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Across Bass Strait (1974)

A record of the 1974 Bass Strait Yacht Race, featuring the action on board a yacht from start to finish, 30 hours later. The documentary covers the excitement ...

Across the Trans-continental Railway: From Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta (c1917)

This documentary details part of the building of the trans-continental railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie.

Produced by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority, this documentary promotes the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop as a way of meeting Melbourne’s growing public transport needs. It includes ...

Activities of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia (c1935)

Filmed by John Mack at the Adelaide Parafield around 1930, this home movie recording captures some of the activities of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia. It ...

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 ...

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

After he comes into a small inheritance, Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), to advance his cultural education. Bazza ...

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

‘Tick’ Belrose, aka Mitzi Del Bra (Hugo Weaving), a Sydney drag artist, accepts an invitation from his ex-wife (Sarah Chadwick) to bring his stage show to the outback. ...

Advertising Missionaries (1996)

Wokabout Marketing is a troupe of performers who visit remote villages in Papua New Guinea and perform vignettes to promote the sale of Western products like soft drink ...

Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Aeroplane (1942)

This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Fruit Jellies shows how little Bertie the Aeroplane reveals to the world the mystery of flying saucers.

Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (1959)

This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is like. When given ...

Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Jet (1954)

This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies shows Bertie the Jet taking part in a popularity air race around Australia. The secret to his energy and ...

Age Before Beauty (1980)

Designed to provoke thought and discussion, Age Before Beauty examines the issues around ageing, as it relates to women. The film combines interviews with women (young and old), ...

An AIM Patrol (1927)

During the winter of 1927, Australian Inland Mission (AIM) patrolling officer Reverend Andrew Barber and AIM medical adviser Dr George Simpson travelled over 12,800 kilometres through the central ...

Al Daff (1975)

Filmed in 1975, Al Daff talks about his career and offers advice for Australian filmmakers. Al Daff was born in Melbourne before the First World War. He started ...

Albion, Douglas: Children’s Birthday Party, c1925: Home Movie (c1925)

A tinted home movie of family scenes in a garden and a children’s party celebration in the mid 1920s. It begins with a shot of the Albion family ...

Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party, c1921: Home Movie (c1921)

A home movie filmed by the Albion family of a children’s Christmas party in the 1920s. Most of the footage focuses on five-year-old Wally and takes place over ...

Albion, Douglas: Wally’s Fifth Birthday Party, C1921: Home Movie (c1921)

A tinted home movie with intertitles with scenes of a boy’s fifth birthday party in a family garden. Scenes include Wally Albion playing with a toy train; girls ...

Alicia (1996)

Alicia Liley was a promising 18-year-old drama student when she sustained brain damage in a near fatal car accident. The documentary traces her recovery and her determination to ...

All About Olive (2004)

Filmmaker Mike Rubbo takes 105-year-old Olive Riley back to her childhood home in Broken Hill, western NSW, to talk about her life. Rubbo enlists Olive’s help to faithfully ...

Allies (1983)

The documentary looks at diplomatic relations between Australia and the USA since the Second World War. Using interviews and archival footage, the documentary leads the viewer to question ...

ALP: Frank Forde, Election 1946 (1946)

In an address to the public designed in newsreel format for cinema release, Deputy Prime Minister Frank Forde makes an appeal to his Capricornia electorate for a vote ...

ALP: It’s Time (1972)

This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election.

Alvin Purple (1973)

Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces ...

Always a Visitor (2000)

A personal journey by 30-year-old Turkish Australian Muslim Kuranda Seyit. He discusses his relationship with his father and his siblings, and talks about growing up in Emu Plains ...

Angst (1993)

The film looks at the lives of three Jewish comedians who are the children of Holocaust survivors. Deb Filler is from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from ...

Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)

A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan ...

Antonio Gaudi: to a Dancing God (1974)

The documentary celebrates the work of Catalonian architect Antonio Gaudí (1852–1926), showing his many architectural works around Barcelona and interviewing a range of experts. Gaudí‘s style is a ...

Anzac Day Promotional (c1916)

This silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement was used to encourage Australians to commemorate Anzac Day. It shows a re-enactment of soldiers wearing gas masks walking through some trenches with ...

Archibald Family: Family Scenes and Outings in Sydney: Home Movie (c1932)

This home movie produced by the Archibald family in approximately 1932, features a variety of scenes illustrating their family life. These include beach scenes, a young girl’s birthday ...

Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts I - IV (c1927)

This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family between 1927 and 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles.

Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts IX - XII (c1928)

This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family in approximately 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles.

Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts XXI - XXIV (c1930)

This silent black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family in approximately 1930. It is one of a series of seven gazette ...

Around a Gum Tree (1949)

Using Australia’s many species of gum trees as an analogy, this black-and-white documentary looks at the wide range of industries, employment sectors and lifestyles which emerge ‘around a ...

The Arrival of Miss Amy Johnson in Brisbane (1930)

In this silent newsreel footage, British aviator Amy Johnson arrives in Brisbane on the final leg of her solo flight between England and Australia in 1930.

