Titles with location maps
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Dingo 1991
On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the tarmac after his plane makes an unscheduled stop. John Anderson ...
Dipping Sheep 1899
A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip.
Dirty Deeds 2002
Sydney, 1969. Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown), affable family man and gangster, controls most of the city’s booming poker machine trade, when the US mafia decides it wants to take over his patch. Barry’s nephew Darcy ...
Dirty War 2005
The US has been invited by the Australian Government to use Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland as a training base. The film describes the pollution left by the US in the Philippines and asks if ...
The Dismissal 1983
On 11 November 1975, the Labor Prime Minister was dismissed by the Queen’s representative in Australia, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. The Dismissal brings to life the events leading up to this extraordinary event that ...
Divine Service – Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church, Rose Bay 1965
This program features a Roman Catholic religious service recorded in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, celebrated by the Reverend Father Neil Collins with preacher Reverend Father Julian Miller from St ...
Divine Service – The House of Freedom Church, Brisbane 1986
A service is held in the House of Freedom in the inner city Brisbane suburb of West End, with a population of migrant, Aboriginal and working class Australians. This Christian community began in 1972 and ...
Division of Radiophysics 1950
Produced by the CSIRO Information Service, this public relations documentary outlines some of the major investigations undertaken by the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics at the University of Sydney during the 1940s. It shows their research ...
The Djarn Djarns 2005
A short drama about a group of Indigenous boys who become each other’s family following the death of Franky’s (Hunter Page) father.
Doesn’t Everybody Want a Golden Guitar 1995
Filmed during the 1995 Tamworth Country Music Festival, the documentary is a tribute to Australian country music and the performers and fans that follow country music. The film is a sampler of differing styles of ...
Dog Dreaming 2001
A documentary that uses observational footage and paintings to tell the Dreaming story of two ancestral dogs.
Dogs in Space 1986
Melbourne, 1978. A large group of young people share a dilapidated house in the inner-city suburb of Richmond. Sam (Michael Hutchence) sings in the rock group Dogs in Space. His girlfriend, Anna (Saskia Post), works ...
Doing Time for Patsy Cline 1997
Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents’ property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a ...
Don’s Party 1976
On federal election night in 1969, Don and Kath Henderson (John Hargreaves and Jeanie Drynan) host a party, to celebrate what they expect will be a Labor victory after 20 years of conservative government. Most ...
Dot and the Kangaroo 1977
Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes up to find a large female red kangaroo tapping her ...
Double-decker Bus and Rail Motor c1936
This footage, shot by Mr Waddington of Smith and Waddington Ltd, displays a range of newly constructed buses including a double-decker bus.
Double Trouble – Episode 1 2007
Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the ...
Double Trouble – Episode 4 2007
Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places.
Double Trouble – Episode 7 2007
Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap identities. In this seventh episode ...
The Dream and the Dreaming 2003
A documentary about the arrival of the Lutheran missionaries in 1877 in central Australia.
The Dream – Days 9 and 15 2000
The Dream, hosted by comedic duo 'Rampaging’ Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), was conceived as a two-hour informal nightly wrap to Seven’s coverage of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000, also known ...
Dr Plonk 2007
In 1907 the eccentric scientist and inventor Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) discovers the world will end in 2008. Plonk presents his findings to Prime Minister Stalk (Wayne Anthony), but Stalk and his sceptical advisers demand ...
Duff, Paul: Papua New Guinea c1949
This silent colour 8mm home movie footage was filmed by Paul Duff during his years working for the Australian Petroleum Company in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The footage depicts the work of the company and ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 1985
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The Dunera and interned as 'enemy aliens’.
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Milkshakes and Bomb Shelter c1940
This 16mm black-and-white home movie shot by Frederick Simpson Dyer features three children riding their bikes in Balwyn, Victoria, enjoying milkshakes at an old-fashioned milk bar, and playing in a bomb shelter in their backyard.
East West 101 – The Enemy Within 2007
When a police officer is shot after an armed hold-up, the Lakemba Major Crime Squad go in search of men 'of Middle Eastern appearance’. As the net closes around two suspects, Detective Zane Malik (Don ...
Echidna the Survivor 1995
The documentary looks at a year in the life of several echidnas on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia. The film captures the life cycle from egg to mature adult. The short-beaked echidna ...
