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Australasian Gazette – HMAS Brisbane Launched at Cockatoo Island 1915
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the launch of the HMAS Brisbane naval ship by Mrs Fisher, wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, on 30 September 1915, from the dockyard of ...
Australasian Gazette – In and around Hamilton District c1920
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the orchard districts of Hamilton, Queensland. Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They then sort the peaches into crates and ...
Australasian Gazette – Parliament Opens the New Session 1925
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from 1925 shows the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Dudley de Chair, arriving by car to open Parliament House in Melbourne. He salutes an Army Guard of Honour before entering ...
Australasian Gazette – Ship Building as Hobby c1925
This segment from a newsreel from approximately 1925 shows builders of model passenger liners sailing and motoring their boats on a pond in Moore Park, Sydney. It features Mr Needum’s four funnel masterpiece and the ...
Australasian Gazette – Shopping Week, Sydney c1926
This Australasian Gazette newsreel segment from approximately 1926 shows a ‘monster procession’ as part of Shopping Week in Bondi Junction, Sydney.
Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning c1920
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from 'some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne.
Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival c1929
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, ...
Australasian Gazette – Sun Worshippers c1924
This newsreel from approximately 1924 shows surfers and swimmers enjoying the first day of real summer weather of the season. It opens with a wide shot of the northern end of Bondi Beach and although ...
Australia 2008
In 1939 English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) travels to Faraway Downs, a cattle station in the Northern Territory owned by her husband, Maitland (Anton Monsted). When she arrives, Maitland is dead. Blamed for ...
Australia in France, Part One c1918
This documentary film was shot in the middle of 1916 on the Western Front in France by British cinematographers. The earliest scenes, from May 1916, include the Australian prime minister, Mr WM Hughes meeting General ...
The Australian Flying Corps in France, England and Palestine 1919
In France in early 1918, the newly renamed squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps are busily engaged in the aerial war against a resurgent German force. At No. 3 Squadron, an Australian cameraman films preparation ...
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation c1925
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, Queensland.
Australian Movie Magazine No 7201 1971
This cinema newsreel features news highlights from 1971 including anti-apartheid demonstrations against South African sporting teams; John Gorton’s tour of Vietnam; William McMahon becoming Prime Minister; a wool fashion parade staged in the New Guinea ...
Australian Rules 2002
In an isolated South Australian fishing town, the only thing that connects two communities – the whites and the blacks – is football. Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are an exception ...
The Australians at Messines 1917
In the lead-up to the Battle of Messines in June 1917, Australian troops study a topographical model of the battle area, constructed on the ground. Small towers allow the men to peruse the ground from ...
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line 2002
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of conscripts was still at home in Australia. The AIF was ...
The Australians’ Final Campaign in 1918 c1919
The footage spans from September 1917, after the Third Battle of Ypres, to almost the end of the war a year later. Soldiers dig and revet trenches, laying duckboards to bring the trench floor above ...
Australian Story – Absolute Beginner 2006
Just over eight years ago, Marg Ward lost her husband when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Marg was 56. After two terrible years, she began again with a new life. She went to ...
Australian Story – Of Droughts and Flooding Rains 2002
This is the story of a man so obsessed by an idea that it has consumed his life and almost destroyed his family. Peter Andrews’s idea is that the land can be returned to a ...
Australian Walkabout 1958
In this program the Chauvels, on a filmmaking safari of Australia, are travelling through the Northern Territory. They camp outside the small town of Katherine with their filmmaking team, then travel to Rum Jungle for ...
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.
Australia Post – Letter Writing Venice 1986
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting international postage.
Australia Post – Olympic Post Script 1956
This black-and-white film was produced to celebrate the communications achievements of the PMG (Postmaster-General’s Department) during the summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 December 1956.
Australia Post – Post Office Film 1942
This is an unedited mute, black-and-white film record of the dismantling of the Sydney General Post Office (GPO) clock tower, as well as street scenes near and around the GPO, in 1942.
Australia Post – Royal Tour 1954
This program was produced by the Public Relations Division of the Postmaster-General’s Department (PMG) to celebrate its role in the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Australia. It follows the Queen as she tours ...
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.
Australia Post – This is the Mail 1966
This is a black-and-white film, showcasing what was then the newly opened Redfern Mail Exchange. It looks at Redfern’s centralised system of mail collection and distribution. While detailing the range of mechanised mail-sorting equipment employed, ...
