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Catching Crocodiles 1933
This wildlife documentary made by Australian Educational Films shows methods used by hunters to catch freshwater and saltwater crocodiles in Australia’s far north.
Cedar Boys 2008
Cedar Boys depicts young Lebanese Australians being tempted into a lifestyle of crime, driven in part by a nursed sense of class and racial grievance. Tarek (Les Chantery) is frustrated by his job as a ...
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne 2008
A prominent socialite and Hollywood film producer in the 1960s and ’70s, Dominick Dunne fell into alcoholism before re-emerging as a novelist and Vanity Fair reporter covering celebrity trials. Filmed during the murder trial of ...
Cenotaph 1993
The documentary looks at the effect of the First World War on the New South Wales country town of Hay. Seven women and 641 men went to the war from Hay. One hundred and three ...
Central Australia: The Eighth Wonder 1989
Ted Egan takes us on tour through Central Australia and introduces us to many of the features of the region he calls the 'Eighth Wonder’. Retracing the tracks of explorers and settlers in times past, ...
The Chain Reaction 1980
Deadly radiation is released following an accident at the WALDO nuclear waste facility in central Australia. Heinrich (Ross Thompson), a scientist at the facility who has been exposed to a fatal dose of contaminated water, ...
Championship Chase 1970
On the eve of champion driver Norm Beechey’s final race in the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC), this documentary by the Shell Film Unit looks back at how Beechey won the Championship.
The Changing Face of Australia 1970
This documentary made by the Shell Company of Australia provides a geological view of Australia’s natural history and development.
A Changing Race 1964
The 1964 black-and-white documentary A Changing Race interviews Aboriginal people about their life in Central Australia including their experience of racial discrimination.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978
In central-western New South Wales in the 1890s, a young half-caste Aboriginal man raised by missionaries kills most of a family of white farmers, after an argument about his wages. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) and ...
Chant Vénitien 1904
Dame Nellie Melba’s recording of ‘Chant Vénitien’ was among her first commercial recording sessions. Her performance, for the Gramophone Company in London on 20 October 1904, is accompanied by the composer of the song, Herman ...
Chas E Blanks: Families at Seaside, Sydney Harbour c1930
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Sydney Ferries shows children swimming and families picnicking at a fun fair at Nielsen Park and Clifton Gardens.
The Cheaters (silent) 1929
Bill Marsh (Arthur Greenaway) serves a 20-year prison sentence for embezzling from businessman John Travers (John Faulkner). On his release Marsh forms a criminal organisation whose members include his daughter Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed ...
The Cheaters (sound version) 1931
Bill Marsh (Arthur Greenaway) serves a 20-year prison sentence for embezzling from businessman John Travers (John Faulkner). On his release Marsh forms a criminal organisation whose members include his daughter Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed ...
Cheeky Dog 2006
A documentary about a young Indigenous boy with muscular dystrophy and his fascination with dogs. Cheeky Dog is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe ...
Chequerboard – My Brown Skin Baby, They Take ‘im Away 1970
My Brown Skin Baby, They Take 'im Away introduces Bob Randall, a lay preacher and folksinger living and working in Darwin. This documentary presents a first-hand account of a member of the stolen generations. It ...
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 6: That One Piece of Paper 2000
The original Chequerboard program was made in black-and-white in 1972. Two boys were chosen from Liverpool Boys’ High School. Pat wants to leave school immediately at age 16 to try for work as a technician ...
Children of the Silk Road 2007
This large-scale period film is a love story set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation of China in the years leading up to the Second World War. Young British journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys ...
Child Soldiers 2002
There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. The film features historical footage, interviews with ...
Chinese Take Away 2002
Chinese Take Away is an adaptation by filmmaker Mitzi Goldman of a one-woman theatre production written and performed by Anna Yen. Yen seeks to learn about a family tragedy and tells the complex story of ...
Choo Choo c1940
An amateur film by Will and Harrie Owen which features the Spirit of Progress passenger train. It includes both documentary and dramatised footage.
Chopper 2000
In 1991, Mark 'Chopper’ Read (Eric Bana) is in jail watching himself on television. He has become the most famous criminal in Australia, a standover man who claims to have robbed and killed only drug ...
Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December 1928
This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains ...
Cine Safari c1977
This silent home movie footage was filmed by amateur filmmaker Alan Bresnahan during a tour of the United States of America and Canada in 1977. It includes eight short travelogues: Hello Hawaii, Looking at Los ...
Cinesound Review: That Mersey Sound: Beatles at the Stadium 1964
This is a Cinesound Review newsreel special on the Beatles’ tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1964. The first part of the newsreel shows the Beatles visiting Melbourne and Sydney and footage of thousands ...
Cinesound Varieties 1934
This surviving 18-minute fragment is from an hour-long variety show directed by Ken G Hall and photographed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound in 1934. It contains a segment with Hamilton Webber and the State Orchestra ...
