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Boer War Transvaal Contingent 1899
This piece of actuality footage shot by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899 records part of the parade of the First ...
Bomb Harvest 2007
Bomb Harvest follows Laith Stevens, an Australian bomb disposal specialist training a team in Laos to clear bombs left from the ‘secret war’ the US waged at the time of the Vietnam War. The film ...
Bondi Rescue – Series 1, Episode 4 2006
A young man is found lifeless in the water on a surprisingly calm day. With no breath and no pulse, a frantic resuscitation begins.
Bondi Rescue – Series 2, Episode 7 2007
A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when the lifeguards see someone in difficulty in treacherous water who then disappears from view behind the waves. There are 20,000 people at the beach that day and when ...
The Book of Revelation 2006
Daniel (Tom Long) and Bridget (Anna Torv) are the stars of a modern dance company, run by Isabel (Greta Scacchi). During rehearsals for a new show, Daniel goes out to buy cigarettes for Bridget and ...
Bourke Boy 2009
Russell (Clarence John Ryan), a teenage boy, travels to Bourke in New South Wales with his adoptive father John (Andrew McFarlane) to visit the place of his birth and adoption. They visit the Bourke hospital ...
Boxing 1908: Johnson vs Burns 1908
Historical footage of an open-air boxing match held at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, on 26 December 1908. Canadian Tommy Burns and African American Jack Johnson are competing for the World Heavyweight Championship title. Fight promoter ...
Boxing Day 2007
Chris (Richard Green), a convict serving out the remainder of his sentence in home detention, is determined to stay both on the wagon and out of trouble. He’s carefully preparing a Boxing Day lunch for ...
The Boys are Back 2009
After successful Adelaide sports journalist Joe Warr (Clive Owen) loses his second wife Katy (Laura Fraser) to cancer, his relationship with his two sons from two different marriages is put to the test. Joe had ...
Bra Boys 2007
This is an insider account of surf culture, localism, belonging and loyalty in the Sydney beach suburb of Maroubra, presented by the 'Bra Boys’, in particular the Abberton brothers – Koby, Sunny and Jai. The ...
Bran Nue Dae 1991
This documentary by Tom Zubrycki traces the development and production of the successful stage musical Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how his experiences and education led to his ...
Bran Nue Dae 2009
Broome boy Willy (Rocky McKenzie) must choose between studying to become a priest or following his heart and pursuing his love for Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). Rosie, an aspiring singer, loves to hang out at the ...
Breaker Morant 1979
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian 'irregular’ soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary. The accused are Lieutenants Harry ...
The Breaking of the Drought 1920
Wallaby Station in the outback is devastated by drought. The sheep are starving, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) and his wife (Nan Taylor) battle on. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) falls in with the wrong ...
Breakout 1984
Breakout covers the mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war from Cowra on 5 August 1944. It is one of the biggest POW escapes in world history. Two hundred and thirty four Japanese prisoners and ...
Breathing Under Water 1991
A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve ...
Brides of Christ 1991
A miniseries for television about the lives of a group of women, some of whom are part of a teaching order of nuns and some of whom are the students being taught by those nuns. ...
Bridewealth for a Goddess 1999
Bridewealth for a Goddess follows the preparation and performance of a sacred ritual by the Kawelka people, who live on their tribal land near Mount Hagen in the Wahgi Valley in Papua New Guinea. Ru ...
Bright Star 2009
Hampstead Village, London, 1818. Eighteen-year-old Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) lives in a small house with her sister, Toots (Edie Martin), brother Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and widowed mother (Kerry Fox). Through her mother’s connection with the ...
Brisbane Dreaming 1994
This documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area.
The Broken Melody 1938
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) ruins his good prospects after a drunken brawl in a Sydney nightclub. Expelled from his musical studies at the university and thrown off his father’s property, he falls on hard times ...
Broken Sun 2008
In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary existence until he discovers and captures Masura ...
The Bronze Mirror 2007
On his way home from the village market, a man finds a bronze mirror which has fallen from a passing noblewoman’s carriage. The man mistakes his own reflection for that of a lucky spirit who ...
Browne, George: Blue Mountains c1930
This compile of silent home movie footage was taken by George Browne in 1930 and records the scenery of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
Browne, George: Our movie memories 1928–1934 1928
This silent black-and-white 9.5 mm home movie compilation by amateur filmmaker George Browne shows the Browne family and friends enacting Kate of the Cactus Country, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Good Queen Bess. They were ...
Buckley, Anthony: Buckley Family Collection: Tarn Shan Tin Mine, Thailand c1928
This silent 16mm home movie footage was shot by Horace Patrick Buckley in the late 1920s, while working in Thailand at the Tarn Shan Tin Mine. It includes footage taken at the mine, various street ...