Australia’s Land of Tomorrow 1962
Australian Inland Mission (AIM) superintendent Reverend Fred McKay conducts his patrol through the north of Australia. Along the way he witnesses a prospering region where industry and agriculture have grown and the population has greatly ...
Australia Today – Antarctic Pioneers 1963
In his last appearance on film, veteran Antarctic explorer and photographer Frank Hurley introduces a survey of footage covering the history of Australian expeditions in Antarctica, including scenes from Hurley’s first trip south with Sir ...
Australia Today – Fort Denison: [Pinchgut]: A Relic of Early Sydney 1939
Fort Denison is a fortified island in Sydney Harbour built between 1841 and 1857 as a defence against a feared invasion. This newsreel narrates the history of the site over time, and shows the Fort’s ...
Australia Today – Lucky Strike at Larkinville, WA and other segments 1938
This Australia Today newsreel features three segments: Lucky Strike at Larkinville – about gold prospecting in Western Australia in 1932; Fangs of Death – about the dangers of deadly Australian snakes; and The Lucky Hour ...
Australia to England via Tobruk and Benghazi: Menzies Wartime Tour 1941
This home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Menzies, was taken during his 1941 wartime tour of Tobruk, Benghazi, Cairo, Khartoum, Libya and Palestine, en route to England. The film ...
Aya 1990
The story of a Japanese-Australian marriage in the aftermath of the Second World War. Aya (Eri Ishida), a young Japanese woman, lives in Melbourne with her husband Frank (Nicholas Eadie), an Australian soldier she met ...
Babe 1995
A little pig called Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is born in a battery farming shed. His whole family is sent away to be butchered but he is chosen for a country fair, where he ...
The Back of Beyond 1954
Battling heat, dust, flood and sand, Royal Mail driver and everyman Tom Kruse completes the fortnightly run in his battered Leyland Badger, delivering mail, stores and supplies to the people along the 517 kilometre Birdsville ...
Backroads 1977
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western New South Wales and head for the coast. Jack (Bill Hunter) is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary (Gary Foley) doesn’t ...
Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story 1981
The documentary summarises nuclear testing in the 1950s in Australia and its consequences. This compilation documentary uses archival footage from both scientific recordings and newsreels of the time. The film was made in 1981, 25 ...
Bad Boy Bubby 1993
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised ...
The Balanda and the Bark Canoes 2006
This documentary is about the making of Ten Canoes (2006), a feature film partly inspired by the photographs of Donald Thomson from the 1930s.
Balibo 2009
Darwin, December 1975. Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia), a veteran Australian journalist, is approached by José Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaac), the charismatic Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the government of East Timor. Ramos-Horta tells East that his ...
Bali Hi c1971
This is an amateur travelogue made by Alan Bresnahan and his wife during a trip to Bali in 1971.
Ballarat Beauty Competition 1911
This silent newsreel shows the first 15 contestants in a local children’s beauty competition held in the Victorian town of Ballarat in 1911.
The Bank 2001
Jim Doyle (David Wenham) is hired by a major bank to perfect his mathematical discovery. He believes he can predict the stock market using chaos theory. His new boss, Simon O’Reilly (Anthony LaPaglia), gives him ...
Banners Held High 1956
This documentary is about the significance of the May Day celebrations for the trades and labour movement in Australia. It includes the construction and painting of elaborate banners and signs by waterside workers and footage ...
Bapaume to Bullecourt 1917
In March 1917, Australian troops occupy Bapaume in northern France, after German troops have withdrawn to stronger defences along the Hindenburg Line. Troops advance across a desolate No-Man’s-Land, past lines of barbed wire. Near the ...
The Beach 2000
Inspired by Geoffrey Dutton’s book Sun, Sea, Surf, and Sand: The Myth of the Beach (1985), this film looks at how Australia came to be the most beach-conscious nation on Earth. This is reflected in ...
Beating About the Bush 1993
The rock band Djaambi goes on tour in the Northern Territory visiting remote communities on the way and finishing in Darwin. The Melbourne band is made up of five white and four Indigenous Australians. The ...
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 ...
Beautiful Melbourne 1947
This footage, put together by the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 1947, illustrates the conditions of inner-city housing in Melbourne, Victoria. It shows inner suburban housing in poor condition. This is compared with a family ...