The Circuit – It’s a Long Way Home 2007
Young lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in Broome to work for the Aboriginal Legal Service. His first day is a disaster: he crashes his car en route and is arrested through a misunderstanding. He ...
The Circus Comes to Town c1943
This silent documentary follows Wirth’s Circus and Zoo as it travels to Brisbane, Queensland. It shows the arrival of the circus train at the station and the elephants hauling equipment from the train. A large ...
The City of Geelong 1957
This part travelogue, part promotional documentary, made by the Shell Film Unit Australia, illustrates how the city of Geelong has developed into a great industrial centre since it was first settled in 1836.
City Traffic in Variable Moods c1920
This whimsical item is probably from an Australasian Gazette newsreel. It shows the road and pedestrian traffic around the Flinders and Swanston St intersection in Melbourne in the 1920s, as well as a ride on ...
Clay 1965
Nick (George Dixon) is a killer on the run from the police in rural Victoria. He is saved from capture by Margot (Janina Lebedew), a sculptress living in a remote artists’ colony along with her ...
The Clinic 1982
Medical student Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) arrives at a busy Melbourne VD (venereal disease) clinic. Paul intends to study the work of Dr Eric Linden (Chris Haywood), Dr Carol Young (Rona McLeod) and Dr Hassad ...
Clubland 2007
Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) is an English comedienne stranded in the western suburbs of Sydney. Her marriage to a country singer (Frankie J Holden) has dissolved, leaving her with two sons and a mortgage. She’s ...
The Club 1980
Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson) is coach of a Victorian Football League (VFL) team that hasn’t won a premiership for 19 years. Club president Ted Parker (Graham Kennedy) brings in a star recruit at great expense, ...
The Coca-Cola Kid 1985
Concerned about profit margins in Australia, the Coca-Cola company sends its top trouble shooter Becker (Eric Roberts) to its Sydney office. The company’s Australian boss, Frank Hunter (Max Gillies), tells Becker about T George McDowell ...
A Cold Summer 2003
A Cold Summer depicts the dysfunctional entanglement of three damaged young individuals in Sydney, two of them old female school friends, the third a male alcoholic living in his car. Bobby (Teo Gebert), who has ...
Cold Turkey 2002
A film about sibling rivalry. Robby (Wayne Munro) is leaving for Coober Pedy and a job in the opal fields but his older brother Shane (John Moore) doesn’t want to be abandoned in Alice Springs. ...
Collingwood Community School 1975
This ‘process video’ made by Tom Zubrycki aspires to provide an insight into the day-to-day running of the Collingwood Community School and some of the issues involved for both students and staff.
The Colony 2005
A six part 'living history’ series, in which four families and several single people – chosen to match the social fabric of the 1800s as convicts, political exiles, free settlers and Aborigines – all travel ...
The Combination 2009
Young Lebanese Australian John (George Basha) comes home from jail to live with his widowed mother (Doris Younane) and wild younger brother Charlie (Firass Dirani), who is still at school. Having learned his lesson the ...
Commonwealth Bank – The School Bank 1951
Produced for the Commonwealth Savings Bank by the Australian National Film Board, the film, aimed at primary school children, explains the place of the School Banking program in relation to the broader national banking system. ...
Compass – Buddha Realms, Part 1 2001
Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest religions; it’s older than both Christianity and Islam and, like those faiths, its influence has spread throughout the world. This program traces the development of this ancient religion ...
Compass – Changi Days, POW Poets 2003
When 22,000 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese on the Malay Peninsula early in 1942, they disappeared into the vast prison camp called Changi on Singapore Island. The soldiers had to find ways ...
Compass – Embracing the Enemy 2005
Turkish immigrants to Australia in the 1970s immediately felt connected through the Anzac Day marches but found they were forbidden to march with the Australians. Thus began a long campaign to be acknowledged, just as ...
Compass – Fly on the Wall Messiah 2004
Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel’s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. It’s a Christmas tradition. They have nine rehearsals only and getting ready for the big night is a nail-biting ...
Compass – Gallipoli Pilgrimage 2006
Australians are making their way in increasing numbers to Anzac Cove in Turkey each year to commemorate the ANZAC landing there on April 25th, 1915. This is the story of some of those who were ...
Compass – Paws For Thought 2000
Traditional Christianity taught that humans are superior to animals. Science is rapidly changing that perception. So is non human life important and if so why?
Compass – Saving Claymore 2002
Fire-bombings, stealing and vandalism were the norm in the Sydney suburb of Claymore, where residents lived in fear and isolation. Then the Catholic Church moved in and introduced a project developed in the third world, ...
Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge 1931
A comprehensive pictorial record that chronicles the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1925 and 1931, filmed by the Paramount Film Service, Sydney.
Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement 1976
This documentary made by the New South Wales Department of Main Roads features the reconstruction of a five-and-a-half kilometre stretch of the Pacific Highway at Clybucca Flat, north of Kempsey, using continuously reinforced concrete pavement ...