Art (1974)

A personal point-of-view documentary about the meaning of art by cartoonist and animator, Bruce Petty. Petty uses his own drawings and other works of art to illustrate connections ...

Art From the Heart (1998)

The documentary looks at the way that Aboriginal art has been commercialised since the 1970s. Artists and galleries have prospered since Aboriginal art was marketed on a large ...

Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (1972)

Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 contains three main ...

Arthur Boyd: Figures in the Landscape (1985)

Arthur Boyd is interviewed in his studio in Shoalhaven NSW. The internationally acclaimed artist paints two large works depicting water skiers on the river nearby. He talks about ...

Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter (1994)

A portrait of Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920 – 1999). Born into a family of painters, writers and potters in 1920, his paintings are displayed in galleries all ...

Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy Choreographer (1989)

An observational documentary that explores the world of choreographer Graeme Murphy. The camera finds him in rehearsal, in performance and with his wife Janet Vernon. He was born ...

Austin Hospital at Heidelberg, Vic: The Only Hospital for Chronic Diseases in Australia (1928)

This silent documentary shows the Austin Hospital at Heidelberg in Victoria including its extensive grounds; its main buildings and wards; patients undergoing ‘sun-treatment’ in the gardens; and the ...

Australasian Gazette – 10,000 Miles around Australia (c1926)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1926 shows the arrival of Mr and Mrs F Dean in Melbourne after their trip around Australia by touring car. The trip ...

Australasian Gazette – 1924 Melbourne Cup (1924)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the 1924 Melbourne Cup. It includes footage of the crowd as well as the race where Backwood won.

Australasian Gazette – 1st Chatswood Erects a Tower and a Rope Suspension Bridge (c1923)

This newsreel clip from approximately 1923 shows the 1st Chatswood troop of Boy Scouts, which won the E Trenchard Miller Shield in that year, erecting a tower and ...

Australasian Gazette – 70,000 Pounds Production Nears Completion (1926)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film, For the Term of His Natural Life, in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, ...

Australasian Gazette – A Seaplane Circles a Continent (1926)

This newsreel shows segments of the 1924 documentary A Seaplane Circles a Continent about Wing Commander SJ Goble and Officer IE McIntyre arriving at St Kilda, Melbourne, in ...

Australasian Gazette – A Unique Audience (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee arranged by the management at Elsternwick Theatre.

Australasian Gazette – All for a Good Cause (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel footage from approximately 1920 shows a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney in aid of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade.

Australasian Gazette – Annual Christmas Treat (c1925)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1925 shows Christmas celebrations for children in the Victoria Barracks, Sydney including a live puppet show and Father Christmas ...

Australasian Gazette – Armistice Day, Melbourne (c1925)

This newsreel clip from about 1925 shows a large crowd of people gathered on the steps of Parliament House, Melbourne for an Armistice Day ceremony. The crowd stands ...

Australasian Gazette – Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York (1927)

This newsreel footage from 26 March 1927 shows the arrival and official welcome of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia. As the HMS Renown motors through ...

Australasian Gazette – Bon Voyage to Ex-Chief Justice, Sir William Cullen (c1924)

This newsreel segment from approximately 1924 shows the farewell and departure of the retired Chief Justice Sir William Cullen and Lady Cullen in Sydney for an overseas trip. ...

Australasian Gazette – Clive Barass, Australian Champion and Leader of the Troupe (c1926)

This newsreel shows Australian champion diver Clive Barass and his diving troupe performing individual and group dives at Clifton Gardens Baths near Mosman, Sydney. It is black-and-white and ...

Australasian Gazette – Conversion (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne, and ...

Australasian Gazette – Dame Nellie Melba (c1920)

This black-and-white silent story from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba accompanied by John Lemmone, Lady Pamela Vestey as a child and others, walking ...

Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt (c1917)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes ...

Australasian Gazette – Goodbye Sunny New South Wales (c1917)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from approximately 1917 shows soldiers being despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney. It was ...

Australasian Gazette – Highlights of the Cricket Series England vs Australia (1933)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows highlights of the 1932–1933 England versus Australia cricket series. It starts with footage of the packed stadium and shows clips of the first ...

Australasian Gazette – Historic Cricket (1933)

This newsreel segment shows highlights of the second Test played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 1932–1933 series, which was won by Australia. It includes England’s Harold ...

Australasian Gazette – HMAS Brisbane Launched at Cockatoo Island (1915)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the launch of the HMAS Brisbane naval ship by Mrs Fisher, wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, on ...

Australasian Gazette – In and around Hamilton District (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the orchard districts of Hamilton, Queensland. Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They ...

Australasian Gazette – Maoris Give Their War Cry (c1922)

This newsreel from about 1922 shows a Maori football team doing haka war dance before a football match. The New South Wales football team poses for the camera ...

Australasian Gazette – Master Pictures Lead the Way (c1926)

This newsreel segment from around 1926 shows the departure by ship for Tasmania of the general manager of Australasian Films, WA Gibson and film producer, Norman Dawn, where ...

