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".

takayna / Tarkine in northwestern Tasmania is home to one of the last undisturbed tracts of Gondwana...

In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City wher...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

To cool the heat on the asylum debate - the biggest 'hot potato' in Australian politics, we took a h...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

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

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cart...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme ca...

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...

When shipwrecked sailors first encountered wombats, they did what they had to do to survive - they a...

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

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

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

About trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth in the medics who served with Australia's special...

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