Titles tagged with ‘poverty’
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chequerboard – It’s Amazing What You Can Do With a Pound of Mince (1969)
Three Australian families who are living on the basic wage are interviewed about what they earn, how that money is allocated and how they view their lives.
Compass – Saving Claymore (2002)
Fire-bombings, stealing and vandalism were the norm in the Sydney suburb of Claymore, where residents lived in fear and isolation. Then the Catholic Church moved in and introduced ...
Footy Legends (2006)
Ten years after leaving school in Yagoona, in Sydney’s western suburbs, Luc Vu (Anh Do) is unemployed and struggling to raise his little sister Anne (Lisa Saggers). Their ...
Four Corners – The Kilwa Incident (2005)
The disturbing story of a massacre, its cover-up and a UN investigation and report that implicates an Australian mining company working in the far reaches of the Democratic ...
Harp in the South (1986)
A two-part miniseries following the life and times of the Darcys – an Irish-Australian family – in the aftermath of the Second World War. The impoverished Darcy family, ...
A Home of their Own (1949)
A promotional documentary made for the Housing Commission of Victoria that examines the importance of home and the ‘dignity of daily life’. It shows post-Second World War housing ...
The Kid Stakes (1927)
Fatty Finn (‘Pop’ Ordell) is the scruffy six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in the dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo in Sydney. Fatty enters his pet goat Hector ...
Mum’s the Word – Episode 16 (2003)
A group of high achieving mothers, led by presenter Rebecca le Tourneau, discuss how they feel pressured by their children to buy, buy, buy. Included in this otherwise ...
Nicaragua: No Pasaran (1984)
This 1984 documentary examines the political story of Nicaragua. The Sandinistas overthrew the US backed dictatorship of Somoza. The Sandinistas then had to defend their country from the ...
A Place to Live (1950)
This dramatised documentary, made by the Realist Film Unit for the Brotherhood of St Laurence, contrasts the living conditions of the urban poor with the ‘owners of industry’ ...
Poor Man’s Orange (1987)
The story begins just a few years after the end of Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian family, and their local ...
Prices and the People (1948)
This dramatised documentary made by the Realist Film Unit supports a ‘yes’ vote in the 1948 federal referendum on the continuation of price control.
Take Notice (1939)
A silent, black-and-white documentary made by the Sydney Unity Film Group about unfair rent rises and the petition for a fair rents court.
These Are Our Children (1948)
This silent dramatised documentary, commissioned by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and made by the Realist Film Unit, centres around the fate of two teenage siblings who live ...
Winners – The Other Facts of Life (1985)
Twelve-year-old Ben Guthrie (Ken Talbot) has a good life. His family are well off and his father Ron Guthrie (Dennis Miller), is a successful and ambitious butcher with ...
900 Neighbours (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 publicity because of ...