Eco House Challenge – Episode 1, Stop Your Gassing 2007
Two Australian families have accepted the eco challenge to turn their lives around by changing their daily usage of water, transport, energy and waste removal. One family is led by an ex-army commando father, who ...
Eco House Challenge – Episode 3, Emission Impossible 2007
The families from the first two programs who had to survive for 24 hours with no water, electricity, cars or waste disposal, have now had one of those resources returned so long as they can ...
Eelemarni, The Story of Leo and Leva 1988
A short film about a Dreaming story from the Bundjalung people.
Elephant Tales 2006
Life on the wild plains of Africa is wonderful for Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his younger elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) until they find themselves orphaned by hunters (named ‘The Badness’). ...
Emerald City 1988
Successful screenwriter Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) moves from Melbourne to Sydney with his publisher wife Kate (Robyn Nevin) and their children, Sam (Haydon Samuels) and Penny (Ella Scott). When his latest screenplay is rejected by ...
End of the Rainbow 2007
End of the Rainbow is an Australian-French co-production that tracks an industrial gold mine being dismantled piece by piece in Kalimantan, Borneo in Indonesia and reconstructed in a remote part of Guinea, West Africa. To ...
The Enemy Within 1918
Late in the First World War, Jack Airlie (RL 'Snowy’ Baker) is recalled secretly to Australia after four years of 'special duty’ abroad. He returns to enthusiastic merriment at his gentleman’s club and society parties ...
Epsilon 1995
An old woman (Alethea McGrath) recounts a story to her granddaughters (Chloe and Phoebe Ferguson) about a man (Syd Brisbane) that she met many years before. He told her about an experience that changed his ...
Erskineville Kings 1999
Barky (Marty Denniss) returns to Sydney for his father’s funeral. He has been away in Queensland for more than two years while his older brother Wace (Hugh Jackman) took care of their father after a ...
Eureka Stockade 1949
As thousands of men leave their jobs to search for gold in Ballarat in 1854, the Victorian Governor imposes harsh taxation in the form of a mining licence, to discourage new miners. New arrivals Peter ...
Eventide and Westbrook Farm Home: Brisbane City Mission 1950
Operated through the Queensland State Government Department of Health and Home Affairs, the Eventide aged care facility is situated in the seaside suburb of Sandgate in Brisbane. In another area of the State, just outside ...
Everynight… Everynight 1994
Remand prisoner Dale (David Field) is sent to H Division, for notorious offenders, soon after arriving at Melbourne’s Pentridge prison. He is savagely bashed on arrival by three prison officers, led by Berriman (Bill Hunter). ...
Evil Angels 1988
A true story. On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in central ...
Exile in Sarajevo 1997
An observational documentary as Australian filmmaker Tahir Cambis and Sarajevo local Alma Sahbaz record the last six months of the Bosnian War.
Expedition South 1961
The Thala Dan brings relief supplies and 33 new men to Mawson, Australia’s largest Antarctic station, in early 1960. They will relieve the winter party, who have spent a year on the ice. In fine ...
The Exploits of the Emden 1928
In the German colony of Tsingtao (Qingdao), on the Chinese coast, the warship Emden puts to sea as war breaks out in Europe, in August 1914. Reservist Officer Fritz Ackermann must join the ship even ...
The Eye of the Storm 2011
Washed-up, UK-based thespian Sir Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis), an impoverished minor European princess, return to their Sydney family home as their eccentric, wealthy mother, Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling), recovers from a stroke. ...
The Eyes Have It 1958
Produced by Movietone for the Australian Road Safety Council, this black-and-white cinema advertisement features cricketer Keith Miller. It illustrates the importance of observation and concentration in both the game of cricket and for road safety. ...
Face to Face 2011
A workplace community conference unfolds over a single day. Colleagues (and three family members or friends) from a small construction company meet to decide the fate of sacked apprentice Wayne (Luke Ford). Wayne potentially faces ...
Farey: Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge 1932
This home movie includes a diverse range of footage taken by Leslie Francis Farey and features a trip taken by his family who travelled from Melbourne, Victoria to witness the opening of the Sydney Harbour ...
The Far Paradise 1928
Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), who has spent years overseas, is on her way home when she meets and is attracted to Peter Lawton (Paul Longuet), son of attorney-general Howard Lawton (John ...
Farrow, H: Victorian and South Australian Holiday Scenes c1930
This home movie contains holiday scenes in Victoria and South Australia from the 1930s filmed by H Farrow.