Australasian Gazette – Mermaids Swim Well (c1931)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1931 shows highlights of the Bondi Ladies’ Annual Carnival at the local Bondi Baths, now known as the Bondi Icebergs. Edna Davey ...

Australasian Gazette – Mimic Warfare (1917)

This Australasian Gazette exclusive newsreel story from 1917 shows troops from the Engineers’ Depot rehearsing a raid on enemy trenches. Soldiers in training are instructed by their commanding ...

Australasian Gazette – Miss Australia, Beryl Mills, Leaves for the US on the Sonoma (1926)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip shows a large crowd farewelling the first Miss Australia, Miss Beryl Mills, as she leaves for the USA in 1926.

Australasian Gazette – Parliament Opens the New Session (1925)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from 1925 shows the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Dudley de Chair, arriving by car to open Parliament House in Melbourne. He salutes ...

Australasian Gazette – Patriotic Procession in Aid of the French Red Cross (1915)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip shows a parade in 1915 for the French Red Cross. People dressed in costumes walk, ride horses or ride in horse-drawn carriages along ...

Australasian Gazette – Pauline Frederick, World Famous Star of Stage and Screen (c1924)

This newsreel from 1924 shows Pauline Frederick, a world famous actress from the stage and screen, posing for the camera. She takes of her hat to reveal her ...

Australasian Gazette – Prickly Pear Infested Areas of Australia (1926)

This silent newsreel from approximately 1926 shows bushland in eastern Australia infested with the noxious prickly pear cactus and the efforts of the scientists trying to combat the ...

Australasian Gazette – Returned Anzacs (1920)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from around 1920 shows returned Anzac soldiers marching through Melbourne as part of the ‘Fill-the-Gap’ recruitment drive.

Australasian Gazette – Sheep Dog Trial (1915)

This newsreel segment from 1915 shows a typical Australian showground and a scene of a sheepdog trainer and a sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen.

Australasian Gazette – Ship Building as Hobby (c1925)

This segment from a newsreel from approximately 1925 shows builders of model passenger liners sailing and motoring their boats on a pond in Moore Park, Sydney. It features ...

Australasian Gazette – Shopping Week, Sydney (c1926)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel segment from approximately 1926 shows a ‘monster procession’ as part of Shopping Week in Bondi Junction, Sydney.

Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from ‘some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne.

Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival (c1929)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf ...

Australasian Gazette – Sun Worshippers (c1924)

This newsreel from approximately 1924 shows surfers and swimmers enjoying the first day of real summer weather of the season. It opens with a wide shot of the ...

Australasian Gazette – Test Cricketers (c1926)

This newsreel from about 1926 shows the Australian cricket team while on tour in England. It features MA Noble, Clem Hill, Arthur Mailey, Warren Bardsley, WM Woodfull, Arthur ...

Australasian Gazette – The Last Innings of Victor Trumper (1915)

This newsreel footage shows part of the funeral march of Australian cricketer Victor Trumper. A large group of men march in front of a horse-drawn vehicle carrying the ...

Australasian Gazette – The Strike Spreads (c1917)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows waterside workers unloading perishables from a ship, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917.

Australasian Gazette – The Ups and Downs of Cricket (1933)

This newsreel shows highlights of the third Test cricket series, often referred to as the ‘Bodyline’ series, between England and Australia in Adelaide in January 1933.

Australia Daze (1988)

An observational documentary shot on the bicentennial anniversary of Australia’s European settlement. Twenty-nine directors working all over Australia have contributed segments as Australians celebrated 26 January 1988. Dissent ...

Australia in World War 1 (c1980)

A compilation of film footage from the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian War Memorial. Subjects include the home front factories, parades, propaganda ...

Australia to England via Tobruk and Benghazi: Menzies Wartime Tour (1941)

This home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Menzies, was taken during his 1941 wartime tour of Tobruk, Benghazi, Cairo, Khartoum, Libya and ...

Australia Today – Australia’s 5th Column (1941)

The opening title card to this Australia Today newsreel declares that Australia is at war and threatened by a ruthless enemy whose objective is the ‘downfall of the ...

Australia Today – Customs Officers Fight Against Drugs (1938)

This Australia Today newsreel contains three segments (two of which have been selected): Contraband about illegal drug importation and crime syndicates; Below the surface about working in Australia’s ...

Australia Today – Fort Denison: [Pinchgut]: A Relic of Early Sydney (1939)

Fort Denison is a fortified island in Sydney Harbour built between 1841 and 1857 as a defence against a feared invasion. This newsreel narrates the history of the ...

Australia Today – Lucky Strike at Larkinville, WA and other segments (1938)

This Australia Today newsreel features three segments: Lucky Strike at Larkinville – about gold prospecting in Western Australia in 1932; Fangs of Death – about the dangers of ...

Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939)

This Australia Today newsreel looks at the ‘silent terrors of the deep’ – sharks. It begins on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, makes its way through the murky ...

