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Fashionista – Vivienne Westwood 2005
This film records an exhibition of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion designs from over 30 years, which was held at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2005. The exhibition was opened by Westwood’s husband, Andreas Kronthaler, who ...
Fatal Bond 1991
Small town hairdresser Leonie Stevens (Linda Blair) is instantly attracted to mysterious drifter Joe Martinez (Jerome Ehlers). Leonie packs her bags and heads south with Joe, who says he’s going to set up a car ...
Father 2008
An autobiographical animated short film about a boy struggling to understand his ‘strange, silent’ father, who arrived in Australia as a refugee from Lithuania.
Father 1989
Melbourne, 1989. Elderly widower Joseph Mueller (Max von Sydow) lives with his daughter, Anne (Carol Drinkwater), her husband Bobby (Steve Jacobs) and their daughters Rebecca (Simone Robertson) and Amy (Kahli Sneddon). Running a busy inner ...
Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign c1928
In 1929 the Federal Capital Commission’s Health Department launched a campaign to reduce blowfly and housefly numbers in Canberra. This public relations film produced by the Commission explains its anti-fly campaign. It depicts a series ...
Fetch 1998
The story of a man (Matt Day), his date (Rebecca Frith), her dog (Mindy) and how quickly a fledgling romance can progress from awkward to awful.
Fez Please c1935
A short silent documentary made by the Owen Brothers about Melbourne’s fast-disappearing cable trams.
Fighting Blood 1951
This Cinesound documentary directed by Clive Ross highlights the talents of Australian fighters, including Aboriginal boxers Alfie Clay, Elley Bennett and Dave Sands. It also features historical footage of one of Australia’s most well-known fighters, ...
Fighting in Flanders 1917
Australian soldiers prepare for a ‘stunt’ with physical exercises and rifle drill. Well-rested troops display their prowess at marching, as artillery units prepare for a major offensive against German positions east of the Belgian city ...
Fighting the Flames 1909
This footage of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade features horsedrawn fire units moving through the streets of Adelaide as well as rescue and resuscitation demonstrations by fire brigade members.
Fig Street Fiasco 1974
A ‘process video’ that filmmaker Tom Zubrycki made in collaboration with inner-city Sydney residents, this documentary voices the concerns of residents whose houses are tagged for demolition to make way for the proposed North-Western Expressway.
A Film for Discussion 1973
A Film for Discussion is a black-and-white experimental film made in 1970 using dramatised scenes, historical footage, stills, posters and ads to convey the situation of women, the emergence of the women’s movement in Australia ...
The Final Winter 2007
After 13 years of first grade rugby league for the Newtown Jets, Mick 'Grub’ Henderson (Matt Nable) faces his hardest challenge – the end of his career. His vicious late hit on a St George ...
The Finished People 2003
The Finished People cuts between three stories of disadvantaged young people struggling to survive on the streets of Cabramatta, a suburb in south-west Sydney known for its high crime rate and also for its high ...
First Australians – Episode 1, They Have Come to Stay 2008
Episode one covers the first meetings between the Indigenous Aborigines, the first Australians, and the British First Fleet, who sailed into Sydney on 26 January 1788. They soon come face to face and while their ...
First Australians – Episode 2, Her Will to Survive 2008
This episode covers the period from 1825–60 and explores the history of European settlement in Tasmania through the stories of Truganini and George Augustus Robinson. Colonisation spreads south to Tasmania, along with the settlers’ desire ...
First Australians – Episode 3, Freedom For Our Lifetime 2008
The third episode of the First Australians series begins in 1860 in Victoria and, through the lives of Simon Wonga and William Barak, explores broader issues facing Aboriginal people in these times. The threat of ...
First Australians – Episode 4, No Other Law 2008
Episode four, 'No other law’, explores the history of white settlement in Central Australia and the stories of homicidal police officer Constable Willshire, who brings mayhem to the Arrernte nation. Authorities turn a blind eye ...
First Australians – Episode 5, Unhealthy Government Experiment 2008
In this fifth episode of First Australians, European settlement spreads to Western Australia and is met with much conflict, as explored through the experiences of Aboriginal stockman Jandamarra. The history and aftermath of the Stolen ...
First Australians – Episode 6, A Fair Deal for a Dark Race 2008
Episode six, 'A Fair Deal for a Dark Race’, explores Indigenous history from 1930–67, primarily in the south-eastern regions of Australia, through the lives of Yorta Yorta men Doug Nicholls and his uncle, William Cooper. ...
First Australians – Episode 7, We Are No Longer Shadows 2008
The seventh and final episode of First Australians covers the period 1967–93, focusing on the Torres Strait Islands and Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s fight for land rights. This period was, globally, a time of increased civil ...
Flat 2002
A short drama about the day in a life of a young teenager, who captures Alice Springs through a video camera given to her by her mostly absent father.
Flirting 1990
At a private boys’ school in 1965, class misfit Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) finds his romantic soulmate in Thandiwe (Thandiwe Newton), a precocious, intelligent girl of African heritage from the nearby private girls’ school. After ...
Floating Life 1996
As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, ...
Flowergirl 1999
Japanese surfers Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba), Hana (Mikiko Ooka) and Tetsu (Jun Iwasaki) share a Bondi flat together. After a year in Australia, Daisuke must return to Japan. Although he is a vegetarian, out of obligation ...
