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Beautiful Middle Harbour 1927
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate promotes the new Sydney suburb. It features panoramic shots of Middle Harbour, Sydney including footage of the surrounding bushland and foreshores, a newly built stone house, a ...
Beneath Clouds 2002
A visually poetic feature film about two youths who in trying to find themselves, momentarily find each other on the road to Sydney.
Beneath Hill 60 2010
In 1916, during the First World War when both sides have fought to a virtual standstill, Queensland miner Oliver Woodward (Brendan Cowell) joins up. He becomes a captain and leads his men, many of them ...
Benny and the Dreamers 1992
A documentary about the Pintubi people’s first contact with white people, and the affects of dispossession and institutionalisation when the peoples were forced from their lands into missions.
Betelnut Bisnis 2004
This documentary follows several indigenous people of New Guinea as they attempt to earn cash by selling the psychoactive drug betelnut. The money is needed to pay for food, school fees and medicine. Betelnut is ...
The Bet 2006
Will O’Connor (Matthew Newton) accepts a challenge from his rich friend Angus McFarlane (Aden Young). Will is a Sydney stockbroker, Angus is a banker, the son of a tycoon. Whoever can make the most money ...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – Alexander McLeod Lindsey 1977
In 1964 Alexander McLeod Lindsey was sentenced to 18 years in jail for the brutal bashing of his wife Pamela, who recovered but was severely brain damaged as a result. A judicial enquiry five years ...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – The Case of Ronald Ryan 1977
Ronald Ryan, a convicted armed robber, was the last man to be hanged in Australia. The year was 1967. It was alleged he’d shot a warder as he and another prisoner, Peter Walker, made their ...
Beyond Sorry 2003
When she was eight years old, Zita Wallace was removed from her families by the authorities. This is a documentary about the Stolen Generations, and the journey of one woman to reconnect with the Eastern ...
Beyond the Furthest Fences 1947
A silent documentary that shows scenes from a journey made by Australian Inland Mission patrolling minister, the Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge, through central Australia in 1947. He travels from Broken Hill to Alice Springs via ...
A Big Country – City Girls 1983
A group of students from an exclusive girls’ school in Melbourne hike through the Bogong High Plains of Victoria’s Alpine National Park. With them is a smaller group of unemployed girls from a very different ...
A Big Country – Gulf Battlers 1982
Elton and Maude are making a go of a cattle station in the Gulf country of northern Australia. It’s a tough life in an era before satellite phones and the internet, but this family seem ...
A Big Country – On the Hook 1976
In the mid-1970s, when this program was made, the waterside workers were in well paid, full-time jobs. Few viewers would have known of their traumatic history and the growth of the union that protects the ...
A Big Country – Peninsula People 1968
Peninsula People was the seventh A Big Country program to be broadcast and was filmed in black-and-white. It presents in magazine format the lives of some of the characters that live in the Gulf country, ...
A Big Country – The Challenge of Lake Eyre 1978
Lake Eyre is generally a massive environment of death or rather lifelessness, and every year for several months, John and Roma Dulhunty come to the lake to conduct their geological survey.
A Big Country – The Darcys of Mallapunyah 1981
The Darcys have one of the last family owned and operated cattle stations in the Northern Territory. Their vast family ensures a constant supply of labour but could create future inheritance issues.
A Big Country – The Prices 1979
A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it.
A Big Country – The White Rose 1979
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales.
The Big Gig – Series 1 Episode 1 1989
A live comedy-variety show featuring stand-up comedians, sketch comedy and music.
The Big House 2000
When a young man, Sonny (Kick Gurry), enters prison for the first time, ‘lifer’ Williams (Tony Martin) takes him under his wing. Williams offers protection from predators like Jacko (Gary Sweet) but, as Sonny finds ...
The Big Steal 1990
Danny Clarke (Ben Mendelsohn) wants only two things – a Jaguar automobile and a date with Joanna Johnson (Claudia Karvan), the prettiest girl in his high school. Through Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley), a shonky car ...
Billy and Percy 1974
This dramatised documentary is based on the diaries of Percy Deane, who became the private secretary of Prime Minister WM Hughes during one of the most controversial and exciting periods of Australian history. It was ...
Birthday Boy 2004
One day in the life of Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), a little boy playing at being a soldier among the devastation of the Korean War, 1951. His father is away, a real soldier at ...
The Birth of White Australia 1928
After introductory scenes at the opening of Parliament House in Canberra in 1927, the history of Australia is shown as a series of flashbacks – from Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay to the first ...
Bit of Black Business – Custard 2007
When her grandfather dies, a young woman (Amy Miller-Porter) travels by ferry to support her Grandma (Freda Glynn) at the funeral. The journey to her family’s island home leads to a reaffirming of self and ...
Bit of Black Business – Days Like These 2007
Days Like These is a day in the life of Dan (Jordan Gee-Hoy), a young Aboriginal man who is trying to get ahead, but it seems the odds are stacked against him. Living with his ...