Australia Today – Men of Tomorrow (1939)

Men of Tomorrow looks at the ‘city of shadows’ – life as it is for young people living in slum conditions in Sydney in the late 1930s. It ...

Australia Today – The ‘Pyjama Girl’ Murder Case (1939)

This Australia Today newsreel, produced in the 1930s by Rupert Kathner, investigates the famous ‘Pyjama Girl’ murder case, which remained unsolved in Australia for over ten years. On ...

Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations, Sydney (1938)

This home movie captures the parade on 26 January 1938 celebrating the 150th anniversary of Captain Arthur Phillip’s arrival on Australian shores. Parading down a city street are ...

Australia’s First 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 Australia’s first double-decker bus.

Australia’s Land of Tomorrow (1962)

Australian Inland Mission (AIM) superintendent Reverend Fred McKay conducts his patrol through the north of Australia. Along the way he witnesses a prospering region where industry and agriculture ...

An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)

This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, ...

Australian Labor Government 1916 Conscription Referendum Campaign: Referendum Bullets (1916)

This is a silent cinema short presented by the then Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, promoting the ‘Yes’ vote for the 1916 conscription referendum.

Australian Rules (2002)

In an isolated South Australian fishing town, the only thing that connects two communities – the whites and the blacks – is football. Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and ...

The Australian Steel Works (c1920)

This promotional documentary presented by the Made in Australia Council looks at the workings of an Australian steel works factory in Newcastle.

The Australian Way: A Salute to Aussie Sex Appeal (1982)

A two-hour commercial television special featuring the personalities and TV programs current on Network Ten in 1982. The program is hosted by presenter Gordon Elliott, actress Joanna Lockwood ...

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Babe (1995)

A little pig called Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is born in a battery farming shed. His whole family is sent away to be butchered but he is ...

The Back of Beyond (1954)

Battling heat, dust, flood and sand, Royal Mail driver and everyman Tom Kruse completes the fortnightly run in his battered Leyland Badger, delivering mail, stores and supplies to ...

Backlash (1986)

Police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort a young Aboriginal woman to the NSW outback to stand trial. Kath (Lydia Miller) ...

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 ...

Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

The documentary summarises nuclear testing in the 1950s in Australia and its consequences. This compilation documentary uses archival footage from both scientific recordings and newsreels of the time. ...

Balinese Holiday (c1933)

This home movie footage was filmed in the early 1930s by Harold Beckwith on his travels throughout Europe and the islands of Bali and Java in the then ...

Ballarat Beauty Competition (1911)

This silent newsreel shows the first 15 contestants in a local children’s beauty competition held in the Victorian town of Ballarat in 1911.

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 ...

Barred Wives (1993)

Through the examples of four couples, the documentary examines why women marry prisoners, and the complexities and difficulties they experience.

Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998)

Author and screenwriter Bob Ellis and poet Les Murray go on a journey visiting significant places from their past. They attended Sydney University together and remain staunch friends ...

The Battle for Byron (1996)

The documentary looks at the history of Byron Bay, a seaside town in Northern NSW. Waves of development have influenced the culture of the town. The first settlers ...

The Battleships (2000)

A four-hour documentary miniseries examining the rise in importance of the battleship from the wooden sailing ships of the Elizabethan age to the dreadnoughts of modern history.

Beautiful Melbourne (1947)

This footage, put together by the Brotherhood of St Lawrence in 1947, illustrates the conditions of inner-city housing in Melbourne, Victoria. It shows inner suburban housing in poor ...

Beautiful Middle Harbour (1927)

This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate promotes the new Sydney suburb. It features panoramic shots of Middle Harbour, Sydney including footage of the surrounding bushland and ...

BeDevil (1993)

BeDevil, a trilogy of ghost stories, uses myth interwoven with living memory to evoke a sense of place. Told in three parts – ‘Mr Chuck’, ‘Choo Choo Choo ...

Behind the Big Top (1949)

A documentary about the travelling Wirth’s Circus and Zoo that toured to Melbourne in 1949. The circus train arrives in town and workers (and elephants) help set up ...

Behind the Sun (1988)

The documentary looks at a number of artists working in NSW in 1988. Many forms of artistic expression are included. The artists include Jonathan Throsby, painter; Susan Norrie, ...

Belsen For Example (1985)

A German film crew interviews survivors, now living in Australia, of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The recollections of the victims and members of the rescue teams are a ...

Beneath Clouds (2002)

A visually poetic feature film about two youths who in trying to find themselves, momentarily find each other on the road to Sydney.

Berlei Cinema Advertisement: It Isn’t Done (1930)

The ‘futility of careless dressing and the importance of correctly moulded figure lines’ is demonstrated through the fitting of a Berlei foundation garment underneath all frocking.

Berlei Corsets: Beautiful Lines of Woman Triumphant (c1920)

This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement shows women modelling Berlei ladies foundation garments.