Building a Motor Body c1925
This film shows the building of a car motor body at the Holden Motor Body Builders at Woodville, near Adelaide, in South Australia. Scenes depict the pressing of steel panels to form the car bodies ...
Building a Railway Engine c1925
This short film shows some of the work carried out at the Islington railway engine construction and repair plant of the South Australian Railways, just outside of Adelaide.
Building Construction 1899
This actuality footage, filmed in 1899, shows demolition workers carrying rubble away in wheelbarrows. A wall then crashes down.
Bungalung: A Dreaming of Cannibals 2007
Young men re-enact the Bungalung story as told by Anmatjere elders Patsy and Jane Briscoe. The film depicts the battle between two young men and the demon Bungalung in the Dreamtime. The two young men ...
Burke & Wills 1985
The Victorian Exploring Expedition leaves Melbourne on 20 August 1860, amid great fanfare and optimism. Before a large crowd, the leader, Robert O’Hara Burke (Jack Thompson), promises that he will beat the South Australian expedition ...
Burning Man 2011
After a personal tragedy, workaholic Sydney restaurateur-chef and single father Tom (Matthew Goode) turns to promiscuous sex to bury his emotional turmoil and calm his high stress levels until another calamity threatens his life.
Bush Christmas 1947
In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children – Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Snow (Nicky Yardley) and their English friend Michael (Michael Yardley) – are looking forward to the Christmas ...
Bushnell, K: Cyclone Tracy Aftermath 1974
This unedited raw footage was shot by freelance cameraman Keith Bushnell in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas Day 1974. It captures the devastation and destruction of the city and ...
Bush Toys 2008
Bush Toys documents the continuity of the bush toy-making tradition in the Titjikala community, 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It follows a group of boys finding the materials, creating toy cars and exhibiting their ...
Butterfly Island – Series 1 Episode 1 1985
The Wilson family run an unspoilt resort on Butterfly Island, despite financial troubles and strong competition from new glamorous resorts nearby. In this first episode of the series, a young Vietnamese refugee (Phu An Chiem) ...
Bye Bye Baby 1959
A jaunty two-and-a-half minute pop song performed by Col Joye, Australia’s first home-grown rock’n'roll star, and the Joy Boys, with backing vocals from the Sapphires. This catchy pop tune of the late ’50s reached number ...
Cactus 1986
Colo (Isabelle Huppert) has come to Australia from France to stay with family friends, after the failure of her marriage. Tom (Norman Kaye) and his wife Beatrice (Monica Maughan) own a big house with a ...
Cactus 2007
In inner-city Sydney at night, John Kelly (Travis McMahon) captures and drugs a young man, Eli (David Lyons), places him in the boot of his beat-up 1972 Ford Fairmont XA and drives him out of ...
The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898
Yamaz Sibarud, a traditional song performed by ‘Maino of Yam’, is part of the Alfred Cort Haddon recordings of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait in 1898.
Canberra Files, The 2006
The Canberra Files takes a chronological look at the way moving images of Australia’s political leaders have influenced the nation over 105 years. It features a special on the Menzies Home Movie Collection and an ...
Candy 2006
Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) are young and in love – with each other, and with heroin. He’s an aspiring poet, she’s an aspiring painter. Their days and nights are full of lovemaking ...
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 ...
Captain Cook’s Cottage 1938
Mr Russell Grimwade tells of his purchase of Captain Cook’s family cottage in Yorkshire, England and its transport to Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. To ‘appease resentment’ back in Yorkshire, a monument is erected in its place.
Careful He Might Hear You 1983
Since the death of his mother in childbirth, six-year-old PS (Nicholas Gledhill) has been raised by his aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford), in a modest suburban house near Sydney Harbour. ...
Carnival of Flowers, Toowoomba 1953
Every spring, in the heart of Queensland’s Darling Downs, Toowoomba celebrates the Carnival of Flowers, complete with floral street parade, garden competitions and the crowning of the floral queen. Capturing the colour of spring and ...
The Cars That Ate Paris 1974
Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The brother is dead. The mayor (John Meillon) ...
Case 442 2005
Frank Byrne was stolen from his mother Maudie Yooringun at the age of five. Decades later, Frank searches for his mother’s burial site with the intention of taking her back to her country in the ...
Catalyst – Teen Brain 2005
In 1973, Australia lowered the age of majority to 18, the age at which you are legally responsible for your actions. New science, however, is proving that our brains are not actually mature until around ...
Catalyst – Wollemi Pine 2005
The discovery of a tree from the Jurassic period in the National Park in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 1994, was like finding a family of dinosaurs alive and well. Scientists are returning to ...
