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".

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...

Australia: Land Beyond Time takes viewers on a breathtaking journey back in time to witness the birt...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

In Australia, sharks have recently been recorded with unusual prey-including other sharks. In order ...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Follows Mas and Saha, two young Iranian asylum seeker musicians, navigating a frightening new world ...

A conflicted gay man struggles to teach his younger self about the challenges of adult life. Searchi...

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...
Something in the Water explores the rock phenomenon that is music in WA. How can the most isolated c...

The Ripple Effect is a powerful documentary primarily centred around St Kilda legend and proud Noong...

Packed with drama, high emotions and cliff-hanger moments, Australia Says Yes is the intimate and pe...

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