Berlei Underwear Cinema Advertisement: Sarong (1950)

This compilation of three 30-second cinema advertisements from 1950 features Berlei’s ‘Sarong’ girdle, the girdle that ‘walks and won’t ride up’.

Berlei Underwear TV Advertisement: Sarong Body Magic (1968)

This black-and-white television advertisement for the Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle demonstrates the wonders of a girdle that adjusts to the figure, no matter what your shape. Underwear ...

Betelnut Bisnis (2004)

This documentary follows several indigenous people of New Guinea as they attempt to earn cash by selling the psychoactive drug betelnut. The money is needed to pay for ...

Betty Pounder (1988)

Australian dancer and choreographer Betty Pounder (1921–1990) is interviewed about her life. She recalls her years with the Sydney based theatre company JC Williamson and the joy of ...

Beyond the Furthest Fences (1947)

A silent documentary that shows scenes from a journey made by Australian Inland Mission patrolling minister, the Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge, through central Australia in 1947. He travels ...

Big Bag’s Japanese Adventure (1998)

The Big Bag Band is invited to perform at a disabled arts festival in Japan. Three of the band are intellectually disabled, four are not. The documentary follows ...

The Big Boomerang (1962)

Qantas commissioned this film in 1962 to promote their international air service. The film features the new Boeing 707 that halved travel time overseas, and includes brief segments ...

Big Hair Woman (1996)

Actress and comedienne Mary Coustas plays her most famous character, Effie, as she tours around Papua New Guinea. This docu-comedy is a sort of tongue-in-cheek travelogue. Effie gives ...

Big People, Small People (1991)

This two-part documentary was produced for SBS‘s Connections program and was screened over consecutive nights. The film contrasts the rich and poor in Australian society. Commentators include historian ...

Bigger than Texas (1992)

This documentary is a personal vision of the filmmaker, David Noakes, as he examines the cultural development of Western Australia. He interviews writers Tim Winton and Fay Zwicky, ...

Billal (1996)

Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo–Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is ...

Birth of a Car (c1948)

This documentary, most likely produced by or commissioned by Holden, proudly details the planning, testing and production of the first locally manufactured Holden model sedan developed to suit ...

Bitter Herbs and Honey (1981)

The anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe in the 1930s triggered a big migration. This film explores the story of those Jews who settled in Carlton, an inner suburb of ...

The Black Balloon (2007)

Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) is 15 and his life is in chaos. His autistic brother Charlie (Luke Ford) creates havoc wherever he goes; their mother Maggie (Toni Collette) is ...

The Black Road: on the front line of Aceh’s war (2005)

American journalist William Nessen visits Aceh, the Northern Province of Indonesia, to report on Aceh’s struggle for independence from the Indonesian Government. Nessen makes friends with the Indonesian ...

Black Soldier Blues (2004)

Black Soldier Blues looks back on the period during the Second World War when American servicemen were stationed in Queensland. African American veterans talk with candour about the ...

Black Sunday (1926)

The ‘Black Sunday’ bushfires of Valentine’s Day 1926 swept across the Gippsland and Dandenong regions of Victoria and claimed 31 lives. This silent black-and-white footage contains scenes of ...

The Black Swan: Meryl Tankard Choreographer (1995)

This documentary examines Meryl’s professional and personal life in 1995 when she was the artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Australian Dance Theatre. Meryl rehearses the dancers, talks ...

Black Talk (2002)

A short drama about two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) who are temporarily reunited when city-based Tim returns to visit his family.

Bliss (1985)

Harry Joy (Barry Otto) dies – for four minutes – after a heart attack. When he is revived, he realises he’s living in hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette ...

Blood Brothers – Broken English (1993)

A documentary that alternates between interview and dramatised re-creation. It is the story of Rupert Maxwell Stuart (Max Stuart), an Arrernte man accused of murder and condemned to ...

Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride (1993)

A documentary that intercuts interview material with historical footage, Freedom Ride, written and directed by Rachel Perkins, delves into the political motivations of her father, Dr ‘Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) ...

Blood Brothers – From Little Things Big Things Grow (1993)

A musical documentary that comments on the work of Kev Carmody, Indigenous songwriter and historian. An exploration into the life of Carmody, using music clips especially made for ...

Blood Brothers – Jardiwarnpa (1993)

Jardiwarnpa documents the ceremonial dances of the Walpiri over two weeks, with minimal intrusion by the film crew, who capture the unfolding ceremony. It is an observational style ...

Blowin’ in the Wind (2005)

This documentary warns of the danger of the side effects of weapons using depleted uranium. Filmmaker David Bradbury interviews victims of exposure to uranium, intercuts world-wide archival footage, ...

Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (2005)

Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf Academy on Sydney’s ...

Body Work (1988)

The documentary consists of a series of interviews with professionals working in the bereavement industry: pathologists, coroners, nurses, funeral directors, police, gravediggers and cremation workers. They each describe ...

Boer War: Transvaal Contingent, Queen Street, Brisbane, 1899 (1899)

This piece of actuality footage shot by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby in 1899 records ...