The Flying Doctors – Public Property 1986
The Flying Doctors is based on the work and lives of the men and women of the outback medical service established in 1928 by the Reverend Dr John Flynn. The drama is located somewhere in ...
Follow the Sun 1938
The beauty of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is promoted in this travelogue filmed and directed by adventurous cameraman Frank Hurley. It begins inside a home at wintertime where the narrator invites the audience on a ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 2 2004
Whether it’s diving for trepang or sea cucumber in the northernmost tip of Australia, or putting together a feast from local produce at the southernmost point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania, the program ranges ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 5 2004
Maeve O’Mara travels to north-east Tasmania to discover the secrets behind creating a terrific cheddar. We then meet the chef of Sydney’s great restaurant, Claude’s, while Joanna Savill helps with the preparations for a three ...
Footscray 1911 c1911
This unedited actuality footage of Footscray in 1910 captures street scenes of daily life in the Melbourne suburb. The film is silent, without intertitles and filmed mostly with a static camera.
Footscray 1971 1971
This unedited actuality footage of Footscray, Melbourne, in 1971 features the suburb’s main streets (including shopfronts, traffic and crowds), a Ferris wheel at the opening of Nicholson Mall, mothers and their children gathered for a ...
Footy Legends 2006
Ten years after leaving school in Yagoona, in Sydney’s western suburbs, Luc Vu (Anh Do) is unemployed and struggling to raise his little sister Anne (Lisa Saggers). Their mother has died and their grandfather (Dao ...
Footy The La Perouse Way 2006
A documentary that uses historical photographs to talk about the history of rugby league in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse, and how football has helped build a community that prides itself on being open ...
Forbidden Lie$ 2007
Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller about the incredible journey of author, Norma Khouri, to defend herself against claims that her best-selling book, Forbidden Love (2003), was fraudulent. Forbidden Love is about the honour killing ...
Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack 2004
Fourteen-year-old Brett Miller (Zachary Garred) has discovered an amazing portal In the old Perth beach house where he lives, which takes him to Ireland. When Irish girl Hannah O’Flaherty (Lynn Styles) finds out about it, ...
The Forerunner 1957
Made by the Shell Film Unit within the first decade of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme’s construction, this documentary positions the ambitious scheme as the country’s 'first major step towards the final solution of Australia’s ...
For the Honour of Australia 1916
As Jack Lane finds himself orphaned and broke, he joins the Australian Navy and is inducted on the training ship, Tingira. His ne’er-do-well brother Stanley (Boyd Irwin) discovers a German spy ring amongst wealthy socialites ...
For the Term of His Natural Life 1927
Richard Devine (George Fisher), heir of wealthy Sir Richard, decides to ship out of England, rather than reveal his mother’s secret – that his real father is the neighbour, Lord Bellasis (Arthur Greenaway). When Bellasis ...
A Fortunate Life 1985
A dramatisation of Albert Barnett Facey’s award-winning, widely read autobiography of the same name, this mini-series covers about three-quarters of the book. It begins with Facey’s arrival as a toddler in Western Australia in 1899, ...
Four Corners – Aiding or Abetting 1983
It’s 1983 and President Ferdinand Marcos is president of the Philippines. Australia is donating $80 million of bilateral aid to the Philippine Government. The question is, how is this aid being spent? The Australian Government ...
Four Corners – Blue Death 1988
Wittenoom was home to more than 20,000 people who worked in the mining and processing of blue asbestos from 1944 until the mine closed in 1966. But blue asbestos is a killer and now, years ...
Four Corners – Far From Care 2006
This episode of Four Corners looks at the quality of health care on offer for Australians living in remote and rural areas – the world class health care for people in major cities is not ...
Four Corners – Inside the Circle 2005
In NSW, Aboriginal people are just 2% of the population and yet make up 20% of the prison population. Something is being done to change this terrible statistic. It’s a new system to deal with ...
Four Corners – We’ll All Be Rooned 1982
Reporter Jim Downes takes us into the wheat belt in the marginal country of Coonamble, near Dubbo in NSW. The outback is now entering its fourth year of drought in this land of boom and ...
Four’s a Crowd 1957
Four’s a Crowd is a short documentary that comically portrays four types of workers (all played by filmmaker Jock Levy) in the waterfront industry – Glass-arm Harry, Tiddly Pete, Nick-away Ned and Ron the Roaster. ...
Fran 1985
In suburban Perth, young mother Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has been seeking the social and sexual comfort of men while her husband, Ray (Danny Adcock), works up north. Ray returns unexpectedly one day, saying he’s heard ...
Friday on My Mind 1966
‘Friday on My Mind’ is considered one of the greatest ever Australian pop songs and made the Easybeats an enduring name in the pop and rock world.
From Sand to Celluloid – Payback 1996
A short drama about payback, the Indigenous traditional law system. After 20 years, Paddy (George Djilaynga) is released from jail into tribal law.
FW Thring Introduces the Stars 1931
This cinema announcement made by filmmaker Frank W Thring Snr promotes Australian talking pictures, the Efftee Studio production Diggers (1931) and some of the upcoming stars of his Efftee feature films. The Efftee actors introduced ...
Gallipoli 1981
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) is a drifter ...
