
A young couple promised in marriage to each other as children, now move in together and the courtship truly begins.
Shifting Sands – My Colour, Your Kind 1998
A young albino Aboriginal girl (Melissa Middleton) escapes from a convent to return to her mother, her story unfolding in flashback during this journey.
Shifting Sands – Passing Through 1998
A drama about a young family who pass through a town that isn’t quite what it seems.
Shifting Shelter 3 2005
Shifting Shelter 3 is the latest instalment in a documentary series shot over a ten year period. Reminiscent of the British 7 Up Series, the Shifting Shelter series records the lives of four Indigenous individuals ...
Shine 1996
David Helfgott (played as a child by Alex Rafalowicz) is a piano prodigy, growing up in Perth in the 1950s. His father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a loving authoritarian, determined to keep his family together ...
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 ...
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 Shiralee 1957
On one of his infrequent visits to his wife Marge (Elizabeth Sellars) in Sydney, itinerant bushman Jim Macauley (Peter Finch) finds her living with another man, Donny (George Rose). He beats Donny up, grabs his ...
Shirley Thompson versus the Aliens 1972
In the mid-1960s Shirley Thompson (Jane Harders) lives in a mental asylum. She tells a sceptical Dr George Talbot (Tim Elliot) and Dr Leslie Smith (June Collis) about her encounter with aliens ten years ago. ...
Shit Skin 2002
A short drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she may reconnect with her surviving family.
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 ...
Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire 2001
This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight 'A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will have to make films she doesn’t believe in and is ...
The Silence of Dean Maitland 1934
A young clergyman, Cyril Maitland (John Longden) falls in love with a beautiful young vamp, Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), in a seaside town. He is engaged to another woman, but Alma becomes pregnant. When her ...
Silver City 1936
This is an industrial documentary about mining in the mineral-rich area of Broken Hill, directed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound. It shows the processes involved in mining rock from underground sites; the extraction of zinc, ...
