Titles tagged with ‘Second World War’
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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 ...
Australia Post – Post Office Film (1942)
This is an unedited mute, black-and-white film record of the dismantling of the Sydney General Post Office (GPO) clock tower, as well as street scenes near and around ...
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line (2002)
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of conscripts was still ...
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 ...
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 ...
Broken Sun (2008)
In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities (c1939)
This film is a compilation of 11 segments showing activities at Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, during the years 1936 to 1942.
Come In Spinner (1989)
This is the story of women in wartime – those left behind while the men are away fighting. It’s the story of three very different women who work ...
Compass – Changi Days, POW Poets (2003)
When 22,000 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese on the Malay Peninsula early in 1942, they disappeared into the vast prison camp called Changi on Singapore ...
Compass – Quakers: Seeking the Light Within (2003)
This is a simple but very informative program about Quakers in Australia today. The Quakers are a protestant group that has existed for over 350 years, also called ...
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 ...
The Cowra Breakout (1984)
In the Second World War, Stan Davidson (Alan David Lee) and his best mate Mick Murphy (Dennis Miller) are on patrol in the jungles of New Guinea when ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 (1985)
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 3 (1985)
This four part miniseries is based on the true story of a group of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany only to be treated as enemy aliens when ...
First Victory Home Loan: Squander Bug (1945)
This animated propaganda film urges all Australians to invest in the war effort by putting all their spare money into the first Victory Loan and 4th Liberty Loan ...
Fourth Liberty Loan (1943)
This black-and-white cinema advertisement urges theatre-goers to support the war effort by buying national savings stamps and investing them in the Fourth Liberty Loan.
From England to the USA: Menzies Wartime Tour (c1941)
This home movie, filmed by the then Australian prime minister Sir Robert Menzies, records his trip from England to the USA via Lisbon and Canada. It begins with ...
Give Us This Day (1943)
This political advertisement directed by Ken G Hall for Cinesound Productions and the Department of Information compares the difficulties of food rationing suffered by Australian troops stationed in ...
Grave of the President (1984)
The film follows a series of dives to one of the world’s biggest and most accessible shipwrecks, in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. It is a popular dive for scuba ...
Harry’s War (2000)
Harry Saunders (David Ngoombujarra) prepares to go to fight for his country in the Second World War, but his fight is also for the rights of the Indigenous ...
Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise (2005)
The 18th century discovery of Polynesia by both the British and French started a fantasy about island paradises and beautiful unrestrained women. This film traces the creation of ...
The Joys of the Women (1993)
A group of Italian women from Fremantle, Western Australia, formed a choir called ‘The Joys of the Women’ (Le Gioie Delle Donne), to sing traditional and contemporary songs. ...
Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Unexpected Guests (c1940)
In this cinema advertisement for Kraft Cheddar Cheese, a woman prepares a quick and tasty snack using Kraft cheese for some unexpected guests.
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an ...
The Legend of Damien Parer (1964)
The life story of the legendary Australian combat cameraman Damien Parer, as seen through the eyes of those who knew him and through the amazing footage that he ...
Letters From Poland (1978)
Set in Sydney in 1950, Letters From Poland follows a few months in the life of Dana (Basia Bonkowski), a young woman who’s recently migrated from Poland. Dana ...
Menzies’ Wartime Tour – England (1941)
This home movie filmed by Australia’s longest serving prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures England during the Blitz in 1941. It features footage of the Churchills in their ...
No Survivors: The Mysterious Loss of the HMAS Sydney (1993)
On 19 November 1941, the HMAS Sydney, just returned from Europe, was sailing off the coast of Western Australia when she was sunk by the German raider HSK ...
Norforce Army Days at Hayes Creek, NT and Wyndham (1943)
This historical footage filmed by John Mack around 1943 captures Australian defence force personnel travelling on the old Ghan railway from South Australia to the Northern Territory. Mack ...
Paying For the Past (2000)
In a Second World War concentration camp inmates and prisoners were forced to work for German industry in the war effort. Many died. The world’s largest class action ...
Polska (1991)
The documentary looks at Poland in 1991 through the eyes of journalist national, Beata Ligman. She visits different areas of her country talking to the ordinary people about ...
Red Cross Cinema Advertisement: The Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme (c1941)
A community announcement promoting the Red Cross’s Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme. The advertisement consists of a three-minute address to camera by the Governor of Queensland, Sir ...
Secret Fleets (1995)
During the Second World War, submarines operated secretly out of Fremantle and Albany in the south of Western Australia. These were desperate times, when the Japanese advance had ...
Third Liberty Loan: This Is Vital to You (1941)
This black-and-white cinema advertisement produced by the Department of Information in 1941 is a direct appeal from Australia’s Federal Treasurer, JB Chifley, to encourage all Australians to contribute ...
Visit of Deputy PM Forde to UN Conference 1945 (1945)
This film consists of three reels of unedited footage, colour and black-and-white, shot during the 1945 trip of Australian Deputy Prime Minister Francis Forde and Dr HV Evatt ...