Bonjour Balwyn (1971)

Kevin Agar (John Duigan) has left a job in insurance to start his own magazine, called Bolo. His middle class parents don’t understand it, and very few people ...

Boots and Shoes (c1924)

A promotional film presented by the Made in Australia Council that shows the manufacture and assembly of Australian-made footwear in a factory. It ends with the slogan ‘wherever ...

Boxing 1908: Johnson vs Burns (1908)

Historical footage of an open-air boxing match held at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, on 26 December 1908. Canadian Tommy Burns and African American Jack Johnson are competing for ...

Boys and Balls (1994)

A light-hearted examination of the appeal of ballsports to men and boys. Players discuss cricket, football and basketball. Famous sportsmen contribute to the debate. The film features HG ...

The Bradman Era (1982)

Former test cricketer Bill O’Reilly recalls the test matches, mainly in the 1930s, with Don Bradman and other notable players. The documentary intercuts Bill O’Reilly’s interview with archival ...

Bran Nue Dae (1991)

This documentary by Tom Zubrycki traces the development and production of the successful stage musical Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how ...

Bread and Dripping (1981)

Four women recall raising families during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. The interviews are intercut with historical footage of the living conditions of both ...

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 ...

The Breaker (c1973)

A documentary of Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant’s life. It covers his disputed parentage, his variety of names, and his adventures as a bushman in Queensland and New South Wales. ...

A Breath (1998)

Artists Huang Miaozi and Yu Feng migrated to Australia in 1989. The Chinese octogenarian couple reflect upon their life in the 20th Century. They were artists in China ...

Breathing Under Water (1991)

A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by ...

A Brief Survey of the Activities of the Brisbane City Mission (c1939)

This promotional documentary made by the Brisbane City Mission surveys the Mission’s activities and services during the late 1930s and the relief they provide for thousands of the ...

Brothers and Sisters (1997)

A lecture by scientist Frank J Sulloway about sibling behaviour is intercut with interviews in which a range of brothers and sisters, young and old, including an only ...

Browne, George: Blue Mountains: home movie (c1930)

This compile of silent home movie footage was taken by George Browne in 1930 and records the scenery of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.

Browne, George: Our movie memories 1928–1934 (1928)

This silent black-and-white 9.5 mm home movie compilation by amateur filmmaker George Browne shows the Browne family and friends enacting Kate of the Cactus Country, Shakespeare’s Romeo and ...

Buddies (1983)

In the gem fields of central Queensland, knockabout young miners Mike and Johnny (Colin Friels and Harry Hopkins) borrow heavily to take on a claim-jumping newcomer (Dennis Miller) ...

Bushells Blue Label Tea: Bushells Tea Factory (c1925)

This Bushells Tea cinema advertisement from approximately 1925 shows the process of producing tea from the harvesting to end use. It shows picking the leaves, transporting the tea ...

Bushells Tea Advertisement: The World of the Future (c1941)

This colour animated Bushells tea advertisement from 1941 paints a picture of what it will be like in the future and claims that regardless of the fast-paced lives ...

Bushells Tea: The Charmed Cup (1929)

This Bushells tea cinema advertisement from 1929 is a short narrative about a woman who has her tea-leaves read by a girlfriend who successfully predicts she will marry ...

Bushnell, K: Cyclone Tracy Aftermath: Home Movie (1974)

This unedited raw footage was shot by freelance cameraman Keith Bushnell in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas Day 1974. It captures the ...

Business Behind Bars (2000)

The documentary reports on the privatisation of prisons in the USA and Australia. The film looks at the economics of allowing private companies to run jails. It also ...

The Business of Making Saints (1994)

The documentary is an overview of the process of making saints in the Roman Catholic Church. The documentary includes a cameo of the Blessed Mary MacKillop, potentially Australia’s ...

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Cactus (1986)

Colo (Isabelle Huppert) has come to Australia from France to stay with family friends, after the failure of her marriage. Tom (Norman Kaye) and his wife Beatrice (Monica ...

Caddie (1976)

In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid, after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She has no money and two children to ...

Camp-Berlei Foundation Garments: Physiological Support (c1927)

This tinted cinema advertisement for Camp-Berlei foundation garments includes mannequins and live models wearing a range of dresses, coats and hats by various fashion designers. They are all ...

Canberra Files, The (2006)

The Canberra Files takes a chronological look at the way moving images of Australia’s political leaders have influenced the nation over 105 years. It features a special on ...

Candy (2006)

Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) are young and in love – with each other, and with heroin. He’s an aspiring poet, she’s an aspiring painter. Their ...

‘Cannibal Tours’ (1987)

Using an observational style without commentary, the film follows tourists as they visit the Sepik River region in New Guinea. The film shows the tourists’ reactions in interviews ...

Captain Cook’s Cottage (1938)

Mr Russell Grimwade tells of his purchase of Captain Cook’s family cottage in Yorkshire, England and its transport to Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. To ‘appease resentment’ back in Yorkshire, ...

