Titles tagged with ‘nurses’

9 titles - sorted by title / by year

Australian Story – Absolute Beginner (2006)

Just over eight years ago, Marg Ward lost her husband when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Marg was 56. After two terrible years, she began again ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Fringe Dwellers (1986)

A young Aboriginal girl dreams of life beyond the blacks’ camp that sits on the fringe of white society.

The Inlanders (1949)

A documentary by John Kingsford Smith made for the Australian Inland Mission. The Inlanders follows patrolling minister Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge on his 8,690 kilometre journey into Australia’s ...

Pathe Animated Gazette: 141st Australasian Edition (c1918)

News items featured in this Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette include: the opening of the New Melbourne Hospital, an annual foot race between competitors from Rose ...

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 ...

A Woman’s Tale (1991)

In her last days, Marta (Sheila Florance) remains cheerful and determined to live life to the fullest. With the help of Anna (Gosia Dobrowolska), a visiting nurse who ...

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