Titles tagged with ‘sport’
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 Post – Olympic Post Script (1956)
This black-and-white film was produced to celebrate the communications achievements of the PMG (Postmaster-General’s Department) during the summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 ...
Australian Story – A Man for All Seasons (1999)
Wayne Bennett was born on the wrong side of the tracks. His father was a violent and hard drinking fettler, who left his wife and kids when the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Crackerjack (2002)
Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy), a loud-mouthed slob, discovers a talent for lawn bowls when he’s called on to justify his membership of an inner-city bowls club. He’s been ...
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 ...
Don Bradman in England (1930)
Don Bradman is interviewed in 1930 while on tour in England. He gives a demonstration of various batting techniques.
Dynasties – The Rose Family (2003)
Bob Rose was a football legend and head of a sporting dynasty. He was one of seven sons rescued from poverty by Australian Rules Football and their story ...
Eventide and Westbrook Farm Home: Brisbane City Mission (1950)
Operated through the Queensland State Government Department of Health and Home Affairs, the Eventide aged care facility is situated in the seaside suburb of Sandgate in Brisbane. In ...
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 ...
Footy The La Perouse Way (2006)
A documentary that uses historical photographs to talk about the history of rugby league in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse, and how football has helped build a ...
Four Corners – Fixing Cricket (2000)
When Hanse Cronje admitted that he’d taken money to throw matches, the world of cricket was thrown into crisis. Then it was disclosed that players and officials had ...
Four Corners – The First Program (1961)
The very first broadcast of Four Corners went to air on Saturday 19 August 1961. There is no record of the program as it went to air but ...
The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable (1995)
The Clifton Hill Soccer Club has seen better days. The local Greek and Turkish communities they have traditionally recruited from are moving out to the suburbs and they ...
Holly’s Heroes – Crunch Time (2005)
This is episode seven of a 26-part series about basketball mad Holly who, on moving from New Zealand to Australia, decides to start her own team after getting ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 5 (2003)
Three moving vignettes make up this program of lost opportunities. There’s one about a man who thought his problems of cloudy vision were an irreversible factor of old ...
Les Darcy vs Dave Smith for the Championship of Australia (1916)
Historical footage of Australian Middleweight Champion Les Darcy and Dave Smith training together at Sydney Harbour and later in a boxing match on 24 June 1916.
Les Darcy’s Last Fight: Les Darcy vs George Chip (1916)
Historical footage of Australian boxing champion Les Darcy and American George Chip at the Sydney Stadium on 30 September 1916. Highlights from rounds one, three, five, seven and ...
The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
When a Hong Kong drug courier is arrested at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Inspector Fang of the Hong Kong Special Branch (Jimmy Wang Yu) comes to Sydney to handle ...
Melbourne Cup 1896 (1896)
This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.
Menzies 1948 Journey, Reel 2 (1948)
This home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, during a family journey through Europe in 1948, begins with a title card that says ‘I didn’t ...
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 ...
Rebels With a Cause (1994)
The film looks at Cecil Waters and his unorthodox methods of bringing up his three sons on a farm on the Central Coast of NSW. Ces rules the ...
Rough Riders (1995)
Twenty-four-year old Rodney Brien is killed bull riding. The documentary pays tribute to his life and examines the sport of bull riding. Brien is seen in an interview ...
Rydin’ Time (2005)
A documentary about three Indigenous rodeo riders, Kaleb Comollatti, Dallas McNamara, and John Stacey who ride at the Mt Isa Rodeo in 2005. Rydin’ Time is part of ...
Snow… Down Under (1982)
Three friends ski on Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain. On the way they encounter bad weather and also have some fun. Intercut with this, the history of skiing ...
Spirit 2000: Countdown to Sydney (1998)
Director David Goldie interviews athletes as they prepare for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He talks to them at training and asks what drives them and what makes ...
Syme, Ken: Melbourne Olympic Games: Home Movie (1956)
The 1956 Olympic Games, held in Melbourne, was a high profile event for the city. Like many ordinary Australians at the time, Ken Syme took home movie footage ...
Training at Rushcutters Bay (1908)
Historical footage of heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay in front of a small crowd as he prepares for his fight with Canadian world heavyweight champion Tommy ...
Us Deadly Mob (2005)
Us Deadly Mob is a short documentary about an Indigenous family of surfers – a ‘surf family story’.
Welcome to the English Cricket Team (1934)
Captain of the Australian cricket team, Bill Woodfull, welcomes the English cricket team to Australia for the Ashes in 1934.
What Makes a Champion (1959)
This sporting documentary made by the Shell Film Unit Australia answers the question ‘What makes a champion?’ by analysing championship performance and investigating the qualities in elite athletes ...
Wheat Harvesting c1925 (c1925)
These segments of historical footage from the 1920s cover a variety of subjects that reveal glimpses of Victorian life including: street scenes in central Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, ...
Wings to Victory (1984)
A film celebrating the win by 12-metre yacht, Australia II, at Rhode Island USA. The Australian yacht beat the American entry, Victory. It was the first time that ...
Winners – Room to Move (1985)
This is the story about the unlikely friendship between two girls – one a sporting champion, the other a dancer and an outsider. Carol (Nicole Kidman) is a ...
Year of the Dogs (1997)
A year in the life of the Footscray Football Club. The Bulldogs haven’t won a premiership since 1954. They fight back with the threat of amalgamation hanging over ...
