All titles produced in 1988
41 titles
Australia Daze (1988)
An observational documentary shot on the bicentennial anniversary of Australia’s European settlement. Twenty-nine directors working all over Australia have contributed segments as Australians celebrated 26 January 1988. Dissent ...
Australia Post – 200 Years (1988)
This is a short programme produced to mark Australia Post’s commemoration of the 26 January 1988 Australian Bicentennial.
Australia Post – Animation (c1988)
This is a set of five Australia Post animated television advertisements, produced between October 1988 and June 1989.
Australia Post – Express Courier (1988)
Twin Australia Post television advertisements promoting the Express Courier service.
Australia Post – Joint Stamp Issue (1988)
This program records Australia Post’s release of a special joint Australian and United States bicentennial stamp and a commemorative bicentenary book of stamps.
Australia Post – Lettergram (1988)
This is a set of three Australia Post television commercials (TVCs) promoting the Lettergram service.
Australia Post – Meeting the Challenge (1988)
This in-house program was produced for Australia Post management and employees to inform them of what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) will mean for the ...
Australia Post – Postcode Grandma (1988)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the essential inclusion of correct postcodes when addressing letters, in order to guarantee delivery.
Australia Post – Postpak Rap (1988)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the use of its own product, the Postpak.
Australia Post – We Deliver 1 (1988)
These are two of a series of television commercials (TVCs) promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep ...
Australia Post – We Deliver 2 (1988)
These are three of a series of television commercials promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia ...
Australia Post – We Deliver 3 (1988)
These are three of a series of television commercials promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia ...
Backchat, Episode 215 (1988)
On this week’s Backchat, viewers write in with praise for ABC current affairs programs The World At Six and The World Tonight, programs that copped tough criticism the ...
Backchat, Episode 216 (1988)
On Backchat, viewers of ABC television and ABC radio listeners could write or phone in their response to the weekly output of the public broadcaster, which in this ...
Backchat, Episode 217 (1988)
In this program of audience response to ABC programs on television and radio, there’s appreciation for the ABC fillers, which can be seen behind the logo, as well ...
Behind the Sun (1988)
The documentary looks at a number of artists working in NSW in 1988. Many forms of artistic expression are included. The artists include Jonathan Throsby, painter; Susan Norrie, ...
Betty Pounder (1988)
Australian dancer and choreographer Betty Pounder (1921–1990) is interviewed about her life. She recalls her years with the Sydney based theatre company JC Williamson and the joy of ...
Body Work (1988)
The documentary consists of a series of interviews with professionals working in the bereavement industry: pathologists, coroners, nurses, funeral directors, police, gravediggers and cremation workers. They each describe ...
The Book Show – David Malouf (1988)
A magazine-style program with presenter and interviewer Dinny O’Hearn talking to David Malouf, who has just won the Haskell award for his body of work. He also interviews ...
Clifton Pugh (1988)
In this short film Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh is interviewed by Nina O’Leary. He describes painting the Australian bush, his influences and his plan to keep the ...
Commuting by Cable (1988)
Using historical footage this documentary records the story of cable trams in Melbourne from 1885 to 1940. Enthusiasts have recorded the tram routes and operation of the cable ...
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in New York with his new girlfriend, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). He misses the Northern Territory but keeps occupied by fishing in ...
The Dirtwater Dynasty (1988)
Richard Eastwick (Hugo Weaving) was born in a London slum and through his vision of a future on the land and with sheer hard work and courage, he ...
Eelemarni, The Story of Leo and Leva (1988)
A short film about a Dreaming story from the Bundjalung people.
Four Corners – Blue Death (1988)
Wittenoom was home to more than 20,000 people who worked in the mining and processing of blue asbestos from 1944 until the mine closed in 1966. But blue ...
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Celebrated crime reporter Tom Stewart (Colin Friels) pockets the cash from an armed robbery when the bandits crash their getaway car. Detective Sergeant Ray Birch (Bruno Lawrence) suspects ...
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, ...
Mimi: An Evening with the Aboriginal Dance Theatre (1988)
A documentary filmed during the National Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre’s end of year production.
Moodeitj Yorgas (1988)
Made during the 1980s, Moodeitj Yorgas is an experimental documentary by Tracey Moffatt on prominent Indigenous women. Moffatt uses her experience as a visual artist to make a ...
Nature of Australia – Land of Flood and Fire (1988)
This is the story of the seasonal cycle of northern Australia, where every year fierce monsoonal rains break the drought. The animals and plants must cope with the ...
One People Sing Freedom (1988)
A documentary about the Bicentenary in 1988 when, while the majority of Australia celebrated the anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet in 1788, Indigenous Australians were ...
The Queen Goes West (1988)
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, opens the Stockman’s Hall of Fame in Longreach, Queensland. The townsfolk are excited at the prospect of the 80-minute visit and prepare for ...
Touch the Sun – Captain Johnno (1988)
Captain Johnno (Damien Walters) is a ten-year-old with a hearing impairment, and always in trouble. Living in a small fishing town in South Australia in the 1950s, his ...
Touch the Sun – Devil’s Hill (c1988)
It is 1950. Badge (Alexander ‘Mathew’ Jacobs) lives on a remote farm in Tasmania’s rugged southwest, with his parents Dave (Peter Hehir) and Jessie (Mary Haire). It is ...
Touch the Sun – Peter & Pompey (1988)
In a cave, near a small coastal town in Queensland, Peter (Clayton Williamson) finds the manuscript of Pompey (Aaron Ferguson), a young Roman boy from the past. Peter ...
Touch the Sun – Princess Kate (c1988)
Fourteen-year-old Kate (Justine Clarke) is on top of the world. Popular, talented, much loved and spoilt by her wealthy Sydney family, she receives a seven-metre yacht, christened Princess ...
Touch the Sun – The Gift (c1988)
Sophia (Vicki Serbos) and Nikos (Nicholas Hatjiandreou), two Greek-Australian kids living with their family in inner Melbourne, win a plot of land in Western Australia as a prize ...
Touch the Sun – Top Enders (1988)
Alice (Bennendine Woods) and her mother Sue (Madeleine Blackwell) live in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Alice, about eleven years old, is a tough and independent kid. She ...
Tuckson (1988)
This biographical documentary examines the life and work of artist Tony Tuckson (1921–1973). Tony Tuckson was regarded by some as Australia’s answer to Picasso. From 1952 to 1973 ...
Vietnam (1988)
This epic story of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War is told through the history of a middle class family, the Goddards, whose son Phillip (Nicholas Eadie) is ...
The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (1988)
Australian producer-director Ken G Hall talks to camera about five of his films – On Our Selection (1932), The Squatter’s Daughter (1933), Tall Timbers (1937), It Isn’t Done ...
