All titles produced in 1982
15 titles
The Australian Way: A Salute to Aussie Sex Appeal (1982)
A two-hour commercial television special featuring the personalities and TV programs current on Network Ten in 1982. The program is hosted by presenter Gordon Elliott, actress Joanna Lockwood ...
The Blainey View – Footprints (1982)
Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us from the southernmost reaches of Tasmania to the edge of the continent in the Northern Territory to tell the extraordinary history of ...
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 ...
Four Corners – We’ll All Be Rooned (1982)
Reporter Jim Downes takes us into the wheat belt in the marginal country of Coonamble, near Dubbo in NSW. The outback is now entering its fourth year of ...
Last Breakfast in Paradise (1982)
The relationship between Stephen Smith (John Hargreaves) and Angela Jones (Penne Hackforth-Jones) is brought to its inevitable conclusion during the couple’s brief sojourn in a Surfers Paradise high-rise.
Lousy Little Sixpence (1982)
A documentary using historical footage and interviews with Indigenous people who belonged to the generation that were forced into unpaid servitude by the Australian government. The title refers ...
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
In the Australian Alps in 1880, a young stockman, Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) must prove his worth when a valuable colt runs off to join a mob of ...
The Sharkcallers of Kontu (1982)
The Sharkcallers of Kontu depicts the ancient tradition of ‘sharkcalling’ in the village of Kontu, on the remote west coast of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. There ...
A Shifting Dreaming (1982)
A partly-dramatised documentary by Bob Plasto, which attempts to trace Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations through three significant events: the Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory in 1928 in ...
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 ...
Starstruck (1982)
Teenage cousins Angus (Ross O’Donovan) and Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) live in the Harbour View Hotel, beneath the Harbour Bridge in Sydney’s Rocks. Jackie is 18 and wants ...
Turkey Shoot (1982)
In the totalitarian near future, ‘social deviants’ are sent to prison camps for re-education and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters (Olivia Hussey), ...
We of the Never Never (1982)
In 1902, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor) and her new husband Aeneas (Arthur Dignam) arrive in the Northern Territory to take over management of Elsey Station, a huge ...
Weekend Magazine – Carnarvon Gorge and the Fighting Highlanders (1982)
The Carnarvon Gorge in northern Queensland has been gazetted as a national park since 1932 but this is the first time a route has been opened up so ...
1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is from a solid ...
