All titles in the ‘Nature’ genre
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The Barefoot Bushman: Dancing With Dingoes (1997)
The barefoot bushman, Rob Bredl, presents his view of Australian nature with an emphasis on the dingo. Rob examines the arrival of the dingo from Thailand and traces ...
Dancing Orpheus (1962)
A black-and-white nature program from the earliest years of ABC television featuring the unique lyrebird.
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 ...
Franklin River Journey (1980)
The documentary traces the journey down river on a raft by amateur botanist Antonius Moscal. The Franklin River is part of the south-west wilderness of Tasmania.
The Franklin Wild River (1980)
A documentary film about the Franklin River in South West Tasmania. Conservationist Dr Bob Brown travels the length of the river through largely untouched wilderness by inflatable raft, ...
Home of the Blizzard (1913)
Home of the Blizzard documents part of the treacherous 600 mile 1911–1914 expedition to the Magnetic South Pole lead by Sir Douglas Mawson. Filmed between December 1911 and ...
Hypsi: the Forest Gardener (1998)
The documentary follows zoologist Dr Andrew Dennis as he studies the life cycle of the smallest kangaroo, the hypsi (musky rat-kangaroo), in Far North Queensland’s rainforest, and discovers ...
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 ...
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.
Jabiluka (1997)
The documentary investigates the attitudes of Aborigines, mine management and conservationists to the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine, and the impact of the established Ranger mine. It outlines the ...
Jewel of the Pacific (1932)
Lord Howe Island is the subject of this short travelogue made by Frank Hurley during a camera tour of the island in 1932. It shows the island’s geographical ...
Landline - Ethanol Special 2006 (2006)
Landline has put together a special bulletin about ethanol which presents both a history and a current snapshot of Australia’s position in relation to its use here. The ...
The Last Husky (1993)
Husky dog teams have served on the Mawson Base in the Antarctic for fifty years. The documentary records the last dogs to be used there and their journey ...
The Last Whale (1994)
The documentary was produced to promote a ban on whaling worldwide. Greenpeace and other organisations want the killing of all whales to stop. Japan and Norway argue that ...
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main ...
Loggerheads (c1990)
In 1992 the NSW State Government gave permission for logging to commence in Northern NSW, prior to an environmental impact study being completed. Environmentalists protested to stop the ...
Nature of Australia – A Separate Creation (1989)
This program traces the rise of the marsupial from the primeval forests of ancient Gondwanaland to their presence in Australia today, culminating in the kangaroo.
Nature of Australia – Land of Flood and Fire (1988)
This is the story of the seasonal cycle of northern Australia, where every year fierce monsoonal rains break the drought. The animals and plants must cope with the ...
Nature of Australia – The Sunburnt Country (1989)
This episode from Nature of Australia describes Australia’s arid centre, sometimes called the ‘dead heart’ or the ‘back of beyond’ or even the ‘never never’. The desert teems ...
Northern Safari (1956)
The film records a six-month journey by car, in 1955, from Perth to the Northern Territory and back, via Western Australia. Keith F Adams, his wife Audrey and ...
Painting Country (2000)
Balgo is a centre for Aboriginal painters in the remote north of Western Australia. The artists originally come from hundreds of kilometres around the area. They decide to ...
Paper Trail, the Life and Times of a Woodchip (1991)
A documentary by Trevor Graham that reports on the international business of woodchipping and its role in the supply of pulp to support the world’s paper industries. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)
The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a ...
Snowy Hydro – Conservation in the Snowy Mountains (1955)
Produced in 1955 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film traces the history of soil erosion in the Snowy ...
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)
Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour.
Terrible Lizards of Oz (2004)
A whimsical review of Australia’s palaeontology. The documentary looks at discoveries of animal life from 115 million years ago. The film shows animated dinosaurs, interviews with experts, digs ...
Tim Storrier, ‘Lighting Fires’ (1993)
The documentary is a biography of Australian painter, Tim Storrier. It follows the artist as he goes to the outback to paint. He photographs subjects and creates live ...
Wamsley’s War (2000)
The documentary follows Dr John Wamsley’s attempt to acquire a parcel of land in the Grose Valley NSW for use as a wildlife sanctuary. A wealthy man in ...
Webs of Intrigue (1992)
A close-up look at the world of Australian spiders, including the trapdoor spider, and the red-back spider. Researcher and presenter Densey Clyne combines fascinating information, whimsical observances and ...
Weekend Magazine – Carnarvon Gorge and the Fighting Highlanders (1982)
The Carnarvon Gorge in northern Queensland has been gazetted as a national park since 1932 but this is the first time a route has been opened up so ...
When the Lights Go Out: Cockroaches, a Domestic History (1994)
A documentary about the cockroach. Scientists talk about its survival instincts, families react to its presence and we go on a tour of a roach’s domestic life. The ...
5 Seasons (2004)
A documentary narrated by Tom E Lewis about a region that western society says has two seasons, the wet and the dry. The Numurindi people of south-east Arnhemland ...
