Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films, to the controversy of "The Story of the Kelly Gang" and the success of "The Sentimental Bloke".

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

In Australia, sharks have recently been recorded with unusual prey-including other sharks. In order ...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

Documentary that chronicles the career of the legendary Australian punk band Radio Birdman.

From the ashes of Australia’s devastating bushfires, wildlife survivors begin their long journeys to...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historic...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photograph...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...