Titles sourced from: National Film and Sound Archive
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934 titles - sorted alphabetically / by year
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The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (documentary – 1988)
Australian producer-director Ken G Hall talks to camera about five of his films – On Our Selection (1932), The Squatter’s Daughter (1933), Tall Timbers (1937), ...
2000 Weeks (feature film – 1969)
Will Gardener (Mark McManus) is a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife (Eileen Chapman) and ...
250 Million Years Ago (documentary – c1940)
A general overview of ancient geological features found in Australia. Sediments in the rock formations of cliff faces and exposed rock reveal fossilised life forms ...
40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (documentary – 1996)
George Miller presents a personal view of the historical and cultural influences that have shaped the development of Australian cinema since its beginning in 1896.
A 5000 Mile Tour Through Central Australia (documentary – 1930)
This documentary-style footage follows a 1930 expedition by a group of men through central Australia and up to the Northern Territory. Shot by CJ Stanley ...
The 8th Wonder of the World (sponsored film – 1973)
A documentary looking at the newly completed Sydney Opera House, produced at the time of the official opening in 1973. The film looks at the ...
900 Neighbours (documentary – 2006)
Northcott is a multi-storey public housing estate in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was built in the 1960s. It houses 900 residents and has attracted negative ...
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Across Bass Strait (documentary – 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 ...
Across the Trans-continental Railway: From Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta (documentary – c1917)
This documentary details part of the building of the trans-continental railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie.
Action Loop (sponsored film – 1978)
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 ...
Activities of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia (home movie – 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 ...
Addison Road Drop-In (documentary – 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. ...
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (feature film – 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 ...
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (feature film – 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 ...
Advertising Missionaries (documentary – 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 ...
Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Aeroplane (advertisement – 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 (advertisement – 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 ...
Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Jet (advertisement – 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 ...
After Mabo (documentary – 1997)
After Mabo gives an overview to the native title legislation, focusing on the amendments made to the Native Title Act 1993 by the Howard Government ...
Age Before Beauty (documentary – 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 ...
An AIM Patrol (documentary – 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 ...
Al Daff (documentary – 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 ...
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Birthday Party, c1925: Home Movie (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 ...
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party, c1921: Home Movie (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 ...
Albion, Douglas: Wally’s Fifth Birthday Party, C1921: Home Movie (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 ...
The Alfred, Melbourne: One of Australia’s Greatest Hospitals (advertisement – 1931)
This four-minute cinema advertisement made by Australian Sound Films promotes the activities of the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in order to raise funds. The film ...
Alicia (documentary – 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 ...
All About Olive (documentary – 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 ...
All the Rivers Run (television program – 1983)
This is a four-part mini-series filmed on 16mm, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nancy Cato. In the dark pre-dawn a ...
Allies (documentary – 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 ...
ALP: Frank Forde, Election 1946 (newsreel – 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 ...
ALP: It’s Time (advertisement – 1972)
This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election.
Alvin Purple (feature film – 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 ...
Always a Visitor (documentary – 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 ...
Angst (documentary – 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 ...
Anthem: An Act of Sedition (documentary – 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 ...
Antonio Gaudi: to a Dancing God (documentary – 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 ...
Anzac Day Promotional (advertisement – 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 ...
Archibald Family: Family Scenes and Outings in Sydney: Home Movie (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 ...
Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts I - IV (home movie – 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 ...
Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts IX - XII (home movie – 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 (home movie – 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 ...
Around a Gum Tree (documentary – 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 ...
The Arrival of Miss Amy Johnson in Brisbane (newsreel – 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 ...
Art (documentary – 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 ...
Art From the Heart (documentary – 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 ...
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (television program – 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 ...
Arthur Boyd: Figures in the Landscape (documentary – 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. ...
Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter (documentary – 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 ...
Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy Choreographer (documentary – 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. ...