Carcrash (1995)

Twenty-six people speak to camera about their emotional relationship with their car and their experience of a car accident. The interviews are intercut with stylised close ups of ...

Carnival of Flowers, Toowoomba (1953)

Every spring, in the heart of Queensland’s Darling Downs, Toowoomba celebrates the Carnival of Flowers, complete with floral street parade, garden competitions and the crowning of the floral ...

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Australia’s Prime Minister Delights at the Empire (c1916)

In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment, cartoonist Harry Julius comments on the war in Europe and Australian Prime Minister Hughes’s policy of restrictions on trade with ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Crown Prince of Death (c1915)

Cartoonist Harry Julius was employed by the Australasian Gazette from approximately 1914 to provide a political cartoon segment – Cartoons of the Moment – as part of its ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Economy in Germany (c1914)

Cartoons of the Moment is an animated satirical segment created by Australian cartoonist Harry Julius during the First World War for the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition ...

Cartoons of the Moment – German Dove of Peace (c1916)

In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment from around 1916, cartoonist Harry Julius uses cut-out and drawn animation to: comment on Germany’s offer of peace during the ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Miss Australasia (c1914)

Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on First World War-related ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger (1915)

This edition of Cartoons of the Moment by cartoonist Harry Julius appeared in the Australasian Gazette, providing satirical comment on events in Australia and Europe during the First ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The Kaiser War (c1918)

Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on events at the ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The War Zoo (c1915)

A segment from an animated political series created by cartoonist Harry Julius for wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition, zoo animals are used to ...

CE Miller & Co Cinema Advertisement: Know Your Melbourne (c1945)

This colour cinema advertisement from around 1945 is for CE Miller and Company, a removal and storage business based in Melbourne and shows off Melbourne city and suburbs ...

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 ...

Centenary Celebrations of Melbourne, Victoria (1934)

This unedited newsreel footage contains a speech given by the Duke of Gloucester opening Melbourne’s centenary celebrations.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Charles Ulm (c1928)

This historical footage documents an air show featuring Charles Ulm and two planes; the Southern Cloud and Canberra Pup.

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.

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. ...

Children’s Party, Boys Wrestling and Outdoor Performances, c1925 (c1925)

A home movie recording of a children’s party and an outdoor celebration in a garden. It begins with some of the children arriving and being greeted by two ...

Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986)

The documentary examines aspects of life in Chile under the dictatorship of General Pinochet. The film records songs of protest by the Chileans and the director interviews dissidents ...

China, the Long March (1986)

China, the Long March follows stills photographer Leo Meier as he travels the route of the Long March for seven weeks to photograph the people and places of ...

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 ...

Christmas Crackers (1945)

In December 1945 Mrs Isabel Sprod awaits the return of her three sons and son-in-law from the war. Her daughter Kathleen and granddaughter Jill also prepare for the ...

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 ...

City in the Sun (1946)

This documentary directed by Alasdair Loch, possibly used to promote Australia as a destination for migration, intends to reflect the ‘mood of metropolitan life’ by showing the bustle ...

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 ...

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 1920, ...

Clarke, R: Sydney Diary: home movie (1950)

In this 1950s silent home movie footage, we spend a typical evening with the Clarke family at their Wahroonga home in North Sydney.

Clifton Pugh (1988)

In this short film Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh is interviewed by Nina O’Leary. He describes painting the Australian bush, his influences and his plan to keep the ...

Clowns and their Make-Up (1985)

The documentary covers many aspects of clown make-up particularly for children. Subjects covered include make-up, design, eyelashes, wigs, clown eggs and pom-poms.

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 ...

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 ...

Colour Bars (1997)

The documentary examines the attitudes of four ethnic youths – Lebanese, Chinese, Indian and Greek – to school and to other ethnic groups of teenagers.

Coming Up from Down Under (1983)

A documentary that reviews the re-emerging Australian film industry of the time. Even though the film refers to the Australian cinema prior to the mid ‘70s, it concentrates ...

Commuting by Cable (1988)

Using historical footage this documentary records the story of cable trams in Melbourne from 1885 to 1940. Enthusiasts have recorded the tram routes and operation of the cable ...

Concrete City (1994)

Residents of Pyrmont, a suburb next to the city of Sydney, try to secure meaningful consultation with the various government bodies involved in a proposed redevelopment in their ...

Confessions of a Headhunter (2000)

A drama about two Indigenous men – Frank (Bruce Hutchinson) and Vinnie (Kelton Pell) – who seek revenge for the repeated beheading of the statue of their ancestor ...

Conquest (1936)

Dedicated to the ‘builders of the nation’, this cinema advertisement for the Rural Bank of New South Wales shows that the bank appreciates the difficulties that the ‘man ...

Conrad Martens (1978)

The documentary follows the life and work of watercolourist Conrad Martens. The painter was born in England and moved to New South Wales in 1835, remaining in Australia ...

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.

Convictions (1994)

The documentary is a series of recollections by the Australian soldiers who served in the Korean War (1950–1953). Forty years after the war, the men talk frankly and ...

