Titles tagged with ‘weapons’

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Australia Today – Fort Denison: [Pinchgut]: A Relic of Early Sydney (1939)

Fort Denison is a fortified island in Sydney Harbour built between 1841 and 1857 as a defence against a feared invasion. This newsreel narrates the history of the ...

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Black Harvest (1992)

By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black ...

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Crook Hat and Camphoo (2005)

A documentary that shows two Alyawarr elders, Donald ‘Crook Hat’ Thompson Kemarre and Reggie ‘Camphoo’ Pwerl making spears and woomeras in the tradition of the old people, using ...

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First Contact (1983)

First Contact is an astonishing documentary about the three Australian Leahy brothers (Michael, Dan and James) who went gold prospecting in what they thought was a completely uninhabited ...

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Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (1985)

From 1946 to 1958 the US used the Marshall Islands south of Hawaii to test nuclear weapons above ground. Early atom bomb tests were conducted with some caution, ...

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Ikara the Weapon Thrower (1963)

This film details the Australian military trials of the Ikara missile, a ship-launched anti submarine missile.

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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988)

Joe Leahy’s Neighbours is the sequel to First Contact (1983) and is the second documentary in The Highlands Trilogy. This well-constructed film traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, ...

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Karli Jalangu – Boomerang Today (2004)

An observational-style documentary about the making of a number seven boomerang by four senior traditional men from Central Australia. Karli Jalangu – Boomerang Today is part of the ...

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Operation Blowdown (1963)

Produced by the Department of Supply Film Unit at Movietone, this is the official film of Operation Blowdown, the classified project that aimed to replicate the effects of ...

Operation Buffalo – Colour Record (1956)

Operation Buffalo was the testing of four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga in South Australia on 27 September 1956. This film is the official recording of the operation. ...

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Son of a Lion (2007)

In a town in Pakistan’s mountainous North-West Frontier Province, an 11-year-old Pashtun boy, Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), makes illegal copies of guns in his father’s arms manufacturing ...

South-west Pacific (1943)

This promotional documentary supports Australia’s war effort, both at home and abroad. It was made by Cinesound Productions for audiences in Australia as well as the Allied countries ...