Titles with location maps
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Sunday Too Far Away 1975
On an outback station in 1956, hard-drinking shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of 'gun shearer’, the one with the highest tally. Foley (Jack Thompson) has not been beaten ...
Ask the Leyland Brothers – Episode 23 1976
In Ask the Leyland Brothers, adventurers Mike and Mal Leyland travel to different parts of Australia to make short documentary segments. Every story is a response to letters from viewers asking the Leyland Brothers to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Devil’s Playground 1976
Tom Allen (Simon Burke) is a 13-year-old postulant at a Catholic seminary outside Melbourne. It is 1953, when boys still began training for religious orders in their early teens. Tom is constantly in trouble – ...
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 ...
In the Wild with Harry Butler – Lake Argyle 1976
Harry Butler is a native of Western Australia. He has returned there to explain how this massive man-made body of water, now called Lake Argyle, has changed the Ord River and the ecology of the ...
In the Wild with Harry Butler – Scars on the Landscape 1976
Naturalist Harry Butler is in northern Queensland, where millennia of fire stick farming by Indigenous Australians has created the grasslands of that region.
Number 96 – Episodes 1003 and 1004 1976
These episodes are from the show’s later period when it was trying to woo back viewers with another (politically incorrect) creepy visitor storyline: after the Knicker Snipper and the Pantyhose Strangler, along came the Hooded ...
Oz – A Rock ‘n’ Roll Road Movie 1976
Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) wakes up in the strange land of Oz after a car crash. The 'Good Fairy’ (Robin Ramsey) tells her she should go to the city, to see the last performance of a ...
The Painters and Dockers Strike 1976
A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over the principle of flow-ons from parent awards.
Peach’s Australia – Darling River 1976
The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South Wales. This was the centre of sheep ...
Peach’s Australia – Flinders Ranges 1976
Bill Peach takes us on a folksy amble through the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. As he reveals the extraordinary beauty of this arid range he tells us something of the rich history of settlement ...
Storm Boy 1976
A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. With the help of an Aboriginal man, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), ...
The Sullivans – On the Brink of War 1976
The Sullivans tells the story of the Second World War through the eyes of a Melbourne family, their friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Told in ‘real time’, with each week’s episodes reflecting a week of the ...
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism 1976
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism is an anthropological documentary about the unique innovations that the Trobriand Islanders have made to cricket. Trobriand Cricket uses observational coverage of a demonstration cricket match, historical footage ...
Addison Road Drop-In 1977
A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Many of them are on welfare benefits and the Drop-In ...
Backroads 1977
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western New South Wales and head for the coast. Jack (Bill Hunter) is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary (Gary Foley) doesn’t ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jubilee and Beyond 1977
This documentary is a record of the visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Victoria in 1977. In particular it covers the welcome by 18,000 school ...
The Last Wave 1977
David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is a successful Sydney tax lawyer who takes on the defence of five Aboriginal men charged with killing another Aboriginal man. As the city is deluged with rain, Burton recognises that ...
Life at the Top: A Week with Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser 1977
Life at the Top follows Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser for one jam-packed week as he goes about his various work responsibilities, from 7-13 October 1977. He visits Kalgoorlie and Wollongong, attends numerous meetings with advisers ...
The Singer and the Dancer 1977
Two women, both misfits of a sort, become friends in a small rural community. Mrs Bilson (Ruth Cracknell) pretends to be an invalid, and carries the deep scars of a failed marriage. Charlie (Elisabeth Crosby) ...
Summer City 1977
In the early 1960s, Sandy (John Jarratt), Boo (Steve Bisley), Scollop (Mel Gibson) and Robbie (Phil Avalon) drive to the beaches north of Sydney for a surfing weekend. The boys are planning to give Sandy ...
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.
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 ...
The Getting of Wisdom 1978
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college to jeers of 'country bumpkin’ and 'tweedle-dumb, ram’s bum’. Spirited and talented though she is, the pressure to fit ...
Long Weekend 1978
Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) drive out of the city for a long weekend’s camping by the sea. They are barely speaking to each other and Marcia hates the outdoors. They ...
My Survival as an Aboriginal 1978
A documentary about Indigenous woman Essie Coffey and her life in the township of Brewarrina, or Dodge City, as it is also known.
Newsfront 1978
In Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) and his young sidekick Chris (Chris Haywood) cover the big news stories for the Cinetone newsreel company. An old-school cameraman, ...
Patrick 1978
Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Roget ...
Size 10 1978
Size 10 portrays how women’s body images have been formed and deformed by advertising and sexism and analyses the separation of women from their bodies and each other. Four women tell their stories of the ...
Third Person Plural 1978
Easy-going Terry (George Shevtsov) invites three friends on a weekend boating trip. Mark (Bryan Brown) is a biologist who studies ants. Danny (Linden Wilkinson) is making a documentary about senior citizens. Beth (Margaret Cameron) has ...
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.
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 ...
Coruba Jamaican Rum 1979
This animated cinema commercial for Coruba Jamaican Rum celebrates the lifestyle associated with the spirit’s origins.
Just Out of Reach 1979
Just Out Of Reach is a powerful film about the tragic impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family during the 1970s. The film is a dramatised portrait of Cath, a young woman, who becomes ...
The Last of the Knucklemen 1979
A group of opal miners live in a tin shed near the outback town of Andamooka in South Australia. The foreman, Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy), is known as ‘the last of the knucklemen’ for his ability ...
Mad Max 1979
In the near future, in a collapsing society, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) patrols the highway in a super-charged patrol car, the Interceptor, like a modern-day samurai. When a bikie gang declares war on him and ...
Money Movers 1979
On the day that one of his armoured cars is robbed, Lionel Darcy (Frank Wilson) receives an anonymous tip off that his multi-million dollar counting house will soon be hit. A corrupt detective (Alan Cassell) ...
My Brilliant Career 1979
During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an extended visit to her aristocratic grandmother (Aileen ...
North to Niugini 1979
Malcolm Douglas and Brett Nixon navigate the east coast of Australia in a five-metre boat. They depart from Sydney then replenish their supplies and enjoy some good fishing on a remote beach in far north ...
The Odd Angry Shot 1979
After his 21st birthday, Bill (John Jarratt) goes to fight in Vietnam, as part of the Australian forces. He’s in the Special Air Services, elite professional soldiers who look down on the ‘nashos’, the conscripted ...
The Plumber 1979
Jilly (Judy Morris) and Brian (Robert Coleby) are young academics, living in a high-rise university flat in Adelaide. They have recently returned from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where Jilly did research for a ...
Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma 1979
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved.
Thirst 1979
Advertising executive Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by the Hyma Brotherhood, a secret society of blood drinkers led by Dr Fraser (David Hemmings). Held at the group’s country headquarters where blood is extracted from ...