Bit of Black Business – Done Dirt Cheap 2007
Not far from the bustling Kalgoorlie mines, local Aboriginal couple Amos (Trevor Jamieson) and Gracie (Wendy Martin) are fossicking for gold with a pick and shovel. It seems they have hit paydirt so Amos heads ...
Bit of Black Business – Kwatye 2007
Gary (Donnovan Mears) comes home after a big night drinking beer and collapses on the couch. He is awoken early by his daughter, Aspen (Aspen Beattie). Hung over, he wants to be treated like a ...
Bit of Black Business – Nana 2007
A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control.
Bit of Black Business – Sharpeye 2007
When 11-year-old Whalen (Ikaika Fa’aoso) sees a Special Forces dinghy approaching, he rushes to alert his Uncle Robert (Robert Poi Poi) of a potential invasion of their island in the Torres Strait. The men in ...
Bit of Black Business – The Turtle 2007
Jason (Gregory Cross) is no longer a small boy. His mother has sent him to his grandfather (Kelton Pell) to experience a different way of life.
Bitter Springs 1950
Wally King (Chips Rafferty), with his family and stockmen, drive livestock over hundreds of kilometres of dry country to take up their new selection at Bitter Springs, in central Australia. A government trooper (Michael Pate) ...
Black and Dusty 2005
A documentary about the Indigenous participants of the 2005 Tattersalls Finke Desert Race.
Black and White 2002
Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), a 27-year-old mixed-race Aborigine from Alice Springs, is arrested in December 1958 in Ceduna, on the South Australian border. He is charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, ...
The Black Balloon 2007
Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) is 15 and his life is in chaos. His autistic brother Charlie (Luke Ford) creates havoc wherever he goes; their mother Maggie (Toni Collette) is pregnant and has to stay in bed. ...
Blackbuster 2012
Rowdy punters at a kooky Queensland pub stir an unusual awakening in pirated-DVD dealer Kainen (Jeremy Ambrum). As his crush grows for Tanika (Naomi Bowly), the daughter of the publican (Martin Sacks), his uncontrollable imagination ...
Blackout – Malangi: A Day in the Life of a Bark Painter 1991
Artist David Malangi travels around his country with his family, living off the land. He harvests and prepares materials from the bush. He selects a large sheet of bark to use as his canvas, fashions ...
Black Robe 1991
In 1634, French Jesuit priest Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) leaves the fledgling colonial settlement of Quebec in Canada via canoe to join fellow missionaries who have settled up river with the Huron tribe. Accompanying Laforgue ...
Blackrock 1996
Jared (Laurence Breuls) stages a welcome-home party for his mate Ricko (Simon Lyndon), back from up north. During the booze-fuelled evening, Jared gets into a disagreement with his girlfriend’s brother, Toby (Heath Ledger), who accuses ...
Black Water 2007
Based on a true story, Adam (Andy Rodoreda), his girlfriend Grace (Diana Glenn) and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) set out on a driving holiday in a lush area of northern Australia. After a ...
Blood Brothers – Broken English 1993
A documentary that alternates between interview and dramatised re-creation. It is the story of Rupert Maxwell Stuart (Max Stuart), an Arrernte man accused of murder and condemned to death in 1959. There are blocks of ...
Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride 1993
A documentary that intercuts interview material with historical footage, Freedom Ride, written and directed by Rachel Perkins, delves into the political motivations of her father, Dr 'Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) Perkins. Perkins was a university student in ...
Blood Brothers – From Little Things Big Things Grow 1993
A musical documentary that comments on the work of Kev Carmody, Indigenous songwriter and historian. An exploration into the life of Carmody, using music clips especially made for the documentary, and historical footage to portray ...
Blood Brothers – Jardiwarnpa 1993
Jardiwarnpa documents the ceremonial dances of the Warlpiri over two weeks, with minimal intrusion by the film crew, who capture the unfolding ceremony. It is an observational style documentary periodically interrupted with a subject speaking ...
Blood Oath 1990
On the Indonesian island of Ambon in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Australian soldiers force Japanese military captives to dig up a mass grave of Australian soldiers. The dead men were prisoners ...
Blue Heelers – A Woman’s Place 1993
Fresh from police training, Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) arrives to take up her new post in the country town of Mount Thomas, where the locals call the police 'blue heelers’. As the new kid ...
Blue Ice 1954
Blue Ice documents the 1954 expedition to set up the first Australian base on the Antarctic continent. The chartered Danish ship Kista Dan leaves Melbourne in December 1953 under Captain Hans Christian Petersen, bound for ...
Blue Water High – Winners and Losers 2005
Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf Academy on Sydney’s northern beaches. The last minute inclusion of ...
BMX Bandits 1983
Teenage BMX bike riders Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo) become friends with Judy (Nicole Kidman), who is working the summer at a supermarket, when their bikes are destroyed by runaway shopping trolleys. Judy ...