Cosi (1996)

Lewis, an unemployed actor (Ben Mendelsohn) talks his way into a job at a psychiatric unit, teaching drama to the inmates. He chooses six patients, ranging from the ...

Couch: Our Women of the VAD, 1943: Home Movies (1943)

This silent amateur documentary with intertitles was made by members of the Couch family. The film begins with three young women knitting, and then reading an issue of ...

Couldn’t Be Fairer (1984)

A documentary that intercuts historical footage with live interview material, Couldn’t Be Fairer borrows its title from a statement made by Joh Bjelke Peterson, and explores the injustice ...

Cradle of Creation (1940)

A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, ...

Crash Zone – The Dream Team (1998)

Five very different Melbourne kids, Mike (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Pi (Cassandra Magrath), Bec (Frances Wang), Marcello (Paul Pantano) and Ram (Damien Bodie) independently discover a coded message while playing ...

Cricket in Australia (1987)

Jack Egan interviews cricket personalities and narrates this made for commercial television documentary about the history of cricket in Australia. Interviews with key personalities are intercut with extensive ...

Crocodile Dundee (1985)

A glamorous American reporter, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), goes to the Northern Territory to interview a man who survived a crocodile attack. Michael J ‘Crocodile’ Dundee (Paul Hogan) ...

Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in New York with his new girlfriend, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). He misses the Northern Territory but keeps occupied by fishing in ...

Crystal Voyager (1973)

A surfing biography about legendary design innovator and photographer George Greenough, shot largely in California. Greenough’s search for uncrowded waves drives his construction of a 37-foot ocean-going yacht ...

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Daddy Cool (1973)

Daddy Cool, a successful Australian rock band of the 1970s, perform their music including the famous Eagle Rock. Interviews with band members are interspersed with the songs.

Dame Nellie in the Mitchell Estate Garden, Lilydale (c1927)

This home movie filmed by Spencer Shier in 1927 features Dame Nellie Melba at her home, the Mitchell Estate Garden in Lilydale, Victoria.

Dance of Nature: The Music of Ross Edwards (1995)

A documentary about the life and work of Australian composer Ross Edwards. Born in 1943, he went to England to study composition and returned to Australia to work, ...

The Dance of the Eyes (c1940)

The Dance of the Eyes is one of a series of travelogues made for screening in the first half of a cinema program in the 1940s and 50s. ...

Darwin c1926 (c1926)

This actuality footage from around 1926 contains silent vignettes of Darwin and its environment including rail transport, recreational activities, local shop fronts, and the multicultural population.

A Day at an Engineering Works (c1926)

A silent documentary produced by the Made in Australia Council that details the work inside the Perry engineering works in Adelaide in order to promote and support Australian ...

A Day in a Biscuit Factory (1932)

This sponsored film takes the viewer inside Swallow & Ariell’s Port Melbourne biscuit factory. It shows the quality testing of ingredients, biscuit, wafer and cake making and tin ...

Dead Calm (1989)

Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed ...

Dead Heart (1996)

When a young aboriginal man is found hanging in a police cell, Senior Constable Ray Larkin (Bryan Brown) allows his own deputy (Lafe Charlton) to be speared as ...

Deadly Hurt (1994)

In 1992, the National Committee on Violence Against Women released its National Strategy on Violence Against Women. Deadly Hurt is a personal response to the strategy by filmmaker ...

Delegates to the Australian Labor Party’s Easter Conference at the Trades Hall Melbourne (1928)

This is mute newsreel footage, edited with caption cards identifying individual delegates, of the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference at the Melbourne Trades Hall.

Demons at Drivetime (1995)

A documentary overview of the high-rating radio announcers across Australia in 1995. The style is ‘a day-in-the-life of’, with poignant reminders that ratings are paramount and that the ...

Desert Tracks (1997)

A film that speaks about the Pitjantjatjara people’s efforts to preserve vital cultural information in order to care for land by turning to tourism.

Desert Walker: Gulf to Gulf (1985)

Fifty-two year-old adventurer Denis Bartell was the first person to walk across Australia from north to south – from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Gulf of St ...

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 ...

Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001)

Director Paul Cox tells the story of Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950). English actor Derek Jacobi reads selections from Nijinsky’s diaries. The readings are illustrated with ...

Dick Smith Explorer (1983)

Australian electronics businessman Dick Smith was the first person to fly solo around the world in a helicopter in 1982. The voyage is around the world, travelling east, ...

Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989)

A biographical documentary that follows Australian artist Brett Whiteley as he travels from his studio in Sydney to London. Whiteley started painting in the 1960s in London and ...

The Digger Carries On: Repatriation Illustrated (1919)

This public information film from 1919 shows the facilities for injured and psychologically affected returned servicemen from the First World War and the various vocational training schemes available.

Diggers (1931)

At a battalion reunion after the First World War, Chic Williams (Pat Hanna) and his ‘cobber’ Joe Mulga (George Moon) recall their exploits on the Western Front in ...